Were gonna have a good day
Thread Topic: Were gonna have a good day
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And my issue is that when a guy says that to me, I wanna say something like it back. But there's nothing that I could bring up because "get back to the office" just doesn't hit the same. BUT it only doesn't feel the same BECAUSE as a society we valued providing for your family as the more important thing.
So there's no real way to reciprocate the same sexist sentiment that phrases like "get back to the kitchen" have for women -
I'm literally fine with cooking too, or with funny jokes. But the kitchen joke isn't funny anymore because it goes to show that women could do the impossible and still be considered worthless in the eyes of men
Like yes we can cook, but why is that all that we can do -
And literally you could be the most successful woman in the world and a man who can't even keep a job will judge you
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But those same guys that judge successful women don't have anything to say about a successful man?
How come men don't hate on Bruno Mars, but they hate on Taylor Swift?
Or why do people allow Kanye to be a terrible person meanwhile Taylor gets absolutely flamed for doing things that everybody else does -
And yeah there's been so much progress on trying to minimize sexism but there will always be people who believe that they are superior just because of their gender. Which is so unfair
And how come some guys make me feel stupid, and even convince me to believe that I'm below them, when it's far from the truth?
Like do they feel threatened or something because they finally don't get praised just for the gender that they were born? -
I saw this thing that was talking about how some white people get so angry when black people get the same opportunities as them.
I literally don't know how to describe it but it was a certain situation where some white people were angry at black people for doing something that the white people also did, and claiming that now people were being racist towards white people. But in reality, they were just closer to becoming equal to them and they were mad because they felt like their privilege was being taking away. -
Same things with guys though
Because once women don't have to prove themselves all the time, some men will feel threatened and will start to think that they're being oppressed simply because society treats women the same as they treat men. They'll thjnk that they're being oppressed simply because women have stopped being oppressed.
Same thing with the white people who felt like they were also being oppressed. They were just mad that things were equal -
I'm gonna try to find it rn
"White people believe that they are becoming the new minority group"
Obviously, they're not. Second, the people that believe that just aren't used to not feeling like the superior race -
"We went from being a privileged group to all of a sudden becoming whites, the new victims"
"When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression."
"that privilege often seems like equality to the privileged, and that real equality can make everyone suddenly feel very uncomfortable and off-balance."
" lack of understanding of how privilege can warp what “equality” really feels like." -
"What you're feeling is just the discomfort of losing a little bit of your privilege."
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Honestly I don't think that the world has seen true gender equality for a very, very long time. Like before we even started giving years names, things have not been equal. And so we think of this as the norm, but things are still so unequal. We just cant recognize it because it's been like this for so long.
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"Racism has nothing to do with feelings. It is a measurable reality that white people are not subject to, regardless of their income or status"
This is so interesting -
"While expressions of racial prejudice directed at white people may hurt the white person/people individually or personally, and are never to be condoned, they do not have the power or authority to affect the white person's social/economic/political location and privileges. "
"What’s astounding about the reverse racism argument is the way in which it reveals some racists’ deep need to deny the idea of having any privilege. Rather than acknowledging the realities of how people of color deal with racism, white racists do mental and hypothetical cartwheels in order to justify these injustices." -
It's cool because I'm not fully white, but I used to feel like that. I didn't like affirmative action because I thought that it meant opportunities were taken away from me, but it's a way to even the playing field for people from different ethnic groups because of decades of oppression.
And maybe, for example, I apply to Harvard. I have the exact same application as someone who's from a minority, but they get accepted and I don't. That's frustrating for me as an individual, but at the same time, that's leveling out the playing field for more minorities to be able to be in good schools. Sometimes opportunities are genuinely taken away from people because of it, but in the end affirmative action is there to repair damage done be decades of oppression. -
"If you think about it, reverse racism is actually kinda great. Because if it did exist, it would mean we lived in a society in which all racial groups have an equal amount of power. But we don’t."
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