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| The week in patriarchy: there's no denying our country's sickness now | The week in patriarchy: there's no denying our country's sickness now |
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| A year after the Trump Access Hollywood tape, allegations of sexual harassment emerge – finally – against a leading film producer | |
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| One year ago, the Access Hollywood tape of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women was released – and we thought it was over. Surely, SURELY, the conservative right wouldn’t stand behind a man who talked about grabbing women “by the pussy”. Surely the country wouldn’t elect such a man. How naive we all were! | One year ago, the Access Hollywood tape of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women was released – and we thought it was over. Surely, SURELY, the conservative right wouldn’t stand behind a man who talked about grabbing women “by the pussy”. Surely the country wouldn’t elect such a man. How naive we all were! |
| It makes sense that one year later, the most outwardly misogynist president in history is trying to roll back protections for women’s birth control, and a story about a notorious sexual abuser has come to light. Everything is awful, and everything is out there. Maybe I should take some solace in the idea that we can’t hide behind the notion that sexism no longer exists – there’s no denying our country’s sickness now. But for the moment, I’m just a bit sad for us all. | It makes sense that one year later, the most outwardly misogynist president in history is trying to roll back protections for women’s birth control, and a story about a notorious sexual abuser has come to light. Everything is awful, and everything is out there. Maybe I should take some solace in the idea that we can’t hide behind the notion that sexism no longer exists – there’s no denying our country’s sickness now. But for the moment, I’m just a bit sad for us all. |
| Glass half full | Glass half full |
| It sucks that there are so many supposedly lefty men playing footsy with the alt-right and throwing women under the bus, but at least we know who some of them are now. | It sucks that there are so many supposedly lefty men playing footsy with the alt-right and throwing women under the bus, but at least we know who some of them are now. |
| What I’m RTing | What I’m RTing |
| I adapted it. pic.twitter.com/iYhARRkT6h | I adapted it. pic.twitter.com/iYhARRkT6h |
| wow, little boys, you can be anything when you grow up! sexual predator businessman, sexual predator president, stay-at-home sexual predator | wow, little boys, you can be anything when you grow up! sexual predator businessman, sexual predator president, stay-at-home sexual predator |
| Some smoking guns on how Bannon built Breitbart to be a conduit for white nationalism. https://t.co/0KT4uROhKM | Some smoking guns on how Bannon built Breitbart to be a conduit for white nationalism. https://t.co/0KT4uROhKM |
| This is where toxic masculinity comes from. The shaming of men for showing emotion or empathy by calling them women, as if that's an insult. https://t.co/GnKOM8l4YE | This is where toxic masculinity comes from. The shaming of men for showing emotion or empathy by calling them women, as if that's an insult. https://t.co/GnKOM8l4YE |
| Who I’m reading | Who I’m reading |
| The explosive and long-coming New York Times piece about Harvey Weinstein and his decades of harassment; Rebecca Traister on the time Weinstein called her a ‘cunt’ and why it’s taken so long for these stories to come out; and Buzzfeed on a young woman who takes selfies with her catcallers (and their gross, entitled reactions). | The explosive and long-coming New York Times piece about Harvey Weinstein and his decades of harassment; Rebecca Traister on the time Weinstein called her a ‘cunt’ and why it’s taken so long for these stories to come out; and Buzzfeed on a young woman who takes selfies with her catcallers (and their gross, entitled reactions). |
| What I’m writing | What I’m writing |
| An argument for over-the-counter access to the abortion pill, and the GOP’s latest – horrifically cruel – move to outlaw abortion. | An argument for over-the-counter access to the abortion pill, and the GOP’s latest – horrifically cruel – move to outlaw abortion. |
| How outraged I am | How outraged I am |
| The news that the Trump administration is making moves to undo the birth control mandate had me at an eight out of ten, but then I saw that one of the reasons was the idea that birth control could “promote risky sexual behavior” and I lost it entirely. | The news that the Trump administration is making moves to undo the birth control mandate had me at an eight out of ten, but then I saw that one of the reasons was the idea that birth control could “promote risky sexual behavior” and I lost it entirely. |
| How I’m making it through this week | How I’m making it through this week |
| Therapy, cocktails with friends, and this pup. | Therapy, cocktails with friends, and this pup. |
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