Seems like you&#x27;re not familiar with the history, yourself.<p>First and second wave feminism weren&#x27;t <i>coopted</i> by upper middle class white women, they were <i>founded</i> by upper middle class white women. You can&#x27;t get more white middle class than Anthony, Friedan, de Beauvoir et al.<p>Not that Wikipedia is a particularly good source, but your own link includes the sentence &quot;Feminism at its core is a movement to abolish the inequalities women face&quot; which is exactly what I said. A poor boy with troubles in Appalachia is tragic, to be sure, but is not any sort of feminist concern.<p>Intersectionality isn&#x27;t a just way to garble up different justice concerns and call it &quot;feminism.&quot; Intersectionality comes from the <i>intersection</i> of the <i>axes of oppression</i> on e.g. a black woman. The axes of oppression on a poor white man exist, but have little to do with feminism. This person lives in the privileged position under patriarchy, full stop.