It's not about one little thing, it's one issue that's representative of a much much bigger problem. I'm also not talking about The Patriarchy™ like it's an organization, but it is a thing and it's destructive, especially to women. It enables institutions to discriminate against people who aren't men. I'm intentionally provoking men here because a lot of them have never had to question things that other people live with every day and they don't know how to be responsible for how their actions affect other people, but all it takes sometimes for someone to become aware is for a person to stand up and say, "This thing is fucked up," and present information about how it's symptomatic of a really big complicated problem for people to wake up to that bigger problem and care more about how they treat other people. It's not just a pissed off woman bitching on the internet, it's a form of activism and education because even if the guys who comment here and say incredibly stupid shit that I then use as yet another jumping off point, someone is going to come through and read some or maybe all of this page and learn something. Not to mention, I can take all of what I wrote here and incorporate into my actual professional writing on this subject. I think where any movement can get tied down is when it stops communicating directly with its oppressors and relies solely on its own academia.
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It's not about one little thing, it's one issue that's representative of a much much bigger problem. I'm also not talking about The Patriarchy™ like it's an organization, but it is a thing and it's destructive, especially to women. It enables institutions to discriminate against people who aren't men. I'm intentionally provoking men here because a lot of them have never had to question things that other people live with every day and they don't know how to be responsible for how their actions affect other people, but all it takes sometimes for someone to become aware is for a person to stand up and say, "This thing is fucked up," and present information about how it's symptomatic of a really big complicated problem for people to wake up to that bigger problem and care more about how they treat other people. It's not just a pissed off woman bitching on the internet, it's a form of activism and education because even if the guys who comment here and say incredibly stupid shit that I then use as yet another jumping off point, someone is going to come through and read some or maybe all of this page and learn something. Not to mention, I can take all of what I wrote here and incorporate into my actual professional writing on this subject. I think where any movement can get tied down is when it stops communicating directly with its oppressors and relies solely on its own academia.