The Context « Ornamenting Away

The thing is: From the minute I leave my house in the morning I am inundated by misogynistic messages, from the things I hear people say to the images I see all around me. For every one time that I make any sort of comment on these messages there are approximately 1,172 times that I’ve recognized something as sexist and not said anything. There are about 5,249 messages that I didn’t even pick up on.

Once I first really understood what the patriarchy was, it became the Framework. The Context. Everything fell into place and finally began to make sense. Once I was at that place, there was no going back to when I didn’t see and hear and feel a seething hatred of femaleness all around me. Feminism became the lens through which I viewed the world. And that’s that.

yes, exactly.

if you're tempted to comment here, please go read the original post at the context, and especially a few paragraphs down, the paragraph that starts out with "I know it must be hard to fathom" and contains a four point summation of the conversation i'm not willing to have.