Caroline Criado Perez

The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture.

the reality of human-on-human lethal violence is that it is overwhelmingly a male occupation

The word ‘man’, she wrote, ‘is used in such an ambiguous fashion that it is impossible to decide whether it refers to males or to the human species in general’.

the way female terms are often, as here, modified male terms is another subtle way we position the female as a deviation from male type – as, in de Beauvoir’s terms, ‘Other’)

When in 2013 I campaigned to have a female historical figure on the back of English banknotes some men got so angry that they felt compelled to threaten me with rape, mutilation and death.

while errors overall are ‘notoriously hard to kill [. . .] an error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat’.

‘The Changing Role of Women’ – rather implying, not without reason, that the rest of the curriculum was about men.

The arbitrary division of the world into ‘private’ and ‘public’ is in any case arguably a false distinction. Invariably both bleed into each other.

When you have been so used, as a white man, to white and male going without saying, it’s understandable that you might forget that white and male is an identity too.

Whiteness and maleness can only go without saying because most other identities never get said at all.