quackademicIt is vile what girls (children!) & women are exposed to on social media. Those who name what they see & say #ForkThat are the role models here.
We set such a low bar for boys & men. ‘At least he doesn’t …(insert atrocity here)‘. Flooding the space with abuse is how the parameters of normal are moved. The bar is getting lower.
The attitudes expressed by these gullible boys come straight from #EvangelicalPurityCulture. They connect indivisibly with #WhiteSupremacist politics, & together they serve the interests of those who wish to generate clickbait distraction as cover for accelerating plunder.
Those who employ this strategy deny the reality of climate change while closing borders & hoarding resources against what they know to be its inevitable effects. They amass ever more obscene profits while workers are exploited, inequality grows, safe homes become fewer, safety nets are dismantled, environments are destroyed, wars proliferate, populations are displaced & the planet burns. When their actions hurt us we are invited to blame each other, especially those more vulnerable than ourselves.
The tools available to entangle us in distraction & cultivate hate are becoming exponentially more sophisticated. It’s increasingly hard not to get sucked in.
The fundamental strategy is to convince us to see certain others as less than human. When we see these thoughts arise in ourselves they’re our cue. Wake up! We are being scammed.
Meanwhile, being female in public means living in a shitstorm. White women like me get to know for ourselves what people of colour & those who are indigenous, disabled, queer or Muslim have known forever. Power is always seen more clearly from below.
You’re being had, boys. It’s not women who have turned you into obedient puppets. It’s white supremacist patriarchal ideology exploited by oligarchs in the interests of their short term profit.
Ignorance is the enemy. We are each other’s hope.
