If you didn't know, #WhyIStayed was a de-clawed internet cat swarm that defensively erupted after video of Ray Rice knocking out his adoring now-wife in an elevator emerged. The #WhyIStayed message, if one could call it that, was "Don't blame women for anything, ever, that goes wrong in their lives." Really, how else do you interpret thousands of women offering thousands of lame excuses for why they stayed with their sexily abusive alpha male lovers?
There must be an equivalent hashtag called #WhyIHadNoTroubleLeavingMyBoringBetaMaleBoyfriend. There's not? Oh too bad.
Anyhow, if you sift through this dung pile of feminist ego assuaging butthurt you find a few curious nuggets of anti-feminist truth about relationships and how to keep them going.
[...] if women have no agency in abusive relationships, shouldn't they be treated like children for their own protection? [...] because letting women make big decisions works out real well when they're trying to decide whether to leave an abusive alpha male [...]