Quote:It's par for the course. I think we saw how sexism is alive and well if you watched the olympics. *Female wins gold/Pans to her husband* "AND THERE'S THE MAN RESPONSIBLE". Seriously?

 

 The world isn't mad, this is real, even if it's a small circumstance like a childs shirt. It happens all the time. It's just so engraned that it feels normal and right. Had this been on a boys shirt, but in blue, would it sound or feel natural? No, it would read as a missprint. I'm not enraged, but don't act like this isn't happening or a thing when it very much is.

 

Whenever a situation like this pops up, I think about the South Park episode that focused on "Ginger Kids". In that episode, Cartman gives a speech about how Ginger Kids are evil, how they have no soul, and are basically devilspawn. Kyle gets ticked off at it and decides to debunk the foolishness designed as hate-speech that was Cartman's speech. 

 

He does his research, prepares a speech and presents his argument based on facts and scientific data. When he's done, the teacher replies with "Thank you Kyle. It was kind of dry and science-y for my tastes but I guess it'll do." Essentially, the teacher didn't want to deal with having to think about the facts regarding a situation but was annoyed that he would have to put forth effort instead of someone just telling him how to feel.

 

Now, this was a tv show and meant to be taken lightly but it's something that happens more and more and more. People aren't willing to look at facts and give true introspection into some really horrible behavior. Sexism happens, I see it every day and I'm certain a lot of other people do as well. As does racism, ageism, and a bunch of other things but we're just used to "that's how things are" instead of "I need to help change things to how they should be."

 

I'm not certain what my point in all this was, but it's kind of crappy that the folks who want to "go back to the way things were" when they were pretty horrible for a lot of people are the ones who get the traction in all of this. 

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