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Men, do better
Nov. 3rd, 2022 08:55 pmFor fuck's sake, telling women's history as it actually happened is NOT man-bashing. I knew to expect some push back to the book I was reading (A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes) because it IS very feminist but there are some truly vicious personal attacks and mostly centered on the man-bashing as they perceived it. At not point in this book is it said men are bad or evil. It just documented the things that have been done to women over the last 200 years (more or less). My favorite was these authors had no credentials to talk about this. Women? They both are. Ghosts? Where do you get credentials for that?
Why are we suddenly so damn fragile that confronting the truth of history is an attack? I hear it a lot around here critical race theory being called critical marxism. Other than these politicians don't know what that word means other than it scares people, it's weird to me that suddenly we can't handle that slavery happened, that the Natives were slaughtered, that women were kept chained to the house (I mean they couldn't have their own bank accounts until the 1960s and a credit card was even later. Hell I had to fight to get one in the 80s) It's like where is this coming from? I learned that slavery happened (though the Native Americans didn't show up much). I do get some of them are afraid of the challenge to their authority, that they think just being born a certain color or gender makes them special.
The attempts to silence us hits me hard. I dealt with SO much of that being a science student in the 80s and a doctor in the 90s. Most of my career I was told I was unwanted because I was a woman. Telling me talking about what happened then is man bashing instead of reality, I just don't know where that leaves us. We are not always the heroes. We're not always the people we want to be. I have had moments I'm shamed of. I'm sure we all have. But you can't move forward and do better if you pretend these things aren't real. We're always learning, growing and hopefully being better.
Speaking of being better, I'm going to cut text my nano snippets as some of them are rough. A lot of this stuff DID happen to me. Hell I'm sure I might even have seen a ghost or two.
I made it through the covid shot with literally no problems at all.
Also while I had made the choice already to skip mostly to the nursing home in the novel, i realize I didn't really document the hospital stay in my blog or I missed it when I pulled down my posts to prep for this. That seems odd I would have missed all that time once mom brought me my computer.
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Why are we suddenly so damn fragile that confronting the truth of history is an attack? I hear it a lot around here critical race theory being called critical marxism. Other than these politicians don't know what that word means other than it scares people, it's weird to me that suddenly we can't handle that slavery happened, that the Natives were slaughtered, that women were kept chained to the house (I mean they couldn't have their own bank accounts until the 1960s and a credit card was even later. Hell I had to fight to get one in the 80s) It's like where is this coming from? I learned that slavery happened (though the Native Americans didn't show up much). I do get some of them are afraid of the challenge to their authority, that they think just being born a certain color or gender makes them special.
The attempts to silence us hits me hard. I dealt with SO much of that being a science student in the 80s and a doctor in the 90s. Most of my career I was told I was unwanted because I was a woman. Telling me talking about what happened then is man bashing instead of reality, I just don't know where that leaves us. We are not always the heroes. We're not always the people we want to be. I have had moments I'm shamed of. I'm sure we all have. But you can't move forward and do better if you pretend these things aren't real. We're always learning, growing and hopefully being better.
Speaking of being better, I'm going to cut text my nano snippets as some of them are rough. A lot of this stuff DID happen to me. Hell I'm sure I might even have seen a ghost or two.
I made it through the covid shot with literally no problems at all.
Also while I had made the choice already to skip mostly to the nursing home in the novel, i realize I didn't really document the hospital stay in my blog or I missed it when I pulled down my posts to prep for this. That seems odd I would have missed all that time once mom brought me my computer.
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