Yesterday I was listening to snippets of Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary on Like It Is.
In an effort to draw parallels between oppressions and illustrate the fact that the white folk who used to attend lynching parties were your everyday, average whitefolk (indeed, lots were respected community members who attended lynching parties in suits), she cited a study that found that 75% of average-joe type everyday men said that they would commit rape upon a woman if it could be any woman of their choosing and there would be no consequences for the rape.
Look at how oppression harms the psyches of both oppressed and oppressor. Can I please find the 25% of men who said no? What a noble, relatively unharmed population of people in a patriarchal, white supremacist (to quote bell hooks) society.
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