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Activism is more than what you see

#Activism ~ A Vision is what gives the joy of activism. You are building something. All the accusatory and sulky responses to incels and meninists and sexists and patriarchs is just expressed irritation at the people getting in the way of the Vision. Don't stare yourself flat against the wall of watching the irritable responses and forget that there's a huge part of the iceberg under the water that is only busy with Vision. You're missing out on *that* part.

Recidivism. A moral quagmire

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  I was astonished at this video  because it didn't depict the patriarchal narrative of woman-as-victim, slinking off AS IF to hide her shame (this is how men hear our silence, and other women, and the next victim who then feels she must be silent and not tell HER mother, "what if I get blamed for soliciting that sexual attention" [when I was under 12] [in my personal view I believe the age of consent is stretching it at 16]). (Yes we want sex when we are under 16, but that doesn't give anyone the right to take advantage of our inability to make adult decisions about what to do with our bodies.) What has this got to do with the public groping of an adult woman? That attitude right there is where the thinking is wrong. No girl, no woman, is there for you to act upon at any time without her express, enthusiastic, informed, uncoerced consent. No debate.  AND THEN look at the very last moment of this video. #Aargh His friends embrace him back into the fold, here&