This comment just made my day, thank you. Recently on a female subreddit, a woman wrote a huge rant about how if we want equality, we need to stop complaining

This comment just made my day, thank you. Recently on a female subreddit, a woman wrote a huge rant about how if we want equality, we need to stop complaining about what we don't have. The idea being that complaining about it will just set us back further because people won't take us seriously. While I understand the sentiment, it backfires: awareness is the only way things are going to change. There are too many people that don't understand the day-to-day experiences of a[ny "minority"] to fully realize the extent of the differences in the ways we're treated both professionally and personally. Even to say "no one cares about your gender here, we build things to prove ourselves" ignores that women are at a disadvantage in engineering to begin with. I'll cite again a local university professor that wrote adamantly that his natural expectations of the women in his courses were much lower and that he'd intentionally spend less time with them because they'd "likely drop out anyway". He stated that unless they came to him after class at some point, that he did not think they were serious about learning what he had to teach. Not only an ignorant way to view pupils, but an inappropriate way to approach education.