Around the 30-34:55 minute mark is when the conversation highlights the sexism that she and others endured even in fighting for civil rights...
1. You call women who express concern about their safety "weak" or "bigots".
You believe that women & girls pushing for safety & dignity is "unkind."
2. You think that, "What is a woman?" is a 'question worth exploring' but not "What is a male?" or "What is gender identity?"
3. You have found yourself believing that the rights of women and girls, especially minoritized women & girls, are something that "we will get to later."
4. You believe that men are who they say they are AND women are who men say they are.
5. You don't even ask a large population of women whether or not they would be okay with you changing the terminology you use around their health & anatomy.
6. You believe that women and girls setting boundaries and dating preferences that exclude either males, or male input is "bigotry".
7. You believe that women & girls who want safe healing spaces that are female-centered and exclude males are "hateful, bigoted."
8. You don't believe that women & girls are entitled to words and language that uniquely define & describe them.
9. Even in a world so obviously filled to the brim with male violence....You tell women and girls: "That never happens."
That is, you deny their stories, testimonies, and public records about male violence & abuse.
10. You completely ignore the global femicide crisis and the fact that males are responsible for it.
11. You completely ignore the child abuse crisis and the fact that males are primarily responsible for it.
10. You frequently refer to women as "bitches" "hoes" or some other demeaning slur.
12. You blame acts of male violence on women and girls.
"She should have known better" rather than
<<HE should not have chosen to be violent>>
13. You still blame single motherhood on women without evaluating safety, provision, happiness, and preferences for women.
14. You are silent as you see other women fight for the rights, health, safety, and opportunities of women & girls. Not everyone can speak out online, but everyone can find a way to work for the betterment of women & girls in their community.
15. You don't listen to or elevate the voices of women and girls around the world. Especially, Black and Brown women & girls. If you only elevate the voices of women online you ignore the digital divide.
16. You completely ignore the past and the present to assert the ridiculous notion that Black women were not seen as "women."
17. You avoid fighting for women & girls Black lives, but join in when the fight for Black lives includes or centers Black males.
18. You avoid fighting for women & girls when you lift your voice at other times for other women & girls.
We can all do more to un-learn the misogyny that we've been taught since childhood by a privileged male-centered society.
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