It shouldn't surprise me that there are guys who read this blog as an invitation. It's revolting. It makes me physically sick. But it's on me that I wouldn't think people sink that low.
There really shouldn't be one "face", because any one person can be discredited. Matt Walsh is useful, but unlikable. JK Rowling has her own baggage.
Libs of Tik Tok has done a good job of putting out information without being a personality. Exposing by showing people for who they are.
Note: Is there a chance that Rachel Maddow was linked accidentally? Like the person was suggesting someone else, anyone else, and Rachel Maddow was the default link?
Thank you for defending and supporting Billboard Chris. He's a brave and honorable soul to expose himself openly to ideological zealots. He's attacked because he has opened the minds of people who don't know the extent to which this evil is propagated and promoted.
I must admit I've somehow escaped being physically harmed by anyone, not because I am a good judge of character, or have especially good intuition, but because I've been extremely lucky. Some of us are, and I can't explain why. I joke that I have an extremely conscientious guardian angel. In my case part of the reason I may have escaped these awful things is I've always lived in conservative fly-over country, in small to medium sized towns. Certainly, bad things happen here, but not to the extent of big city and urban areas. And also, my youth was spent in a different era.
My only experience with a situation that could have turned out badly was a relationship that started online with a man who lived a day's travel distant. This turned into a potential for more, so I visited him. As often happens, meeting him in person revealed some things that weren't obvious on-line. To be fair, I sensed he felt the same way about me. I didn't feel comfortable letting him know in person that I did not want to continue the relationship, so I suppose my intuition was nudging me to be careful. After returning home, I called and told him as gently and kindly as I could, putting the blame on myself without resorting to a blatant "It's not you, it's me" cliche, that I wanted to end the relationship. I really thought he might be relieved by this, but perhaps he wanted to be the one to initiate the ending. His true colors immediately came out, verbally abusive language, nasty criticisms, awful behavior. I hung up on him, and then came a barrage of texts containing hate-filled attacks on my looks, my intelligence, my social graces, all meant to diminish and demean me. I didn't respond. Then came the abject apologies, the promises never to behave that way again, none of the things he'd said about me were true, blah blah blah. He was sorry. Followed by more attacks. I never responded to a single text, or the phone calls. It was so constant and horrible I began to fear for my safety, worried that he would show up unannounced at my door. I contacted the police and explained what was going on, but given nothing illegal had happened, I was told only to avoid communication with him. They did take his name and contact information in case I was murdered, I guess. Fortunately, other than a few weeks of being alternately berated or begging for forgiveness, and getting no response from me, he finally gave up. It was a while before I stopped worrying that he might make a surprise visit, though. Maybe my intuition saved me, or maybe it was merely luck. Hard to say which.
Thank you for this, I had just set up a monthly donation for BC and then saw the tweeter threads. I read through them, saw nothing that concerned me and after reading your article I am even more at ease with my decision to support his work.
Whenever they don't have anything else they jump right to "Insinuate-He's-A-Creep-Go-Fish"🙄
Chris has been lovely via email with me in the past and I have yet to see him be anything other than perfectly polite to anyone else. I'm sure that irks them & I hope they choke on their own bile about it.
Yikes. I figured you'd gotten SOME creepy messages, but possibly over a hundred? Whether that's from a hundred different men or a set of repeat offenders that's awful. 'May they all lose interest if they haven't already!
For myself as well, the targeted, deliberate abuse from a swarm of women played-out worse than more immediate sexual threats from men (even if the police don't seem to care about the latter, which compounds it). I don't know how to explain that to people who try to shop to me the value of being part of a pack of female cohorts with whom I'm supposed to be close. The vitriol aimed by "radical feminists," I haven't entirely kept up with what various people are labeling themselves these days, was incredible from people who simultaneously want to bill themselves as "women loving women." Go figure.
I broached this conundrum with a Dine' (Navajo) medicine-woman a couple decades ago, and she things the way women do this to each other is biologically driven. I've heard other theories. Whatever it is, it is pure ugly and thank you for once again dragging it into the sunlight where it can start to disinfect. Maybe. Thanks for writing.
LOVE The Gift of Fear. His interview on Joe Rogan is pretty great too.
Holly. In the same way that men have physical affairs and women have emotional ones, each group will also do this with violence and threats. Men will be overtly physical, and resort to threatening your safety. Women will threaten your *emotional safety* - anything from “no one likes you!” to “you deserve it.” I am NOT excusing what these subhuman monsters did to you, but maybe it helps take the fire out. The cliche of women’s behavior is to lash out like that because they know quite well exactly how it hurts you. You can push back by understanding they are just as unoriginal and lowest common denominator as the men and refusing to give in to their petty, childish stupidity.
Anyway. I sort behavior into categories all the time and this helps me immensely. Men are violent and physical; women are petty and cruel. Each lashes out in the way that would hurt them most - making you feel helpless, making you feel unloved. None of it is true.
It shouldn't surprise me that there are guys who read this blog as an invitation. It's revolting. It makes me physically sick. But it's on me that I wouldn't think people sink that low.
There really shouldn't be one "face", because any one person can be discredited. Matt Walsh is useful, but unlikable. JK Rowling has her own baggage.
Libs of Tik Tok has done a good job of putting out information without being a personality. Exposing by showing people for who they are.
Note: Is there a chance that Rachel Maddow was linked accidentally? Like the person was suggesting someone else, anyone else, and Rachel Maddow was the default link?
Thank you for defending and supporting Billboard Chris. He's a brave and honorable soul to expose himself openly to ideological zealots. He's attacked because he has opened the minds of people who don't know the extent to which this evil is propagated and promoted.
I must admit I've somehow escaped being physically harmed by anyone, not because I am a good judge of character, or have especially good intuition, but because I've been extremely lucky. Some of us are, and I can't explain why. I joke that I have an extremely conscientious guardian angel. In my case part of the reason I may have escaped these awful things is I've always lived in conservative fly-over country, in small to medium sized towns. Certainly, bad things happen here, but not to the extent of big city and urban areas. And also, my youth was spent in a different era.
My only experience with a situation that could have turned out badly was a relationship that started online with a man who lived a day's travel distant. This turned into a potential for more, so I visited him. As often happens, meeting him in person revealed some things that weren't obvious on-line. To be fair, I sensed he felt the same way about me. I didn't feel comfortable letting him know in person that I did not want to continue the relationship, so I suppose my intuition was nudging me to be careful. After returning home, I called and told him as gently and kindly as I could, putting the blame on myself without resorting to a blatant "It's not you, it's me" cliche, that I wanted to end the relationship. I really thought he might be relieved by this, but perhaps he wanted to be the one to initiate the ending. His true colors immediately came out, verbally abusive language, nasty criticisms, awful behavior. I hung up on him, and then came a barrage of texts containing hate-filled attacks on my looks, my intelligence, my social graces, all meant to diminish and demean me. I didn't respond. Then came the abject apologies, the promises never to behave that way again, none of the things he'd said about me were true, blah blah blah. He was sorry. Followed by more attacks. I never responded to a single text, or the phone calls. It was so constant and horrible I began to fear for my safety, worried that he would show up unannounced at my door. I contacted the police and explained what was going on, but given nothing illegal had happened, I was told only to avoid communication with him. They did take his name and contact information in case I was murdered, I guess. Fortunately, other than a few weeks of being alternately berated or begging for forgiveness, and getting no response from me, he finally gave up. It was a while before I stopped worrying that he might make a surprise visit, though. Maybe my intuition saved me, or maybe it was merely luck. Hard to say which.
Thank you for this, I had just set up a monthly donation for BC and then saw the tweeter threads. I read through them, saw nothing that concerned me and after reading your article I am even more at ease with my decision to support his work.
Whenever they don't have anything else they jump right to "Insinuate-He's-A-Creep-Go-Fish"🙄
Chris has been lovely via email with me in the past and I have yet to see him be anything other than perfectly polite to anyone else. I'm sure that irks them & I hope they choke on their own bile about it.
Yikes. I figured you'd gotten SOME creepy messages, but possibly over a hundred? Whether that's from a hundred different men or a set of repeat offenders that's awful. 'May they all lose interest if they haven't already!
Once again, you hit the nail right on the head.
For myself as well, the targeted, deliberate abuse from a swarm of women played-out worse than more immediate sexual threats from men (even if the police don't seem to care about the latter, which compounds it). I don't know how to explain that to people who try to shop to me the value of being part of a pack of female cohorts with whom I'm supposed to be close. The vitriol aimed by "radical feminists," I haven't entirely kept up with what various people are labeling themselves these days, was incredible from people who simultaneously want to bill themselves as "women loving women." Go figure.
I broached this conundrum with a Dine' (Navajo) medicine-woman a couple decades ago, and she things the way women do this to each other is biologically driven. I've heard other theories. Whatever it is, it is pure ugly and thank you for once again dragging it into the sunlight where it can start to disinfect. Maybe. Thanks for writing.
LOVE The Gift of Fear. His interview on Joe Rogan is pretty great too.
Holly. In the same way that men have physical affairs and women have emotional ones, each group will also do this with violence and threats. Men will be overtly physical, and resort to threatening your safety. Women will threaten your *emotional safety* - anything from “no one likes you!” to “you deserve it.” I am NOT excusing what these subhuman monsters did to you, but maybe it helps take the fire out. The cliche of women’s behavior is to lash out like that because they know quite well exactly how it hurts you. You can push back by understanding they are just as unoriginal and lowest common denominator as the men and refusing to give in to their petty, childish stupidity.
Anyway. I sort behavior into categories all the time and this helps me immensely. Men are violent and physical; women are petty and cruel. Each lashes out in the way that would hurt them most - making you feel helpless, making you feel unloved. None of it is true.
Thanks for your thoughts as always,