Why We’re Still Having This

You see it all the time online—some YouTuber gets asked why feminism still matters, and suddenly everyone’s got an opinion. As if the past fifteen years of watching women get interrupted in meetings, passed over for promotions, or followed home at night somehow doesn’t prove the point on its own.

The thing that gets me is how people act like pointing out a problem IS the problem. Like noticing inequality is more offensive than the inequality itself. But then you’re just living your life and you see how differently women navigate the world—the apologies that aren’t necessary, the way they take up less space—and you realize this isn’t some abstract debate. It’s a thing you’re watching happen.

I don’t know if having the conversation actually changes anything. But clearly it needs to happen, because the people pretending it’s over keep showing up to say so.