@i.wrote: “What does a woman do with the knowledge of misogyny?” Maybe the most unsettling part of becoming conscious of patriarchy is that you cannot become unconscious again. Once you begin to recognise the machinery, you start seeing it everywhere. You see it in the things you were taught to tolerate, in the ways women are asked to make themselves smaller, in the violence dressed up as love, in the ordinary rituals of being a woman. Robin Morgan, speaking in Not a Love Story: A Film About Por*******, sits with that realisation: what do we do once we know? Because knowledge is not always liberating in the immediate sense. Sometimes, it is grief first. Rage. Estrangement. A re-reading of your entire life. And then, perhaps, the difficult work of deciding what you will no longer call normal. #misogyny #women #feminism #womenrights