Teach Me

always try

It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss feminist issues in the abstract. You are discussing the stuff of her life. Asking her to “not make it personal” is to ask her to wrench her womanhood from her personhood. Don’t play Devil’s advocate. Seriously. Just don’t.

When families reject hierarchical thinking about gender, they provide an important site of resistance to the dominant social discourse .
Robust research findings indicate that when families encourage self-assertion, permit disagreement, and respect others’ views, adolescent identity exploration is greater than in families where individuality is not encouraged.

—Libby and Thomas Blume, “Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality. (via delarealidadd)

(via sociolab)