Interesting thoughts here about “windows and mirrors”: mirrors show you people like yourself and enable you to imagine yourself as a protagonist; windows show you the lives of people different from yourself and develop insight and empathy.
Originally shared by Conscious Style Guide
It’s a lot harder to assault women or take away the rights of transgender people when you have empathized with their full humanity. Boys (and also, everyone else) must read books as windows into the lives of others.
#gender
[Image: A student wearing a backpack, walks down a car-lined street, with head down and hand on back of neck.]
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