caro:
From last year, worth reading:
A remark intended to shut you down like, “Calm down, you’re overreacting,” after you just addressed someone else’s bad behavior, is emotional manipulation, pure and simple. And this is the sort of emotional manipulation that feeds an epidemic in our country, an epidemic that defines women as crazy, irrational, overly sensitive, unhinged. This epidemic helps fuel the idea that women need only the slightest provocation to unleash their (crazy) emotions. It’s patently false and unfair.
I’ve fallen victim to this before, and it’s awful. It’s been my experience that when a significant other tells you that you’re overly emotional and need to calm the F down (or that he wants you to go find someone else to be emotional around, because he doesn’t want to have to deal with you), it only makes things snowball into a much worse situation.
(via rosiesiman)
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