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I tweeted, a few minutes ago, about my awareness that some White people have difficulty seeing Black people as just other human beings.
I was struck by the women offering sympathy or expressing outrage.
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I was struck by the women offering sympathy or expressing outrage.
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As a Black person, I'm in the minority. As bad as it is, the ignorance of people who may be unfamiliar with folks who look like me is sort of understandable.
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Women are more than half the world's population, though. There isn't a place on this planet where we aren't seen as 'different' from men, and in most of those places 'different' means 'less than' men.
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A big difference in the two categories of dehumanization is that, other Black people almost universally agree that a problem exists.
On the other hand, many women agree with the status quo in regards to the treatment of women.
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On the other hand, many women agree with the status quo in regards to the treatment of women.
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Things have improved. I mean, nowadays, you won't find many who think it's okay for a man to beat his wife. Still, you find few men who beat their wives in prison unless the beating was so bad as to cause death or crippling injury.
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During the primaries, when Warren went after Bloomberg and chopped him into itty-bitty pieces, a lot of women complained about her behavior. The complaints often came down to their feeling that she hadn't been 'ladylike' when she expressed herself.
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As an outspoken Black woman, I'm far more likely to suffer from violating societal expectations of women than from issues that arise because of the color of my skin.
That's personal to me, not at all universal, but not unusual either.
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That's personal to me, not at all universal, but not unusual either.
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