Manufactured clitoris-size measurements arranged women into a hierarchy of chastity

Evidence

To sexist thinkers in the late nineteenth century, the more prominent the clitoris, the less chaste the woman, and the less chaste the woman, the lower the woman on the hierarchical scale of womanhood. Hence the convergence of racist, sexist, and homophobic ideas that deemed both White lesbians and Black heterosexual women to be more chaste, and higher on the scale of womanhood, than Black lesbians, who reportedly had the largest clitorises. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 741

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the book’s broader point that racist ideas are fabricated to rank and justify oppression — here in an intersectional form.
• QUESTION: How does this specific hierarchy claim relate to the ignorance-to-hate-to-discrimination sequence Kendi generally rejects? Here an ‘idea’ seems to be pure fabrication rather than rationalization of policy.