"Now for something completely different.
The Washington Post has a “Post Everything” section where it posts opinion pieces from people who aren’t regular writers for the paper.
Today, the Post published a piece that really seemed out there.
It’s titled, “Thanks for not raping us, all you ‘good men.’ But it’s not enough.”
If you guessed from the title that this is not going to be a carefully reasoned piece, you guessed right.
It opens with author Victoria Bissell Brown, a retired history professor, screaming at her husband over something she admits was a very trivial comment:Read on!I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast. And it terrified me. I’m still terrified by what I felt and what I said. I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead...
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