Because men have gotten so used to speaking for everyone, thanks to millennia of doing so, when women begin to creep into their territory, they feel as though they have to do something to reassert the authority they’ve been taught for so long is rightfully theirs. In a way, catcalling, interruption, disregarding a woman by telling her she’s crazy, and other forms of silencing are in response to this gradual challenging of the power scales. It’s all a way of rendering what women think and say irrelevant, a justification for keeping them from the authority they’ve begun to reclaim.
