When Kate Harding took to Twitter over the weekend she probably had no idea that she was about to sum up the struggle for every single survivor of assault ever. Kate, who goes by the Twitter handle: @KateHarding was merely starting off a rant on excuses predatory men and their ‘friends’ usually come up with while excusing their behaviour or their silence.
All her tweets ironically laid bare the twisted idea that shifting the onus on the victim is the way to go. Highlighting workplace sexism and misogyny and everyday life scenarios where (mostly) women are harassed with satire so sharp, it almost drew blood. She also took note of how women draw comparative advantage for playing the “victim card” and can be constantly shamed at the drop of a hat for “asking for it”.
Kate began tweeting made-up scenarios where she narrated how she had a weakness for “stabbing men” and she needed counselling before she could finally stop stabbing. Like most serial offenders (Read: sexual predators), Kate went on to narrate how her “bad childhood” may have had something to do with it and she was really sorry for all the men she stabbed. She went to the extent of saying that she would now “be spending time with her family” as if it was a rehab. Kate’s hilarious thread hit homerun with Twitterati (mostly women) as they pooled in their creative resources to start commenting on how they too had been “guilty of stabbing”.
Kate’s original Tweets:
“I am sorry for all the times I stabbed men, just a little, in my previous workplace. After years of counseling, I stopped stabbing men.”
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) October 28, 2017
“My childhood was bad, I barely even stabbed them and some of them are liars. But I am truly sorry & will be spending time with my family.”
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) October 28, 2017
Then Twitter came ushering in with hope and garlands for this creative thread:
“In the 90s, everyone was stabbing men, or chopping off their body parts. I understand now that this was wrong, but it explains the context”
— Dr. Time (@tcarmody) October 29, 2017
To which Kate had another intriguing answer:
“I’m not saying it’s good or bad, but it was the Bobbitt age.”
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) October 29, 2017
And then one particular Tweet said that the men were just “inviting stabbing” by the way they dress, walk, talk, smile, eat and drink (the list goes on right?)
Many men dress, walk, talk, smile, eat, and drink in a way that invites stabbing.
— Violet Greenswallow (@vgreenswallow) October 28, 2017
And people had really cynical questions to ask, because surely men like “stabbing” or loosely translated “attention”
Are you sure the men didn’t like the stabbing? Most just like the attention.
— Jess Iraci (@Buffaloexpat) October 28, 2017
And they still waved hi when they saw me. That proves they liked the stabbing.
— eSCARYanne (@estarianne) October 29, 2017
Because these feminazi men keep complaining of being cornered
Now you’re being elitist. This is what the men want. For us to argue and fall out. Remember men are the issue here. Moaning about stabbings.
— BooOGhost MLNK (@MrsIyoha) October 29, 2017
And some drew comparison with the hoards of sexual harassment cases piling up on the HR’s desk
It’s a witch hunt! Every lady in an office who stabs a man is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend herself. That’s not right either.
— Jess Iraci (@Buffaloexpat) October 28, 2017
Just kitchen talk then?
When I said I stabbed them in the crotch without asking, it was just yoga studio talk.
— Jess Iraci (@Buffaloexpat) October 29, 2017
Add to that a garnish of victim-blaming. Why did you take so long to report it, huh?
If they didn’t want to be stabbed, they should have left. Why did they take so long to report the stabbing?
— Violet Greenswallow (@vgreenswallow) October 28, 2017
And someone just offered the perfect solution:
Maybe we should just take away their power to choose.
— holobean (@asiaacarm2) October 29, 2017
Or perhaps an even better solution would be to remove men from your sight, like competitive workplaces, altogether
If men don’t want to be stabbed in the workplace, they should consider changing to easier, male-centric career fields, like nursing.
— Lacey (@LipstickLacey) October 29, 2017
If only men understood #NotAllWomen.
Long live sarcasm.
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