History of Feminism

I used to think that way too, Squinch, that if I just stopped thinking about stuff that it wouldn't matter, or if I just kept quiet when someone was charging up the wrong hill that it would all turn out right, or if I could just convince myself that it didn't bother me that I would feel just fine.

But then I read about Rosa Parks. I realized that when there are issues of civil rights and equality, that the stands we take have to be ones that make sense at the time to a large number of people on both sides of an issue.

That's when I realized that the civil rights movement would have made zero progress if, in 1955, Ms. Parks had started insisting people stop using the n-word, rather than taking a stand about the inequality of where a human being could sit based on their color.

It just seems like, with the fretting over the term "slut shaming", that someone is worrying about a pair of dirty socks while the house is burning down.

Calling out the language police at this juncture makes a mockery of the fight for gender equality.