@yourhairiswinterfire
So in a short space of time we've had people defending creeps getting their dicks out in front of little girls in the female only section of a spa.
The answer to Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey is to 'desensitise' kids to penis.
And if creeps post porn at children on a very famous woman's timeline whilst she's praising their artwork, it's her that should be punished?
Fucking hell. Quite a sinister theme emerging here...
All variations on the old faithful of:
Women be quiet and the
Rules of Misogyny - so there's some cold comfort in them being recognisable themes in that way.
Accompanied by In Adichie’s TED talk on feminism in 2012, now viewed almost five million times, she talks about feminist anger, righteous anger, but one to which hope has never been entirely surrendered. “I cannot afford despair,” she explains. “We live behind a self-made iron curtain, of rules and silence and silencing. When I came to the US to go to university I heard people constantly going on about free speech, but it is also only in America that I learnt about the things you are not supposed to say — and I grew up in a military dictatorship. But here I am acutely aware of things you are not allowed to say, or even think, or question — the end of curiosity. I believe in celebrating a kind of ignorance, for only then can we learn. When I talk to young people I start off by trying to make them comfortable to ask the questions that make them uncomfortable.”
Are you optimistic, I ask as our time comes to an end. “I am a pessimistic optimist,” she says. “Because I still want to believe everything will be OK, even if I know it won’t be.”
archive.is/9WSTr#selection-1333.0-1341.180
(Link to Richard Cole's interview on the topic of grief with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.)