I feel like disapproving is three steps into how people are, with "steps" or stages being:
1) Being completely oblivious. 2) Recognizing that there are issues. 3) "Disapproving", or seeing those issues as problems. 4) Wanting to do something about the problem(s). 5) Actually doing something. 6) Whatever it is that you're doing actually having an impact.
I feel like most of the people I know and care about (including myself) hover around 3 and 4... and very few people in the world actually manage to make it to 5 and 6.
I agree with your stages, Sarah. I see myself as at #4, too, tops. I see my sister as trying very hard to work on #5 and #6. I feel like many people prefer to stay around #2, #3 because it's less work and it's less apt to get one noticed or harassed for wanting to change things. I mean, look at the backlash against the affirmative action movement. It's so much more complex than it's often made out to be, but the simplest anti-argument is that it's reverse discrimination without considering the systematic discrimination that created the need for affirmative action in the first place. They see and disapprove of the wrongness, perhaps, but not all of the right wrongness, if that makes any sense.
(Of course, as you all hopefully know, I disagree with affirmative action on many levels...)
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1) Being completely oblivious.
2) Recognizing that there are issues.
3) "Disapproving", or seeing those issues as problems.
4) Wanting to do something about the problem(s).
5) Actually doing something.
6) Whatever it is that you're doing actually having an impact.
I feel like most of the people I know and care about (including myself) hover around 3 and 4... and very few people in the world actually manage to make it to 5 and 6.
I agree with your stages, Sarah. I see myself as at #4, too, tops. I see my sister as trying very hard to work on #5 and #6. I feel like many people prefer to stay around #2, #3 because it's less work and it's less apt to get one noticed or harassed for wanting to change things. I mean, look at the backlash against the affirmative action movement. It's so much more complex than it's often made out to be, but the simplest anti-argument is that it's reverse discrimination without considering the systematic discrimination that created the need for affirmative action in the first place. They see and disapprove of the wrongness, perhaps, but not all of the right wrongness, if that makes any sense.
(Of course, as you all hopefully know, I disagree with affirmative action on many levels...)
-josie
-josie