It's only a shop window display.
It's only a poster.
It's only a tv advert.
It's only a lyric.
It's only a film.
It's only a newspaper.
It's only a popular website.
It's only a party's policy.
It's only a bill.
It's only the law.
Where exactly is the cut off for sexism?
When are we allowed to start challenging the insidiously pervasive lessons being taught to our children?
The more this shit is left unchallenged, the more it is normalised. The more it is normalised, the harder it is to reverse. It's a cycle. People see it, they talk about it and get told it's a fuss over nothing, so it's accepted, so people talk about it as normal, so it bleeds more into the media, so people talk about it more, so it's accepted, and on and on.
Men were legally allowed to rape their wives in my lifetime. A woman's underwear was used against her in a rape trial this year. So How. The. Fuck. can people honestly say that it doesn't matter how women are portrayed on a day to day basis? How exactly is anything supposed to change if the female sex is continually being reduced to fucking frilly knickers.
I really don't want to spring back to a world where a woman's place is in the kitchen while the man brings home the bacon.