How to win friends and influence people.
Clearly, I don't got the knack. Ho hum, such is life. I may not be nice, but I'd like to think I'm "good" for a given value, (mine own) of what good is. Just had to pop a comment on Kyle Cassidy's lj. He made it sound totally woo woo that women in their 40's no less were talented athletes. *Like them darkies who are, you know, so westernised, they use knives and forks and everything!
Poor chap. He's one of the good guys, but it's the unconscious belittling, the making women "Other" and "special" like other minority groups, which ingrains the attitude that women are another species (and inferior to the "norm") that bites my arse so savagely. It's this 'tude that makes it easy to drown, suffocate, abort female offspring, because they are less valuable, those that achieve are somehow freaks, special anomalies that can be ignored. Women who achieve are not "Special" they are normal. Women are the norm. Women are equally as valuable as men. I could put this better but, feck it, read it in the way I intended it to be read. Not to vilify, but to enlighten, albeit from a slightly battle-fatigued perspective.
*He didn't put this, this is my bitter highlighting of why it was not cool.
Poor chap. He's one of the good guys, but it's the unconscious belittling, the making women "Other" and "special" like other minority groups, which ingrains the attitude that women are another species (and inferior to the "norm") that bites my arse so savagely. It's this 'tude that makes it easy to drown, suffocate, abort female offspring, because they are less valuable, those that achieve are somehow freaks, special anomalies that can be ignored. Women who achieve are not "Special" they are normal. Women are the norm. Women are equally as valuable as men. I could put this better but, feck it, read it in the way I intended it to be read. Not to vilify, but to enlighten, albeit from a slightly battle-fatigued perspective.
*He didn't put this, this is my bitter highlighting of why it was not cool.