> This is a standard part of feminist theory- basically the idea is that people with no power spend a lot of time wondering what powerful people think, so they tend to have a good understanding of what powerful people think.
Can you provide any sources for this in feminist theory? Because I've never previously encountered it, and I'd genuinely like to know more about how it fits with other bits of feminist theory if it really is a standard (or even common) element.
> And that's where you get the trope of women being mysterious creatures, whereas women seem to understand men perfectly.
No, that trope predates feminist theory by many millenia, it is not a product of it.
Patriarchy plus the romanticization of what is outside the norm explains the trope and is, in fact, the explanation I've usually seen for it from actual feminists.
“Oppression grants women deep insight” seems closer to a gender-based version of the “noble savage” concept than anything feminist I've seen.
Still waiting for actual feminist theory sources for the “theory” in question.
Can you provide any sources for this in feminist theory? Because I've never previously encountered it, and I'd genuinely like to know more about how it fits with other bits of feminist theory if it really is a standard (or even common) element.
> And that's where you get the trope of women being mysterious creatures, whereas women seem to understand men perfectly.
No, that trope predates feminist theory by many millenia, it is not a product of it.