Somewhat important detail: The person who set the place on fire was someone who used their services several times.
He was aged out of their services and was mad.
Women have always been part of white extremist groups. Some have even risen to prominent roles. During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, an Atlanta woman named Elizabeth Tyler spearheaded the creation of the group’s national Propagation Department. She published a weekly newsletter advising “kleagles,” or paid campaigners, on developing new chapters. Tyler told them to recruit friends, to use churches as staging grounds, and to cast local minorities — blacks, Jews, Catholics, immigrants — as enemies. Kleagles were “encouraged to study their territories, identify the sources of concern among native-born Protestant whites, and offer the Klan as a solution,” Blee explains in another book, Women of the Klan. In the first six months of Tyler’s association with the K.K.K., its membership expanded by 85,000. When she formed a dedicated women’s wing in 1921, Tyler told the New York Times, “The Klan stands for the things women hold most dear.” The wing attracted some 500,000 members over the next decade.
me: Ma’am, please understand. I’m not emotionally involved in the situation.
They have signs on the bread slicers and produce scales at Whole Foods now, informing you that you may want to avoid using them if you’d like to maintain the “organic integrity” of the food.
it took me. so much longer than it should have to realize they meant, like, his decendents and not people who were kinning with confederate general stonewall jackson and had somehow in the 21st century come to terms with the faults of the confederacy. way, way too long.
In most contexts I would have got it, but because this is Tumblr I thought this was a shit post about the former.
I actually thought it was next weekend that work was sending him to Budapest. Not entirely happy about the timing, but hey. At least he did take the whole week off, so he had yesterday at home.
(With more work-related travel for a conference coming up in a couple of weeks, apparently. One thing I liked about his last job: they never sent him anywhere that I recall. This place isn’t as bad for it as Google, but still.)
Also kind of irritated right now, because I forgot to ask him to take care of the litter box yesterday and was planning to today. It didn’t get changed before the Worldcon trip, and it’s bad enough by now that it’s not waiting until after the weekend. (Or past this afternoon, from the smell of things now.) Multiple problems getting in the way of me doing that or not.
So of course I end up feeling selfish and guilty over that. If I could help being disabled none of the practical stuff like that would be a problem, though.
There are good reasons why men’s-rights activism has served for so many as a gateway drug to the alt-right: Both movements appeal to men with fantasies of violent, sometimes apocalyptic redemption — and, like Cantwell, a tendency to express these fantasies in bombastic prose. And both movements are based on a bizarro-world ideology in which those with the most power in contemporary society are the true victims of oppression.
In other words, if you can convince yourself that men are the primary victims of sexism, it’s not hard to convince yourself that whites are the primary victims of racism. And it’s similarly easy for members of both movements to see white men as the most oppressed snowflakes of all.
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