Thread by @MichaelGLFlood

The Poison of Male Incivility: The degradation and dismissal of women — as disgusting, crazy, infantile, incompetent, irrational, and stupid — has been key to the building and maintenance of disproportionately male power in American political, economic, social, & sexual life 1/4

Powerful men’s “reduction of their would-be female peers — their ideological and electoral adversaries and competitors for power — has helped clear away potential impediment to their own professional trajectories.” 2/4

But this white male opportunism, whether in the form of aggressive insults or simple acceptance of systemic advantages that broad systemic disrespect of others affords them, is rarely examined as the kind of active force that it has always been. 3/4

Men’s use of the (male) ‘gender card’, and their abuses of power, are taken for granted and go unexamined. While women’s reasonable reactions to men’s abuses are painted as disruptive.
thecut.com/2020/07/aoc-sp… 4/4