Your grandma refused to even cross the threshold of the hospital ward to take a look at you



It is so tragic that a corruption of perceptions of reality can be so thoroughly enforced and reinforced that a woman can take the opposing view to her own essential and corporeal reality. What you say about the women who remain silent when witnessing sexual harassment, they have done the same, surely. By taking on as their own truth the utter fallacy of the discourse of the inevitability of male supremacy over females, they remain submissive, victimised and silent and in every act of silence where they could have spoken and shamed a perpetrator, they have in their quietness subtly aided and abetted them.



No one is of more importance than any other and a human being should be judged, after Martin Luther King’s example, by the ”content of their character” regardless of their biological sex or gender.



Sadly - one would have to totally reverse engineer so much of so many of our cultures to effectively restructure gender bias that we may just have to start again, from the beginning, and where we are all just children unsullied by prejudices and preconceptions based on gender (or race, or class, or whatever) that were never innate but have always been projected upon and into our lives as ways of other people perpetuating the systems and ideologies which benefit them.



Men denounce women because they are insecure about their own identity. Acknowledging this is not an act of weakness. My view is in the minority...