Drat! Maybe If I'd Spent More Time Crying, I'd Have A Condominium!
A writer named Ruby Hamad has an ugly racist piece in The Guardian.
It's now permissible to be racist if you say ugly things about white women.
The title of Hamad's piece: "How white women use strategic tears to avoid accountability."
But it's not only that, according to Hamad. She writes about white women:
Their tearful displays are a form of emotional and psychological violence that reinforce the very system of white dominance that many white women claim to oppose.
And check out how white women get piled into the same basket:
Often, when I have attempted to speak to or confront a white woman about something she has said or done that has impacted me adversely, I am met with tearful denials and indignant accusations that I am hurting her. My confidence diminished and second-guessing myself, I either flare up in frustration at not being heard (which only seems to prove her point) or I back down immediately, apologising and consoling the very person causing me harm.
Picture replacing the "white woman" with "black woman."
We have a name for this sort of thinking, and it's called "bigotry."
Oh, and I recently encountered a woman who refused to listen to me -- though she had not a clue as to what she was talking about. We call people like this "frustrating" or maybe "assholes." Their color is immaterial.
This is a straight oiut Race Hate Crime under UK law.
Replace black with white and you get arrested faster than you can blink
Where are the UK Thought Police?
London has 800 "Police" checking for hate thought on line.
Police action so far?
"Crickets"
Graham Palmer at May 8, 2018 10:18 PM
Never been a close student of warfare... Can someone explain the difference between strategic tears and tactical tears?
Crid at May 8, 2018 11:41 PM
...form of emotional and psychological violence...
Early warning sign that what you're about to read is total SJW invented nonsense: when they use the word violence as if it meant anything other than the use of physical force in an attempt to cause someone physical injury.
Patrick at May 9, 2018 1:28 AM
Never been a close student of warfare... Can someone explain the difference between strategic tears and tactical tears?
"Tactical tears," I guess, would refer to whether to turn on the water works in a particular instance (e.g., if one had to protest a "C" grade to a professor). "Strategic tears" would describe the overarching approach to directed lachrymosity.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at May 9, 2018 4:24 AM
I don't know about the UK. But in the US black women are quite a bit less likely to cry in public. For the simple reason few people care if they do cry. So the tears aren't effective. This applies to fat women too. And of course men.
Ben at May 9, 2018 5:06 AM
How does this woman have so much experience with making other women cry that she thinks she has data? Sounds like her hobby is going around confronting people. Maybe the "tearful denials" are because they are innocent? The only women I have ever seen cry are in my own family.
cc at May 9, 2018 8:14 AM
Hmmm. Alfred Thayer Mahan described the dividing line between the tactical and the strategic as contact with the enemy.
So, RPM's "directed lachrymosity" explanation makes as much sense as any.
Directed lachrymosity? Wow. Just, um, wow.
I can't wait to use that in a conversation.
Conan the Grammarian at May 9, 2018 8:25 AM
I had to look up that word:
lachrymose
adjective
1. suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
2. given to shedding tears readily; tearful.
"Hail to The Patriarchy!"
~The Jolly Patriarch
T. J. Patriarch at May 9, 2018 9:18 AM
To my shame CC I made a woman cry at work. Management had requested the ridiculous due to infighting. So we were all doing jobs we weren't trained for and were told to get everything done in perfect condition yesterday. I cautioned the lady about not doing something while struggling with my end of things. She was focused on what she was doing and didn't hear me. So she did exactly what I told her not to do right after I told her not to do it. I lost my temper a bit and called her 'hey dummy'. In the end we had to pay for a couple hundred dollars of spoiled elastomer due to her mistake.
I shouldn't have lost my temper. But everyone is human.
Ben at May 9, 2018 10:01 AM
How does this woman have so much experience with making other women cry that she thinks she has data?
What's the saying? the plural of anecdote is not data. Yes, yes, indeed, it isn't.
I R A Darth Aggie at May 9, 2018 10:14 AM
https://youtu.be/9DdexhBcAFk
I'd rather have tears.
Steve Daniels at May 9, 2018 11:28 AM
Often, when I have attempted to speak to or confront a white woman about something she has said or done that has impacted me adversely ...
This never happens among men.
Jeff Guinn at May 9, 2018 12:38 PM
Strategic boobs > strategic tears.
Brad at May 9, 2018 3:20 PM
She is saying what men, mothers, grandmothers, counselera and anyone with a sense of objectivity have noted for centuries. A bid to look pitiable.
But I doubt it is only white women however. (Granted, I doubt tears work well in some patriarchal cultures w/o chivalry)
Not ALL women. Not all the time. But significantly higher than zero percent and probably approaching...hmm!
FIDO at May 9, 2018 5:06 PM
No. Tears don't happen on purpose. They're embarrassing and come when you don't want.
NicoleK at May 10, 2018 9:42 AM
Good point, NicoleK. Any actor knows that crying tears on cue is not easy. Even wailing without words is not easily done in a convincing way.
Also, maybe it's more of an upper-middle class tendency than a white tendency? (I doubt tough white working-class women cry tears easily.)
lenona at May 10, 2018 12:48 PM
"attempted to speak to"
Doesn't she mean "tried to blame or accuse"?
charles at May 10, 2018 5:28 PM
I feel like tears are like gas. Either you've had uncontrollable gas or you haven't. And if you haven't, you think people are farting on purpose to be rude. It is like that with tears.
NicoleK at May 11, 2018 11:19 AM
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