Internalized Oppression Quotes

“Part of our shared tragedy - we recognized it at once - was that we never separated from our mothers, which meant we liked girls more than the world like them, which is to say more than they liked each other, let alone themselves.”
― Hilton Als, White Girls

“Misogyny now has become so normalized,” says Paul Roberts, the Impulse Society author. “We can’t even see the absurdity and the inequity of it, it’s so pervasive. When the male gaze was digitized, it was almost as if it was internalized. With smartphones and social media, girls had the means of producing the male gaze themselves, and it was as if they turned it on themselves willingly in order to compete in a marketplace in which sex was the main selling point.
And the social media companies aren't going to do anything about it, as long as it's driving traffic.”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“I laughed at them with everyone else, the whole time knowing the truth about myself, that I wish I were that brave. Not knowing who you are is a terrible feeling. I've been called a "sell-out" many times in life.... But this experience, that moment - that's what it feels like to truly sell out.”
― Laura Jane Grace, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout