Posted to a
DU thread yesterday, wherein one of those righteously indignant guys had gone all righteously indignant over someone asserting that guys were too busy protecting each other (the old boys' club) to seek justice for rape victims, after someone had posted that she'd been raped years ago, but decided not to go to the police over it because she'd assumed she'd be treated like sh*t by the court system. He trotted out those old 'But men get raped too!' & 'How dare you make blanket statements about all men!' chestnuts.
I made a crisp post in reply, saying that his own righteous indignation was exactly the type of attitude that contributed to those impressions people got, helping perpetuate that assertion (that in general, men were too busy covering theirs and other guys' @sses to effectively fight the elements in the culture that spawned so much rape activity).
He of course got all Huffy in response, said that I didn't know him, how dare I make such assumptions, &tc.
And I found myself (a bit surprised at it, too),
not falling into the obvious 'Must be nice, must conciliate the indignant guy' pattern.
I told him that people interpreted what he was about based on what he was posting in that thread, right then, and that if he felt misinterpreted, then he'd better be clearer in how he posted.
Nice feeling, just saying something, straight up. No apologies. No time wasted scraping and bowing around someone elses' online dominance posturings.
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