What did you do for your sport today?

The great Gloria Steinem was in these pages recently, and she had this to say about action and activism, or maybe their opposites.

“Pressing ‘send’ is not actually doing anything. It’s sending out information which may lead to action, but sometimes I feel, too, that I get some startling information about a problem, I send it to the relevant people and I feel I’ve done something. But I haven’t.”

Steinem’s point is well made, particularly in the context of decades of action, often unpopular, on behalf of the disenfranchised. It may seem a little excessive to haul it into the toy department, but the more you look the more examples you see.