"Ain't I a woman?"

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35. Truth's message is also instructive for those who deny others are "real women"

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Being a woman is a matter of biology and identity. It does not hinge on support for patriarchy or approaches to feminism. Refusing to tolerate abuse does not make a woman less than a woman. Speaking out against rape, sexist cultural imagery, or discriminatory SCOTUS rulings does not make a woman less than a "real woman." All women are women, regardless of their views on any subject: whether they are radial feminists, Marxist feminists, Third Wave feminists, or oppose feminism all together; whether Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, socialists, or Tea Partiers. We are all women. We may disagree on politics, on party, on any host of issues, but dong so doesn't make us any less of women, anymore than being black and a freedwoman, and enslaved before that, made Truth any less of a woman than the Southern Ladies helped into carriages. Women do not necessarily share a single view or common value, but that doesn't take away who we are. I can think of nothing more anti-woman that denying some human beings are "real women." It boggles the mind that anyone could be so dismissive of the basic humanity of others.