One of my least favorite things about the patriarchy is partly what Serena Williams talked about: there is this fiction that women are emotional and irrational, compared to rational, cool-as-a-cucumber men. Except when women get upset, we don’t shoot up schools and churches.
One option my friends and I have discussed: talking to men they way they talk to us. “Calm down, you’re being dramatic.” “You’re being emotional right now. You must be hungry.” “Baby, you’re really blowing this out of proportion. You’re imagining things.” “Relax.”
Hint: they generally don’t take it well.
