Alpha Mail: yeah, that's projection

Sarahsdaughter asks if women provide the same projection-based tell that men do when they go on the attack.  Her blog provides a precise example of the very behavior I was describing.  Consider the following attack on her by a woman named Kathy after she wrote about female submission in marriage:

That aside, I am so bothered by you and how you come across. You seem judgmental, critical, think you know it all, and use scripture as a weapon (to shut people up and be right). Those qualities are anything but Jesus like to me. I can have conversations with lots of people who see things differently than I do but with you, there is no conversation and no respect.

This is without question the sort of psychological projection I was describing.  In launching such an attack, Kathy is clearly confessing her own guilt and ascribing her own mindset to Sarahsdaughter.  It is not even possible to claim Sarahsdaughter was judging or criticizing anyone in what is nothing more than the contemplation of a concept and its definition.  In her post, there isn't even any specific target at which one could claim any hypothetical judgment or criticism is aimed.

Kathy, on the other hand, is observably doing both, and in doing so, indicates that she is guilty of the very acts she accuses Sarahsdaughter.