Yea, land of the brave and home of the free needs to get to it. If your movement can be shutdown by a lack of mass-media coverage then it wasn’t a fuckin’ movement, it was a little day out in the sun.

And yes, you’re right that without consequences nothing will happen. My biggest frustration these days is simply things like why we started this conversation, which was that with no prompting the classic “but at least one is slightly less horrid than the other!” crap came up again. We are so fucking scared to have vaguely strong feelings on a subject, to the point where our entirely culture is built on shutting someone down for yelling when someone else hits them.

I’m sick of it, and we need to start saying “great, and that’s nowhere near good enough” instead of the usual “hurray, we corrected 1% of the damage and get to feel good about ourselves so let’s stop there.”