There is a tension linking experience and ideas, they live in a different world from that of people who are not black and female. Patricia Hil Collins and "Black Feminist Thought", sexism, class oppression, and racism are all inextricably bound together. Black women are placed in fundamentally different posiitons than white women. The straight mind cannot think about a world where heterosexuality does not order all human relationships. She talks about how the "straight mind" has to think of homosexuality in terms of heterosexuality because that is there only frame of reference. Monique Wittig "The Straight Mind", let's all overcome socially enforced gender roles! Moreover, for Wittig, the category "woman" exists only through its relation to the category "man," and the "women" without relation to "men" would cease to exist.
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