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OneTime on 25 July 2021
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Ka-pi96 said:

Get better education and wait 50+ years. That's the only way I see to really fix it, same with racism.

You're not really going to make a sexist/racist stop being one. You need to wait for a whole new generation of people to be rid of that kind of behaviour. Realistically multiple generations since a lot of that behaviour is learnt from the parents.

I don't think time will fix anything.  We've had plenty of education on both racism and sexism for 75 years, and it never went away.  Even if you look at TV programs from the 1960s you can see the exact same discussions we're having today appear pretty regularly.  All the women's and civil rights movements have been around for a long time, and roughly speaking the same proportions of people supported the cause.

TBH - if anything we've been going backwards in the last 15 years or so...  I think it's the level of "heat" that is causing problems.  Getting excited and shouty isn't a good way of getting people on-side.