“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”
| — | Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” This is what some women actually internalize as a reasonable argument. If that is truly your fear... and you do nothing about it - that makes you at the best one of the most ineffectual mothers in the world or at worst: a horrible self-perpetuating cartoon of empowered womanhood. Get over it - it is not a patriarchal conspiracy - it is YOUR failure - every day... every decade. |
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