Is Feminism a Tough Badge to Wear? | Clarissa's Blog
A word of caution — one should never automatically assume that complaining about gender is just a form of subconscious revenge — i.e. ressentiment. I know that my complaints about gender, when I made them some years ago (and repetitively), were completely legitimate.
I was trying to communicate about some important imbalances I had observed in my environment, and everybody at the time seemed to be saying, ‘It’s just emotion. It’s perception. You are overreacting about something that is necessarily totally normal and acceptable, just like everything in life is.”
The gender stereotype, that women are incapable of referring to the objective environment because they are stuck at the level of only being able to relate to personal issues, made my life miserable. I really did need just to be able to communicate, but nobody seemed open to that.
If you thwart communication, you make life very difficult indeed — and you certainly do nothing to combat social ills. You only exacerbate them.
A word of caution — one should never automatically assume that complaining about gender is just a form of subconscious revenge — i.e. ressentiment. I know that my complaints about gender, when I made them some years ago (and repetitively), were completely legitimate.
I was trying to communicate about some important imbalances I had observed in my environment, and everybody at the time seemed to be saying, ‘It’s just emotion. It’s perception. You are overreacting about something that is necessarily totally normal and acceptable, just like everything in life is.”
The gender stereotype, that women are incapable of referring to the objective environment because they are stuck at the level of only being able to relate to personal issues, made my life miserable. I really did need just to be able to communicate, but nobody seemed open to that.
If you thwart communication, you make life very difficult indeed — and you certainly do nothing to combat social ills. You only exacerbate them.
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