I agree with everything you wrote here, just saying. It feels really good to be in a group of people who build one another up. It’s also necessary to take risks to be creative, and it can stop you dead in your tracks if you are around the sort of people who want to ridicule or pull you down. Sometimes I think women do…

I really don’t think anyone is attacking her for being smart. Also, these emails aren’t really that smart (if the above is any indication). Here’s the thing- she can and should write whatever she wants to whoever she wants, and if they have an intellectually stimulating exchange, that’s awesome. But to assume that…

They’re more fortunate than special, and if they realized this they’d be a lot more humble.

when i was 15 i called a boy “magnetic” in an email and the memory of it still makes me want to barf

It’s viscerally embarrassing to read. I suddenly feel ashamed of all the obviously, transparently performative emails I’ve written to smart boys in a desperate bid to get laid.

This lady is Margaret Laurence personified. White/European people going into Africa, unasked, and shoving their horse shit all over the place. This lady ought to be a cautionary tale but the industries of NGO’s and travel colonialism is alive and well in sub-Saharan Africa. Europeans think nothing of black African…

Because they enjoy doing it.

This is tone policing; insisting that oppressed people not only do all the work of educating their oppressors, but remain calm, logical and respectful while doing so. If they don’t, their argument is dismissed. This is neither fair nor reasonable.

And the tone policing continues, along with odd claims that BLM simply spouts canned talking points, followed up by criticism that a very outspoken Black man doesn’t actually understand what needs to be done. Williams wouldn’t be “helping” as he is a Black man. Allies “help.” Others listen, sit down, and shut up.

Not knowing everything there is to know about every subject is to be expected.

That’s because he doesn’t want you to suck his dick, Neil.

First off, there are plenty of people explaining this. I’m going to assume you aren’t asking for the explanation yourself. (If you are, please ask and many people here will explain. I’ll give it a shot too.) But to say that no one is explaining it is unfair. You can go to the BLM website and read explanations. You can…

These are your words:

It’s because other lives are typivally already treated like they matter. Black lives, however, are not treated valuably in our society. Also, the focus is on black people and their experience with oppression. That’s why it’s Black Lives Matter. It’s not about All lives because 1) white people are already the most…

I will let other commenters take on your assertion that these mythical BLM “talking heads” haven’t explained themselves and just get “increasingly shrill.” I’ll just deal with this:

Because if you don’t honestly understand the reaction to systemic and institutionalised violence against people of colour in the US, it’s not ignorance. It’s willful ignorance. You have a vested interest in not believing it exists and a defiant refusal to hear what people of colour have been shouting forever.

The thing is, he wanted chicken, she bought him chicken, she asked if he wanted pizza, he said no, he nibbled hers, pretended he didn’t want any, and then ate the original fucking thing anyway when she bought herself a whole other slice. This fucking guy is too much work, he’s a goddamned liar, and he can fuck off…

Sometimes women don’t have the luxury of worrying about what helps or hurts the cause, when they’re more worried about staying alive. DV victims are at a great risk when they’ve left their abusers. If they’re afraid to go to court, they are probably afraid with good reason. These women who ditch a court date at the…

I can tell from most of these responses you have never had to deal with an abusive partner, a stalker or the justice system when you try to deal with aforementioned problem.

Thanks for mansplaining the effects of domestic violence on women and children