I mean, you can dismiss each individual instance of this but those core ideas (male entitlement to women's bodies; violence as a natural reaction) are circulating far more comfortably that they were a week ago and it didn't take much of a discursive shift to make that happen.
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Presenting online networks of violent misogynists as a sudden occurrence is lazy journalism; treating this misogyny as a brand new unrecognisable phenomenon is wilfully ahistorical. Accepting the premise of the men's imagined grievance is actively dangerous.
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Another example of a journalist blithely accepting the core logics of a violently misogynist worldview, reifying people not having the sex they think they're entitled to as an extant problem to which society is obliged to provide a solution.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/992049727641354240 …
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Exciting new topic of dinner party chat: "Of course, indiscriminate murder is beyond the pale, but what do you propose is done about lack of access to sex? You can't just ignore the problem."
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