You know, the black lives matter page just put what I meant by 'not all men are like that' and 'women do it too' in the OP into perfect words
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Do you go onto dog charity home pages and say "Cats get abused too, look! Why don't you help cats? And some dogs bite people. Look at this baby who was hurt by a dog."
Nobody would do that because it would be deranged. Yet it is seen as acceptable to do this in response to people trying to discuss problems like sexism or racism.
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I never used to understand the BLM movement. I remember being on threads saying 'well why black lives, surely all lives matter'. Its taken me a lot of years, and tackling what I can only say was internalized racism...to fully understand it. I think this soul searching...is whats brought me to understand the wider problem of sexism actually. As until quite recently I was very much a 'females are equal in this country, no need for feminism' kind of person. When really...its not true at all. In law maybe, in actual day to day life, not so much.