So many Republican male lawmakers have been accused of physical and sexual violence against women that the report about this guy, who harassed his employees with unsolicited gifts, inappropriate comments, and demands for dinners, seems almost quaint. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

House Ethics Panel Finds Rep. Chuck Edwards Likely Violated Sexual Harassment Rules

The Ethics Committee called for the censure of Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, who showered two female staffers with lavish gifts and affection.

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Many are saying this

Red Lentil Soup Weather@aussophia.bsky.social · yesterday

Moira Donegan is a national fucking treasure

I actually think that the confusion over this question—the mistaken idea that perverts and preachers have opposing projects—is responsible for a lot of the stagnated and remedial quality of sexual politics discourses.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · yesterday

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

yes they think you should have no right to say no, no right to control your own body, AND that you should be mocked and degraded and treated like a subhuman for *being* the kind of natural inferior who doesn't have control over their own body

the point is that women and other people with uteruses are objects for sex and reproduction AND that it's men's right to humiliate and ridicule them for occupying that required role. it is, to them, an inherently degraded & degrading role. also they don't see children as people but as property.

One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

Like wasps and hornets, the Tiresome Literature Boy may be irritating on a one-on-one level, but they are crucial parts of the ecosystem.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

they were very annoying and were also already a species in decline by my college years - but I mean, I never thought the Tiresome Literature Boy would ever really go *extinct*, and now we’re facing a truly catastrophic population decline.

Called it www.patreon.com/posts/162364...

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Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 2d ago

In case there was any lingering doubt about the politics of the Vanderbilt report, I want to note that Linda McMahon referenced the report, even calling it "courageous," in her recent letter telling universities to shape up. So that's who those scholars are in bed with. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

Make Chris Fleming a romantic lead, you cowards.

At this point there have been more scolding essays by sex radicals about the evils of lesbian separatism than there ever were lesbian separatists.

This feels like the kind of thing people are going to yell at me for. Please consider not yelling at me.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6d ago

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 6d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

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Familiar pattern: "In Missouri, Georgia, Ohio and now Nebraska, Republican men running for high office face significant allegations of domestic violence, stalking, even sexual assault — accusations that once would have derailed any run for office." --NYT 2022

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 7d ago

some classic Traditional Patriarchal Values right here. also with Moreno's refusal to call it out, because the whole thing is largely conspiracy to enable the abuse of women, even your own daughter www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public

Sometimes you have to confront that your suffering is of your own making, and for me that means accepting that it was my own actions and choices that led me to a place where I have to read JD Vance’s book for work.

You’re right wing! Hope this helps. 💘

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

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"there's an industry of fabricated sexual assault claims" is 100% indistinguishable from gay frogs 5g activating the vaccine chips shit

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist

A growing tendency to equate feminism with Zionism in this quarter.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist

Tried to make a joke on Twitter

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

On the one hand I literacy is in decline, our collective capacity for attention & critical thought has been grievously eroded, and all of us are getting stupider, easier to exploit, and less alert to beauty. On the other hand, pop culture is currently dominated by a war of competing classicists.

"Trump positions himself as a vindication of masculine prerogatives," says @moiradonegan.bsky.social. He tells men not to "cultivate virtues" but to "embrace their own vices." On the pod, this look at Trump, the Tate brothers, and the plight of young men is so good: newrepublic.com/article/2136...

newrepublic.com/article/2135... Great stuff from @moiradonegan.bsky.social. I especially love her characterization of Trump's masculinity (and Tate's): it's "a kind of masculinity that reveals its own inadequacy by victimizing others." Very well said.

Trumpworld Shivs Hypermasculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks Up

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Great point from @moiradonegan.bsky.social on the pod: Trump's gains with young men are vanishing as they realize Trump/Tate brothers faux masculinity isn't helping them: "They’re not being elevated in their own status." Donegan is just brilliant here all throughout: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Trumpworld Shivs Hyper-Masculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks Up

As MAGA splits over the legal travails of influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the writer of a piece on the Tates explains why MAGA’s vision of masculinity is imploding—and what it means for our polit...

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