{"id":35830,"date":"2018-06-19T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35830"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:17:59","slug":"qotd-homophobia-and-racism-in-the-usa-and-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/19\/qotd-homophobia-and-racism-in-the-usa-and-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Homophobia and racism in the USA and in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside the very privileged top of society, feminism doesn\u2019t get the traction it gets in the US ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Not even in England. In fact every other country in the world is far more \u201cist\u201d than the US, because being \u201cist\u201d (racist, sexist and homophobic[ist for completism]) is the way things are done. I find it mildly amusing whenever gay friends think that the US is worse than Europe \u201cbecause of all the religious stuff.\u201d Uh. No. The US is more tolerant than Europe because we\u2019re richer and more vast and we can ignore that which annoys us more easily. In Europe they live in each other\u2019s pockets on what is for us tight resources. They have no \u201cgive\u201d and cohesion and conformity is enforced, which means if you stick out, you get it. Not publicly and certainly not if you\u2019re a tourist, but if you live there among the people you\u2019ll find you don\u2019t need to hunt for microaggressions.<\/p>\n

And before people from Europe say it isn\u2019t so \u2014 you don\u2019t know. Anymore than Americans do who\u2019ve never lived there as locals. You don\u2019t know how much LESS of the racism and sexism and homophobia there is in the US than in your area. Hint, what you see in our movies and read in our papers is the greatest bullshit around. Those PRACTICALLY don\u2019t exist in the US, for any functional purpose. I mean, sure, people might think women are inferior, or might hate gays, but unlike the internet sites colonized by the alt.right (and how many of those are Russian agent accounts no one knows) people expressing such feelings (actual hostility not imaginary micro-aggressions) are likely to be laughed at or mocked. Not so in Europe.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the more tan areas of Europe, and what we\u2019ll term the first world minus a quarter.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not ragging on my birthplace. It has some admirable qualities. But if you think that it is more tolerant or laid back than the US you haven\u2019t lived there. Sexism is internalized at such a level people don\u2019t see it. They give lip service to women having jobs, etc, but those women still have to be \u201cgood housewives\u201d no matter what their job is. Men still get the choice seats in cars (be fair, they are so tiny most men have to sit up front to fit, but it has become internalized, too), men still take pride of place without a thoughts. No, not everywhere, not in every family. BUT at a cultural level, it exists at a point that feminists here would have a heart attack. Again no time to look for micro aggressions, you\u2019re too busy working through the macro ones.<\/p>\n

But here is the thing that these people forget: They\u2019re not AGGRESSIONS. They\u2019re just culture. When a man as a matter of course takes the best seat, he\u2019s not making a comment on YOU. Hell, he\u2019s not making a comment at all. He\u2019s just doing something so deeply ingrained that he didn\u2019t think about it. If you think that\u2019s enough to make it so that you can\u2019t succeed or that you need to run around saying you live in a patriarchal or male-supremacist society, let me tell you, cupcake, you wouldn\u2019t have succeeded anyway.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “A Very Diverse Cake”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2016-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outside the very privileged top of society, feminism doesn\u2019t get the traction it gets in the US ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Not even in England. In fact every other country in the world is far more \u201cist\u201d than the US, because being \u201cist\u201d (racist, sexist and homophobic[ist for completism]) is the way things are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,41,13],"tags":[262,987,196,238,99,303],"class_list":["post-35830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-feminism","tag-lgbt","tag-offensensitivity","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9jU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35831,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35830\/revisions\/35831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}