Reply #55: I totally get it. I've had it happen to me. [View All]

As many around here know, I went to a small evangelical Christian college. There were a few of us who were a lot more liberal than the rest of the campus (though I was a lot more conservative than I am now), and it was well-known there that I was a feminist. Guys would do that loud talking about feminazis (Rush had just coined the term--that's how old I am), pro-choice abortionists, and how all of us liberals should leave the country and more whenever I was near them in the cafeteria or chapel or in class before the prof got there. Sometimes, they had the balls to say that crap to my face, at which point, I'd tear them apart, but a lot of the time, it was this loud talking thing instead.

It's stupid. It's just a form of bullying that shows that they want to have power over us. I agree--it's time to fight it for what it is and loudly talk back.