I really understood what Deborah Frances-White wanted to convey regarding the paradigm-shifting journey that many people – men and I might also add women – have to make to understand what the #MeToo “brigade” want to share and change about their experiences of the world and male privilege (On second thoughts … I was wrong to think all men got #MeToo, 31 December). I read it twice as it’s written in wonderfully plain English.
What I would now like to do is plagiarise and change the words related to women and sexism, so instead we refer to racism/black and minority ethnic people. So, the points made would apply to the regular, even everyday, experience of racism, covert and overt, conscious and unconscious or outright discriminatory behaviour that is normalised in our society.
Alas, there are no built-in penalties for racist attitudes or behaviour. It is normal. For many, what I write here has already “gone too far”!
Diane Rutherford
Birmingham
• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters
• Do you have a photo you’d like to share with Guardian readers? Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition
