Seems like it needs another descriptor. I'm a white woman myself, and yet the behavior described is totally incomprehensible to me. I've never seen it, and don't understand it. I certainly am willing to believe it's a pattern of behavior that's been observed by others, but from my point of view "white woman syndrome" isn't a very helpful generalization. Clicking through the links provided, it seems that white woman syndrome is: a) intruding into a support group where you're not invited b) overidentifying with and emotionalizing racial issues c)being self centered and unsupportive d) failing to recognize the difference between feminist issues and race issues and e) the media disproportionately reports disappearances of white women over women of color. Quite the laundry list, there! I'm thinking "ignorant, self-centered human syndrome" is probably much more descriptive.
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