Misandromeda

THANK YOU. wow, you’re so subversive, sexualizing and cosplaying the aesthetics of gendered violence, aggressively sexually reinforcing the status quo. so edgy!

It’s like how Zuck started Facebook really with women being unknowingly compared and commented on.

You know, it just makes sense.

It's like Boy Scout leaders, the clergy, school resource officers, teachers, etc.

I cannot begin to fathom the amount of voyeurism, the possibilities for grooming, or the potential for more victims that are tangentially connected.

Hang them all.

right it 100% is

but genuinely i think even if i weren’t that kind of survivor (or any survivor) i’d probably still feel that way bc it just lays bare how none of these so called systems work, i mean we knew that already right. but it’s still something to see in broad daylight at such scale every time

literally me. i want them[redacted], [redacted] and [redacted]. being a CSA (or any kind tbh) survivor has been so rough.

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.

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

I was literally just talking at length yesterday about how I don’t think about my gender much until I run into a wall, usually via a cis dude locked into rigid scripts.

It doesn’t even have to be violent, sexual, or extreme — it can be banal & “harmless” exclusion of women from camaraderie & trust.

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.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

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