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why do i feel like i am so hard to love

Men don’t realize what stuff like this does to young girls growing up. The effect it has on us, never seeing ourselves in power. Just like young children of color never see themselves in power. It’s just picture after picture of white men in black suits, over and over and over again. They’ll never understand what that’s like.

A related problem is what this does to young boys—and especially young, white boys. This creates the idea that white men are the default members of society, and this is partly why, by the time they’re 18, so many white men are completely incapable of empathising with marginalised peoples.

Two cats being interrupted by themselves from an alternate dog dimension