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Maybe if we pretend sexism doesn't exist it will go away? We disadvantage women (and gender and racial minorities) without intending to and without being aware
by lkbm 12y ago
Maybe if we pretend sexism doesn't exist it will go away?
We disadvantage women (and gender and racial minorities) without intending to and without being aware of it. When we just say "let's treat people equally and all will be solved" we ignore the fact that we don't know HOW to treat people equally. We have countless ingrained assumptions about men v. women that cause unconscious changes in how we treat them from birth.
"Let's just stop intentionally being sexist/racist/homophobic and everything will be hunky-dory" flies right in the face of all the science out there on human behavior, on every level, neurology up to sociology.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoAnd to be truthful, we don't even Want to treat people equally. There's the biological part of it in there, like it or not. We're bred for the last million years with distinct behaviors toward one another that can't be trained out or argued away.