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Out of the depravity that is our national realization of the prevalence of sexism and misogyny among men like Donald Trump hopefully will come the Women's Movement 2.0. Every day I hear water cooler conversations, airport discussions among total stranger and more wherein it has become obvious to me that the behavior of which Trump boasted, though perhaps not something every man does, is too far common for us as a nation to overlook it. Indeed, I get a sense that the majority of women whom I know have endured some sort of sexist effrontery.
Thinking about what it'll take to overcome this gross demerit against the American culture, I suspect that men and women both are part of the problem just as both must be part of the solution. From the "Doll Test" we learned that given time the objects of discrimination and objectification can become culturally inculcated to perceive themselves, or more appropriately their ilk, to in fact be that which they are presumed by their oppressors to be. To that end, I suspect even today there are women who don't stridently enough stand up and speak against the mores to which they've become conditioned in how they interact with and/or tolerate unwanted advances from men.
For all the men, however, as the holders of the majority of the political power in the U.S., they too, be they the men who are not part of the problem or men who are, this problem will not be quickly resolved without men being as supportive and involved in the effort as be women. Like it or not, without the involvement of the people in power, change will not occur. Thus, women cannot do it alone. The glass ceiling is still there, even if it's harder to see.
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Thinking about what it'll take to overcome this gross demerit against the American culture, I suspect that men and women both are part of the problem just as both must be part of the solution. From the "Doll Test" we learned that given time the objects of discrimination and objectification can become culturally inculcated to perceive themselves, or more appropriately their ilk, to in fact be that which they are presumed by their oppressors to be. To that end, I suspect even today there are women who don't stridently enough stand up and speak against the mores to which they've become conditioned in how they interact with and/or tolerate unwanted advances from men.
For all the men, however, as the holders of the majority of the political power in the U.S., they too, be they the men who are not part of the problem or men who are, this problem will not be quickly resolved without men being as supportive and involved in the effort as be women. Like it or not, without the involvement of the people in power, change will not occur. Thus, women cannot do it alone. The glass ceiling is still there, even if it's harder to see.
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For more on the "Doll Test," read Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. I was thoroughly shocked when I read it as part of a high school history class in the 1970s. There are many lessons to be learned from that text.