The hostile argument

No YOU’RE the baddy.

“The hostile argument KJ deployed” – except of course she didn’t. This is an absolutely textbook example of women being framed as aggressive and evil for knowing what they’re talking about and saying it without simpers or apologies or disclaimers. He would take her manner for granted in a man, but when a woman does it, to him, he can feel his testicles shrinking as if he’d jumped into a freezing pond.

He’s doing us a service, in a way, putting it all out there so shamelessly.

Comments

7 responses to “The hostile argument”

  1. Michael Haubrich Avatar
    Michael Haubrich

    What have I learned from all this criticism? I’ve learned that I’m right, I’m just not good at showing how I’m right. I just know it because people are still telling me I’m wrong.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Heh. That’s pretty much what he’s saying, as we speak.

  3. Catwhisperer Avatar

    Doesn’t keep pulling faces and talking over DH the way he talked over KJ, does he? It’s almost as if there is… something… that makes him automatically treat Hayton with more respect. I wonder what that is, she says sarcastically.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    It’s the eyebrows. The reassuring eyebrows.

  5. Catwhisperer Avatar

    Haha I just watched bit of the clip without the sound on and KJ’s eyebrows make it quite clear that she won’t be taking any nonsense. Maybe what he really meant was “the hostile eyebrows that KJ deployed”

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    The hostile eyebrows made him feel stupid!

  7. Sackbut Avatar

    But he identifies as not stupid, so how dare KJ contradict his identity. Such blatant discrimination at the very least raises eyebrows.