Yes, I see this with climate change and with women’s rights too. The system is just punishing for environmentalists and women. The quantity of “don’t care” that

Yes, I see this with climate change and with women’s rights too. The system is just punishing for environmentalists and women. The quantity of “don’t care” that they get is just massive and unrelenting. It creates this kind of always-defensive feeling. Like, you get so used to people telling you your case realistically won’t get solved that you develop an attitude of “the world never lets up on me so I am always justified in speaking up for myself”. However that’s basically a form of desensitization, and you end up speaking up for yourself in cases that are only obliquely related to your core grievance. People notice that and it starts to dilute the message. I don’t know what the solution is, except I guess to make sure there are spaces where women and environmentalists can speak and really be heard. I’m not sure how much of that would be necessary to balance out the volume of “don’t care” they get, but probably a lot. I’ll add: I’m not trying to say women or environmentalists are uniquely swamped. Other people including men can experience the same thing for many reasons. I guess in that regard, maybe the thing to do is just generally make sure EVERYONE around you is getting heard. It doesn’t cost anything but a little time. You don’t even have to agree with them.