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pretty girls will always have to be a little bit careful even around people meant to protect them.
When men are the murderers, people remember them, not their victims. But when men are the victims, people still remember them. We can’t win. Even in a microphone before the Senate, we can’t ever say our stories loud enough to change the status quo. Now someone’s screaming, and what if it makes others want to scream too? We can’t form packs and go around slaughtering people who’ve hurt us. Society would collapse.”
“What kind of flooring do alligators have in their homes?” “Please stop.” “Rep-tiles!”
if a man tells a woman she’s pretty, one set of contracts insists she say thank you, while another insists she modestly demur. Neither allows for the possibility that she’s uncomfortable or busy or at work. Neither allows for the attention being unwanted. ‘Thank you’ or ‘Who, me?’ Those are the acceptable answers, and there’s absolutely no way to know which contract the man is invoking, so either one you choose, you could still be punished for it. Or you can refuse the contract as a whole, reject the attention, and also be punished.”
White straight men expect to feel safe in the world, whether they consciously think that way or not.
Cops stand with each other whether it’s the right thing to do or not because the way they’re trained is them against the world, and standing against that can get good officers frozen off the force.
The present, he told them on the first day of class, is history that’s being written,
