nicolehorel: aki-anyway: When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore
nicolehorel: aki-anyway: When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this. Reblogging this until the end of time. And reblogging again. I forgot to add that this invisible advantage applies to the experience of racism as well. It’s hard to see when you exist in the bubble of privilege, but very apparent when you are outside of it. We all grow up to learn prejudice, discrimination, and, yes, racism. We are all affected by that in ways far more complex than we are taught to believe. Racism isn’t bad people doing intentionally bad things, (though it can be,) it’s a system of imbalance, exclusion, and misinformation, privileging some groups over others, but also erroneously breaks racism down into good guys vs bad guys. The problem with that is that calling out racism and discrimination becomes a moral attack with a knee-jerk response rather than a discussion of the way our cultures, society, and experiences shape us. We don’t talk about the system or work to improve it or ourselves, we just fight over being perceived as a bad guy and don’t actually listen or learn instead of making assumptions. -- source link