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141 " Employment equality statistics project the idea that all women make seventy-seven cents to a man’s dollar when the reality is that white women make that much, and women of color make less than white women. "
― Mikki Kendall , Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
142 " Or, more recently, Dunham and Amy Schumer’s cringe-inducing conversation about whether Odell Beckham Jr. was in the wrong for not expressing any interest, sexual or otherwise, in Dunham while they were seated at the same table at the Met "
143 " And yes, sometimes the words involved are harsh. But as adults, as people who are doing hard work, you cannot expect your feelings to be the center of someone else’s struggle. "
144 " Because she was tired, and working at home to care for their children was no different to her from working outside the home. "
145 " Rape culture doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it is built consciously and unconsciously by societal norms. It requires everyone else to buy into respectability as safety, then immediately position every step away from that standard as culpability for being violated. Rape culture is normalized and ratified not only by patriarchal notions of ownership and disposability but also by attempts to combat it by buying into the framing that the patriarchy creates. Respectability politics, victim blaming, and fetishization can only create "
146 " We must look at the fact that even in emergency situations, white bystanders are less likely to help Black people than each other. We have to ask ourselves why the study “White Female Bystanders’ Responses to a Black Woman at Risk for Incapacitated Sexual Assault” shows that even young white women in college are less likely to help potential victims of assault if they are Black. We have to ask why white undergrads said to researchers that they would be less likely to help Black women because they felt less personal responsibility for them. Or why they perceived Black victims as experiencing more pleasure in situations that they recognized as dangerous for white women. "
147 " like not living up to the expectations of people who don’t like me. "
148 " We all have to engage with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be, and that makes the idealized feminism that focuses on the concerns of those with the most the province of the privileged. "
149 " The truth is no one is immune to trauma, but only some get what they need to handle the aftermath. "
150 " If we want to preach body positivity and equality, then we have to be mindful not only of the bodies that we celebrate but also of the struggles that those bodies may have faced. "
151 " Too often white women decide that when they feel uncomfortable, upset, or threatened they can turn to the patriarch for protection. Because they don't want to lose that protection, they stand by it when it's convenient, and challenge it only when it directly threatens them. Yet they know they benefit from it being challenged and thus rely on others to do the heavy lifting. "
152 " Instead of appealing to women on the basis of equality, he appealed on the basis of fear, "
153 " There was a sense that when the targets of oppression weren’t white, it was fine to vote based on “economic distress” and not solidarity with other women. "
154 " Privilege not only blinds you to oppression, it blinds you to your own ignorance even when you notice the oppression. "
155 " Alongside “Mississippi appendectomies” (which was another name for unnecessary hysterectomies performed at teaching hospitals in the South on Black women), there was the forced sterilization of Indigenous Americans, which persisted into the 1970s and ’80s, with young women receiving tubal ligations when they were ostensibly getting appendectomies. Ultimately an estimated 25 to 50 percent of Indigenous women were sterilized between 1970 and 1976. Forced sterilization programs are also a part of history in Puerto Rico, where sterilization rates are said to be among the highest in the world. Most recently, California prisons were alleged to have authorized coerced sterilization of nearly 150 female inmates between 2006 and 2010. "
156 " We have to be willing to use violence diversion programs more liberally than we use probation, have to have a program that starts in school to unteach the normalization of violence against women. "
157 " There is nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant. Nothing empowering or enlightening in deciding that intent trumps impact. "
158 " When the work centers on the most marginalized targets of sexual harassment and abuse it benefits not only their communities but all communities. "
159 " Fight againsthunger as hard as you fight for abortion rights or equal pay. Understand that thisisn’t a problem that can be addressed later. "
160 " We also need to stop normalizing hate and stop assuming hate speech is harmless, regardless of who it targets or who says it. While it is true that not everyone who makes bigoted comments will go on to commit violent acts, our normalization of that kind of hideous rhetoric serves as tacit permission for the people with those views to escalate to violence. "