amy cooper and fear of men who are strangers

[Ms. Toad]

19. I agree with the title - if you replace Amy Cooper with women

BUT - Amy Cooper's fear of men was general, she would not have threatened to call the police to report an "African American" man. (Not just once, but repeatedly)

But doing so, she was expressly using his race as a threat against him. I'll call the cops on you (sub voce - and you know what happens to black men when the cops are called).

When the elevator story was going around a few years ago about a famous black man who was offended by a white woman on the elevator who refused to tell him what floor she was getting off on, he attributed it to racism. My reaction to that story was - no her refusal to tell him the floor was most likely based on gender. As he reported it, she didn't mention his race, she didn't use his race to ward him off. She merely refused to tell him what floor she was getting off on. Nothing in that story suggested to me that her actions were specific to his race, rather than gender.

That is not the case here.