Re: Priti Patels Brain
There's a nice bit in Ruthann Robson's Cecile where the narrator - a lesbian raising a son with her eponymous partner, back when that was rather less common in the US - somewhat acidly points out that being a woman doesn't automatically make someone her ally. It's a lesson that some people seem to have trouble grasping.
I dare say any reasonably-experienced adult (and most children) will have encountered fools and villains from their own demographics, however partitioned. No group is free of them. The struggle for equality is not assisted by pretending otherwise. Indeed, as you suggested, it's rather the opposite. Women and people of color have just as much a right to be idiots, and to be called out for their idiocy, as white men do.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
