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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Society in general encourages and rewards those who speak more

Squeaky Wheel, etc.

But only if you're older, whiter, taller, and maler.

Society (at least, my corner of the American Southwest) hates hearing a short young brown woman open her mouth.