Reply #349: so this is about crapping on other DUers? i thought it was about bad guys attacking peace activists

[pitohui]

you need to re-read the original post, it is not about some DUers speaking in the language that ordinary americans use, as bartcop would say it

it is about systematic attacks and harassment, which may start with verbal crap, but which escalates to death threats, stalking, and in some cases actual violence

as a woman, i'm more offended to hear ann coulter called "an evil woman" than "an evil bitch," she is no kin to me, you know?

i can and have been called a bitch, and you know what? if being called a bitch stops you in your tracks, you are not a strong person, and you have no idea what the average woman who tries to step out of the ordinary line faces every single day, because being called a bitch is not even a pimple on the butt of what you have to deal with

i call 'em as i see 'em, people who crumple up because they were called a name are of no use to anybody

listen up: this post is about what the bad guys are doing to threaten cindy, to threaten will pitt, to threaten scott ritter, even to threaten those of us who figure we're relatively unknown and yet who get hit with hate and verbal abuse just for squeaking up against the war -- the bad guys are not going to stop calling names and making threats because you crumple up and cry, when you crumple up and cry and say oh the bad man called me a bad name YOU ARE GIVING HIM BLOOD IN THE WATER, YOU ARE GIVING HIM POWER

fuck that shit, i'm not going to give them the satisfaction of curling up and crying because they called me a bitch, with me, they have to get physical -- it isn't fun to be stalked and beat up because you are different, i've been there, i don't much feel like talking about it, maybe it would be better if i was a little fainting flower who gave up on life at the first word of discouragement -- but that isn't who i am and i don't respect little fainting flowers who give up at the first hint of a nasty word either -- i simply can't respect someone that fragile, i'm not a doctor but to me if someone is that fragile that you have to walk on eggshells formulating every word then they have a mental illness that makes them less resilient than average -- nothing admirable about like and, as a woman, i refuse to have my entire gender classified as a bunch of wimps who are stopped in their tracks by being called bitch, that is just insulting to me as a female on every level

if that makes me a bitch, i'm damn proud of it! bitch happens to be a word with multiple meanings in english, a bitch can (often is) a strong woman with a steel backbone, it can be (often is) the highest term of respect that someone will verbalize, a bitch is feared and respected, a whiner crying that she was called a bad name...not so much

executive summary: bad people will call bad names, if you want to cry in front of bad people, fine, but they won't respect you for it and they won't change their behavior when you feed them exactly what they were looking to be fed


and executive summary part deaux: pick your battles, while whiners are crying that someone called them a bitch, somebody else has to get the real work done, we've diverted too much of the feminist movement already into nonsense about monitoring other people's language and all we've done is make the entire movement look ridiculous -- meanwhile basic things like equal pay get further away with each passing year