thank you. actually many of my old friends (I left my old city for doing a masters and phd somewhere else) have become animal rights activist, and *then*, because of their work with animal rights, feminists. There are some things where I don't completely agree with Adams, but compared to the general awesomeness of the…

Some laugh, some speak up..

What brought me to feminism was actually the racism I experienced as a foreign kid from childhood on. The feeling of how you get treated when there is power asymmetry. This and a little bit of empathy made me feel bad for animals when they were treated by humans the same way I was treated by the natives. I'd never…

ah so glad someone understands. True geneva is much much more diverse than Bern. I even grew up in a 4000 village people close to Bern. We were the first foreigners ever (!) coming to this village..basically everyone knew about us and well, you can imagine how life was there...so, you did experience Prague as sexist,…

how is that "odd"? it's my personal experience. have you ever been in bern? I studied mostly STEM, majorly male, no non-white person anywhere, all lectures in german...

Thanks! And again I recommend the book "the sexual politics of meat" about the connection between the meat industry/meat consumption and sexism. I also do find thanksgiving especially disturbing since the turkey is to this extreme amount..well, not de-humanised, but objectified maybe?

wow I'm really glad that someone understands. I did not know one non-swiss student while studying in Bern...I just felt like an outsider also because of the strictness of swiss people (of course not all, but the tendency is there in my opinion) and felt they would judge me if I would be a bit different than them. I…

yeah, I know..the internet tax and the changes to restrict the freedom of the press...incredible what's going on. I don't know, seemed to me both countries have strong paternalistic structures.

oh no, I am totally with you, Switzerland is a super conservative country, I remember it even seeing it in TV when women good nationwide the suffrage etc. I really don't feel any attachment to any country, at least not to an extent that I would not criticize it for its sexism or racism. Though I experienced the parts…

yes, see, I dated a hungarian (transilvanian) romanian man. I really really do not see myself as belonging to one particular nationality hence I feel free to say it if I feel one region is for instance more sexist, though I understand that to some people (who obviously) don't know me, it can come accross as…

well, I'm very happy to hear. Also did not mean to be rude, was just sad/frustrated from what I had experienced

I acknowledge the situation is complicated. I am not from the US, I live in Switzerland (not originally swiss), and of course I also agree there are differences between eastern european countries, and of course between each and every person. I did experience being dating a guy from romania, and having since childhood…

geez is that intentional misunderstanding? of course I dont think all american unis are diverse, my point was simply that there are unis in europe which are not diverse, for instance the places I studied at, and that it's not so uncommon here. Neither did I say that 1. all unis in europe are non-diverse or that 2. all…

I am sorry if this your impression, since I am originally from the (very) east myself. I don't think it's xenophobic to say that some cultures are more sexist than others - I hold that to be true and see big difference for instance between the eastern parts of my familes and the scandinavian parts. Of course there are…

:)..how do you cope with it? like how do you date and how do you cope with it when people from your environment are like this? lots of patience and tolerance? (btw, looove belgrade like crazy, one of my favorite cities ever with super vegan restaurant)

of course I don't say it doesn't exist. I just say that in some parts of europe it's common to be in quite homogenous unis...

Bulgaria and Latvia. My ex was as said from Romania and it was similar there, and one of my friends works in IT with serbians and she just had the same experience (she was formerly convinced sexism doesn't exist and has since changed her opinion)...

I had lots of discussions with my (now ex) though and he changed a lot and started also confronting people at his work and reading feminist books even. With the guys in my institute its really hard since I'm alone, they are really disrespectfull and I also want to focus on work..but then, it's also not like I can shut…

true about emigration, that's also what I've seen to have quite some impact...thanks for the discussion. and greets <3

yeah I know what you mean and I can imagine that the criticism comes across one sided. No doubt that the entire world is still hugely unequal, but from my experience, in eastern europe it seems to be still worse, as someone pointed out maybe because there was no strong feminist movement in the region (I know there are…