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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Also Crown and Acey, as mentioned before in this thread, thank you both for sharing your experiences. There are definitely some crappy parts about being a woman and I've most certainly found myself getting overly involved and emotional in some of those discussions here before. It's hard not to show emotion when for some people it's just a topic of discussion but for you, it's life.
That said, I also realize more and more just how privileged I truly am. Just the commentary about something I would never have to think about: cutting your hair a certain way to avoid suspicion, or needing to have a hat in the car to cover up your hairstyle in case you're pulled over, wearing long sleeves to cover tattoos, etc...that is a gutcheck. It's utterly infuriating that these things ever happened, much less that it's freaking 2020 and it's still happening.
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Thanks Witty, I appreciate it.
The BLM movement to me is not just about racism, it is about equality and human rights. It's about black rights, yes. But it is also about women's rights, gay rights, trans rights... etc.
I actually think many of the problems women face parallel that of the black community. Simply put, there is a subset of white men that believe they should still own us both.