TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS
* * *
NUMBER TWO:
Click to read: “Beat that Bitch”
* * *
This post was published in May 2016, three years after I’d been elected to serve on Littleton’s Board of Selectmen.
The sickening scene on Littleton’s Common—recounted in the post—really was a harbinger of what my life would look and feel like: being regarded as a bitch and being beating down by misogynistic simpletons.
My 2016 post was not offered as a cautionary tale about women in politics. It was offered as a reality check about what happens when women intrude on spaces where men have traditionally predominated.
* * *
Tomorrow: #1: My New Year’s Day post in this Top Ten Countdown will be, in my estimation, the most popular (and last) post about my hometown of Littleton, Massachusetts.
* * *
Jenna Brownson 