Plus ca change
Feb. 24th, 2006 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalBefore I had my daughter, I considered women to be inferior to men. In my head, I was all for equal opportunities feminism, and I would have been seriously angry if I'd been passed over for anything at work because of my gender. But there was still a small voice in my head that said "oh, they only have a girl" when I came across one-daughter-families. When my daughter announced herself, that voice was silenced.
Before I stayed with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brightfame, I was a racist. Even though I seriously believed that everybody should be treated the same, without any regard for the colour of their skin, I still somehow saw people of a different skin colour as different, somebody to tiptoe around, somebody to be especially nice to. Now, I see them as human beings just like me.
And you know what? If you'd accused me of being a racist or regarding women as inferior in, say, 2004, I would have sworn that you wanted to malign me.
Before I stayed with
brightfame, I was a racist. Even though I seriously believed that everybody should be treated the same, without any regard for the colour of their skin, I still somehow saw people of a different skin colour as different, somebody to tiptoe around, somebody to be especially nice to. Now, I see them as human beings just like me. And you know what? If you'd accused me of being a racist or regarding women as inferior in, say, 2004, I would have sworn that you wanted to malign me.
