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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
Thu May 29, 2014, 09:21 AM May 2014

I Am Not an Angry Feminist. I'm a Furious One.

(snip)

They don't believe us. Hundreds of thousands of women from around the world can weigh in and tell their first hand experiences and there are men out there — seemingly reasonable and intelligent men — who still refuse to admit that maybe, just maybe, we have good reasons to be afraid. A 22-year-old kid spouts the same misogynist rhetoric that my coworkers and I receive in our inboxes on a daily basis and goes on a shooting rampage with the expressed purpose of punishing women for not giving him the sexual attention he felt entitled to and we're still told that we have no right to be scared because #NotAllMen are like that.

As Michelle Dean wrote yesterday on Gawker:

...People who live with that risk learn to presume the worst. Living your life in preparation for the moment when a man possibly snaps and tries to kill you can bring on serious resentment. Resentment not just of men, though there is that, but of the way that even mentioning that risk makes you subject to claims that you are "oversimplifying" how men behave. That you somehow have a lesser read on human nature and violence than the more reasonable sort who, not having had to deal with the behavior, claim you must have imagined it. Even when you literally have the YouTube video proving you aren't making it up.


In college, I had a male roommate who badgered me endlessly about my frequent choice to take a cab home from my restaurant job where I would — more often than not — clock out well after midnight. The walk from work to our house wasn't long (maybe 20 minutes), but it was poorly lit and remote, taking you over railroad tracks and past warehouses. Honestly, it shouldn't have mattered if the walk was 5 minutes and through the busiest part of town — I was paying for the taxi with my own money and it was my own business, but for some reason, it drove my otherwise decent roommate mad. He would call me lazy. He would imply that I was cowardly and weak. On multiple occasions, we got into shouting matches about it that left me feeling stupid, small and crazy.

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I Am Not an Angry Feminist. I'm a Furious One. (Original Post) XemaSab May 2014 OP
If your roommate was so 'mad' that you spent cash on a taxi Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #1
i get a rape porn scenario and meh. taunted with c word in pms... meh. threads in associated site seabeyond May 2014 #2
That roommate was an idiot. stevenleser May 2014 #3
"I Am Not an Angry Feminist. I'm a Furious One." you are not allowed to be. be nice. nt seabeyond May 2014 #4

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. If your roommate was so 'mad' that you spent cash on a taxi
Thu May 29, 2014, 09:31 AM
May 2014

rather than walking home, did he ever offer to meet you at work and walk you home? Or was he too 'lazy' to do that?

But, as you say, I can't see how it would be any of his business, unless maybe you had trouble coming up with your share of the rent, and he was arguing simply about the expense. It doesn't sound like that's the case from what you wrote, though.

Doesn't sound like the kind of area I'd want to be out walking around after midnight in, even as a hefty male.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. i get a rape porn scenario and meh. taunted with c word in pms... meh. threads in associated site
Thu May 29, 2014, 09:38 AM
May 2014

saying i am an abusive mother, i need to be investigated, how much damage i do to my sons, abuse my husband, i am a drunk, druggie and the ugliest things said about me, and meh.

threads started trashing me

posts in threads, trashing me

OPs on du and takes hours for hosts to decide to lock. and skinner does nothing to the poster.

i am FAR from the ONLY poster on du talking about this issue. hof members are FAR from the ONLY people talking about this issue. but, cause i dare to participate in any of these threads, that warrants the most vile personal attacks against me. and it is my fault. i deserve. i am playing the victim for even mentioning this.

i do not start the Ops in gd. yet, i am responsible for ALL the Ops in gd about womens issues, as are a few other gals. i am responsible for all the hundreds of other people making comments and support on womens issues.

youngdem has over 156 rec.

yet. a group of petty people, men who want to use harassment to shut me up, can zero in on one person and harass at will.

and that.... seems to be just fine, way too often.


I Am Not an Angry Feminist. I'm a Furious One.


being furious at the contempt, the nasty, the vile.... makes us the bad people, the deserving.

i want to know how this works. cause it makes NO sense in the sane world.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
3. That roommate was an idiot.
Thu May 29, 2014, 09:43 AM
May 2014

Glad he realized it later and apologized.

That whole safety thing becomes pretty obvious early in life.

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