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Are All Men Rapists? Racists? Grampas?
Don’t worry. We’re on a path to ending exploitation if we just read the signs
Roaring Rivers
HAPPY WOMEN’ S HISTORY MONTH, What, no huge holiday??
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
We all can carry the change of two cents in our pockets
People phrase questions these days in ways that provoke outrage. It doesn’t help that we all engage in outrage because we all have our two cents to offer. That said, many people, especially here on Medium, do try to engage in adult discussions.
This is good.
Non-violent change is good, but to employ it, you must envision it.
Let’s start with a clear distinction that grows fuzz as soon as human minds begin to think, each with their own bias, each with their own “confirmed experience.”
When my mother was a little girl, when her mother was a little girl, and most definitely when my grandmother’s mother was a little girl, it is safe to say that “all men were rapists.” Child marriage was entirely normalized up until quite recently. Our modern definition of statutory rape shows that a person…