[W]e are all stuck in a web. Everyone one of us is conditioned and caught in a system that we cannot see – but its effects are suffocating and deadening....
Who said that being strong and silent is better than being vulnerable and communicative? … It’s the theme song of patriarchy: ‘Strength is the backbone of power; silence keeps ’em...
Men do not wound women only when they act violently and abusively. They wound us when they fail to protect our freedom in every aspect of our daily lives.”
Anger communicates not only that we judge something to be wrong, but also that we judge those who have been wronged (including ourselves) to be valuable. Our anger expresses that...
The relevant forms of corruption here include not only the system itself as discriminatory but also that no matter what one does, there will be no accountability and no remedy...
I don’t think patience is the answer…If I am right about the deep cultural structures legitimating women’s exclusion, gradualism might take far too long…To put it another way, if women...
