Status Updates From Speaking Truth to Power

“She is like every daughter who is told that the opportu nities to achieve are there for her in far greater numbers than for her mother's generation” pg293

“Handling" the situation means telling the person who engages in such behavior to stop doing it, finding ways to avoid contact with the person, and ignoring the hurt, fear, embarrassment, and emotional injury the behavior causes for the good of the race, we are told. But those feelings exist no matter what your race. We must deny our gender in order to maintain our racial identity. Pg279

“She is like every daughter who is told that the opportu nities to achieve are there for her in far greater numbers than for her mother's generation. Her history suggests that she was willing to work twice as hard and prove herself over and again to be considered as equal to her male counterparts. “

“We prove we are conditioned ‘to handle’ such behavior in order to prove that we belong to the race and to establish our womenhood. This conditioning teaches us to deny both the nature of the behavior and the harm we feel from it.”