Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readApr 10, 2021

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But there is no opposing evidence that stands up to scrutiny. That's the problem. The stuff you are citing is not factual or true. It's wishful thinking from people having an emotional response to the belief that their cultural centrality is being challenged.

When men enter jobs that were previously dominated by women, such as computer coding, the wages go up and women are edged out. As women go into fields previously dominated by men, the pay drops.

"About 1,000 civilians are killed each year by law-enforcement officers in the United States. By one estimate, Black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police during their lifetime1. And in another study, Black people who were fatally shot by police seemed to be twice as likely as white people to be unarmed2."

There are countries all around the world that are demonstrably significantly less sexist and racist than ours. I know off the top of my head that we are around 10th as far as gender equity. That means there is plenty of room for improvement. And even if all other countries were behind us, that still doesn't justify continued discrimination and oppression just because other people are still doing it.

Telling people who are experiencing that on an ongoing basis throughout their entire lives that they are overreacting is what people who want them to shut up and take it quietly do. It's not about being "woke" - it's about interfacting with reality rather than how you'd like to imagine things are because that "feels" better to you.

We have a culture built around social stratification that is maintained by force, coercion, and violence. I've written about 30 stories about that, all full of data and research from a wide variety of subject matter areas including sociology, anthropology, history, primatology, etc. I have "evidence" that goes on for days, that no-one has been able to poke any holes in.

Until 50 years ago we had actual laws that helped enforce the social stratification that our culture is built on. Those inclinations didn't just evaporate because the laws changed.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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