@HLGEM Sorry. Sorry all that fucked up shit happened to you. Really, like I said earlier elsewhere, I’ve been on both sides, as much as that is possible.
And I get that I don’t and can’t really totally get it. I can’t have your experiences, nor you mine.
Still, to say that the entire class of white men need to sit down and shut up is childish nonsense.
And it has nothing to do with you getting your fair share, or anyone else, their’s.
Did you see what I posted before about power and strength? Think about it. They are not the same thing.
My current strategy vector is this: Fuck all those stupid white men. And the white women by the way, too, an often ignored intersection of jerkdom. Lot of jerks that happen to not be men, and now that I think about it, many not white. Huh. Assholes across the spectrum of humanity, not a surprise, still a disappointment.
In fact, looking back quickly over centuries of history we see that white men have the market cornered, and still do, on being complete fucking dick wads when the mood suits them only because of historic accident, not superiority of any meaningful measure, not by divine providence, just flipping chance.
Which, if you don’t get my whole implication schtick, means you, we, can do something about it. You're soaking in it.
Just a side-note: When I grew up, watching a lot of tv as kids of my era often did, some of my biggest heroes were women. Who am I kidding? It is still true today. Mary, keeping her writer hubby in check, then working at a news station. Marlo, being the girl before the new girl. Maureen deflating Carrol. Sass-a-matic Bea. That is to say Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas, Maureen Stapleton, Bea Arthur, they represented what was happening with women in a way I could appreciate, could understand. And characters like these still do. Still are. Have you seen The Morning Show?
Anyway, shit fuck goddamn it, sorry you had to go through all that. And I’m sorry that so many who superficially look and sound like what I look and sound like treated you as they did. It is so amazing that folks can still smile at strangers. I hope you still can.