If You Weren't Actually Assaulted, You shouldn't Complain, Other People Get Assaulted, You Know.

It's always the same thing. Everywhere you go. Here. There. In England, in Iraq, Saudi Arabia. Women only get to talk about the things men let them talk about. It's no different wherever you go.

And they always beat you up in the same exact way.

There, in Egypt, women are told they are being tiresome by complaining about not being included in the new government. They have rights, far more rights than they had yesterday, far more rights than other women, why can't they just go home?

Here Rebecca Watson gets the same disgusted dressing down when she tells a story about her very own life and articulates her very own opinion of the behavior of some of the people in it, and the fact that she wasn't raped in an elevator while other women are being raped in the streets makes everything she said seem like self-absorbed white woman problems according to Richard Dawkins and a bunch of other atheists.

She should just shut up and be grateful she wasn't raped in the elevator, because other women get raped in elevators every day.

Because the notions that women have, the ideas they have about the way the world should work, and how people should be treated, well, that's not really up to women, now is it? That's up to men and the women who respect men properly. And apparently, women in this country should shut the fuck up already. There are no more inches she can have, there are no more concessions he will make, no more pennies against the man's dollar she can earn, no more inroads into his personal space, no more erosion of his masculine freedom to treat women however he judges appropriate (short of rape! short of rape!), because it's enough already. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up, you scribbling harpy.