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Here's an excerpt about the kind of hate comments I get from women for writing about misogynistic smear campaigns and where it's coming from.
![Some of the women told me they are survivors and that they believe Lively is lying. “Jessica” wrote “It is such a joke that MeToo couldn’t get justice for the women assaulted by Trump or Diddy or actual horrifying male predators, but the NYT is ok with it being used to take down a nobody director like Baldoni even though he is innocent until being proven guilty. […] We have to believe all women before the trial even fucking starts?”
This commentary, to me, illustrates the crux of the issue these women have with my coverage. They blame the injustices women experience on other women. Their misogyny is internalized, and they externalize it by joining smear campaigns against women like Lively and journalists like me who see their misogyny for what it is. They choose not to see the irony in blaming victims for victim-blaming.
I first encountered this pattern of women victim-blaming other women when I covered Depp v. Heard. Even before I publicly said I believed Heard, back when I was still trying to make sense of the global pile-on, some of the women who had previously applauded my work denounced me just for pointing out that Heard had some evidence for her claims. As the trial went on and I identified more of the smears against Heard, I noticed that some of my most aggressive detractors were women and self-identified survivors. I believed they were abused, but it took me a while to understand why they were using their victimhood as a sword to cut down other victims.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qgz7jtmlddfn3dikhimzlqu5/bafkreifkndko2w6qic2lrjrfxvh2vjnyqzcp3qvbu3wtqv343ol2amb5cu@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Here's an excerpt about the kind of hate comments I get from women for writing about misogynistic smear campaigns and where it's coming from.
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In Florida, censorship efforts have scrubbed reports that detail the history of racist violence in the state, including alligator rhetoric and incarceration.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In Florida, censorship efforts have scrubbed reports that detail the history of racist violence in the state, including alligator rhetoric and incarceration.
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"I think that the population that they imagine housing in this detention, you know, we all look alike to them. These are brown people. I think the same impulse is very much at work,” Dr. Patricia Turner, who studied anti-Black folklore, told me. spitfirenews.com/p/alligator-...
AI alligators and rebranding Jim Crow
Fantasies of Florida alligators eating people of color are nothing new.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"I think that the population that they imagine housing in this detention, you know, we all look alike to them. These are brown people. I think the same impulse is very much at work,” Dr. Patricia Turner, who studied anti-Black folklore, told me. spitfirenews.com/p/alligator-...