Random Acts of Observation

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 ...

Yes, exactly. These are standard tactics.

There have been many people quoting Martin Luther King lately, but this excerpt from the Letter from Birmingham Jail seems appropriate to this issue:

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.