You can tsk tsk at the extreme cases and say 'that isn't me'. But it's meaningless unless you are analysing your everyday interactions with people - conversations, expectations - and recognising how misogyny is hard-baked into them. Because women can see it even if you can't.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
Men aren't doing the work to undo millennia of cultural inequality. At its most basic, you have to work against the cultural assumptions that stereotype young women, middle-aged women, old women, uppity women, single mothers, that define our personhood solely in terms of utility to men.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
Women everywhere are still fighting to get men to do their fair share of parenting and domestic labour. They are belittled and harassed by men constantly. The dehumanisation of women works from the tiniest acts to the most horrendous acts. It's the SAME PROCESS.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
"Not all men" are rapists. But ALL MEN are part of a patriarchal system which treats women as domestic servants, with lower intelligence and skills. Everyday sexism and acts of violence exist on a continuous arc. You're still part of the system at the bottom of the arc.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation
