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What am I trying to accomplish?
That's easy.
I'm trying to get men to see how imbalanced in our favor the current state of affairs is—so much so that to us it can seem normal to make everything about us, and any attempt at balance seem like an attack.
That's easy.
I'm trying to get men to see how imbalanced in our favor the current state of affairs is—so much so that to us it can seem normal to make everything about us, and any attempt at balance seem like an attack.
I'm trying to leverage the instinct in men—societally instilled and encouraged—to center everything around us.
We have trouble hearing women it seems.
So I'm centering us in a completely different story, one in which we've been treated throughout US history as women have been.
We have trouble hearing women it seems.
So I'm centering us in a completely different story, one in which we've been treated throughout US history as women have been.
My hope was this could break some men out of this self-defensive angry crouch we've collectively been in, there on our perch at the top of Privilege Mountain, to maybe see that an unbroken string of engineered male dominance is also "identity politics."
Hope springs eternal.
Hope springs eternal.
As for revenge on men ... well, that *is* a danger of insisting on a world where domination is the rubric.
Eventually 50% of the population, tired of their demands for equality going deliberately unheard, may agree to the terms men have set.
Maybe let's listen.
Eventually 50% of the population, tired of their demands for equality going deliberately unheard, may agree to the terms men have set.
Maybe let's listen.
