{"id":32690,"date":"2017-04-03T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32690"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:51:54","slug":"qotd-female-pacifism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/03\/qotd-female-pacifism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Female “pacifism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m really bad at fighting. Oh, not physical fighting, though I suppose I\u2019m bad at that too at this point, since I haven\u2019t been exercising like I used to and I\u2019m not twenty anymore.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t mean I\u2019m not good at landing metaphorical blows. No. The part I\u2019m bad at is staying angry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny, as much as we get accused of \u201chating\u201d the only things and people I\u2019ve hated are historical people and regimes that have killed millions of their citizens. Yeah, yeah, I hate red and black fascism, aka Nazism and Communism like I hate hell, all Capulets and \u2026 well. Not thee. The other things I hate are more things I strongly dislike: Licorice, bad, preachy books, teachers who don\u2019t do their job, cold days. I don\u2019t spend my time sitting around and going \u201cI hate you snow, I do.\u201d I just mumble disconsolately about not being able to walk and my fingers hurting with cold even while inside.<\/p>\n

There is on the left this certainty that women are more peaceful than men that I think comes from two things: first the empathy which women have, or at least display more, which is part of raising infants; two women\u2019s inability to stay burning at peak flame and the ability to find excuses for even the worst misdeeds, in order to keep their \u201ctribe\u201d together. What my mom called \u201cMothers always love the worst child the best.\u201d (I never asked whether this was an admission I\u2019m her favorite.)<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean, mind you, that women are not capable of aggression and war. I\u2019ve said before that having attended an all-girl high school I could tell these people something about women and fighting.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just that when women are bad, they\u2019re very, very bad. They tend to fight in an underhanded way that leaves plausible deniability and the ability to pose as an angel before the world.<\/p>\n

Sarah A. Hoyt, “Weaponized Empathy”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-09-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m really bad at fighting. Oh, not physical fighting, though I suppose I\u2019m bad at that too at this point, since I haven\u2019t been exercising like I used to and I\u2019m not twenty anymore. And I don\u2019t mean I\u2019m not good at landing metaphorical blows. No. The part I\u2019m bad at is staying angry. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[139,43],"class_list":["post-32690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-psychology","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32691,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32690\/revisions\/32691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}