Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸13h ago

A message especially for my Canadian male followers out there today, but it applies to all.

If you see a story from a woman calling out the behaviour of a man, believe them. Yes, believe them over the 'bro’, especially when there are multiple corroborating stories.

Don’t feign impartiality.
Don't ignore.
Just believe them, it's not that hard.
It's long past time we do this as the default.
It will make us all better in the long run.

That is all.

#BelieveWomen #Tech #Mastodon

Show threadAlessandro Corazza 🇨🇦

@chris

Going to my first counter-protest against a transphobic group a few years ago opened my eyes to this. It's good to want to be fair and impartial, but a problem arises when you never get to experience the other side of the story, because it's never directed towards you. Once you feel fury directed at yourself because people think you're a member of the group they are targeting, then you really understand what "privilege" means. We can't let people be broken before believing them.

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Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸13h ago
@alessandro indeed. the rule applies in many many cases across our society. I believe the push back to progress that we are seeing is a direct result of many of those higher-forces seeing their expectations and assumptions about how they can control the world crumble. And that's a good thing for equality, and for all of us to live in a freer and fairer world. But it takes those of us in the privileged group to be willing to first realize our own privilege and then learn how to recalibrate our own stances and statements.