I hear you, oh do I hear you, on not wanting to argue that people are dumb. I don't think it's dumbness so much as that they've been sold a bill of goods. I certainly had. To my knowledge, I had never met anyone in a union besides cops until I was 25, but growing up in Texas I knew I was supposed to be against them. Then in Pittsburgh I met big burly steelworkers who spoke passionately about equal pay for their union sisters, and it broke my worldview. And then I thought about exactly how hard that sell had been, from school textbooks to public policy to movies, just decades of soaking in it, and then I felt really angry and sad. Because wow, that is a lot of energy the kyriarchy throws at programming us with a mythology that perpetuates it. The fact that it does take such an enormous amount of programming is, I think, actually a hopeful sign.
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regna
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Date: 2011-05-30 09:57 pm (UTC)*snort*
I hear you, oh do I hear you, on not wanting to argue that people are dumb. I don't think it's dumbness so much as that they've been sold a bill of goods. I certainly had. To my knowledge, I had never met anyone in a union besides cops until I was 25, but growing up in Texas I knew I was supposed to be against them. Then in Pittsburgh I met big burly steelworkers who spoke passionately about equal pay for their union sisters, and it broke my worldview. And then I thought about exactly how hard that sell had been, from school textbooks to public policy to movies, just decades of soaking in it, and then I felt really angry
and sad. Because wow, that is a lot of energy the kyriarchy throws at programming us with a mythology that perpetuates it. The fact that it does take such an enormous amount of programming is, I think, actually a hopeful sign.