“I haven’t heard a single suggestion from you, lady,” someone countered.
“Oh, we’ve made suggestions, they just haven’t been listened to.” She moved to the front of the room and turned to face the crowd. “All I’ve heard is a lot of mansplaining about power grids and wagon trains and killing and war! It’s the thinking itself that is flawed. How do you think we got into this mess in the first place? Do any of you actually think this is a natural phenomenon?”
“It was the military! Project HAARP, at the North Pole. They’ve talked about it on Coast to Coast AM for years ...”
“It was the Hadron Collider ...”
“Of course it was the military,” said Blue. “Isn’t that more believable than aliens from Alpha Centauri?”
“The military’s always been one big Sausage Fest,” said one of her supporters.
