You are wrong

Years of personal abuse, a psychology degree, and many more years on an abuse support line gives me the right to read between the lines. I unfortunately answered you in anger because your response was insulting to me. That's right, you could have just said what you thought, but you love to diminish other's veiwpoints. So what you said was rude to me. You were labeling. In fact, you were doing the exact same thing you accused us of doing.

Some men just pass off any of these issues as feminism or female rage. It's also the same men that blame a woman's "mood" on her period....I get so tired of those attitudes. It's pretty naive. And I know that you don't want to ever be thought of as naive, but naive and immature you are.

Today there are still woman who are being abused and their pain invalidated by family, friends and the law. Again they are passed off as being too emotional, unstable. It wasn't that long ago (1970's) that women could not be manager's, that they couldn't apply for credit card or mortgages without a man. We still fight that old negative behavior. There is a steady stream of patriarchy still shoved down our throats.

So, when women who have much experience bring up that there might possibly be a modicum of abuse, I think your best course is to respect the discussion and not be overtly insulting.

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