Losing and at a loss

[clevermanka]

This article, a woman's letter to her Republican father, is mollifying, if not heartening. I am still sick and sore from yesterday's election results, but it helped a little bit. Thank you, redheadfae, for the link.

This Tumblr post. SO MUCH THIS.

No but look at his face when he says “carry a gun”. Look at how he widens his eyes, flares his nostrils, and curls his top lip. He is angry that he’s being told “we don’t like this, stop doing it”. Not just angry but indignant.

In his world, men are allowed to treat women however they please and to scream at them in the street. He’s not saying “carry a gun” because he thinks women should literally arm themselves (okay he probably thinks more people should literally arm themselves) but what he’s really saying is “too fucking bad”.

I mentioned in a comment to yesterday's post that one of the reasons I'm having such problems dealing with the election results is I'm too baffled to be angry. I can't process it. I'm stuck in a cycle of grief and I don't yet have the emotional language to pull myself out of it. It's difficult and confusing and frightening. I don't like it.

Comments

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I just stop talking to those people. It's not my job to educate them. I have enough of my own shit to deal with without dealing with theirs, too. If they're actually interested in learning, not arguing, they can do their own fucking research.

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

This is why you are my rolemodel.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And I strive to be worthy, bb.