I think that generally, "crazy" and "angry" are silencers. They're words that are used against people who try to speak out against oppression, and who aren't behaving in socially-sanctioned ways. I think it's useful to think about how the "angry black woman" stereotype echoes similar stereotypes about all women:…

Well, I guess the problem with this is that I'm not 6. I don't need morning greeting questions to start a conversation, and if not wanting to answer some asinine question re: where I would go if I had a time machine makes me boring then good riddance! I cannot take people who throw lines like that in my face seriously.

And someone tried to argue me down for thirty comments when I said this last week.