I AM SO SORRY I WAS NOT ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT YOU. I WAS NOT ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR. IT WAS JUST ~THAT KIND OF WEEK. HINDI AKO NAGPAPATAMA. I SWEAR. I AM SO SORRY.
But since we're here anyway! I... fail to see how the two things do not go hand in hand, because the whole central problematic point is systems that oppress people. Yes I am actually serious. Because if a woman were raped people would run with the assumption that it was her fault for whatever reason and you were asking for it, or that she's making up the claim to get whatever (though false reporting rates for rape are about the same as those for any other crime). Because women get less opportunities than men of similar educational background and they get paid less when they do get them, and that's without looking at dropout rates from elementary through high school (because you are female you're just going to marry someone anyway), and that's without considering all the girls who will never be sent to school to begin with (because it's unnecessary because it's wrong because there's no point in teaching you anything). Because media everywhere sends the message that femininity can only be done in a certain way, and then you're insulted if you follow the type and insulted if you don't. (WHEN I SAY YOU IT IS GENERAL YOU, JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THIS, ALSO I WILL SOURCE ALL MY SHIT LATER I SWEAR, ONLY LJ'S EATEN MY COMMENT THREE TIMES AND I JUST WANT TO POST THIS.) Putting aside issues of safety and autonomy and respect- that is an astonishing amount of economic and general-life-quality inequality, and I will never get how it isn't obvious, and will always understand why, if you are not born equal, you have to do shit to make you so. Same goes for anyone at any kind of... is systemic disadvantage the right term? ANYWAY.
/social conscience, sheesh not having apathy is exhausting, also I will not tattoo my address somewhere where other people can see it. I am not mad at you, just incoherent.
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my original subject line was my address, but even I have more sense than that
Date: September 1st, 2012 02:10 pm (UTC)But since we're here anyway! I... fail to see how the two things do not go hand in hand, because the whole central problematic point is systems that oppress people. Yes I am actually serious. Because if a woman were raped people would run with the assumption that it was her fault for whatever reason and you were asking for it, or that she's making up the claim to get whatever (though false reporting rates for rape are about the same as those for any other crime). Because women get less opportunities than men of similar educational background and they get paid less when they do get them, and that's without looking at dropout rates from elementary through high school (because you are female you're just going to marry someone anyway), and that's without considering all the girls who will never be sent to school to begin with (because it's unnecessary because it's wrong because there's no point in teaching you anything). Because media everywhere sends the message that femininity can only be done in a certain way, and then you're insulted if you follow the type and insulted if you don't. (WHEN I SAY YOU IT IS GENERAL YOU, JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THIS, ALSO I WILL SOURCE ALL MY SHIT LATER I SWEAR, ONLY LJ'S EATEN MY COMMENT THREE TIMES AND I JUST WANT TO POST THIS.) Putting aside issues of safety and autonomy and respect- that is an astonishing amount of economic and general-life-quality inequality, and I will never get how it isn't obvious, and will always understand why, if you are not born equal, you have to do shit to make you so. Same goes for anyone at any kind of... is systemic disadvantage the right term? ANYWAY.
/social conscience, sheesh not having apathy is exhausting, also I will not tattoo my address somewhere where other people can see it. I am not mad at you, just incoherent.