Ryan Swett -- who does look like a sweaty bastard, although he's innocent until proven guilty of all charges -- is accused of intentionally running down a young woman in a road rage incident.
Her injuries are horrific. She was knocked all the way out of her clothing. A bystander had to come and cover her in her jacket until the medics arrived. I wish her the best. A few points leap out at me about this:
One thing that never ceases to be obvious to me: almost nobody in America thinks that men constantly do hate crimes against women, which is how it looks to me. I'm not sure if this was one or not. But it kind of seems like it might be. People in America largely believe that things are fine between men and women. On the right side, they think the only problem is women need to learn our place and stay there. The left, including the woke, mostly believe that men and women have justice parity in this country unless the women are black. Confederate women were allowed to abuse black people with the same impunity as Confederate men. That's why that group of white women voted for Trump, so they could "Make America Great Again." That gender-equity dynamic has incorrectly been attributed to all white people, including immigrant communities like mine, where it never existed. Abortion rights wouldn't still be a problem right now if women hadn't been litigating this conversation amongst ourselves all my life. I have no idea what "feminism" means other than "Shut up, woman." I learned long ago that "white feminist" means "Shut up, white woman." So when men do violence against women in America, it isn't a hate crime unless the woman is black. It's just the same as when they do violence against each other. I think it only works that way because men make all the rules about how things will work. Luckily my opinion doesn't count for anything so nothing has to change. I don't know if this woman's attractiveness in particular is what drew his ire, made her the specific target as opposed to the other people that she was with. But I can tell you that everything about his surprise at the extent of her injuries was entirely familiar to me: boys will be boys! He didn't mean nothin' by it. Meanwhile, nobody's ever heard of Kevin, only Male Karen. Karen is the worst.
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