Another example
…of the kind of stuff mentioned here.
This morning I was pulling one of my favorite shirts (seen here) out of the closet, and then I thought, “Oh, I have to go to the creepy eye doctor today; I shouldn’t wear this, he might look down my shirt.”
And then I caught myself.
Because there I was, yet again, as I’ve been taught as a woman, making his potential bad behavior my responsibility.
So I said, “Fuck that, I’m going to wear what I want to wear.”
Everyday sexism, example #787,346,245,986,090.
May 22 2008 01:05 pm | Category: Blog | Tags: annoying, feminism, life, men, personal, privilege, sexism, women
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