To me it's also the failure to extrapolate how colonized peoples would naturally respond to their colonizers. And literally voting against the geopolitical version of demanding that an intruder leave the house just today.

Yep, Sunrise Movement contacted over 300,000 young voters in key states and they've been warning that they keep bringing up the same issues before they commit to volunteering: an arms embargo and an actual climate plan.

And young Black voters:

Harris also has softer support from younger Black voters overall, according to both the NAACP poll and a recent survey from Pew Research Center — a demographic that has also been active in Pro-Palestininan protests in the last year.

archive.ph/o4nyt#select...

Harris is also underperforming with young voters:

"Harris' 15-point lead among young voters in pre-debate polling tracked by The Cook Political Report — if it pans out — would be the worst showing by a Democrat since John Kerry lost in 2004."

www.axios.com/2024/09/13/t...

Though of course your larger point stands, that it's women engaging in the *act of laughing itself* that seems to derange Trump & co. regardless of whether or not they're the target.

It's from an essay called Writing the Male Character collected in Second Words: www.google.com/books/editio...

Full context of the Atwood quote

Amanda's mistaken; Atwood did say it, in the form of an anecdote in her book Second Words. It's referenced in an episode of The Handmaid's Tale on which she served as consulting producer and would presumably have corrected the record if falsely attributed. The paraphrase is essentially correct.

For years I used to read misled as "mizzled". Somehow it just seemed to make sense.

My impression was that it was directly cited as an example of misuse and not long-established semantic drift, but understood.

I don't think so, as I'm using it as an example (case) of semantic drift (point) of a term that remains popular and useful. The example just happens to be ironic (another term that has experienced semantic drift but remains popular and useful) given the context.

Case in point: literally's literally been used to mean
figuratively for centuries, by everybody from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte. It's not a misuse.