Alas, a blog : Misogynistic Cops Gone Wild

Ampersand has a good discussion going on about police brutality and misogyny. My comments:

OK, call me paranoid, but why does this surprise anyone? There's a reason they call it the war between the sexes. More accurately, it's the man's war against women. It's been going strong for 6,000 years and it's experiencing a surge right now. American women were TORTURED for demanding the right to vote. Women are beaten into submission every minute of the day.

This is why I wonder why saying that a woman should be careful of where she goes or who she's with is blaming the victim. It's not blame. It's awareness that you are surrounded by an enemy. I wish all men were like Amp or Kevin Hayden, or the other guys here, but they are few and far between. Are men capable of being like them? Of course! But hateful, angry entitled people rarely change, and if they are given any kind of authority to back up their entitlement, they will inevitibly abuse it.

I honestly don't know if a modern human can be a law enforcement official without sliding into sadism. It's a drug, as surely as any chemical, and there's no deterrent when the profession won't police itself. And notice the conflation of white supremacy and misogyny. Patriarchy is white male privilege and the only way to end it is to call it what it is, and refuse to yield to it. If you waver, become apologetic or defensive, you lose. They use your better nature against you, and they haven't got one, so don't appeal to it.

At least you can recognize these guys by their badges. The dangerous ones are the ones that love you until you become inconvenient to their "important shit" and then turn on you. I'll take the pepper spray over the knife in the back any day. I like my enemies in the open.