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In reply to the discussion: There are many men on DU who are supportive of women's rights [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)I live in large working class suburb and there is lot of racist attitudes here. A lonely older lady started to yell racist insults to a group of young Somali girls who were just giggling as girl do while walking. Couple old working class dudes told the lady not to yell at children but to yell at them if she has something to say. She shut up. The mothers of those girls were walking 100 meters behind their girls and saw the situation. Little things like that can matter much and help immigrants to feel at home.
And as for hierarchic power structures, they are just wrong. For everybody. Men and women should not be competing about climbing the hierarchic ladders and blaming their structural frustration on each other, but work together to tear does structures down.