I Am Not an Angry Feminist. I'm a Furious One.

[PeaceNikki]

It was late Monday night and, knowing full-well that I had to wake up early for work the next day, I was buried deep in the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, reading story after story of the aggression women face in their daily lives. Soon, it was early Tuesday morning and I was still awake, still reading.

Nothing that anyone shared came as a surprise. I'm a woman, too, after all, and — like a lot of us — I have turned my keys into a makeshift weapon when walking alone at night and feared for my life in broad daylight when a car full of men pulled up next to me and rolled down its windows, allowing me to hear the horrible and demeaning comments being shouted in my direction from the passengers within.

The prevalence of these stories saddens me. I hate that we've all experienced these things to varying degrees. I hate that I feel lucky for not having experienced worse. I hate that there are women out there who do experience worse, simply because they weren't born white or cisgender or middle class or in a country where little girls have the same right to education as little boys.

These are the things that fill me with rage on a daily basis, but they're not (not explicitly, anyway) what left me shaking in anger as I finally shut down my computer and tried to fall asleep. What made me so mad were the men who had decided to weigh-in on the #YesAllWomen conversation and dismantle it.

Much more at link: http://jezebel.com/i-am-not-an-angry-feminist-im-a-furious-one-1582748709/+madeleine

It's a really good piece.