Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men?

[G_j]

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/why-is-greta-thunberg-so-triggering-for-certain-men-1.4002264?mode=amp

How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits, dedicated to trying to save the planet, inspire such incandescent rage?

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Even for someone who spends a lot of time on Twitter, some of the criticism levelled at Thunberg is astonishing. It is, simultaneously, the most vicious and the most fatuous kind of playground bullying. The Australian conservative climate change denier Andrew Bolt called her “deeply disturbed” and “freakishly influential” (the use of “freakish”, we can assume, was not incidental.) The former UKIP funder, Arron Banks, tweeted “Freaking yacht accidents do happen in August” (as above.) Brendan O’Neill of Spiked called her a “millenarian weirdo” (nope, still not incidental) in a piece that referred nastily to her “monotone voice” and “the look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes”.

But who’s the real freak – the activist whose determination has single-handedly started a powerful global movement for change, or the middle-aged man taunting a child with Asperger syndrome from behind the safety of their computer screens?

And that, of course, is the real reason why Greta Thunberg is so triggering. They can’t admit it even to themselves, so they ridicule her instead. But the truth is that they’re afraid of her. The poor dears are terrified of her as an individual, and of what she stands for – youth, determination, change.

She is part of a generation who won’t be cowed. She isn’t about to be shamed into submission by trolls. That’s not actually a look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes. It’s a look that says “you’re not relevant”.


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[Mike 03]

1. Because it's ultra embarrassing to be told the hard truth by a teenager you know deep down right?

Maybe she's appeared as the conscience they'd hoped they'd never have to encounter again?

Do the people who are triggered have children around her age?

They are disgusting in their attacks, that's for certain.

[rurallib]

4. not just a teen but also a young woman

[Xipe Totec]

2. I call those people (men & women) L.I.V.I.D. - Low information Voters In Denial nt

[TruckFump]

30. Oh, what a great acronym.

May I borrow it?

[Xipe Totec]

31. Sure! Borrow away

[DemocracyMouse]

41. I want to use LIVID too!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

48. Love it

Great acronym,can I use it?

[Xipe Totec]

55. Go for it

[FakeNoose]

49. LIVID - this is a great term even when they're not voters

There are a lot of low information people out there, and they're in denial, but not necessarily voters. They're just bitching in the Twitter-verse.

We need to make sure our side always votes, so as to offset these LIVID people.

[calimary]

104. Oooooh, GOOD one, Xipe Totec!

Low Information Voters In Denial!

Certainly does nail it.

[Vogon_Glory]

105. LIVID, Good One!

I’d like to use it myself.

[CousinIT]

3. Any female opening her mouth with a thought or an opinion elicits massive rage in MRAs

They believe girls and women should be SILENT and have no say in anything. They are to be obedient, not speak unless spoken to, available for sex with any man at any time the MAN or boy chooses, have as many babies as MEN say they should have WHENEVER men choose. IF they abort, the abortion is at the behest of MEN and only if the child is "undesirable" (ie: not white). They are to have NO choice in their lives, NO voice in anything and NO autonomy whatsoever at any time for any reason in any circumstance. Their only skills should be to cook, clean, and serve the males of the World. Essentially, that they should be silent, half-human slaves.

THAT's why.

[wasupaloopa]

8. What is a MRA?

[spooky3]

11. "Men's rights activists" nt

[wasupaloopa]

18. Thank you. Yes they are evil.

[pangaia]

20. "Men's rights activists" really !! I had no idea.. sorta like White lives matter

Or what's those guys--- OH YEAH straight pride..





BUNCH OF DUMB FUCKS.. AND TO THINK THESE PEOPLE breed !!!!

OOpps caps lock

[Ohioboy]

25. Yeah, it's sad...

they are the real victims.

Got a guy lives down the road from me has a "Trump Matters" sign in his yard. I want to change it to "Trump's lies matter" but he probably has video surveillance on it just waiting to make the next "see how violent the liberals are" video for YouTube.

[certainot]

51. "mens rights", "white lives matter" bullshit have been regular topics on RW radio for years and

they're attacking thunberg and continuing to deny climate emergency.

all this same shit starts at the local rw radio stations

and the dem and left leadership continues to ignore that hundreds of those sstations scould not survive without sports broadcasting from 87 major universities and a lot of pro teams

[pangaia]

57. exactly,, except, never listening to rw radio.

i hadn't heard this men's rights thing..

thanks


I think?

[certainot]

61. that's where this shit gets repeated for months and years without being

seen by democrats - until it's too late and shows up in the white house

[llmart]

79. Well, it was Rush Limpballs who started the whole "there's no such thing as global warming" crapola.

His so-called dittoheads ate all that up as if Rush was some sort of climate scientist or any scientist for that matter. That was decades ago when he started that and I remember people listening to the crap he spewed and thinking he was brilliant.

[pangaia]

86. jesus... but, why am I surprised.....

[certainot]

96. worst part is any RW radio who crosses the line gets calls from the dittoheads in the audience

who have believed the lying fathead all their lives and have tried unsuccessfully for years to get through limbo's call screeners and make sure all other rw talkers stay on the same page. works great.

limbo's empire will collapse when climate activists start targeting the 87+ universities that broadcast sports on over 260 of his stations - as soon as one or two start looking for alternatives the others will have to follow and advertisers will head for the hills. pro sports will follow

[certainot]

97. good chance he's been working for the russians whether he knows or not. 'climategate' was his

big success, and probably putin's. apparently the east anglia institute hack happened on thurs and that weekend asange / wikileaks was releasing it and monday limbo had the analyzed and taken-out-of-context version on his desk to use all week 3 hrs a day ass 'proof' global warming was a hoax. that was a wweek before copenhagen and it made it impossible for obama to get any support from republicans and MSM was giving time to deniers.

why would limbo spend so much time on it if he wasn't getting payola?

that's why dems need to ask about talk radio re the mueller report and russian influence - going back to at least 2008 manafort (mccain campaign co-chair) using limbo to force mccain to pick palin, an idiot who was being courted by russian oil.
stone, manafort, corsi, were talk radio pros - not social media pros, before soc media it was talk radio doing the damage

[spooky3]

69. Yes, it's so sad how they are kept out of 470 of the Fortune 500 CEO jobs, the Presidency, most

Congressional seats, etc.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

85. Read "Angry White Men" by Michael Kimmel.

He has an entire section devoted to the Men's Rights Movement. He traces its origins from beginning to its current full-throated hatred of all women. He delves into the mind-boggling arguments they put forth for their "cause."

There are magazines, books, internet websites (You should read what is written in some chat rooms ! The violent imagery is stomach-churning.) dedicated to MRAs, and "support" groups. It should come as no shock that the men in these groups are overwhelmingly right-wingers and homophobes.

[3catwoman3]

12. Men's Rights Advocates, if I recall correctly.

Or, maybe, Men’s Rights Assholes.

[MsLeopard]

13. Men's Rights Advocates. nt

[Dr Hobbitstein]

16. Men's rights activist.

Basically an asshole incel who thinks feminists are taking away his rights.

[toddwv]

32. Moronic Regressive Assholes

[paleotn]

34. Exactly. Truth!

[JohnnyRingo]

56. Sorry, I don't think it's because of her gender.

David Hogg attracted just as much derision, if not more, from the far right when he began speaking out about mass shootings.

Of course, if Hogg was a young woman it would be because MEN want to silence her. In reality, if her name was Gregg Thunberg and he started a movement on climate change, the right would attack him just as fiercely. I'm sure Ingraham is on the kick Greta bandwagon over at Fox as well as the MEN.

[Maggiemayhem]

5. I think it is because we have so many really dumb people in this country

Who think they are brilliant. I also believe the evangelical church is a part of this since they teach that men are better than women and women have to answer to a man.

[SMC22307]

10. It's not just this country. And the men referenced in the article...

are educated and probably not evangelical. But, yes, controlling, hypocritical evangelicals are a huge problem in this country.

[whathehell]

84. Um, no.. Most adults in most countries don't like being lectued to by children.

It's a Thing.

[wasupaloopa]

6. This old man admires Greta Thunberg. Yesterday I read about her life of 16 years. It is inspiring.

Go read about what she overcame to do what she is doing.

I grew up in the 50's and 60's. What we had in the sixties is similar to what kids are doing today about climate change and guns. It was a very good feeling that we got back then identifying with other kids like us, standing up to authority while being demonized by those in authority. We did effect some good changes. And most of us did not sell out when we got older.

I envy kids who marched yesterday. We all should be out in the streets demanding that Congress especially the Senate do it's job of upholding the Constitution.

[JI7]

7. much of trump support is that type of men

[CrispyQ]

9. Deep inside these types of men know that the patriarchy has failed.

They believed that they were better than the rest of us, & yet, it's the policies of these "superior men" that have led our species to an ecological brink. The whole world sees their failings.

[pangaia]

14. they hate themselves, deep down the KNOW there is something wrong with themselves.

empty lives, devoid of any meaning or emotional connection to anything even remotely resembling joy. So, they blame her- a 'woman,' (and that is a lot of it as well) of intelligence, who connects with others at a deep level, and who visibly has something they do not...

It eats away at them, brings them face to face with themselves, and that they can not accept.

[Farmer-Rick]

15. The men who are raging against this inspiring, and proud child with Asperger syndrome

Are being funded by filthy rich capitalist who own horse buggy corporations and don't want to allow the better product, the car, onto the marketplace.

They will fight to our death to keep accumulating massive amounts of capital from their deadly, obsolete and soon to be useless product....oil and gas.

The Koch brothers, both living and dead, are clutching their spigots of gas and oil to their chest ever threatening anyone or anything who might slow down the slop being funneled into their filthy piggy mouths.

This ridiculous scene of grown men capering on about a girl, who is correct, is brought to you by capitalism. It prevents progress and causes grown men to act like silly little babies. Just another destructive feature of capitalism.

[IronLionZion]

17. The nail that sticks out the most gets the hammer

[malaise]

19. Go Greta

Mad them!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Because she's a young woman in the public eye.

[Recursion]

22. It's a tell. You don't get that angry at someone you think is wrong. (nt)

[wasupaloopa]

23. She has courage and conviction. Something her detractors lack. She is like a

mirror reflecting back to them the fact that they are lacking in courage and conviction and all the other virtues this 16 year old has.

Every time they see her speak she forces them to admit to themselves that she has done more with her 16 years than they have their whole life.

They need to break that mirror.

[smirkymonkey]

26. +1000

[GoCubsGo]

37. Yep. Exactly right. n/t

[Takket]

24. She should take it as proof she is doing the right thing

When a fool attacks you because they have no factual leg to stand on to attack your argument, it is an admission by them that you are correct.

[usaf-vet]

27. Her powerful voice scares the sh*t out of those who deny science and lust for wealth and power.

You go young lady.

You and the millions of young people who march, protest and believe in climate data give hope to this 70+ senior citizen.

The local high school student who pushes your agenda and organized in school protests, as well as a march in the community, is our next-door neighbor.

[Mountain Mule]

28. "Tearful Teeny-Bopper"

is one name I've seen for Greta Thunberg. Repugnicans like to claim that she has handlers who are using her Aspergers to turn her into a walking zombie spreading "propaganda" on behalf of the climate "hoax." They are completely enraged. It reminds me of Kavanaugh and the repug senate members during his confirmation hearings. The wave after wave of misogynist rage generated by these old white men was sickening.

I think that subconsciously repugs are terrified of the implications of climate change. It's a world wide conspiracy of globalists whose objective is to round up every person on earth into communist style collectives. It would be laughable if the consequences weren't so dire. The brainwashing that happens when you live on a steady diet of the 4 major repug brain foods - Faux, Limbaugh, Breitbart, and InfoWars is extremely effective.

[Soxfan58]

29. Smart, strong, girls

Become smart strong women. And that scares insecure men

[Freethinker65]

33. Because she is smarter than them and represents every smart female that...

Every smart female that ever surpassed them professionally or socially.

[quakerboy]

95. Or more likely

Represents every smart female that they know should have surpassed them, should have their privileges and benefits and positions and respect. The ones they fear because they know they wronged.

[no_hypocrisy]

35. I went through a similar circumstance when I was 16 decades ago (1970s).

I was told by my parents, by the school, classmates, brothers of friends that I should "watch myself" whenever I made my opinions known about stuff that was plain wrong, why the situations were wrong, and how to fix it. While I didn't change, my take-away was and is that smart girls are not valued and are a target of derision, anxiety, and anger.

[MontanaMama]

36. Excellent article. Spot on.

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I ran into a GTM (Greta Triggered Man) last night on here on DU. He was well handled as you would expect but it really made me think...about Greta. Yes she’s a powerhouse of determination and inspiration but she’s a kid. A kid with feelings and insecurities because what kid doesn’t have insecurities? I hope that Greta has a circle of unfailing support around her...watching her and holding her close in an effort to keep her safe and sane against the meanness and ridicule. I’m in awe of Greta, and as a mama, I worry for her.

[mulsh]

38. Name calling tells me her critics can't support their views on climate crisis.

n/t

[JDC]

39. It's about crushing her and the future she represents

If they don't nip it in the bud, more may start thinking and acting.

And the huge sums of money they suck from the teet of big energy/oil.

[paleotn]

44. More and more are. It's too late.

As the old saying goes...that horse done run off. Thus the freak out.

[dlk]

40. Impotent Bullies Choose Their Targets Carefully

They attack those them deem too frail to fight back and defend themselves or those they think they can get away with attacking anonymously. They are weak and they are weasels.

[H2O Man]

46. Well said.

Very well said, indeed.

[paleotn]

42. She's part of a generation that will have to live with our folly.

And we shouldn't be pissing them off. They're the ones taking care of us when we can no longer take care of ourselves.

[Thyla]

43. I'm watching all the whataboutism

and oddly placed rage atm in a thread on a bonsai forum of all places.

We have already had the epoch times once. lol
Threads about to blow up and I have my beer and popcorn.

[H2O Man]

45. Recommended.

I love Greta. A local Clan Mother brought her to my attention a while back. So my son and I have watched a lot of the film of her on the internet. I thought about her last week in ceremony.

She has a gift that is generally considered a handicap. But she uses it to her advantage. And to our advantage. That is the definition of Power.

Add that to her being a small, female teenager, and we have the answer to the question about why some men find her message too challenging, and opt to hate her.

[The Wizard]

47. Small man parts (NT)

[Guilded Lilly]

50. Well...

FEMALE
and
Intelligent
Courageous
Young
Resilient
Dignified
Moral
Compassionate
Inspiring
and
Truthful

[Hermit-The-Prog]

52. simple: TRILLIONS of dollars at stake

[ronnie624]

92. +1

And a he-man culture for humanity.

[toddwv]

53. Same reason that AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar, Hillary Clinton etc.

She is a woman who speaks when told to be quiet, stands when told to sit, and acts when told to she can do nothing because she is "just a woman".

[PatrickforO]

54. These kids trigger right wingers who have been propagandized through years

of hate-talk radio and Fox to deny climate change so that a few big-oil executives and their shareholders can have more profits.

These haters are nothing more than ignorant people acting unwittingly as surrogates to those who would continue to make profits at the expense of the environment and the future of our children and grandchildren.

We need a green new deal NOW - and NO, it doesn't have to be EXACTLY like what AOC came up with, but it sure as heck DOES have to be broad, sweeping and aggressive. And we need to roll over people who say, "Oh, but what about China and India?" because it is we in the west who must take the lead in the effort, both morally and economically.

Just remember: it is ALWAYS about profits. Always. The same applies to the healthcare debate we're having. In the final analysis, it is about the dollars lined up by big pharma and big health insurance companies against a single payer plan because they are afraid they will lose PROFITS. And yes, in healthcare, profit IS a dirty word, because the profit motive conflicts directly with the best interests of patients. As to big pharma and the claim that it costs umphteen million to 'bring a product to market', well, we need to rethink that and restructure the whole R & D portion of the industry with government subsidies. It should be PUBLIC, taxpayer funded labs developing these drugs, NOT for-profit pharma companies.

[Kid Berwyn]

58. She reminds them of how small they are.

She’s known around the world as a leader for saving the planet.

They are known for what? Their anger?

[fierywoman]

59. She's the child/young person who says out loud: the emperor has no clothes.

She speaks truth to power. She has more balls than these men who criticize her.

[JudyM]

67. Dead-on. We are living in a damned fable.

[pnwmom]

60. "She be little but she be fierce!"

And they know it.

[Hekate]

65. Perfect.

And she is female.
And she is smart.
Clearly in these poor abused men's eyes she just needs to stfu and know her place.

[jimlup]

62. She is a powerful and strong woman and thus, she threatens them

Go Greta! I have a new hero!

[Maxheader]

63. Don't know her...

heard of her crusade..bless her..Why does she trigger men?..I don't know without listening to her..But usually with the right winger handjobs, its the reaction she creates in people..And the energy czars don't want no crazy kid
flaming the fires of change..

The conspiracy media will further enrage the 30%ers...

[applegrove]

64. They know the power of child activists or martyrs: Malala, Marjory Stoneman Douglass

kids on gun control, Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler washed up on a beach, etc. It seems kids can pucture the bubbles and be tipping points on issues the GOP have worked hard to set as concrete.

[G_j]

66. so true,

and the threat they feel is real. These young people are next in line to vote etc.

[applegrove]

68. Yes. And parents everywhere connect with them too. It seems when an issue gets

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a single or a few human face(s) it becomes personal. GOP do not want that on the environment. AOC or Naiomi Klein is bad enough but a child has more power then they do to rock everyone in the world at a much deeper level. The GOP are trying to avoid the tipping point on the environment. What will happen to their $$$ when you cannot monetize energy when it is geothermal, solar, tides and wind beyond an initial investment?

[budkin]

70. I love seeing MGTOW triggered by her

It’s amazing.

[whathehell]

71. I don't think it's just men, or Climate Change Deniers..

i don't belong to either of those groups, and I find her demeanor obnoxious.

[meadowlander]

72. She's autistic

along with 1 in 70 of the people you meet. So maybe you need to get over that.

Seriously... would you say someone with Downs Syndrome or Tourettes has an "irritating" demeanor?

[whathehell]

76. She has Aspergers..

and I'm guessing that, by and large,the adults around her do not, and could therefore guide her into a less off-putting approach.

Please don't equate her situation with Down Syndrome. She's obviously very bright and "teachable".

[meadowlander]

77. Aspergers is autism.

It was removed in the DSM-V and combined with ASD. Please, please, please educate yourself. Your comments are incredibly ableist.

Because as we all know "bright and teachable" blind people can learn how to see and "bright and teachable" people in wheelchairs can learn how to walk. So it's really "obnoxious" that they expect the rest of us to include braille on elevator buttons and ramps on buildings.

[whathehell]

80. She identifies as having Aspergers..

It's on the ASD spectrum, but as we know, there are different levels of severity to the disorder.
She's clearly very high functioning and, no, I don't think I'm being "ableist"
for refusing to patronizie her, as I believe you are, with the 'soft bigotry of low expectations', absurd conflation of ASD to blindness and lameness to the contrary.

[meadowlander]

81. Please stop.

You seriously don't know what you're talking about. Again, please educate yourself.

Autism is a spectrum disorder with a range of dimensions. No two autistic people are the same. One person might have significant language impairment but fewer sensory issues. Another person might have severe social impairment but no problems with executive functioning. You can't look at Greta Thunberg giving a scripted speech and judge from how she looks what her level of impairment is or in which areas it is most significant.

"High functioning autism" just means autism with average or above average intelligence. It doesn't indicate the level of impairment in any of the dimensions of autism. So someone can be very bright, have a genius level IQ even, and find "normal socialising" - talking in "normal" tone of voice, knowing when it's their turn to speak, following what someone else is saying to them - excruciatingly difficult if not impossible.

And lots of people with significant social challenges can learn to mask by expending extraordinary amounts of energy trying to look normal. Once they run out of energy to mask they "shut down" or "melt down" and can either become mute, throw what looks like an embarrassing tantrum, or have to spend all day in bed alone crying to recover themselves. The point is that they shouldn't have to put themselves through that to meet an arbitrary neurotypical standard of "normal" behaviour. You could, you know, just widen your definition of what "normal" behaviour is a little. It's not like her speaking in a different tone of voice or being a little strident in her views is doing you any actual harm.

Autism is a form of social blindness. It impairs people's ability to read faces, understand emotions and get feedback on the impact that their words have on others. It's is an ADA recognised developmental disability. So it is not at all "absurd" to compare it with vision impairment or other forms of disability.

You're not inside her head. You don't get to set "expectations" for her. Why don't you set some expectations for yourself to try a little harder to understand where different people might be coming from?

[whathehell]

82. You responded to me, dear

You can "stop" as quickly and easily as I.

[Celerity]

89. you are not being 'ableist' at all nt

[meadowlander]

91. Seriously?

You're all on board with saying a 15 year old autistic girl has an "obnoxious demeanor" but never mind she's "teachable"?

If she's bright enough, she can be trained to hide every trace of her disability! Just smile a bit more Greta, make eye contact, don't look so serious, stop wringing your hands. That's a dead giveaway at how stressed you are by interacting with people.

Never mind that "acting normal" all the time has serious long term consequences for your health and wellbeing. That the stress gives you insomnia, digestive issues, hives, selective mutism, hypertension, overwhelming fatigue, migraines, depression, depersonalisation... The really important thing is that normal people not be made the slightest bit uncomfortable by the weird way you speak or your lack of facial expressions.

Nothing ableist about that whatsoever...

[Celerity]

98. I was only dealing with the exchange in regards to the self-labelling by Greta

as having Asperger Syndrome and then your attempts to reorient the other poster into something that you find acceptable. It came across as ober the top to me. But that is just my opinion, and you obviously can disagree with me as well.

People have a right to autonomous self-determination. The part where I said that poster was not being ableist had to do with your reply that tried to negate their use of the term Asperger Syndrome, a label that comes from Thunberg herself. I thought the conflation with Downs Syndrome that you utilised in your attempts was problematic as well.

I actually disagree with that other poster in regards to their dislike of Greta's demeanour, which they said was obnoxious. I do not find her obnoxious at all. At the same time, people are well free to find it so, and Thunberg having Asperger Syndrome does not give her blanket immunity from criticism.

Hope that clears it up.

[meadowlander]

99. I wasn't accusing them of being "ableist"

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for insisting on saying she has Aspergers syndrome. I was saying they were being "ableist" for calling her demeanor obnoxious but saying that as long as she has a high IQ she can be trained to overcome it.

But to be fair, there's also a degree of ableism in saying "Aspergers isn't really autism" - it is - and that "She's not *really* disabled... look how high functioning she is!" "She's obviously capable of hiding the signs of her disability and she's mostly doing it already. If only she would try a little harder..." Also, Aspergers is a subcategory of autism. Someone who says they have "lymphoma" isn't "asserting their right to autonomy by choosing the "lymphoma" label instead of the "cancer" one". They're just using the more specific category of the disease.

The point is you can't look at her and know how hard she is trying already and whether or not she actually is able to mask any more of her symptoms. Maybe she spends weeks practicing her speeches already and has hours of daily routines to set her up to look calm and composed on the stage and maybe she goes home afterwords sobbing in the car and then spends hours rocking when she gets home. You don't know. And you can't tell just by looking at her.

In my view, disabled people do get immunity from criticism for the symptoms of their disability to the extent that they have limited control over those symptoms (or the effort to exercise that control impacts their health). It's called basic human decency.

As I said before, you would never in a million years (I hope) say someone with Down syndrome is irritating or someone with Tourettes should just try a bit harder to shut up or that someone with cerebral palsy flapping their hands is distracting and they should really make the effort to stop. Autism is a neurological condition. Her brain is wired differently. And the symptoms are she has a flat tone of voice, limited facial expressions, doesn't make eye contact, takes things very seriously/literally, etc. Those are the symptoms of her condition. It is not acceptable to say "that's obnoxious" and "she should just try harder not to be that way" any more than you would say that about anyone else with a disability.

On edit:

She doesn't seem to have had an issue with the "autism" label in this article:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-thunberg-called-autism-her-superpower-in-post-against-haters

"Greta went on to explain that she doesn't often open up about being autistic because so many people misunderstand it as a problem or something to be fixed. But her silence regarding her diagnosis isn't because she's ashamed of it, Greta said, and it's certainly not because she's trying to hide it."

"And believe me, my diagnosis has limited me before. Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder,"

"Greta doesn't owe trolls an explanation as to why she looks or talks a certain way"

Many women with autism develop eating disorders in response to the stress required to mask their symptoms. It doesn't surprise me in the least that she has experienced "no energy" and "an eating disorder". Aspergers is an actual disability. She should get credit for everything she has done despite it, not criticism for not making that extra effort to hide it completely.

[LanternWaste]

106. What specifically leads you to find her demeanor obnoxious?

[patphil]

73. Grown men don't like being lectured to by children, especially when the children are right.

They are, indeed, afraid of her, and so they mock her disability.
She is a heroine of her age.
She isn't going away.
She will be heard.
Her followers are legion.

Patrick Phillips

[locks]

74. Just when I come to the

point of losing all hope, someone like Greta comes along who miraculously lifts us to action with truth, concern for all and our sad planet. All I can do after many, many years of protesting and marching is make my sign and join the strike. Thank you Greta

[vercetti2021]

75. Good!

Fuck the 4chan incels lol 😂 good on Greta!

[Lib 4 Life]

78. its not just men but anyone who believes that humans can dominate and control nature.

but yeah, mostly men.

[oasis]

83. If you don't like Greta you have a hole in your soul. Period.

[Aussie105]

87. As a 70 year old male

I don't feel threatened by her at all. In fact, I admire her for her courage, her clear vision, her resolute no fear stance.

Should be more of it.

But those who are frightened of her - she clearly shows you are doing it wrong, your thinking got cloudy and screwed up somewhere along the line. Just shut up and listen to her!

[appalachiablue]

88. Lolita she's anything but! A highly intelligent, sincere and

modest young girl committed to preserving the planet and fighting apathy and injustice.

Not the stereotypical gooey, dizzy, perky and peppy girl so appealing to lusty creeps.

[dchill]

90. ANY strong female triggers them.

Insecure scaredy-cat white guys. They think their anger disguises their fear.

[aeromanKC]

93. Greta should be nominated for Time Person of the Year

If she hasn't already.

[B Stieg]

94. I think she's headed for a Nobel!

That was quite the rally she inspired yesterday!

[ck4829]

100. Good question

[Vinca]

101. She utters the truth and reminds them of their failings. They've refused to do anything about

the most important issue of our time. If the planet isn't habitable, all the piles of money are just more litter.

[CTyankee]

102. "We will outlive you."

David Hogg, another teenaged leader, said that.

Except with Greta, it's more like "We want to just live."

[BlueTsunami2018]

103. It's just right wingers in general.

They get triggered by anyone attempting to do good things for people. Whether it’s Greta Thunberg or David Hogg or ANYONE doing anything that goes against their politics there’s a humongous backlash. Men, women, it makes no difference. There’s this perception that the majority of these cretins are men when there are just as many women dedicated to this cult of hatred. I see it every day on social media.