ext_6121 ([identity profile] were-lemur.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] morgan_dhu 2009-01-23 06:52 pm (UTC)

And quite aside from the incredible condescension of dismissing someone's point of view because they're "too angry" - who says someone is obliged to be all calm and unruffled when they've just been offended?

*nods*

This is a basic tool in the "shut up and go away" box. As a feminist, I've seen a lot of women being accused of being "emotional wimmin" when calling men out for various statements and behaviors. I'd like to think that women who identify as feminists would be a little more sensitive when it came to perpetrating of this kind of thing, but ... *sigh*

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