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a_white_rain

it's been a week but it still pisses me off

Oct 17, 2009 15:42

Brother: *makes lots of comments about how orgs who work for oppressed groups of people is part of the reason that the oppression still exists and we should all just work together in harmony ( Read more... )

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ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:01:10 UTC

Wow! Your brother and my brother should get together sometime. My brother has been talking me down about feminism for more than twenty years now, and is only just beginning to get it ...

There is always hope. My brother started impressing me with not being a total douche and actually listening to what I was saying (once or twice now, it's happened!) once he got a feminist girlfriend and she started educating him. Maybe that'll happen!

Until then, punch pillows and scream. It's what I did. :/

a_white_rain October 17 2009, 21:02:26 UTC

It's just like I can't believe he said that? And didn't even have the balls to back it up. Boy debates, show some ethos.

ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:06:47 UTC

Oh, but you don't need to back things up when everybody listens to you automatically because you're a man with confidence!

I'm a shy girl. I'm pretty much resigned to only being read occasionally, and never heard.

a_white_rain October 17 2009, 21:08:14 UTC

That's what I get for assuming Adam knows a tiny bit about male privilege. Or at least that reason he has a hard on for, he'd use it, by, you know, using it. Men.

ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:09:35 UTC

Yeah. They all need to read The Macho Paradox, dammit!

a_white_rain October 17 2009, 21:10:20 UTC

YES THEY DO. I have some reservations because I'm not sure I agreed with all the points he had on racism, but it's overall a strong strong book.

ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:11:36 UTC

I'm not sure I did, either! But my reservations weren't big enough to stop me endorsing it on the whole - I always have reservations, with pretty much everything. And as far as racism goes there's a whole other booklist I'd be recommending. ;)

a_white_rain October 17 2009, 21:12:26 UTC

Speaking, have you read Why Do Al The Black Kids Eat Together?

ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:16:10 UTC

Oooh! No! I shall add it to my list. Who's it by?

a_white_rain October 17 2009, 21:16:46 UTC

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum.

ninamazing October 17 2009, 21:20:57 UTC

I like the title. ;) It sounds awesome. Thank you!

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