Absolutely, this.
Speaking from experience, so many realizations are had when I'm in a group of only women.
You don't realize how suffocating men are until there aren't any present.
For all of the poor handling of the metoo movement, also saw a ton of women realizing it isn't just me.
Keep them confused, isolated, uneducated and disempowered. Not enough women realize how much of what is done to other groups applies to women as a class. They have been brainwashed not to see the disparity in treatment.
Agreed.
I was listening to a podcast about the British post office scandal and the thing that kept being brought up over and over, was all of the sub-postmasters who were interrogated and investigated and punished over supposed theft were told THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSON WHO THIS WAS HAPPENING TO.
And, instead, it was a terribly disastrous computer system and several thousands of people had their lives ruined and it took them quite some time to find each other.
Isolation is a strategy, for sure. How dare people get together AND TALK? Why they might figure out the actual deal and fight back and pull the covers back and show the whole world what's really going on.
Isn't that why corporations discourage employees from discussing their wages? I found out I was the lowest paid employee in my department even though I was the manager of said department, in charge of 11 employees.
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Are you by any chance a female working amongst lower skilled, higher paid males?
or am I just basing this on what my other female friends are facing??
That's so, so common. A number of women who were abused by priests were told the same thing by the church, told individually that they needed more accusers to move forward on proceedings against the same man, told they were the only one.
A former employer of mine did something similar, in particular my direct manager and her manager. They would criticize my work and my behavior (that I wasn't friendly enough or annoyed too often), and then close this off with telling me how my co-workers supposedly also noticed that and mentioned it to them.
It was pretty early in my career and I was much less secure in my skills than I am now, so I just kept my head down and tried getting better somehow. Thinking that my co-workers all thought lowly of me was so embarrassing to me that I didn't think of talking to any of them about it.
Well, things changed at that place over time and it came out that our manager had basically done the same thing to the entire team, with the exception of her closest friends on it (who just told her what she wanted to hear anyway).
Still makes me angry sometimes, just thinking back to that.
I mean, women actually getting together away from the oversight of men does tend to be something that patriarchy and its handmaidens find threatening. Lot of work gets put into keeping us isolated from each other (even in things like polygynous housing designs; they tend to put the man in the middle to keep wives from teaming up and conspiring against him).
TRAs want "TERFs" to be utterly alone and terrified. They want every doubter of their ideology thinking she's the only one and too afraid to question it aloud. There's strength in numbers and strength in shared conviction.