When I read Samuel Gardner's comment that he thinks these conversations are "unproductive", I thought, "unproductive towards what?". I find Katherine's campaign to be extremely productive.
I had the same reaction. "Unproductive" meaning "I don't like this trend, it makes me uncomfortable and now I have animosity I can't adequately define."
I actually think his final words "...if not damaging for everyone" are a little menacing-sounding. An insinuated warning against speaking up.
The number of people who struggle with either/or thinking always manages to surprise me. In this case, it’s “either this person is terrible towards women or they aren’t”. Why they don’t understand that a person can be terrible to one woman and fine with others is beyond my comprehension.
Maybe I live in a different world. The people I tend to attract and gravitate toward are in no way, shape, or form, vile misogynists, wife beaters, adulterers, back stabbers, Republicans, liars, and/or cheaters who live a double standard. Yes, I'm a white male, but my male friends are a mixed bag of ethnicities, backgrounds, and sexual persuasions, and I will bet my life that not one has any of those attributes. I have never been in the company of men who would talk about women in a disrespectful manner. It grieves me deeply that our precious women have to battle that mentality on a daily basis, or at all.
I had to look up “slam pig.” What a sickening thing to say. Who raised these boys or did they grow up feral on some trombone island?
Same, I'd never heard of that. Gross.
When I read Samuel Gardner's comment that he thinks these conversations are "unproductive", I thought, "unproductive towards what?". I find Katherine's campaign to be extremely productive.
I had the same reaction. "Unproductive" meaning "I don't like this trend, it makes me uncomfortable and now I have animosity I can't adequately define."
I actually think his final words "...if not damaging for everyone" are a little menacing-sounding. An insinuated warning against speaking up.
The number of people who struggle with either/or thinking always manages to surprise me. In this case, it’s “either this person is terrible towards women or they aren’t”. Why they don’t understand that a person can be terrible to one woman and fine with others is beyond my comprehension.
Maybe I live in a different world. The people I tend to attract and gravitate toward are in no way, shape, or form, vile misogynists, wife beaters, adulterers, back stabbers, Republicans, liars, and/or cheaters who live a double standard. Yes, I'm a white male, but my male friends are a mixed bag of ethnicities, backgrounds, and sexual persuasions, and I will bet my life that not one has any of those attributes. I have never been in the company of men who would talk about women in a disrespectful manner. It grieves me deeply that our precious women have to battle that mentality on a daily basis, or at all.