Not that I'm surprised or anything-- I experienced this firsthand last Friday night at a bar. The Olympics were on the TV, and I was treated to all sorts of LOVELY commentary about the appearance of the female athletes. Ummm not gonna lie, it made me so viciously angry that it actually contributed to ruining my night (my night was ALREADY downhill because a friend of mine got really drunk and started ranting about how this girl at the party we were at was a "whore" for fucked up reasons, but I digress-- TWAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR WOMAN-HATING APPARENTLY).
It's probably a bad attitude to have, but I can't help feeling that no matter HOW much women "fight back", it's never going to matter. I'm constantly shocked by the misogyny and ignorance of people around me, even people whom I thought would never possibly think that way. Even people in my FAMILY! Perhaps MOST unfortunate is the amount of OTHER WOMEN who hold these same attitudes and bash other women because of internalized misogyny.
I see a lot of good things happening on the feminist front, and positive steps being made, and maybe it's just very negative and defeatist of me, but it's so easy to feel like none of that is worth it (even though I know it is. I know it's making a difference SOMEWHERE, to SOMEONE, and even if it changes one person's opinion, that's progress). But it's just so easy to get discouraged, especially dealing with something as simple as getting sexually harassed on the street almost every fucking day because I have a female body. And I'm not even exaggerating. Every. Fucking. Day.
Whooooops I could ramble about this forever and I already got way off topic SO I'LL STOP BEFORE I GET CRAY but yeah. Yeah.
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Not that I'm surprised or anything-- I experienced this firsthand last Friday night at a bar. The Olympics were on the TV, and I was treated to all sorts of LOVELY commentary about the appearance of the female athletes. Ummm not gonna lie, it made me so viciously angry that it actually contributed to ruining my night (my night was ALREADY downhill because a friend of mine got really drunk and started ranting about how this girl at the party we were at was a "whore" for fucked up reasons, but I digress-- TWAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR WOMAN-HATING APPARENTLY).
It's probably a bad attitude to have, but I can't help feeling that no matter HOW much women "fight back", it's never going to matter. I'm constantly shocked by the misogyny and ignorance of people around me, even people whom I thought would never possibly think that way. Even people in my FAMILY! Perhaps MOST unfortunate is the amount of OTHER WOMEN who hold these same attitudes and bash other women because of internalized misogyny.
I see a lot of good things happening on the feminist front, and positive steps being made, and maybe it's just very negative and defeatist of me, but it's so easy to feel like none of that is worth it (even though I know it is. I know it's making a difference SOMEWHERE, to SOMEONE, and even if it changes one person's opinion, that's progress). But it's just so easy to get discouraged, especially dealing with something as simple as getting sexually harassed on the street almost every fucking day because I have a female body. And I'm not even exaggerating. Every. Fucking. Day.
Whooooops I could ramble about this forever and I already got way off topic SO I'LL STOP BEFORE I GET CRAY but yeah. Yeah.