Reply #110: And then there's my favorite: The "Wounded" [View All]

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I've run into quite a number of them online (probably because it's easier to pretend to be wounded when no one can see you). Once they start to lose an argument, or are called on a misogynistic remark, they express shock and outrage that you have said something "deeply hurtful" and demand to know just what you could possibly have found offensive in what they said (even though you've just told them, and they've just repeated the insult in the same sentence).

I find this behavior doubly insulting because it assumes that a woman will instantly feel guilty for having "wronged" this "innocent" because they believe it's in a woman's nature to not only be a mommy to every man-boy, but to fall for any appeal to emotionalism and dissolve into tears themselves for having been so "mean."

Right-wing trolls often employ a variant of The Wounded regardless of the gender of their opponent, based on the belief that a (bleeding-heart) liberal is the "weaker sex" of politics.

Edited to add: Great post! :thumbsup: