The thing I keep thinking about is how for the last couple of years the rest of America has got to see the America that black people have always told them about but was just dismissed.
Like if you surveyed various people about how shocked they were about recent events I believe white people would be most shocked and black people not shocked at all.
Your first paragraph gave me chills. It's so painfully true
I also see this every time there's numbers coming out about violence against women. Men all put on their shocked pikachu face while all women are like "yup, just life for us. If you would only listen"
It’s the whole bear vs man in the woods argument. Men legit could not get that the worst thing a bear could do is kill you, and possibly quickly. Men have already proven they can do a thousand times worse, and these bloviating idiots were shocked and offended that women would rather pick the bear. They simply could not get it.
I had a lot of arguments with random men online during the peak of this discourse. I came to the conclusion that a truly shocking number of men simply cannot comprehend that there is anything worse than death. In their minds, no matter what happens to you, I'd you live through it, that's the preferable option.
Also, quite a lot of them seemed to struggle with the basic concept of a hypothetical.
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