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Abby Franquemont @abbysyarns
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Women on a plane: shrink into ourselves and lean all the way into aisles etc to not be in someone else’s space.

Men on a plane: figure it’s all their space and why do women even exist?

Not me buddy. You can get the fuck out of MY space.
Also I’m on a lot of planes lately (up to 11 so far in December alone) and I’m obviously both crabby and look authoritative because strangers have been walking up to me in airports asking me travel questions.
And part of me is like “yay I must project confidence or something” and another part is like “back off, everyone, you only get this confidence by growing up sleeping in airports on top of an expedition’s worth of shit you’re supposed to make sure nobody runs off with”
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What happened when you asked them why they aren't?

Oh... you didn't ask them?

Well then what's your basis for judging them?

Let's have a thread, because I have asked this question.
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I said that to one friend, and more have taken me up on it since.

It has forced me to confront the privilege I own in knowing how to be an informed voter.
I'm in my mid-40s, and the world has actually changed since I was in my late teens and voting for the first time.

The first election I voted in was 3 days after I moved. I probably would have failed to vote if my mother hadn't MADE me vote absentee.
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I just helped a friend research their local election, and it occurred to me some of this advice might be more broadly useful, for voters who aren't sure how to do that kind of research or who need to find ways to make it fast. So, let's do a thread. (1/14)
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“10-15 years ago no one knew what quinoa was” is the kind of horseshit that totally erases the millions of people for whom it’s been a staple food basically forever.

Translated: if you knew about quinoa then, you were nobody. Same now for breadfruit and teff, apparently.
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"Women should know better" is a consistent theme throughout history.

Mothers are the parent most often blamed for their children's misbehavior.

Women are blamed for their husband's ill behavior.

Even when women are harmed by others, they are blamed for their harm.
And while everyone carries this knowledge in their head conciously or unconciously,
this belief that women should know better,
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Are we acknowledging that women are superior in intellect, quicker to grasp information,
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