History of Feminism

My dad used it all the time, but he was also a "Garbageman"-- this was back before they were called 'sanitation workers'. Backbreaking work He worked with mostly black folk. He has what considers an endearing story of me being frightened the first time I saw a black person as a toddler

Anyway, he developed a philosophy, there were "niggers" (or finger poppers, or a number of other more offensive racial perjoritives ) and there were "coloreds" or as times changed "black" people. He was never able to overcome his basic racism-- to this day. He can socialize with black folk, but can't connect. He doesn't consider himself racist. He's worse with women, although to his credit, he told my sister and I, "men were after only one thing" (that's not the credit part) and taught us how to work doing basic house maintenance and some remodeling because "there are no real men left"---- it took me years to realize he was a misanthropist-- a real one. He thinks as little of men as he does women, although in different ways. Definitely a sexist pig. Plus, He would think the men here with their constant arguing nonsense were a bunch of emasculated whiners.

He has an underlying personality disorder that makes his "isms" easier to identify, but he absolutely can't see it. A text book case, one that can be used as a magnifying glass for so many microagressions as well as outright racism/ sexism