“no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
that’s bullshit and people need to stop saying it.
That phrase is the adult version of, “Why are you hitting yourself?”
Seriously? You think Eleanor Roosevelt is full of shit?
What she’s saying is that people can treat you like you don’t matter, but they are wrong. YOU know you matter, and that’s what is important. What people think of you means nothing unless you let it get to you. Folks don’t like you? That’s not your problem unless you let it.
“That’s not your problem unless you let it” is victim-blaming bullshit.
Members of the dominant group can make laws and traditions that define you as lesser, if they let you be human at all. They can gaslight you into hating yourself, into hating people like you, into helping fuck over those people because of the characteristics you share.
Eleanor Roosevelt was an upper-class White woman. On this subject, she was indeed full of shit.
