This again.
We older women (I’m much older than JHB) have a way with words and a look. ‘Punch you in the face’ covers it Women are not wilting wimps! https://t.co/PLU8blt2Av
— Rt Hon Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) October 31, 2017
Oh please. It’s not always that easy, to put it mildly.
Plus people shouldn’t have to “have a way” to deal with various forms of personal interference. We don’t expect to be pushed and slapped and jostled in the street if we happen not to look ferocious for a second. We expect ordinary everyday respect for boundaries. It’s not everyone’s responsibility to scare off attackers, it’s everyone’s responsibility not to be an attacker.
Perhaps you could follow every intimidated, nervous junior member of staff who is terrified of losing her job saying that for her.
— Rebecca Reid (@RebeccaCNReid) October 31, 2017
Do you realise in saying that you are ‘not the type to be messed with’ you are saying those who do suffer are weak & somehow responsible?
— Marie Donn (@Marie_Donn) October 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/SimonAttwood/status/925299415627325440
It’s fine to be tough and strong and not a pushover but it’s also fine not to be any of those things. The onus is on the aggressor, not the person aggressed.
Not very complicated, is it.
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Precisely. I happen to have the kind of nature which makes me angry and prompts me to step in when I see anyone else being bullied; but when I’m the target, I fold. Unless she has been a target and reacted in exactly the way she claims, she might be in for an unpleasant awakening.
Yes, this caused me several hours of bright, visceral, pulsating red vision yesterday. As I mentioned in another thread, there’s a story in my local newspaper about a previously local MP feeling entitled to smear his hands all over women. In case you thought I was exaggerating about the comments, here they are:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/15630018.Former_Darlington_MP_Michael_Fallon_apologises_for_putting_his_hand_on_journalist_s_knee/#comments-anchor
She should look into one of those “I Feel Safe and Welcome” T-shirts