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sex work should be legal so that the workers are afforded the same protections as everyone else, but those workers shouldn't be expected to be a panacea for the problem of violent men. expecting them to do so is just expecting them to be willing sacrifices

anyway expect every conversation about this to be about centering the desire of the violently entitled men and how we can restructure society so that their desires are taken care of

when you see columnists taking these toxic men's premises as true and arguing from that point, pay attention to the way they're attempting to steer the conversation

and when you see people arguing for ridiculous solutions about redistributing sex or whatever know that those people are going for those instead of the things that would actually fix the problem

they're choosing to go for modified "softer" versions of incel's mission statements instead of solutions like shutting down the places where these men gather and are radicalized online

they aren't trying to fix the problem of access to weapons, either; many of these men's acts of terrorism would have caused far less harm without access to guns

watch the way they avoid talking about those two things-- shutting down websites that these terrorists recruit and gather on and gun control-- when they are the two things that are actually likely to reduce harm from these men

and watch as the newspaper of record in particular is used to make the perspectives of these murderous misogynists more and more respectable, starting from what Douthat is doing now-- taking their claims that these murders came from a lack of sexual access as true.