"The personal is structural. […] An individual man who violates you is given permission: that is..."

“The personal is structural. […] An individual man who violates you is given permission: that is structure. His violence is justified as natural and inevitable: that is structure. A girl is made responsible for his violence: that is structure. A policeman who turns away because it is a domestic call: that is structure. A judge who talks about what she was wearing: that is structure.”

- Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life (30)