tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6819709188252721347..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: What Divides the Parties? FeminismJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-53592050306073980232017-12-15T23:27:24.310-05:002017-12-15T23:27:24.310-05:00There will always be victims of oppression who fai...There will always be victims of oppression who fail to see the injustices of the system they live in.<br /><br />Familiarity breeds acceptance. People are born into a system of injustice, and it seems normal and proper to them - often because they are made to be dependant on the system working as intended.<br /><br />We have many accounts of slaves who spoke out on behalf of their own slavery, having been taught that they were inferior beings who could not manage their own affairs, and that their servitude was not an injustice but instead a kindness and a salvation. We have the well worn trope of the self-loathing homosexual. And, of course, we have countless women who are innocently and self-assuredly complicit in the perpetuation of their own diminishment by the very patriarchy they fight to protect.<br /><br />The simple fact is, when you are reliant on a system, threats to that system register as threats to yourself. When you're an oppressed minority, but your life is stable and somewhat tolerable, you prefer to see the oppression continue unchanged than to risk making things worse by agitating against the status quo. It's easy for people with nothing to lose to risk everything - but it's much harder to get someone who is desperate to preserve what little they have to risk jeopardizing it.<br /><br />And so change comes slowly, and despite over a century of valiant struggle and sacrifice in the name of equality, still we have countless women who feel uncomfortable rocking the boat, scared that it might end up capsizing.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com