What do you do when the people you love do and say things that you can't respect?
I've had a falling out with my godmother, because I called her on her racism and close-mindedness and she got in the last word by saying "I have lost all respect for you".
I can't help but think that...she didn't really know my thoughts well enough to respect them in the first place! I don't think she could be friends with the people that I am friends with, because she couldn't see them as equal to herself.
It's so hard to talk about the important things like gender and race privilege with someone who is set in their views...more so when they are someone you care about. Those arguments hurt!
But, I think that we probably do have to call people on their bullshit. Regardless of whether they are people we love, or people we love to hate.
I'm learning that my feminism involves sticking up for people. Telling people about privilege and trying to help them to see it and understand it.
I don't think I won the war last night. But I think I won a victory for myself, and my own ability to understand.
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