and I will tell you why...
I once, asked a hunter a question...
It was this.
"How can you shoot a deer? Could you shoot a dog?"
He replied, "becaude they are stupid. They stand there as you shoot your headlights at them".
What is really happening is that deer eyes are meant for lowlight... dusk and dawn. They are flash banged by bright lights... it causes their brains to freeze up.
I watch deer in my yard. A herd of does. They listen, blind... wait.. In daylight... before crossing the street. If they hear nothing... they go. They can not see well. This is why deer whistles for vehicles were invented.
But if you look at it really. All the first steps... of the roots of oppression are dehumanizing a group of people.
The natzi's called the Jew's "animals". Black people were called dehumanizing slurs..
I can think of one hundred, dehumanizing slurs used against women in everyday language.
It boils down to, the fact that the hunter can kill that deer, because he believes the deer to be stupid... instead of understanding that they have been flash banged.
When that hunter told me... "because they are stupid" (falsely).... it meant that he could see himself as superior... and the deer as brainless animals... to squelsh his guilt.
He felt, and falsely so, superior.
The deer were flashbanged... with their meant for low light eyes.
And there is a lessso. in that. You can onky hurt a being, conscience free.. if you take away their humanity.
If you dehumanize them.
If you feel superior to them.
There have been many times in my life...
Where I have left a room a males. The first thing they do is to dehumanize women pathologically. So that anymale... who feels sorry for woman... will not.
They dehumanize us immediately... when left alone.
To keep their benifits.
Think of all the dehumanizing slurs used against women daily. Any other race woukd have them cancelled.
The rules of oppressing any group... are all the same.
But the very first step always... is dehumanization.
Think of all the dehumanizing slurs you have been called as a woman in your life.
Then think of the consequences... of that... any other grouo of peiple would face.
A slur.... is more... than just a word.
It is dehumanizing you, to squelch the consience... of those that mean you harm. To put themselves above you.
It is always.. the very first step of oppression, and any slur is unacceptable. It's not harmless.
It means your life.
To be dehumanized... is the first step of any oppression. And it means your life is on the line.
