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November 16, 2009, 7:28am
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Claire_Beauchamp:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a display of spittle-flying, white-hot misogyny as frightening that displayed by commenter “agshasfh4” on this blog post: Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts .
From a very young age, most women get used to the idea that there are men who think that any male is simply superior to any female. There are also the men who take it one step further and have no respect for you while wanting to fuck you. (Of course, if you let him, you’re a whore, and thus you’ve proved his point about your worthlessness. If you don’t, you’re a bitch and also worthless. Unless you are less attractive than < insert supermodel / starlet of choice >; then you should just do humanity a favor and jump off a bridge.) You face that attitude in person to one degree or another at some point; if you’re smart you build your world so you don’t have to deal with it often, or in a significant way. You shrug and go about your life.
Every now and then, though, you might be faced with a guy like this, and honestly? It’s like a punch to the midsection. To know you are that reviled, that hated – just because you are female – is unsettling, to say the least. Is this guy going to wake up one day and decide that he’s going to teach some uppity females a lesson with his righteous collection of guns?
You really are dialing the drama up to 11 here based on what an apparent troll is doing to rev everyone up for a rousing game of whack-a-troll. I read XX comment threads occasionally and they are primarily populated by well meaning and unusually earnest women. A troll could find no richer feeding round, and your worried rocking back and forth about some obvious troll’s mind games does not do you credit.