Saw this on women’s stuff and didn’t wanna engage cause that space isnt for me, but felt like this was a 10/10 post and wanted more people to see and think about it!
Feel free to cross post if you can think of broader communities where more people would be able to see it, this is just the comm that came to mind :)
Why are they “heroic” just for intervening? That’s seems like just basic human decency to stand up against sexism.
There’s a lot of risk to intervening, you can easily be seen as evil.
The problem with this chart is individuals are variable. Right now person A can be on the right side of the bar, tomorrow they could be heroic.
We’re all assholes sometimes, other times more heroic.
In the sense that a person has no single defined position on the chart? Yes
In the sense that two people cannot have different average positions? No