Slate’s new piece claims to be about the #MeToo movement, but it’s also obviously fueled by rage over Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court — and if some of that rage spills over to other men you encounter, is that such a bad thing these days?
“Man-hating lesbian” is a classic insult. But in the #MeToo era, it’s time to reclaim it: https://t.co/ms4EPapDUx pic.twitter.com/hVOHbqOLLu
— Slate (@Slate) October 18, 2018
In the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, a dyke friend in her twenties posted that, real talk, she doesn’t like men. I hit the like button super fast, feeling secretive and sort of guilty about it. She’d come through the same radical queer and trans circles I came up in, and in that click, I felt relieved to acknowledge an obvious truth: Most men treat women like something less than human, whether accidentally or on purpose, and that means it’s hard to like them.
I’d recently been scanning the men coming into my workplace, wondering about their histories of sexual assault. Is he a rapist? What about him? Where does he fall on the creep scale? It was an old impulse that had returned in force as the nation debated just how many of their husbands, brothers, and sons were perpetrators, given that one in three American women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes.
"I’d recently been scanning the men coming into my workplace, wondering about their histories of sexual assault. Is he a rapist? What about him? … Frankly, men do not deserve this much mental sympathy, and the few who do already know it."
Charming. https://t.co/oHIMYNmJKy
— Will Saletan (@saletan) October 18, 2018
And that’s coming from Slate’s national correspondent.
It's very hard to take Slate seriously when they publish stuff like this. It's like a parody
— Rob Harbin (@RobHarbin8) October 18, 2018
"Most men treat women like something less than human, whether accidentally or on purpose, and that means it’s hard to like them."
Then she proceeds to detail how she treats men with suspicion and as if they're horrible animals who just want to attack her – i.e, less than human.
— Sabishii (@Alablast) October 19, 2018
That some of these women are raising sons devastates me.
— Angie (@ThatAngieL) October 18, 2018
Ah yes, it was that poisonous drip of cultural conditioning that compelled me to nurture my 3 boys above my own needs when they were at their most vulnerable in their infancy. It's not like millions upon millions of years of evolution are at play, or that I, ya know…wanted to
— Andrea Lynn (@theother_95) October 19, 2018
It scares me that some of these women are mothers. They’ll have their daughters convinced every man they meet is just waiting for an opportunity to assault them.
— Lisa ? (@LisaBelle_B) October 18, 2018
Progressive women are so much less likely to have children though. That’s why the #Left wants so badly to control education. For all the moderate/right kids to be influenced
— Conservative Chemist (@ConservativChem) October 18, 2018
Such a miserable human being, nothing is ever going to please her. She has her preconceived notions and hates all men. What an awful way to go through life…hating almost half the world, and virtually the entire white world.
— Kevin Doney (@doneykevin1) October 18, 2018
“Most men treat women like something less than human, whether accidentally or on purpose, and that means it’s hard to like them.”
You would literally cry every day, if we treated women half as much as we do other men.
Women really don’t understand how easy they have it— Michael? (@mickeysixx6) October 19, 2018
Michael, have you seen how some women treat other women? So much meaner than most men.
— TLou (@We3Loux) October 19, 2018
And people wonder why feminism is a dwindling movement, when hot takes like that come from feminists.
Such people must be constantly miserable and paranoid.
— Your lady-bits are patriarchy, & I wanna smash it (@MEMESofVIOLENCE) October 18, 2018
Here is something I've learned: If you can switch the subject to "Black people" and it sounds racist. Congrats, your not the good guy. Gender profiling is just as bad as racial profiling.
— Zephyrnix (@Zephyrnix) October 18, 2018
Hate, in whatever form you find it, is still hate.
— Grate Scott (@escott2b) October 18, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 16, 2018
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