🤣 Today a fellow asked if I was a feminist *after* I'd emphasized that men's issues are important, too, & he made a face when I said yes, telling me women were too masculinized.

But by switching to the economic issues caused by corporations not paying their share, and the subsequent scapegoating of other demographics to explain our subsequent financial precarity, I swear by the end of the chat he was saying it's really sad that more women don't have access to better education & life outcomes. 🙃

I chuckle, but

1) it's nice to chat with someone open to an actual discussion; a lot of folks are far too radicalized to entertain different points of view;

2) a lot of the surface-level antagonism I see comes down to people not feeling heard in their frustration, driving them into more extreme positions because at least in *those* spaces they can articulate an issue they're seeing (in this case, the cost of living) without getting shut down or vilified; &

3) I DID IT ALL IN SPANISH, BABY. 🥳