Reminder

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Women's Day

Even though there's International Women's Day on March 8, never forget: As well as there are many kind and good-natured women who fulfill their duties faithfully and are always there in case of need, willing to help, there are also as many of them which make more of a resemblance to Goebbel's wife.

Comments

[kanzeon-2040.livejournal.com]

You put your finger on something that is widely ignored on the Left in the US — that by glorifying women, racial/ethnic minorities, LGBTQ, neurodivergent, differently abled, etc., as members of these categories, we paint an inaccurate picture of humanity. We're not all awesome in everything we do, especially not because we belong to one or more of these arbitrary categories. And neither are white men all horrible in everything they do because they're white men. We lose sight of the reality that we're all just people, all of us flawed, all of us dealing with difficult emotions and traumatic pasts, all of us feeling some amount of insecurity about the present and future. Some of us have more skills than others, some of us were luckier than others, and so forth. Some of us are more ethical than others. And power structures are as fucked up regardless of whether the people at the top are a rainbow collection or a monochrome gang.

[matrixmann]

That is because the Left in the US is actually quite dogmatic - just like the essence of US culture by tradition would get you to think like. Only thinking in absolutes, only thinking in ideological purity, only thinking in "no-one is allowed to deviate from the one true path or we are all doomed to hell! God's punishment will be upon us if we allow it!".


(Some stimulus that my brain gets upon in this point: )