It's terrible, and half of what's terrible is that it isn't even sneaky, it isn't even a KKK meeting in some dark field somewhere because they don't want to admit to what they are. It is people in public, in a crowd, being so comfortable and okay with their bullshit harmful attitudes towards women that they make a fun little song out of it. And how do you fight back against that? You can't just expose them, because they are doing it in public and NOBODY IS EVEN TRYING TO STOP THEM. And it just makes you feel, so hard, how far away we are from something that should be so simple. Because when you're like "hey, who thinks women should be treated worse than men?" nobody raises their hand, and then they all sit around and feel great about living in a post-sexist world, and meanwhile there is this ugliness RIGHT IN THEIR FACES and they are laughing and smiling about it, and how do you FIGHT something that's INVISIBLE.
You should absolutely post about it. You should absolutely talk about your rage, and your disgust. Because that makes at least one person who was there today who saw it for what it is and who is not going to be silent about it. And that has to at least be better than zero.
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Date: 2011-01-24 01:07 am (UTC)It's terrible, and half of what's terrible is that it isn't even sneaky, it isn't even a KKK meeting in some dark field somewhere because they don't want to admit to what they are. It is people in public, in a crowd, being so comfortable and okay with their bullshit harmful attitudes towards women that they make a fun little song out of it. And how do you fight back against that? You can't just expose them, because they are doing it in public and NOBODY IS EVEN TRYING TO STOP THEM. And it just makes you feel, so hard, how far away we are from something that should be so simple. Because when you're like "hey, who thinks women should be treated worse than men?" nobody raises their hand, and then they all sit around and feel great about living in a post-sexist world, and meanwhile there is this ugliness RIGHT IN THEIR FACES and they are laughing and smiling about it, and how do you FIGHT something that's INVISIBLE.
You should absolutely post about it. You should absolutely talk about your rage, and your disgust. Because that makes at least one person who was there today who saw it for what it is and who is not going to be silent about it. And that has to at least be better than zero.