Thread by @kazweida

This #SundayMorning let's chat about what has become obvious during the Kavanaugh hearings.

We're still deep in the patriarchy, peeps.

The #MeToo movement has exposed the pervasiveness & persistence of misogyny. How do we fight back & dismantle sexism once and for all?
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(2) Let's start here.

One of the biggest problems is while women make up half the population, we don't have control of the institutions that have power over our lives.

From executive boardrooms to the halls of Congress, men's interests are & have always been OVER represented.

(3) That means men's voices are heard more often & that they are more involved in decisions. In business, in politics & in the media.

Despite GOP's rage-fueled defense of "good men" targeted by #MeToo the facts don't support that men are a minority being victimized in America.

(4) But there is someone who does continue to prop up the patriarchy, and once we address representation, we're going to have to deal with them.

Women participate in misogyny.

Religious, conservative women (mostly white women) have been vital in the GOP's gaslighting of America

(5) The GOP has been waging war on women for decades. On reproductive rights, equal pay & more. They do it by reinforcing gender stereotypes & demonizing smart, capable women.

But they couldn't have done it without the help of white women.
rantt.com/why-women-vote…

(6) And this is why it SO important to address some of the motivations in why women continue to reinforce institutions that undermine their bodily autonomy and oppress them.

And why it's vital that feminism be intersectional.

scarymommy.com/intersectional…

(7) If we want control and equal representation, we'll need to start elbowing our way into the rooms where decisions are made. And this election cycle promises to put more women in positions of power to do just that.

And we need to stop treating "women's issues" as fringe issues

(8) Because here's the BIG lie. The one that has always been sitting in front of your face.

Sexism hurts men too.

Just not in the ways the GOP wants you to believe.
Toxic masculinity is a real thing and while it hurts and victimizes women, it also robs men of fulfilling lives.

(9) We need to raise men that believe being emotionally intelligent caregivers is as important to being successful as getting a degree from an Ivy League school. We need to create a society that pays women enough so men can stay home and raise children.

bigthink.com/philip-perry/t…

(10) We need to admire kindness & stop glorifying macho stereotypes.
As much as toxic masculinity reinforces violence against women, it also keeps men isolated from having intimate, loving relationships.

It keeps us all trapped in a cycle of abuse.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/scien…

(END) Thanks to @MarionBurr5 for the #SundayMorning thread suggestion. Come back next week and let's have more fun with the headlines.