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It says A LOT that certain parties finds it totally inconceivable for a woman, while people who hate her are mobbing near her location, to be scared of an unidentified man banging on the door and shouting...just because that particular man wasn't currently intending harm. (1/4)
We don't have the luxury of assuming, without evidence, that a man is "safe".
Not really EVER ... but ESPECIALLY not a woman during an already heightened situation, who's been getting threats daily over her entire career.
(2/4)
Not really EVER ... but ESPECIALLY not a woman during an already heightened situation, who's been getting threats daily over her entire career.
(2/4)
Men, I'm told, travel life mostly feeling safe. Not being a man, I'll have to take their word for it.
Some women have convinced themselves they do, too. Maybe their personal experience is a statistical anomaly & supports this. Maybe it's denial-as-coping mechanism.
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Some women have convinced themselves they do, too. Maybe their personal experience is a statistical anomaly & supports this. Maybe it's denial-as-coping mechanism.
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But, if privilege (or denial) leads you to claim that someone else's traumatic experience (esp if related to their gender, race, sexuality, or so on) is incorrect because it doesn't match your personal experience then TAKE A SEAT.
YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.
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YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.
(4/4)
