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    It is not the case that Professional women are unable to effectively learn from or work with working class women for social change

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    • 1.Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom) can be cultivated across class lines through shared deliberative practice and common civic engagement.
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    • 2.Historical examples like the suffragist and labor movements demonstrate sustained cross-class feminist coalitions that produced meaningful social change.
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    • 3.The capacity for practical wisdom is not structurally foreclosed by class position, making the claim's categorical 'unable' empirically and philosophically unwarranted.
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    • 1.bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins argue that consciousness-raising requires confronting privilege, not that privilege makes cross-class solidarity structurally impossible.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates a contingent psychological barrier (feeling superior) with a necessary incapacity, committing a modal fallacy.
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    • 3.Overcoming ideological distortion is precisely what feminist standpoint epistemology prescribes, presupposing such transformation is achievable rather than foreclosed.
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    • 1.Professional women must overcome myths of professionalism
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    • 2.Myths of professionalism cause professional women to feel superior to working class women
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    • 3.Feeling superior to working class women prevents professional women from learning from or collaborating with them
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