I appreciate that you’ve given this thought. However, I’d argue that Atwood’s phrasing wasn’t clumsy at all; it was spot-on. This about fear and the roots of that fear. Women are afraid that men will kill them because disproportionately, _women are killed by men_. The equivalent would be saying something like, “men…

Honestly - this fear is such a regular occurrence in my day-to-day life that I don’t even mention it to my husband most of the time. But I still feel it. I know it’s not rational, I know it’s usually unlikely to result in my death or injury, but I don’t know if this is the time I am wrong and it is a rational fear.

Absolutely.

seems to imply that all men are capable of killing a woman in the event of rejection.

Holy fuck, the mental gymnastics you have to go through to make this about you are amazing. It’s like looking at a schizophrenic’s journal.

We’ve done such a fucked up job of pushing men to believe that they deserve only the hottest girl and that they should be thankful that someone’s paying attention to them. I think we’re just starting to realize how badly we’ve ingrained it in people and trying to make changes but I don’t think we’re ever going to see…

But maybe it’s not a single rejection. Maybe it’s the continuous rejection in addition to other areas in his life that he is unhappy with. In this instance, the man made advances onto this woman. She declined his advances and instead of saying, “Oh, okay. I respect that,” he continued his advances to the point where…

No, the point of the quotation is the worst case scenario for each gender. When first dating someone not otherwise connected to a friend/work/school, a lot of women tell their friends where they’re going and with whom just in case they disappear. I don’t know of any guys to whom this has occurred as a problem.

Get lost you MRA troll

With Alvarez, though, she gets a lot of reinforcement, because she is doing exactly what is being asked of her by Emanuel and everyone else who wants to keep things the way they are. She’s the Dunning-Kruger effect incarnate, but she is ALSO morally bankrupt, and encouraged to be that way.

Incompetent would be an improvement, she is actively awful.

It is infuriating, but when you consider the number of cases in which prisoners have been exonerated on irrefutable DNA evidence and the attorney who prosecuted the case STILL thinks that this person was guilty. There are prosecutors who are either afraid to admit that they were wrong or are willing to put innocent…

I’m so happy I get to vote against her on March 15th.

She is trash. So damn incompetent.

This is...I am disgusted that this is a real thing that happened.

Smart people know there is always more to learn.

Anita Alvarez is a garbage fire. When DNA evidence in one case proved that someone other than the juveniles in prison had raped and murdered a victim, she actually claimed, with a straight face, that it was possible the juveniles could have raped and murdered the victim, left no DNA, and then the man whose semen was…

But why is it always incompetent people who feel that way?

She is pretty audacious to be running for re-election at all.

Although she is, of course, awful, it must be nice to have that sort of confidence in her ability to do her job.