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1983 in a nutshell: imdb.com/title/tt053511….

The phrase "date rape" was new & divisive. It's not that guys didn't know it was wrong or that girls saw it as normal. But it was def viewed in a different light & the teen movies of the 80s document that fact to a disturbing degree.
(Although now I'm confused: it seems like that episode actually ran in 1988, which makes more sense... nytimes.com/1988/01/05/art….)
Okay, figured it out. According to Wiki, the original "Date Rape" episode ran Feb 21, 1983. The one O'Connor was writing about came later, in January, 1988, and it focused on Cagney herself getting assaulted. So they did two stories: an abstract debate and a personal one.
For anyone interested in Cagney & Lacey, definitely check out Joy Press' Stealing The Show, which details the rough ride that series got at CBS for its overt feminism.
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She’s talking about how excruciating the experience of MeToo was last fall—& how painful rage can be as well as liberating.

Then doing a hilarious riff about how interviewees wd say “I was angry, but now I’ve turned that into action!” and then 10 minutes later they’d be raging.
Correction: largest in human history.
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This is the end of a good thread on gun control, but it’s also an important point in itself. I was just thinking how amazing it is that women are so non-violent toward men as a group... Women certainly have motive. But it doesn’t happen. We turn the anger on ourselves instead.
And it’s not bc women are saints or non-violent, though we are certainly less violent... I mean, plenty of women are violent to children. But it’s notable that there’s simply no tradition at all of abstract misandrist shootings etc, while misogynist ones litter the landscape.
One side effect of this is that misogynist violence, and the maleness of mass killings, is made invisible, normal, not worth comment, just part of the landscape. Instead of saying “these shooters are all men,” people find other differences to distinguish them.
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With most men, Trump role-plays as a bro or a boss. With Putin, he’s a needy wingman, letting P run the show. He’s SCARED of him... But maybe the weirder aspect of his behavior is that it’s consistent, in clear contrast with the abusive mood-swings he directs at everyone else.
He never loses control with Putin, doesn’t call him names or go hot and cold. Even when the guy humiliates him, he never wavers. Putin so obviously has something on him, whether it’s money or the pee tape.
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1) #Branding will be their downfall.

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So, I was raped when I was about four. It never occurred to me to say anything until I was about eleven.
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