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Within the New Left, radical feminists were accused of being " bourgeois ", " antileft ", or even " apolitical ", whereas they saw themselves as further " radicalizing the left by expanding the definition of radical ".

Radical feminists have tended to be white and middle class.

Ellen Willis hypothesized in 1984 that this was, at least in part, because " most black and working-class women could not accept the abstraction of feminist issues from race and class issues "; the resulting narrow demographic base, in turn, limited the validity of generalizations based on radical feminists ' personal experiences of gender relations.

Comedian George Carlin, in a routine from his 1990 HBO special Doin ' It Again, remarked: " I've noticed that most of these feminists are white, middle class women.

They don't give a shit about black women's problems, they don't care about Latino women, all they're interested in is their own reproductive freedom and their pocketbooks.

" Many early radical feminists broke political ties with " male-dominated left groups ", or would work with them only in ad hoc coalitions.