Something I was thinking about

[Abe27]

If you could stop racism, sexism or simmilarly with a snap of your fingers, but no one other than youself would know about it, then how long would you think it would take before people discovered? If ever.

Lets say with sexism, if people have a strong enough preconception that there is sexism against them, then the attitude can be kept existing for a long time, even though it is for example continuously discovered statistically that it no longer exists. Or perhaps just new points of "sexism" would be made up, to make it continue to "exist"

[Sugarcoat]

I think we see a little bit of this phenomena. In the past when sexism was worse the majority of focus was on major issues like rights to vote for women. When the bigger issues get resolved, then the focus moves to more “smaller” issues and so on. I can imagine if all sexism disappeared, that people would start thinking of things as sexist that weren’t previously thought of, as you said, becuase they’ve so strongly identified themselves as victims and men as perpetrators. So it becomes like a self fulfilling prophecy 

Edited December 28, 2024 by Sugarcoat