Being a Scans_Daily mod has been a great experience in a lot of ways. It's certainly opened my eyes to my own privilege and, I hope, I'm a lot more aware of it now than I was. I still have a long way to go before I can genuinely call myself a good feminist or good ally, but the fact that I'm actually thinking about those terms at all is, hopefully, a step forward from where I was a year or two ago.
It's also eye opening because I'm that much more aware of things now. I can empathise better with those who don't have my privilege, because, dear god... I can't turn on the computer without coming across some comment or another or a story that makes me grind my teeth. I certainly can't claim to feel anything like the victims of prejudice do, or even imagine what it's like for them, but I'm a lot more aware of such prejudices.
I do hope that I'm not the only one that's been educated by being part of Scans_Daily. I know that the mod team still have a way to go and the community as a whole still isn't a safe place and I'm certainly not patting myself on the back, but I do want to thank the members of the community, be they my fellow mods or other members, for helping make the community, and me, better.
I don't want this post to sound too self-congratulatory or all about me when the progress should be about the victims of various -isms, but I did want to say thank those who've kept on fighting and commenting in the face of prejudice, even when they've grown weary.
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