Uh, sweetie, there is no such thing as patriarchy. Men are not watching you, aunt Lydia is. The police of women is and always has been women. Men are too mysogenic to bother.
BTW, patriarchy and mysogenic were autocorrected to pastries and mystified, so that's pretty funny.
One thing that became clear to me when I became a dad to a daughter is that, yeah, boys are pretty stupid. Not just by their own natural talents, but society actually tolerates and enables it.
"...Misogyny — along with racism and antisemitism — is the greatest security issue that the American people face today, because the people entrusted with maintaining our information ecosystem are presenting skewed versions of the world to the rest of us, because they are not examining their own biases and the cultures that produce them."
As a practitioner of INFOSEC in my shoot gig, let me say "LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!"
I saw a headline in the washington post…Trump seems to have mislead gold star families about the number of deaths in Afghanistan during his administration” then the analysis (facts) show that many died in Afghanistan while he was in office. Wtf? Seems to have misled….i reiterate WTF
As an ancient, whose mother was Sister Mary Misogynist, I'd like to say that the worst fcking misogyny, which happens to conceive, incubate, welp, and finish ALL misogyny comes from women. A lot of those gals will be voting for PO1135809 and JealousDude Vance. Both my sisters will, Haley will, 80% of Texas women will and all will swear it's "the issues." It's not.
All of the issues bought up in this essay are right but there is just something about Trump that adds a special derp factor to every beltway journalist. If Jesus himself ran for office he wouldn't get as many chances are as much leeway as Trump.
I was interning at a local TV station when I walked across the set to give the male anchor a script he'd requested. He thanked me, and then I heard a voice behind me saying to the anchor "You fucking her?"
The anchor looked shocked, I turned around and there was our news director, the shit. I ignored him, walked past him, and went back to work. I got a million of 'em.
Early in 2016 I started noticing women killing themselves. Each report came as an isolated story but patterns coalesced: they were middle-aged, self-supporting, "successful" and lived alone, often in beautiful places like southwestern Colorado, which particularly struck me since I'd been there once and wanted to return.
It did not seem like coincidence that this was happening at the same time Donald Trump captured the imagination of so many, including those in the media, with his Rosie O'Donnell attacks in that infamous debate. It was implicitly open season on imperfect aging women, and we felt it.
I pursued this into the world of true crime TV, where I found a barrage of messages about women aimed squarely at us. In the prestige world of Dateline, 2016 culminated with one resounding one: You are guilty, and you deserve what you get.
We have been struggling to free ourselves ever since.
Boomer here - and you are right one the money. Hearing Kamala say "I'm talking" thrilled me to my toes. Two words, that most of my generation of women NEVER SAID. We plowed the first few rows, but many of us got worn out fighting the fight. Keep taking to them.
“becoming convinced that a big chunk of the world’s population is inferior and untrustworthy”
Yeah, about that. Where the problem arises is a big chunk of the world’s population - or at least America’s population - IS inferior and untrustworthy. Fortunately for the rest of us, they’ve taken to wearing these red hats that make them fairly easy to identify.
And stupidity fuels their misogyny!
That is because misogynist’s world revolves around their penis.
That is not supposed to be the organ used for thinking.
Uh, sweetie, there is no such thing as patriarchy. Men are not watching you, aunt Lydia is. The police of women is and always has been women. Men are too mysogenic to bother.
BTW, patriarchy and mysogenic were autocorrected to pastries and mystified, so that's pretty funny.
Should be misogynistic. Mysogenic sounded like a word, lol.
One thing that became clear to me when I became a dad to a daughter is that, yeah, boys are pretty stupid. Not just by their own natural talents, but society actually tolerates and enables it.
Stupidity plus testicles makes you misogynistic.
Thank you so much for this piece, Ms Binkowski. Every single word of it.
Wow.
You write goodly, and
Honestly.
Thanks for reminding me about the unrelenting BS we have endured.
As a 70 year old white Midwest male, it's not easy being green.
And, I collect screenshots of
PLAID !
I might be Scottish.
"...Misogyny — along with racism and antisemitism — is the greatest security issue that the American people face today, because the people entrusted with maintaining our information ecosystem are presenting skewed versions of the world to the rest of us, because they are not examining their own biases and the cultures that produce them."
As a practitioner of INFOSEC in my shoot gig, let me say "LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!"
I saw a headline in the washington post…Trump seems to have mislead gold star families about the number of deaths in Afghanistan during his administration” then the analysis (facts) show that many died in Afghanistan while he was in office. Wtf? Seems to have misled….i reiterate WTF
He seems to be, maybe, a fascist too
As an ancient, whose mother was Sister Mary Misogynist, I'd like to say that the worst fcking misogyny, which happens to conceive, incubate, welp, and finish ALL misogyny comes from women. A lot of those gals will be voting for PO1135809 and JealousDude Vance. Both my sisters will, Haley will, 80% of Texas women will and all will swear it's "the issues." It's not.
I cannot really agree as long as Vance, trumpy, et. al., exist. They set a high bar for misogyny.
But, but but....they're all good yt Christians....
Sad…
All of the issues bought up in this essay are right but there is just something about Trump that adds a special derp factor to every beltway journalist. If Jesus himself ran for office he wouldn't get as many chances are as much leeway as Trump.
Since he's a liberal, he'd get no leeway. They criticize Harris for laughing.
A true Jim jones cult
I was interning at a local TV station when I walked across the set to give the male anchor a script he'd requested. He thanked me, and then I heard a voice behind me saying to the anchor "You fucking her?"
The anchor looked shocked, I turned around and there was our news director, the shit. I ignored him, walked past him, and went back to work. I got a million of 'em.
Early in 2016 I started noticing women killing themselves. Each report came as an isolated story but patterns coalesced: they were middle-aged, self-supporting, "successful" and lived alone, often in beautiful places like southwestern Colorado, which particularly struck me since I'd been there once and wanted to return.
It did not seem like coincidence that this was happening at the same time Donald Trump captured the imagination of so many, including those in the media, with his Rosie O'Donnell attacks in that infamous debate. It was implicitly open season on imperfect aging women, and we felt it.
I pursued this into the world of true crime TV, where I found a barrage of messages about women aimed squarely at us. In the prestige world of Dateline, 2016 culminated with one resounding one: You are guilty, and you deserve what you get.
We have been struggling to free ourselves ever since.
Good men might, but it's trumpy who's running for President.
Boomer here - and you are right one the money. Hearing Kamala say "I'm talking" thrilled me to my toes. Two words, that most of my generation of women NEVER SAID. We plowed the first few rows, but many of us got worn out fighting the fight. Keep taking to them.
“becoming convinced that a big chunk of the world’s population is inferior and untrustworthy”
Yeah, about that. Where the problem arises is a big chunk of the world’s population - or at least America’s population - IS inferior and untrustworthy. Fortunately for the rest of us, they’ve taken to wearing these red hats that make them fairly easy to identify.
This might be of interest to you. Your article is linked over on Fark.com
Whoa, fark.com still exists?
Doing quite well. I've been a subscriber for a few years now. Like Wonkette, I enjoy their attitude.