Thread by @docbaty

I’m finding the threads on Northam interesting. My years at university were transformative for me in many ways, but in particular they helped me shed much of the racism and sexism with which I’d been raised. Me at 18 was a very different person to me at 21...

The racism and sexism of white, working class Australia in the 1970s and early 80s. When we routinely used racial epithets and ‘women’s work’ was still very much a thing...

(My mother still assumes someone else does my laundry. And if she sees me doing it believes it to be a failure on my wife’s part. Same goes with most domestic chores.)...

It took a lot of work to recognize those attitudes for what they were and change them.

So there’s a part of me that acknowledges the attitudes we bring with us from childhood unquestioned, and our journey into adulthood being the process of changing or embracing them consciously. I don’t know the truth in Northam’s case, but I hope he’s changed.