Changing damaging socio-cultural norms that justify discrimination against women is a powerful form of resistance
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South Africa is a nation plagued by gendered discrimination which manifests in many ways, most notably as violence against women. National Women’s Day — 9 August — and Women’s Month serve to remind us of the power of resistance. to protest the apartheid-era pass laws cannot be underestimated and each year the month of August presents yet another opportunity to reflect on our role as individuals in resisting gendered discrimination.
Indeed, women’s humanity and dignity has long been undermined in favour of normalised, harmful narratives. Every individual has a vital role to play in questioning and resisting such narratives, assumptions, biases and stereotypes about women that are simply accepted as truth. In this process of resistance, narratives are modified in favour of those reflecting the equal humanity of women — a process I call resocialisation.
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