”It is always those who have power who say ’calm down, let’s talk rationally, let’s be sensible’, Sartre once explained to a couple of my students. ’It is always those who have power who insist that being emotional is being weak. In the home, the powerful are the male. That’s why the best way for a housewife to argue against her calm, rational ’provider’ is to throw the plate of rice in his face.’  Then, because the two young women I had brought to his apartment were Americans, he added, ’In your country, all your teachers tell you to think carefully and try to be objective, n’est-ce pas? They refuse to admit the possibility that if you are white and rich you will never think – hear me – think, reason, not just feel, but think like a person who is black and poor. They want you to keep looking at the situation from all sides, as they say. That’s so you say, ’On the one hand this; on the other, that.’ That’s so you do nothing. Then, after a pause to fortify his point, he concluded: ’If you accept to play the game by the rules set up by those who own or control the board, you will always loose.”

Ur Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century av John Gerassi