a lot of condescension can be packed into an anonymous message that tells you to read books you’ve already read before, and to quote “educate yourself”. so let me just be clear: someone having different opinions from you doesn’t mean they haven’t read your precious texts, it just means that they’ve come to different conclusions.
and to be quite frank, the fact that the same books are constantly mentioned in discourse is pretty telling. while they’re staples of feminist literature and sociological criticism, they’re not the only books around that address such subjects, nor are they the only books to be good at it.
american feminists are all too eager to idealize their white feminist and highly american centric texts that uncritically support their every belief, but you rarely see them mentioning any books that are decentralized or written by women from marginalized communities. furthermore, saying you’ve read something doesn’t actually mean you’ve come to any cohesive understanding of it, and it certainly doesn’t mean you’ve actually done the proper research or acquired a well rounded reading list.
