You probably already know that, but Courtney E. Martin at The American Prospect explores that further.
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Although not surprising, it is still shocking to see young girls duke it out on videos. We expect better behavior from women, but violence is a learned behavior and women learned it as well as men.
Exposure to the problem is a good start.
I had never read the Lisa Jervis essay linked to in the Courtney Martin article. That’s a powerful piece of work.
“…femmenism—[the mistaken belief] female leadership is inherently different from male; that having more women in positions of power, authority, or visibility will automatically lead to, or can be equated with, feminist social change; that women are uniquely equipped as a force for action on a given issue; and that isolating feminist work as solely pertaining to women is necessary or even useful.”
I’m putting that definition in the book.
It’s fine to want to think highly of one’s self, but not at the expense of others, sez me. And again: Putting down one gender in favor of the other wasn’t supposed to be the idea of all this.