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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't about feminism especially, but society seems hell-bent on creating any number of "~isms" to add to the long-known ones, and making them ever more divisive and bitter.
Much of the new forms do stem from genuine desires of people oppressed by sheer, blind prejudice, to be respected instead as equally as others.
That desire is right but unfortunately, seems to have led to a drive to highlight the real or imagined "differences", so cataloguing everyone in little boxes as if items in a supermarket, and encouraging each box to imagine itself superior in the hard-done-by league.
Rid us all of the compartments, throw out the "~isms" good and bad, delete the alphabet-soup mentality, rid us all of prejudice and antiquated oppressive behaviour excused as "tradition" or "culture". Instead let's just respect each other as fellow human beings capable of accepting each others' genuine differences so not using them wrongfully, nor inventing spurious ones!
Much of the new forms do stem from genuine desires of people oppressed by sheer, blind prejudice, to be respected instead as equally as others.
That desire is right but unfortunately, seems to have led to a drive to highlight the real or imagined "differences", so cataloguing everyone in little boxes as if items in a supermarket, and encouraging each box to imagine itself superior in the hard-done-by league.
Rid us all of the compartments, throw out the "~isms" good and bad, delete the alphabet-soup mentality, rid us all of prejudice and antiquated oppressive behaviour excused as "tradition" or "culture". Instead let's just respect each other as fellow human beings capable of accepting each others' genuine differences so not using them wrongfully, nor inventing spurious ones!
