There is an entire book in how much of higher ed and more broadly society is shaped by the power of rapists

guillotine immediately for those dads

“(this is how men behave)”

uhhhh no it’s really not? what the fuck man, all these disgusting creeps insist on being like “we’re ALL like this right fellas?”

Going on four years as the head of staff for a woman legislator has made “me too didn’t even begin to start going far enough” one of my core political beliefs.

There's a problem with men.

There's a very serious problem with men, and we have to start saying so out loud even if it hurts their feelings.

A big problem in the industry is how many people conflate "Not a danger to me" with "Not a danger to anyone." And I keep seeing the terrible impact of that so maybe stop doing that.

being a woman having to deal with desirability politics feels like what Toni Morrison said about racism; that its chief function is distraction. makes my blood boil to think how much anxiety time I’ve had to put into just thinking about whether someone would listen to me based on how I look

i’d actually be so surprised if no one else had ever used that word for it before, so you might find something even more in depth around “currency” in that context! also def know people have written about misogyny as a bonding experience for men, might also be worth a google :)

“I’ll miss the country we never actually were” is a BAR

"Let he who is without documented association with a pedophilic human trafficker throw th- OW! OW OW OW!!!"

MeToo hurt Weinstein, Cosby, and no one else

the idea that it went “too far” and that “boys and men are afraid” because there was a single moment women and girls could talk about harassment and abuse with some limited societal support is so asinine I’ll never stop being mad about it

exactly. they’re too invested in maintaining the hierarchical scraps of patriarchy. especially when it’s about what gets them hard. what’s the quote- (cis) men are only leftists from the waist up? that. like hmmm weird…we’re constantly looking up to and reading only Great Leftist Men, hmmm

one time the gov owed me money and it felt so good to give most of it away and pay other people’s bills. it’s actually so easy to do something worthwhile 😩

Gendered violence forms a twisted social capital across all classes, too— with silence and complicity bargained back and forth in the same way, no matter the milieu.

YES, it’s a currency, it’s like the social glue holding them together interpersonally

One thing that's so striking about the documents is how clear it is that Epstein and his allies had a gendered class consciousness and felt solidarity with other abusive men up and down the class spectrum.

But then they'd have to reveal that their ostensibly progressive platform is just three white male grievances in a trenchoat.

i’m so allergic to men who insist absent capitalism misogyny will just magically disappear

like sure, gender might *also* function as consolation prizes for the average man to feel like he can terrorize his own little fiefdom in the absence of access to capital (so he doesn’t rebel against his billionaire master). but it’s so much bigger than that. it’s very much become its own aspiration