>thanks. i love it when my assertive argumentativeness gets read as manly!
'FOAD' hardly qualifies as 'assertive argumentativeness', even here!
>:) when they know i'm a chick, i'm just a bitch that needs to get slapped
>or a big bully that needs to get kicked in the ass. heh.
Hakki was trying to get a kick delivered at your arse, and he thought you were a boy. Gender's still about, wreaking its inequities and anguish, no doubt - but, in our western white-collar world, at least - it doesn't do it like it used to. And I'm of the opinion you've little to complain about on any of the lists I've shared with you over the last five years.
>does it suck. you bet. BUT.
It sucks monumentally.
>but Art is entirely right: only an ignoramus would act like she did and
>then be outraged about what happened to her. she's an ignoramus because she
>is privileged by white skin and middle class status. only a white, middle
>class person who's never dealt with the cops the way that cops treat people
>of color and poor whites would be outraged that they got treated like shit
>when they resisted power, authority, the law. it's a survival skill you
>have to learn, blacks far more than poor whites, that's for sure.
I take the point, but it's one that can be used to defend the woman's public outrage. Were I black, working class and male, I'd be very careful with armed cops, and nasty at anyone who tells me off for not making an issue of such things in the (very dangerous) moment. Were I a wmcf, I'd be much less likely to be beaten (or worse) for my mouth, and would feel more obliged to use it on behalf of self and all.
Disagreeing as ever, Rob.