I’ve just been lucky in that I’ve had a lot of moments of awareness that pushed me to do the work to rewire a lot of the shitty sexist things I’ve picked up over the decades. A lot that I didn’t even know were there.
And I’m still learning more about how misogyny is subtlety threaded into nearly everything all the time.
This endless election has been hugely instructive to that end. It’s my hope that since I have a little bit more bandwidth and volume than most, this will translate into other guys seeing this stuff too and that’s a channel to positive change will hopefully spread through.
I don’t think a lot of guys *want* to be sexist or hold sexist views, but one of the insidious things about institutionalized bias is that it makes up the atmosphere around you in a way you don’t think to question.
Before this election I would have thought I knew everything there was to know about this stuff but holy hell did that turn out to be wrong.
I get that some female progressives arent super jazzed about Hillary but while she may not be as sexy a rockstar as they want, she has taken more hits for the team than anyone I cant think of off the top of my head.
But she’s still going. And still taking hits.
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2016 Jason Malmberg. Pictured: Larry mistakes Jack for a woman, hits on him, from Three’s Company, 1979.
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