alexandra borland

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The Alt-Right Pipeline for Women

Watch my and @ophiedokie.bsky.social's deep dive into the Misogyny Slop Ecosystem!!

Why aren’t these men locked up for good. I’m sooooo exhausted that they are back on my timeline.

One day, if we ever get out of this, it’s going to seem very conspicuous that in the years after Dobbs the media and elites were preoccupied with pronatalism, male loneliness, and prolonged digressions about feminists’ various evils and personal failures.

It’s heartbreak and nauseating and anger making.

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

It’s deeply sick how women in particular are part of the charge to undo any and all gains made during the MeToo movement, which were already so small compared to the scale of injustice. Now women are playing into the idea that it was all a lie, to the tune of temporary profit and endless peril

Ughhhhhhh

Boycotting everything today.

Very depressed by how rapidly antifeminism is ascending, both in the halls of political power and as a tenet of the cultural elite.

Justifying victim blaming in cases where victims have been immoral, unethical, and harmful just creates the fallacy that abuse can be denied if you just dig up or make up bad things the victim has done. We see this play out every day

A carton of a dozen eggs

This Valentine’s Day, treat her to something rare and valuable

Just your regular reminder that Johnny Depp’s lawyer who was kicked off the 2022 trial because he breached a protective order to leak manipulated evidence to tabloids and YouTubers also had ties to Russian oligarchs and Putin’s inner circle

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

Reporting on sexual violence for years has at least acclimated me to the reality that laws don’t get enforced unless the crimes threaten the status quo protecting the powerful

One great thing about Bluesky is it has yet to be corrupted by mainstream social media culture of viral videos making fun of women who are visibly reacting to being assaulted and/or abused and calling them crazy and warning men to stay away from women like them

A cross stitch image of a gravestone with the words "Audiobooks count as reading'

Regular reminder.

Audiobooks count as reading. A hill I would always die on 🤘

Need to get this cross stitch 🤣

#libraries #books #reading #audiobooks

Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc

Driving to the DCA to take a flight while there are people rescuing bodies is insanely sad and scary. 💔

I used to be quite ignorant as a young adult. But do you know what changed my mind each time? Art.

Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.

Iccck!!!!

Regrettably we have come to live in a nation of edgelords

My thoughts, especially today are with every transgender person and trans child - and the good parents who support them. You are seen. You are respected, you are loved.

Gochujang and butternut squash with fresh pasta! #pasta #cooking

😭💔

Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over.
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

The way men fan boy and literally foam at the mouth defending abusive men is such a crazy phenomenon.

Johnny Depp literally was found guilty for abuse multiple times lol you're so unaware. Such a silly little man.

Thats such a silly and rude thing to say, but totally unsurprising from clearly a heartbroken fan boy. Just because the law system is broken doesn't mean he isn't an horrible abusive man.