Males are easier to include in a movement centred on personal choice than in a movement centred on an analysis of male oppression and exploitation of females. And with the rise of identitarianism on the Left, intersectionality became distorted. In activist discourse, it often came to seem that people were nothing but collections of identity labels, and that everyone who shared a given set experienced the world in the same way. An insight that should have added nuance and richness to analyses of women’s sex-based oppression led to fragmentation, and made it easier to ignore that oppression. And
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