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Originally Posted by anti fishstick
this is an issue that goes beyond tfp and just the social fabric of how we were raised.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about. It makes me angry with both genders, for perpetuating the system and conforming to what the other side expects from them. Just going along all nicey-nicey, because we don't want to rock the boat or something.
It's as if there's a little voice inside the average woman's head that says, "You know what? You don't know anything about politics. Let the men talk about it... they know more than you do. Go read about celebrities and don't worry about these things, they're too big for you to think about." And that voice isn't even male. It's their own voice. And they believe it.
My desire is for women to learn how to tell that voice to shut the fuck up, and then to go out and TALK politics, and KNOW what they're talking about, because it's our world, too. There's just no excuse for this kind of behavior, not in this day and age, not in a country where women aren't required to be veiled, or beaten for not going out with a male relative or husband, or accused of being a whore for showing their legs, or banned from learning how to read. There is no reason to believe that we are any less capable of throwing down the gauntlet on politics and getting ourselves into the ring, than men are. Absolutely no reason at all. We can even talk about politics here in the LL, if that feels safer to you--but START the threads, get things going, TALK about things.
Change the conversation, simply by taking part in it. Take the initiative.
That's all I'm trying to say here. And I want to know what each of you think about what I'm saying. Respond, get pissed off, tell me you don't like me, whatever--that's fine! Just get in here and TALK already.
