What is it with these people? Do they think that they, alone, are ever insulted?
Everywhere I’ve gone, military or industrial facilities, I’ve had to prove I can do the job. As a woman in male dominated establishments, it was to be expected. But truly, this is consistent just about everywhere.
Liberals just don’t get it.
Reading these articles is depressing to me, because it convinces me further that there is no way this woman ever could be satisfied that she is not a Victim. If everyone in the room looked at her and talked to her, she would write some ridiculous prose like, “The astonishment was plain on their faces as we talked— the utterly palpable astonishment that a woman of color was entering their world, socializing with them, and daring to tread where once only whites could stand.” If no one talked to her, it would start: “I felt the coldness, as the crowd unified in their whiteness against the Outsider...” If they compliment her, it is patronizing; if they don’t, it’s hostile. I get to the point where I want to throw up my hands and say, why bother?