Thus, this endless cycle of discrimination presents a curious problem; by erasing women from history, the younger generation feels discouraged from writing their own stories. Women can be mothers, daughters, and wives. They can also be leaders, heroes, and innovators; and, they have been. Lise Meitner, Tu Youyou, Nellie Bly, Marsha P. Johnson, Frances Beal, Malala Yousafzai, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and many more have all shaped the world we live in today.
My emphasis above – WTF? Did the writer perhaps intend Stormé Delarverié rather than a gay man and firmly self-identified drag queen? I do wonder if an editor meddled in this article a bit!
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My emphasis above – WTF? Did the writer perhaps intend Stormé Delarverié rather than a gay man and firmly self-identified drag queen? I do wonder if an editor meddled in this article a bit!
Omg I don’t know how the f I missed that!! I didn’t even see “Marsha P Johnson”.
..this woman just erased the only woman present at Stonewall while elevating a man who was not even there.
I think it was just luck that it jumped out at me – he popped up again in another article I read today and so his drag name was fresh in my mind.
Yeah I spotted that too. No article about women is complete unless it includes a man.
When you erase a woman and replace her with a man in your article about how our culture erases women... LOL
AOC is shaping the world? Really? 😂. Good lord they could have picked a million better examples.