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In reply to the discussion: Managing Privilege [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)how many "liberal" guys just assumed the leadership position was unquestionably theirs, thoughtlessly shot down the input of all women in the room, and spent waay too much time in a power struggle with the second bossiest guy in the room- instead of working to achieve actual goals.
They would literally pay no mind to the women unless they had a thankless task too menial to ask of a guy, or were trying to rally some support in their power struggle with another dude. They were perfectly happy to get nothing done, as long as they were busy scrambling to be top dog.
It never occurred to them that they were ignoring 3/4 of their fellow activists, people who had much more experience with and input from the community, and wasting so much talent and opportunity. I broke off and made what contributions I could sort of independently, registered hundreds of voters and raised more money than those fools. What I did directly contributed to our big win and improved my community greatly. What our leader did- give interviews and then set himself up a BS semi - related but these days irrelevant non-profit he is still profiting off of 20 years later. So much for common interests, LOL.