We Should All Be Feminists
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If we do something over and over it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I feel upset. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most.
“My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, "Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.
All of us, women and men, must do better.”
If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads. of corporations, it starts to seem 'natural' that only men should be heads of corporations.
“So in a literal way, men rule the world. This made sense - a thousand years ago. Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was tne most important attributte for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically
stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.”