hot take, discourse, language
There are times when "shrill" is a cruel, sexist, and dismissive thought-terminating cliche... and there are times when it describes the high-pitched monotone of somebody's unexamined sociopolitical grievances perfectly, and gender just isn't a consideration.
I really try to avoid using the term out in the battlefield, because of the former. But I really wish I could sometimes, because of the latter.
'Cause there are people out there, people nominally on my side, whose rhetorical habits could be compared unfavorably to a tornado siren stuck on "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.". And I wish there were more words to express how much I fucking hate them and how far their behavior sets us back. -___-