One of the strangest things a human being -- which is to say, a person -- can experience is in simply trying to tell about her experiences honesty and forthrightly, and getting the response, "Well why don't you just conform more and be quiet?"
It's a completely shocking answer because what goes through your head is "Well wouldn't a normal human being --anybody at all -- be completely outraged if this had happened to them? And wouldn't it be logical that they should be able to tell their story and have injustices redressed?" So then you are thinking about what a normal person would react like, an everyday joe bloe --when suddenly it dawns on you that you are not joe bloe. You have been relegated to play the role of NON-PERSON!!! It is shocking. And then, you finally work out that it is because of your gender.
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Yes -- good point, especially for me today.
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