Melissa Harris-Perry: "I don’t know if he was there to kill me"

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6. Do you guys remember when the black female attendee at Netroots Nation talked about

her interaction with a couple of Sanders supporters and how she felt incredibly unsafe? She said something very similar that MHP is saying here, that these guys invaded her space, were loud and incredibly insistent and when she tried to walk away, that they actually came after her for a while before they finally stopped.

I am so glad that MHP was able to get away safely. Whether you want to call that bullying, harassment or what it just shows that there are alot of men that have no value whatsoever for a woman's personal space. They have "decided" that their right to talk/yell at a woman is a thousand times more important than a woman's right to not feel bullied, intimidated or in MHP's and this woman's case, actually frightened.

And let's not pretend that this only happens from people on the right. The woman at Netroots was accosted by Sanders supporters and when I posted about her experience here, one Sanders supporter actually said that he was having to "hold his sides from laughing so hard." Her feeling unsafe and frightened was FUNNY AS HELL to him. Hell no, this type of pyschotic behavior is not limited to one side of the political spectrum or part of the world. It seems that alot of men believe that because they disagree with someone, that it is their God-given right to inflict themselves in some way on the ones they disagree with. And the fact that so many of the ones being inflicted upon are minorities and/or women is extremely telling.