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>This isn't against women. >"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and yet here we are The fact that these same two statements are in the same paragraph se

>This isn't against women. >"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and yet here we are The fact that these same two statements are in the same paragraph seems sarcastic, if not ironic.

javajosh 5y ago
Humans in general get angry, lie, are violent. Power corrupts humans. Corruption is more likely if you're angry. These things hold true for all humans: men, women, adults, children, young, old, rich, poor, black, white, etc. Yet women, as a group, have been exempted from these truths by the state and society on any matter relating to domestic violence. This is an unearned and unjust exemption that must end. This is not against women because I make the same objection to any other [group, subject] exemptions. The "hell hath no fury" quote is merely to remind people that women are people who feel people things, who rage, have ambition, can be cruel, and so on. It is on the basis of this exemption that society has given every woman a gun aimed at the head of every man she's ever met, trigger pulled with a tweet. (It occurs to me that this exemption is ironically dehumanizing to women. It puts them on a pedestal of purity, and in so doing separates them from humanity by ignoring the reality of their human foibles. Women are gross poopy stinky hateful angry greedy clever loving fearing homo-sapiens, just like everyone else.)
- acdha 5y ago
  > Yet women, as a group, have been exempted from these truths by the state and society on any matter relating to domestic violence. This is an unearned and unjust exemption that must end. This is a wild claim you’ve been repeating without a shred of evidence. It’s offensively untrue to anyone who’s seen how hard it is for a victim of abuse to get it taken seriously, and I really think you need to produce hard evidence backing it up. Your comment history sounds like you’ve spent time in a bar listening to bitter guys complain about their ex-wives and treated it as a research paper.

>This isn't against women. >"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and yet here we are The fact that these same two statements are in the same paragraph seems sarcastic, if not ironic.

javajosh 5y ago

Humans in general get angry, lie, are violent. Power corrupts humans. Corruption is more likely if you're angry. These things hold true for all humans: men, women, adults, children, young, old, rich, poor, black, white, etc. Yet women, as a group, have been exempted from these truths by the state and society on any matter relating to domestic violence. This is an unearned and unjust exemption that must end. This is not against women because I make the same objection to any other [group, subject] exemptions. The "hell hath no fury" quote is merely to remind people that women are people who feel people things, who rage, have ambition, can be cruel, and so on. It is on the basis of this exemption that society has given every woman a gun aimed at the head of every man she's ever met, trigger pulled with a tweet. (It occurs to me that this exemption is ironically dehumanizing to women. It puts them on a pedestal of purity, and in so doing separates them from humanity by ignoring the reality of their human foibles. Women are gross poopy stinky hateful angry greedy clever loving fearing homo-sapiens, just like everyone else.)

acdha 5y ago
> Yet women, as a group, have been exempted from these truths by the state and society on any matter relating to domestic violence. This is an unearned and unjust exemption that must end. This is a wild claim you’ve been repeating without a shred of evidence. It’s offensively untrue to anyone who’s seen how hard it is for a victim of abuse to get it taken seriously, and I really think you need to produce hard evidence backing it up. Your comment history sounds like you’ve spent time in a bar listening to bitter guys complain about their ex-wives and treated it as a research paper.