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[threeplusfire]

Reading through the internet in the wake of the insanity yesterday, I've found myself frequently upset to the point of incandescent rage by many of the comments I've seen. Most of those comments happen to be from men. As someone who has spent most of my life "running with the boys," it is so disheartening.

A comment I read this morning:

"Except that espousing violence or the suggestion of violence in the face of what amounts to nothing more than irritation or uncomfortableness (sic) is more morally contemptible than anything these socially-retarded boob-honkers could come up with." Shades of the 19th century, when women were deemed to be such fragile moral creatures that they shouldn't be allowed outside the house.

Now. I understand the argument of turning the other cheek, or being the better person. But I find it repulsive to suggest that self defense is viewed in the same light as gratuitous violence. That's fucking bullshit. I also find the idea that this sort of behavior is dismissed as something that results in nothing more than "irritation." Again, fucking bullshit.

I am so angry about this attitude, and permutations of it, that I can barely stand to form a coherent response.

It took until 5:30am to fall asleep. My head is pounding and my throat hurts.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

There are days I thank God, Zeus, Loki and/or Ford for making me a lesbian, and this is definitely one of them. (And no, Ferrettdick or whatever your name is, you CANNOT ask if you can watch so as heal your pweshus fwagile high-school-trammeled ego.)

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Ford?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Brave New World reference--the characters worship Henry Ford as a god, giving thanks to "our Ford" and making signs of the Model-T instead of the cross.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wasn't sure of the refrence.