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| Can Trump spare us his 'outrage' on sexual harassment? | Can Trump spare us his 'outrage' on sexual harassment? |
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| As if it weren’t enough that every day is bringing a new allegation of harassment or assault against a powerful man, the most powerful serial harasser in the country decided to weigh in over Twitter. This is a man who has been accused of sexual assault, harassment, groping, overt misogyny and more dozens of times over. | As if it weren’t enough that every day is bringing a new allegation of harassment or assault against a powerful man, the most powerful serial harasser in the country decided to weigh in over Twitter. This is a man who has been accused of sexual assault, harassment, groping, overt misogyny and more dozens of times over. |
| A man who has called his daughter a “piece of ass,” who walked into the dressing rooms of teenagers and who said he found Paris Hilton attractive when she was 12 years old. How dare he, truly. | A man who has called his daughter a “piece of ass,” who walked into the dressing rooms of teenagers and who said he found Paris Hilton attractive when she was 12 years old. How dare he, truly. |
| The women I speak to feel in a constant state of trauma right now - while the outing of sexual abusers is cathartic it’s also incredibly draining. Especially when you start to see the names of men you admire/d. | The women I speak to feel in a constant state of trauma right now - while the outing of sexual abusers is cathartic it’s also incredibly draining. Especially when you start to see the names of men you admire/d. |
| Trump has never done a good thing for women and I don’t believe he’ll start now, but I’m holding out a bit of hope that his staff will find a way to rein him in to do American women a favor and just shut up. | |
| Glass Half Full | Glass Half Full |
| A dog who crashed a wedding in Brazil got a new home and is someone cutting onions in here? | A dog who crashed a wedding in Brazil got a new home and is someone cutting onions in here? |
| What I’m RTing | What I’m RTing |
| Pastor Mark Burns: Today it's Judge Moore. Tomorrow it could be you..@SRuhle: It can't be me tomorrow because when I was in my 30s, I didn't get banned from a mall. I wasn't calling girls out of class [or] dating girls under 18 so no, it is not possible for it to ever be me. pic.twitter.com/OQLZ975ESI | Pastor Mark Burns: Today it's Judge Moore. Tomorrow it could be you..@SRuhle: It can't be me tomorrow because when I was in my 30s, I didn't get banned from a mall. I wasn't calling girls out of class [or] dating girls under 18 so no, it is not possible for it to ever be me. pic.twitter.com/OQLZ975ESI |
| my current favorite victim-blaming tactic is "she's accused other guys in the past." like women get a lifetime limit of talking about one (1) assault ever and we have to keep the rest of them quiet if we want people to believe us | my current favorite victim-blaming tactic is "she's accused other guys in the past." like women get a lifetime limit of talking about one (1) assault ever and we have to keep the rest of them quiet if we want people to believe us |
| Look Spanx, can we not do this, please pic.twitter.com/w50vRd2bsM | Look Spanx, can we not do this, please pic.twitter.com/w50vRd2bsM |
| Rep. Jackie Speier added that one Republican & one Democrat currently serving in the House are known serial sexual harassers https://t.co/iFtLx7g8J6 | Rep. Jackie Speier added that one Republican & one Democrat currently serving in the House are known serial sexual harassers https://t.co/iFtLx7g8J6 |
| Who I’m reading | Who I’m reading |
| Drew Magary on “why comedy men are so awful”; Lili Loofbourow on the myth of the male bumbler; and Katherine Goldstein on how the media can start to fix its sexual harassment problem. | Drew Magary on “why comedy men are so awful”; Lili Loofbourow on the myth of the male bumbler; and Katherine Goldstein on how the media can start to fix its sexual harassment problem. |
| What I’m writing | What I’m writing |
| I can’t believe I have to explain why a 14-year-old girl is not a grown up, but here we are. | I can’t believe I have to explain why a 14-year-old girl is not a grown up, but here we are. |
| How outraged I am | How outraged I am |
| I thought I was handling the week’s outrages pretty well, but then Trump tweeted about sexual harassment and all was lost. If you need me, I’ll be screaming into the void. | I thought I was handling the week’s outrages pretty well, but then Trump tweeted about sexual harassment and all was lost. If you need me, I’ll be screaming into the void. |
| How I’m making it through this week | How I’m making it through this week |
| This thread on The Cheesecake Factory (seriously) will delight and distract - exactly what we all need right now. | This thread on The Cheesecake Factory (seriously) will delight and distract - exactly what we all need right now. |
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