A friend recently suggested my cogent need to find some compelling narrative arc to my life is a coping method. .
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But "to be Kavanaughed" is particularly rich phrasing: it casts him as a victim, sure, which is what he and Lindsay Graham did in real time; but it also skitters past the fact that after being accused of violent assault, Kavanaugh not only lost nothing, he got a big fat promotion.
Go-to defensive frame for powerful person accused of abuse is that they are the one in fact being abused; the language of witch hunts & mob justice built around this conceit....
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2y agoI just heard Megyn Kelly pose the question "do you think you're being Kavanaugh'ed" to Pete Hegseth and it just feels like a good time to repeat that I believe Christine Blasey Ford, and I believe Anita Hill, and Megyn Kelly is a piece of actual shit.
“Hey Karen, you’ve been quiet lately!” Me: Yeah, just trying to figure out how to survive the next 4 to 15 years of aggressive, violent white supremacy, creeping surveillance, and digital enshittification… Thanks for your patience! ✨❤️
And when I say, first post of all time, I mean I hovered for years at the tiny dick’d/massive hubris’ guy’s place. I’m thrilled to recover some sense of humanity over here.
Let me even offer one practical place to start. In honor of the late Brian Thompson’s life, and in the hope that no leader ever meets such an awful fate again, let us immediately pass universal, publicly provided healthcare once and for all. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
It’s the conditions, stupid
Deplore violence. Then ask why it's happening
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Lord save me from another round of repetitive, faux-transgressive books asserting that the only way for women to gain any epistemic authority is through submissive BDSM practices.
I do not have any coping mechanisms for the next four years. I am all tapped out.