chapotraphouse

I agree and I'll take any opportunity to do the ol' agitate/educate/organise because as far as I'm concerned we're running desperately short on time and we can't afford to turn our noses up at the opportunities that get presented to us.

I think one thing about me that probably rubs people up the wrong way is that I consider this space to be a notch or two above what the general level of awareness is so I am much more critical than I would otherwise be, partly because I let my hair down here, if we were talking about it irl because face-to-face I'm going to agree with this and I'm going to encourage anyone who cares to get more involved in organising and engaging in activism, despite my misgivings, and I'll even furnish those people with arguments in favour of the position but I'll probably make mention of the Lucy Stone League to gently gesture at the fact that a century later and women are still thoroughly under the bootheel of patriarchy despite their best efforts or I might make note of the suffragette Edith Margaret Garrud and how women's rights were advanced by using Jujitsu and wielding hatpins more than any symbolic action. This is in the hope that they're going to take these ideas and learn more about them in their own time, and that they'll develop a richer understanding of what works when it comes to achieving social change.