Why should I speak up?

[ismnotwasm]

7. It works for me.

I speak up, I'm clear about my boundaries and I take exactly no shit. I might not change the world, and, clearly I'm not talking about on-line interactions, which i find largely a waste of time when a hostile dichotomy has been created. I don't have to hear sexist, racist or homophobic crap after I do it.

I think you're simplifying the problem somewhat. I was just reading a wonderful feminist blog, had nothing to do with 'speaking up' but feminist sexuality. (I feel quite refreshed)

It did address root causes of our damaged sexuallity, and it was an very long read. Which is part of the problem. Male centric patriartical sexual dominance is how we learn about gendered interaction, and that, is a story much much longer longer than a exchanges of snarky comments or a wiki link or a statistical paragraph or two.

When you're dealing with people who have a fundamental disregard for history, for linguistics, for entitlement-- basically you're pissing up a rope anyway. Why NOT speak up? You might reach the silent ones, the frightened ones, the willing to learn about the damage sexism causes.