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Why do activists like these always have to write that they "shake"? I usually stop reading and taking them seriously.

• DanBC 9y ago
  because normal human beings have a stress response that includes adrenaline being released. they are literally shaking, and they are accurately describing their stress response.
  • _jcwu 9y ago
    Yes, but it makes it sound ridiculous. If I am going to include all my emotional responses to an event every time I write about something it will become ridiculous and annoying at one point. Can you not be annoyed by something without starting to shake every time? Especially if you try to interpret rudeness as sexism...
    • DanBC 9y ago
      The emotion is not anger, it is fear.
      • chrisper 9y ago
        From the text: > I am in full outrage. My body is actually beginning to shake. Outrage to me means anger and not fear.