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2 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I am so glad women are speaking out - not just about workplace sexual harassment, but the everyday gross behavior men subject us to nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyr…
I wrote this about Biden in 2019, but clearly the point applies here too
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I feel certain that this latest story will invite all sorts of "oh I can't even *hug* women now???" reactions and the answer is: No, you can't.

Stop fucking touching us.
You'd be shocked at how often women are randomly handled by men we don't know

If these dudes went around touching men with the abandon they do women they'd get knocked the fuck out

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1 Mar
I also had multiple unpaid internships, double majored and worked 20 hours a week. When I went to grad school I finished a two year program in one year to save money - and did it, once again, while working.

It was fucking awful and I hope no one ever has to do the same. Image
None of this made me smarter, more grateful or more hard-working than anyone else. It just made life harder.

Success isn't being the most tired and broke at the end of the day.
Someone asked me a question about parenting today at my newsletter and I answered something similar: people want you to believe that you're only a good mom if you're suffering.

It's a bullshit mindset meant to keep you in your place
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17 Feb
“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream society.” - Rush Limbaugh
Without fail, the men retweeting this with "where's the lie" resemble gangrenous thumbs
What's sort of incredible about anti-feminism is that it never really progressed past "you're ugly & barren"

They've been saying the same tired shit for decades

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17 Feb
Most medically eligible folks I know who got the vaccine in NYC were only asked to sign a self-attestation, not show medical records.

This is absolutely the right move to ensure that the most marginalized communities get vaccinated.
Yes, people will skip the line & that sucks - but if you don't have access to regular medical care, you can't get records or a letter from your doctor.
The system already privileges those with access to the internet, enough time to hit refresh ten times an hour and the ability to travel far from home to get the vaccine - this is the least the state/city could do.
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8 Feb
Re: the latest 'cancel culture' kerfuffle at the NYT: If your concern is the chilling effect on people who want to say the n-word rather than the students who may be put off journalism entirely after hearing a top reporter use a slur... your priorities are very clear
This is what always happens when powerful white men are held to account - the empathy is centered on them rather than the many, many other people who were hurt by their actions
That's why during #MeToo, we kept hearing about men's "ruined lives" rather than the the dashed careers of the women who left jobs or industries because of harassment
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18 Dec 20
This is disgusting and *dangerous* and @netflix needs to answer for it humorism.xyz/p/netflix-goes…
Of course
It is baffling that this kind of racism - which we know leads to real life violence against Asian people - was approved by @netflix
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14 Dec 20
I dunno, I’d say men individually & systemically trying to erase and demean women’s achievements is a “real divide” to at least half the population
Women hear this kind of shit *every day* and it gets to the heart of who is allowed to wield power, and who gets condescending messages from rotting old men
Everyone knows this is not really about the honorific!

It’s about misogyny so embedded in institutions that a guy with a long-known history of sexism was elevated to a position where he could publish another guy with a long-known history of bigotry.
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