Some people can only relate to others – only feel as though anyone’s paying attention to them – by acting out. Like the schoolboy who pulls on the girl’s ponytail. It’s not that he dislikes her. Quite the opposite: he wants her to pay attention to him.
What, then, do we make of this? Via email from Stacy McCain:
Bloggers: I hereby declare this National Offend A Feminist Week. Your expressions of reactionary, oppressive, patriarchal, misogynistic traditionalism are solicited. Search your mind, search the Internet, and come up with a post guaranteed to make Jessica Valenti and Amanda Marcotte even angrier than usual.
Heck if I know, but it’ll make a fine first example of what If You Send It, Trog Will Link It (IYSITWiLI) Week is all about. I got an email from a blogger about a post: I linked the post.
Viola!