Labeling women as “crazy” is a way of controlling them. It may not be something planned or pre-meditated, but the ease with which men call women “crazy” says a lot about them. Calling a woman “crazy” is quick and easy shut-down to any discussion. Once the “crazy” card has been pulled out, women are now put on the defensive: the onus is no longer on the man to address her concerns or her issue, it’s on her to justify her behavior, to prove that she is not, in fact, crazy or irrational. Men don’t even have to provide any sort of argument back – it’s a classic catch-22; “the fact that you don’t even see that you’re acting crazy is just proof that it’s crazy.”
On Labeling Women “Crazy” | Paging Dr. NerdLove - Part 2 (via brutereason)
See also: “You’re overreacting.”
(via veruca-assault)
And also: “Are you on your period or something?”
(via brigidkeely)
i have done this before and been summarily called out on it, whoops
it was briefly confusing to even realize it’s a gendered thing since it seems like an easy way to summarize “that doesn’t make any sense to me”
but when it’s woven into the culture that’s not really how it works