But like most complex problems, people have a very hard time wrapping their heads around the entirety of it. They have to boil it down.
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"So I have to get more women AND more black ppl AND more Latinos AND more gay ppl AND more trans ppl AND..." It feels insurmountable.
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And when a problem feels insurmountable, people also start to feel that pressure to fix it is *unreasonable*. This is a human reaction.
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So they insist that the problem be broken down into bits that they can address individually. And that's where we start to lose ground.
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Because issue #2 steps in at that point and insures that almost everyone well choose to start by helping women.
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If you all people like Hedlund and Benioff, they seem to think getting women is an "obvious" place to start. It's half the population right?
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But if we look at what we know about systems of oppression, we know there's more to it then that.
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These white men aren't choosing to help women because they just woke up one day and started caring.
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Many times it's because some woman in their lives that they actually care about started giving them shit about it.
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Or they finally realized that some woman they are close to, like a daughter, would also be limited by this system. So now they're invested.
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@polotek This is also a big part of what made the "Coming Out" movement effective. https://vimeo.com/42641515
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