{"id":17952,"date":"2014-03-03T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-men-feel-threatened-by-women-i-asked-a\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:23:11","slug":"why-do-men-feel-threatened-by-women-i-asked-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-men-feel-threatened-by-women-i-asked-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why do men feel threatened by women?\u201d I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, \u201ca male friend of mine.\u201d It\u2019s often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don\u2019t want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren\u2019t one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. \u201cA male friend of mine\u201d also gives\u2014let us admit it\u2014a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. \u201cI mean,\u201d I said, \u201cmen are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re afraid women will laugh at them,\u201d he said. \u201cUndercut their world view.\u201d Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, \u201cWhy do women feel threatened by men?\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re afraid of being killed,\u201d they said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Margaret Atwood, <em>Second Words: Selected Critical Prose<\/em><span> (1983), pg. 413.<br \/><\/span> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bydbach.tumblr.com\/\">bydbach<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard the punchline before, but here\u2019s the full context for the quote. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/muffinw.tumblr.com\/\">muffinw<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Wow, it\u2019s even better in context.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/rhube.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">rhube<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do men feel threatened by women?\u201d I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, \u201ca male friend of mine.\u201d It\u2019s often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don\u2019t want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}