“It was exhausting”

Via Feministing, KMA Sullivan writes a beautiful, provocative article about the nonsense she puts up with hanging around with male poets and writers. This bit, in particular, struck a chord:

This kind of crap went on and on. It was exhausting. Exhausting to figure out how to respond to the relentless misogyny from men who are otherwise kind and educated, who would never think of themselves as chauvinist assholes.