"My supermodel legs,
They never held up much weight in my world.
My supermodel legs,
'Cause women should be women, girls should be allowed to be girls!"
"Supermodel's Legs" - Marina And The Diamonds
Last week, I wrote about the main reason I considered to be blocking the possibility of a game-changing revolution not only in the Spanish context but worldly. The resulting post was inspired by an article linked at the end of it, and pointed out at the excess of information given to citizens and the lack of time offered to emit a moral judgement towards it as the factors to bear in mind.
However, further introspection has risen new questions about my own thoughts on the topic, and I'm not so sure of what's written there anymore. Taking a look at my own case, I've found myself tending to hide in certain contexts, to the extent, to put a concrete example, of washing my Twitter profile off political symbology –that was meant to represent me and my thoughts– for the sake of springing a good opinion on people I admire or just like, who were going to notice my profile as soon as I liked a tweet of theirs, in fear of them disagreeing.
The issue this brings to my mind is that I'm not the only one who might be hiding content that could lead to people gaining awareness on an issue; that, considering how caring on others' opinions people normally are –not excluding myself–, is a determining factor. On the other hand, it's obvious to me that if a collective susceptible of triggering the revolution we're talking about is not identifiable as part of such, it's unlikely that the so-mentioned group gets to notice its members in order to unionise and make collective action as a result.
This, I consider, is what was left in my latest post. If we got to solve these issues, at least in ourselves, it's likely, though, that we woldn't have done enough to make change active or even possible, but I think we shouldn't underestimate societal factors when what we want is a collective movement to happen.
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