Often, when a woman says that bad things have happened to her or to women and the perpetrators were men, she’s accused of hating men, as though the reality of those events is not relevant, only her obligation to be sunny no matter what is, or as though the fact that not all men are awful outweighs the reality that some are in ways that impact her. Often what a woman says is weighed for what kind of woman that makes her and whether she’s still pleasing to others rather than its factual content.
