The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158403   Message #3746868
Posted By: GUEST, ^*^
27-Oct-15 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Casual sexism
Subject: RE: BS: Casual sexism
Everything was stolen from someone at some point, the Spanish speaking part of Mexico used to be Indigenous nations. The slavery is gone (on paper), there was a long and proper debate about slavery in the US when the US Mexico War was looming (look up the Wilmot Proviso). Moving along.

Is "casual sexism" referring to the accepted status quo as it is represented today, with very little pushback? Young women today explaining why they don't need to be feminists because they can do everything they want to forget the battles their mothers fought for this to be so. They shouldn't have to live in their mother's shadows, but as they discover their own sexist battles to fight, they need to know their mothers still have their backs. Because the struggle their mothers have right now is that women get older they become invisible to the culture and that is just about as bad as being a sexualized object. Except Helen Mirren - she's still out there kicking ass.