- NBC
- Don’t look behind you, Katherine.
Watching Monday night’s news coverage out of Ferguson, Missouri, it became increasingly annoying to hear newscasters refer to the “emotional” reaction protesters had to a grand jury’s refusal to indict officer Darren Wilson for the murder of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. Sure, anger qualifies as an emotion. And, yeah, some of the demonstrators’ more destructive activities couldn’t exactly be considered intellectual in their planning or execution. But so often the term “emotional” delegitimizes whatever it’s describing by putting that thing in direct opposition to “logical” or “rational.” People’s anger wasn’t necessarily justified, not even if they’d given the situation in Ferguson much careful consideration—they were just emotional.
It might’ve been empowering—but, man, are these characters emotional.
I am confident this is not how women in power make decisions.
