Logo: Sheyam Ghieth
Conservative and right-wing parties alike, who benefit from a host of oppressions employed by patriarchy, such as white supremacy and the disparities in wealth and income that are maintained by capitalism, will obfuscate from their misogyny by pointing to the appointment by those parties of a woman here or a woman there and smugly exclaim, “See!” Yet the agendas of those women—which are the agendas of those conservative and right-wing parties—invariably cut feminism at its knees. We must recognise that disingenuous ruse for what it is—an appropriation of the very thing that conservatives despise: identity politics.