Why Women Aren't Crazy
This appeared at Huffpo first with the title "A Message to Women From a Man: You Aren't Crazy", but since Huffpo is well known to engage in all the tabloid nonsense they do (for advertising dollars, not as a difference of opinion as at this site), I thought I'd link to this site, which is a men's site which I think is worth exploring.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-women-arent-crazy/
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Do you ever hear any of these comments from your spouse, partner, boss, friends, colleagues, or relatives after you have expressed frustration, sadness, or anger about something they have done or said?
When someone says these things to you, it’s not an example of inconsiderate behavior. When your spouse shows up half an hour late to dinner without calling—that’s inconsiderate behavior. A remark intended to shut you down like, “Calm down, you’re overreacting,” after you just addressed someone else’s bad behavior, is emotional manipulation—pure and simple.
And this is the sort of emotional manipulation that feeds an epidemic in our country, an epidemic that defines women as crazy, irrational, overly sensitive, unhinged. This epidemic helps fuel the idea that women need only the slightest provocation to unleash their (crazy) emotions. It’s patently false and unfair.
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More at link.
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Why, surely not here in this group? 
Interestingly, maybe the fact that it is not used exclusively against women in cyberspace helps to make clear what the intent is. This kind of crap is endemic in cyberspace, as part and parcel of the common refusal to engage, and the choice to misrepresent instead. The odd man might find it instructive to experience what women deal with day in, day out.
You don't experience it personally in real life, sb, but you certainly experience it as a member of the group -- every time a woman politician is dismissed with words that ascribe an emotional rather than rational basis to her words, for instance.
in cyberspace (including DU), but t.v. movies, IRL.
But I gather I'm overly sensitive to this issue eh?
And another double bind. By protesting too much, you prove their point.
told I'm *not* crazy by a man. 
Crazy? Not crazy? They'll be the judge...
that was touched on a day or two after this was published, at Feministe. 
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/11/15/a-message-to-yashar-ali-from-a-woman/
I almost posted the Feministe blog entry here instead, but ... well I don't know why I didn't, really. Hmm.
