Women are people. Women face misogyny regardless of what they do.
Sometimes people do bad things. Some of the people who do bad things are women.
When women do bad things, that justifies criticism. It does not justify misogyny, or sexualized insults.
For instance: If a female politician votes against health care for poor people, it’s important to talk about how that will get people killed.
That doesn’t make it ok to call her ugly, mock her body, or make comments about how she needs to get laid. None of that has anything to do with health insurance. None of that is valid criticism. None of that serves any constructive purpose. It’s just misogyny.
Directing misogynistic insults at any woman is harmful to all women. It sends the message that there’s no problem with misogyny so long as the woman is a bad person who has it coming somehow. This implies that the only real disagreement about misogyny is about which women deserve it.
We need to object to misogyny in principle, regardless of who the target is. Misogyny is not criticism. It’s just destructive hatred.
Day: June 24, 2017
Ambulance calls soar by 46 per cent as London swelters in 34.5C heat
As someone who has spent a lot of time in Arizona’s deserts, being in Europe this summer has been more amusing than it should be. “HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING A SUIT?!” “Practice.”
I should not be as amused by that as I am, but I am totally nodding sagely right now.
Dear friends across the pond: stay cool and stay safe! I know you’re not used to this.
Yah. My first response to this was: Just 34C? Weak sauce.
A couple of posts going into exactly why these kinds of temperatures are a big deal:
https://dracofidus.tumblr.com/post/147641308576/england-and-from-what-i-hear-europe-is
https://very-british-life.tumblr.com/post/162006813012/psa-because-im-still-hearing-people-in-hotYeah, I also grew up in a climate where that’s not an unusual summer temperature. It is (record breakingly) unusual for Britain. Not only are people not accustomed to coping with heat, in a very humid generally chilly climate? Nothing is set up for hot weather. Nothing.
I hadn’t moved here yet, but I was actually visiting London during the 2003 heatwave which killed up to 2000 people in the UK. (Estimated at over 70,000 across Europe.) Coming straight from a much hotter summer climate maybe a week before that started, it was still almost unbelievable with how poorly things are set up for heat. I almost keeled over several times myself, including one occasion on a train platform. That was fun.
Like I said, that was with way more experience of hot weather than the vast majority of people living here, and after about a week away from it. So much for a little vacation from the summer back home 🙄
This most recent heatwave wasn’t that extreme, thankfully. (The worst also seems to be over now *fingers crossed*) But, there are reasons that more people needed emergency medical care, and some no doubt died from the heat again.
Also prompted by a couple of less respectful comments on this post. Not aimed at anyone here, but if your immediate response to a news story like this is ridicule? That’s just mean. Please show some modicum of decency, and keep it to yourself.
I shouldn’t of made that post.
I get that the infrastructure there is poorly suited to that type of weather.
No worries, it’s fine. Your earlier comment didn’t come across as mean like a couple of others. I probably shouldn’t have picked your reblog to add that comment to, because I really didn’t want to single anyone out on this particular thread.
Ambulance calls soar by 46 per cent as London swelters in 34.5C heat
Yeah, that was just the last straw today 😵
I don’t want to sound like some kind of crank myself, but I get so tired of people going out of their way to be mean. When they could just…not. There’s no call for it.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 