On the subject of Personhood, and when women are allowed to be people.
Because we aren't, as any woman paying attention will tell you. I don't know what I can do to help overturn this fact, since I've been battling it off and on all my life. And have learned that the Thing society fears more than anything is an intelligent woman who dares to think.
Stealth mode is probably the solution. But a lonely path.
Writer Kari Sperring, who is![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
la_marquise, explains the problem with eloquence, grace, and far more kindness than I can conjure for oppressors. She is Anglo-Welsh in an empire where every step on a ladder is a hard-fought step, and the caste system used to be etched in 1,000 year concrete. Read on to find why she has concluded the things she has. . . .
"And yet, looking at the Institute in Dublin, I realised something. I realised that somehow, between then and now, I have come to accept that I am not quite, not really, a person.
Women are not fully people.
Older women are definitely not fully people.
And women are told, over and over, when they are young, to be good and wait our turn, and many of us do.
And then, one day, while the white men of our age climb up and up, and are welcomed and praised, we are told: get out of the way, it's too late for you.
More so if, like me, those women are from the Lower Orders.
Even more so, if the woman is a woman of colour.
Even more, if she lives with a disability., if she is trans or gender non-conforming or queer."
https://la-marquise.dreamwidth.org/377256.html
Stealth mode is probably the solution. But a lonely path.
Writer Kari Sperring, who is
la_marquise, explains the problem with eloquence, grace, and far more kindness than I can conjure for oppressors. She is Anglo-Welsh in an empire where every step on a ladder is a hard-fought step, and the caste system used to be etched in 1,000 year concrete. Read on to find why she has concluded the things she has. . . ."And yet, looking at the Institute in Dublin, I realised something. I realised that somehow, between then and now, I have come to accept that I am not quite, not really, a person.
Women are not fully people.
Older women are definitely not fully people.
And women are told, over and over, when they are young, to be good and wait our turn, and many of us do.
And then, one day, while the white men of our age climb up and up, and are welcomed and praised, we are told: get out of the way, it's too late for you.
More so if, like me, those women are from the Lower Orders.
Even more so, if the woman is a woman of colour.
Even more, if she lives with a disability., if she is trans or gender non-conforming or queer."
https://la-marquise.dreamwidth.org/377256.html