Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I don't have any trouble, myself, with saying that, yeah, everyone HAS been conditioned, because everybody has. Sexism is a societal and structural problem, and it gets into everything and everybody, and I have no problem with saying this.

"Which doesn't mean we don't also pick and choose what's the best way forward for each of us, starting from wherever we're starting, and doesn't mean that a given reaction to our conditioning is necessarily unhealthy. It means that your pink skirt and my leather bra are not neutral choices.

"But, you know, when I say that I always know that almost nobody is going to read past 'conditioned.' You can almost hear the shutters slam up, sometimes."

-- commodorified, 2008-03-26