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The objective of this paper is to explain why certain authors – both popular and academic – are making a mistake when they attribute obligations to uncoordinated groups of persons, and to argue that it is particularly unhelpful to make this mistake given the prevalence of individuals faced with the difficult question of what morality requires of them in a situation in which there is a good they can bring about together with others, but not alone. I will defend two alternatives to attributing obligations to uncoordinated groups. The first solution has us build better people, who will coordinate their actions willingly and spontaneously when the occasion arises. The second solution has us build better groups, so that when the occasion arises, there is a framework in place for coordinating members into action.

Our conclusion is that it is false that feminism had better be intersectional I instead of i single-axis focused; and at best true that feminism had better I also i be intersectional (in addition to its single-axis focus). It is common for critics of single-axis feminism to conflate "single-axis" with "white feminism", as for example Nora Berenstain does when she says 'White feminism takes only a single-axis approach to gender-based oppression', describing it as a feminism that applies only to 'white, nondisabled, class-privileged, straight, cisgender citizens of "Western" colonial and settler colonial nation-states' while it "masquerades as universal". If black women experience some discrimination on the basis of I only i sex, similar to some white women, then black women, too, have an interest in "non-intersectional" feminism, a form of feminism concerned with sex alone. We certainly don't want to be arguing for the transformation of feminism into the familiar caricature of second-wave feminism. So this couldn't yet make sense of the claim that feminism had better be intersectional, only the weaker claim that feminism had better be intersectional I too i (as well as in addition to). [Extracted from the article]