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.
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.
What I’m RTing
I adapted it. pic.twitter.com/iYhARRkT6h
— dennis calero (@DennisCalero) October 5, 2017
wow, little boys, you can be anything when you grow up! sexual predator businessman, sexual predator president, stay-at-home sexual predator
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) October 5, 2017
Some smoking guns on how Bannon built Breitbart to be a conduit for white nationalism. https://t.co/0KT4uROhKM
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) October 5, 2017
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
— (((OhNoSheTwitnt))) (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 6, 2017
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).
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.
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.
How I’m making it through this week
Therapy, cocktails with friends, and this pup.
