Jasmine Crockett is a Congresswoman, so she'll get it even worse. And she's Black, so she'll get it even worse than *that*.

I obviously can't speak for her, but I know I personally wouldn't care so much about my appearance in court if it wasn't dissected so much.

So I'm just wondering if all the people complaining about her getting her hair and nails done to appear IN LITERAL CONGRESS would be complaining about her appearance if she showed up like Fetterman.

I'm guessing yes.

this is an exaggerated version of something I've encountered a lot talking to other men about #MeToo stuff; they could imagine themselves as the accused man (and thus, in their heads, as the 'wrongly' accused man) but not as the victim of abuse.

one of the other things that class difference allows abusers to do is convince themselves that a) this would happen to the girls anyway, b) that they're actually doing them a favor, c) to be cheap as fuck about the whole thing and get off on that too.

And also rooted in the assumption that they could not simply be easily replaced by teach-by-contract adjuncts with no job security.

In enabling the two-tier academic caste system, tenure-line academics have destroyed their own bargaining power, a think predicted for decades now. And here we are.

amazing that bluesky's moderation makes metafilter's look bespoke and wise