Plus ca change

[percival]

Before 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 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.

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Oh, just my mum's bitterness about being devalued as a sahm, tales of my maternal grandfather always wanting a son ... little things that build up