Fair enough, but it seems not to have made sense to a fair number also. That will always happen, but it seems to be more significant in this article than many others. I would expect disagreement, but Ms. West is so adamant that those who don't get it are wrong, not just disagreeing.

Thank you for your kind and gracious attempt at explaining how a reasonable person could have their feelings hurt by that statement.
I've attempted to formulate that statement a couple of times, but have not responded out of a desire not to be dogpiled.

"The line conveys exactly what I meant." Perhaps, but to whom? As I see it, either you meant it in the offensive way people are viewing it (I think that is unlikely) or it is conveying your message to you, but not to many others. If there is enough confusion to warrant your multiple comments and clarifications,…

Don't mind Doris.

Also, she was Kuwaiti so she is accustomed to the privilege of driving, not Saudi where the custom rules the day. She was on the wrong side of town having an emergency.

Except it's the women of Saudi Arabia themselves who are speaking up and demanding the right to drive. Their voices should be listened to.

What spoke most to me was this idea that women are "allowed" to pursue jobs, but not to take away men's prestige. That was a brilliant crystallization of what I'd heard from numerous other studies about how men and women feel about women working. That women contribute huge amounts of unpaid (and largely unnoticed and…

I'm not wild about the tone in the last end of the introduction.

My husband definitely gets his emotional connections from me 90% of the time. He doesn't understand some of my friendships. For a long time I thought that was because I am an only child who grew up without extended family around, so I think of my friends like he thinks of his family... but really, I think it is that…

That is the perfect way to handle that situation, bravo! You just can't argue with them, once you do the battle is lost. I bet the Insecure Attention Monster says some really comical things when you agree with her like that.

THIS. My experience is that men and women in the workplace ultimately get tagged for how trustworthy they are. If it gets genderized, you'll hear that the woman is a bitch, and the man is a weasel. But passive aggressive behavior seems to get labeled either way.

Oh, I was biting my tongue frequently. My pride got to me and there was no way in hell that I wasn't going to be taking this bitch down. Just had to use her own delusional thinking against her. I am a master at emotional Jujutsu. Luckily, I use my powers only for good ... or at least not evil.

It's "Mean Girls" missing a chromosome, that's all. It's definitely an alpha dog thing.

It's really maddening. It gave so much truth to 'never argue with an idiot, those watching won't be able to tell the difference.' I was getting really upset before she showed her hand. I kept saying variations of 'Baby, this is me, you know I'm not like that. Please just try to step back and see what I'm saying.' It…

Is he being "bitchy" then? The word seems to be much more gender neutral these days.

The key takeaway here is that there was no empirical evidence to substantiate the claims made. If you are recommending that Jezebel hire a female scientist to write about science cough cough then I am sure plenty cough cough cough could be found. Your passive aggressive response to this is definitely indicative of…

Exactly. My brother has two dogs; one is happy to get dressed up every Halloween—he might even like it, because he enjoys attention, and this just gets him more. The other, not so much. Not that he gets nasty about it, but he's just very clearly unhappy, so they don't make an issue of it—he gets something like a…