quote: benefit of hundred years of theory
In a post about class and classism, siderea wrote:
You are – as we all are – the beneficiary of more than a century of struggle against racism and sexism. We have had the benefit of more than a hundred years of very, very smart, very, very eloquent people thinking hard about the nature of sex and sexism and race and racism, and uncovering their complexities and manifold manifestations, and explicating them in language ranging from graduate dissertations down to what a small child can understand. We stand on a towering mountain of theory, built up by generations of perspicacity and insight.