🧵 The rules of misogyny, all available here. This piece was written in 2019. I checked the rules and they still hold up, whether they're being enforced by the political right or the left. 1/18 4w.pub/the-rules-of-m…
1. Women are responsible for what men do. 2/18
2. Women saying no to men is a hate crime. 3/18
3. Women speaking for themselves are exclusionary and selfish. 4/18
4. Women’s opinions are violence against men, thus male violence against women is justified. 5/18
5. Women and Feminism must be useful to men or they are worthless. 6/18
6. Women who go around being female AT men by menstruating and breastfeeding babies deserve punishment. 7/18
7. Women should always be grateful to men for everything. 8/18
8. Men are whatever men say they are and women are whatever men say they are. 9/18
9. Men always know the “real reasons” for everything women do and say. 10/18
10. The worst thing about male violence is that it makes men look bad. 11/18
11. Whatever women suffer from, it is worse when it happens to men. 12/18
12. Women’s ability to recognize male behavior patterns is misandry. 13/18
13. Angry women are crazy. Angry men have trouble expressing themselves. 14/18
14. Women have all the rights they need: The right to remain silent. 15/18
15. Men are the default human. Women are strange subhuman others. 16/18
16. Everyone owns and controls women’s bodies except the women themselves. 17/18
17. Men are better at performing femininity than women are because they invented it and it gives them a boner. 18/18
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"Kara, I'm not certain this is the best way to contact you and I apologize for using your professional site. However, I just wanted to let you know that I am available as a resource for you and your organization... 2/12
I am a board certified pediatrician in the US. I have been in practice since [YEAR], and sadly, am going to take a few years off of clinical medicine... 3/12
Yesterday morning I submitted the following Letter to the Editor to the @dailypenn. More than 24 hours later, I have gotten nothing by way of response. Nothing. #PennCheats. 1/12
"Dear Editor, I am a 1999 alumni of UPenn Law [@pennlaw], feminist, and life-long liberal, and I am appalled by the piece “16 Penn Law Organizations Statement in support of Lia Thomas” (Jan. 25, 2022)... 2/12 thedp.com/article/2022/0…
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Madame Speaker, I have the following in my email messages today. I'm sharing it, word for word, anonymously. 1/4 @SpeakerPelosi
"I just watched your Tucker Carlson interview and was in tears. How have we allowed this abuse to our children? My friend's daughter has removed her breasts and I never understood until you explained it... 2/4 @SpeakerPelosi
Well you need to call out Pelosi 'I’m running for the children.' Make her eat those words or vote her out. This is evil and insane. Thank you for opening my eyes." 3/4 @SpeakerPelosi
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I am including here, anonymously and with permission, an email message that I received from one such woman this morning. 3/10
A woman wrote me the following in an email. I am putting it here, word for word, without using her name for privacy reasons. 1/15
"I have 15 and 12 y/o girls who are straight but are transgender “allies”, having been embroiled in gender-identity politics at school for years. It's taken time to realize the scope of how powerful this movement is... 2/15
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