sullivan spends paragraph after paragraph listing specific sexually violent and potentially traumatizing behavior and then dismissing them. it's fucking abhorrent.
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all these people are doing is issuing credibility to the people who are willing to fight for the same points in more vile terms on Fox News, in Breitbart, and in the Federalist
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"hmm, maybe trying to stop causing so much more fucking harm to sexual assault victims is going too far" doesn't make you some kind of middle of the road clear-thinker. it makes you, at best, another asshole hoping he can help keep his rapist friend's shit swept under the rug
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the correct response to shit like this is pretty much always just "so, is this one a predator himself, or is he covering for someone else?"
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don't air your fucking dismissive bullshit in the national press if you don't want everyone to know that no one can trust you personally
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anyway i hope all of these people drown. good night
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fuck you too margarethttps://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/952294725247172608 …
Andrew Sullivan: It’s Time to Resist the Excesses of#MeToo
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/andrew-sullivan-time-to-resist-excesses-of-metoo.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-t … via @intelligencerShow this thread -
I wrote about Aziz Ansari and why the story about him is so bad for the
#MeToo movement. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/opinion/aziz-ansari-babe-sexual-harassment.html …Show this thread -
tfw you've got it almost figured out but decide to be a quisling shithead insteadpic.twitter.com/yTCyuSBctl
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my favorite part is the phrase "beat by cringe-inducing beat", because this extremely common way that people recount trauma isn't fun enough for her to read
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this piece does that too, sonny, please go fuck yourselfhttps://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/953010063211409409 …
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shout out to every thinkpiece writer who got mad about the insignificant details for basically standing on a soapbox to say that no one has ever trusted them enough to tell them about something traumatic that happened to thempic.twitter.com/VkvDa6WmyG
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also
@CaitlinPacific is welcome to a shit sandwich for this essay, which mostly was dedicated to talking about how old and out of touch she ishttps://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/952903409979584512 …
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writing shitty thinkpieces about how
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thanks for adding to the support of rape and rapists, Boomer op-ed writers, but you can go back to standing with your cart in the middle of a grocery aisle and yelling into your cell phone
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