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Sorry to be a broken record about this, but #gender based #censorship makes NO SENSE (except "because #patriarchy"). It doesn't happen often, but what keeps me going in my seemingly-fruitless endeavor to raise awareness about and hopefully change the bs status quo of "female - looking nipples" getting banned online and in public as "sexually explicit nudity" but not "male-looking nipples" is when someone comments to me "you know, I never really thought about topless inequality before, but now that you've pointed it out, you're right--it IS sexist and doesn't make sense!"
#maleprivilege
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"Our freak of the week is incel-fluffing testosterone-poisoned Andrew Tate. Andrew is our freak of the week because thanks apparently to the Trump administration, yesterday at dawn, a private jet whisked him out of Romania where he was facing rape and human trafficking charges and into our own beautiful state of Florida."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
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https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-andrew-tate
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"Straight white male is an identity too, and the right pushes a hateful, regressive version of those identity politics, though no one blames straight white male identity politics for Republican losses. It was never 'he made her do it.' Those identity politics are rendered invisible or treated as beyond question. But I'm here to question them."
#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
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"Behind these stories is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more – conservatives when they are imagined as straight, as white, as male, as rural, as salt of the earth, as the real Americans, unlike us ethnic/ immigrant/ urban/ non-male/ non-straight people."
#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
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"And in the same way the diverse population left of center is supposed to make nice to the right or be responsible for when the right goes wrong. These stories amount to 'the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet.'"
#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
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"It's also routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
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"In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people. It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
Meditations in an Emergency · The She Made Him Do It Theory of EverythingThe rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of
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Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali note the timing of the Trump administration's drop of the Epstein files and suggest that the timing is not accidental: it was arranged to distract from Trump's freeing of sex trafficker Andrew Tate and his choice to fly Tate to the US.
#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
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"On Thursday, the Trump administration allowed social media influencers to travel to the US despite the fact that they have been accused of sex trafficking and rape."
#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
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"Trump has based his anti-immigration stance on the falsehood that immigrants are rapists and sexual predators. The right-wing media and Trump's supporters have fallen for that narrative completely. DOJ and ICE have commenced summary deportations of immigrants accused of crimes—without regard to their guilt or innocence."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
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Today's Edition Newsletter · Things will get better.
"Andrew Tate’s return is a huge win For the internet’s most influential misogynists. The Trump administration reportedly pressed Romania to free Tate — signaling that the sexual abuse of women won’t just be brushed under the rug, but rewarded."
~ Alanna Vagianos
#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
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HuffPost · Andrew Tate’s Return Is A Huge Win For The Internet’s Most Influential Misogynists
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"To be clear, the misogyny of the New Right isn’t just for angry young men. Authoritarian movements around the world have always used male supremacist ideology to appeal to some number of women, too. In America, we have Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other prominent female advocates for the subordination of women."
#authoritarianism #fascism #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #misogyny
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"Throughout history and around the world, male supremacy has supplied the backbone of authoritarian movements. Fascist parties always glorify the virtues of manliness (by which they typically mean some form of brutality) and despise the supposed weakness of womanliness (how they interpret empathy, moderation, and compromise)."
~ Katherine Stewart, Money, Lies, and God
#authoritarianism #fascism #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #misogyny
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https://jill.substack.com/p/male-supremacy-is-the-backbone-of
Jill Filipovic · Male Supremacy Is the Backbone of Authoritarian Movements
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"This analysis is perceptive in the sense that the exact reverse is true—we are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him—and the effect it had on the fragile self-esteem of people like Beattie."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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"As the Trump State Department official Darren Beattie wrote, 'Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.'"
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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Adam Serwer says that what Republicans under Trump want to effect is the "Great Resegregation":
"What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Atlantic · The Great Resegregation
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"Friday night, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who is black) and the Navy's top admiral (who is female) were fired, along with the most senior Judge Advocates General (JAGS) for the Army, Navy, and Air Force."
~ Joyce Vance
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-night-massacre-in-the-military
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance · Friday Night Massacre in the Military
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"We learned this from our bearded white male Christian Vice President who spoke at the CPAC gathering yesterday about how upset he is that 'the culture,' as he calls it, hasn’t been fair to the cohort of Americans he comes from and represents, not only as the Vice President, but as a Christian."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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"Are you aware of how badly white men are discriminated against and put upon in this country? The only people who suffer an equivalent amount of discrimination are Christians, specifically white Christians, even more specifically white young male Christians."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/turning-back-the-clock-to-white-boy
Lucian Truscott Newsletter · Turning back the clock to white boy DEI
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"The cruelty is the point, of course. We’re in a severe backlash cycle. Witches and bitches need to pay for recent decades of economic and educational advancement. Abortion bans negatively affect the U.S. economy, with an estimated $68 billion per year in lost earnings and economic activity. But Republicans are doubling down anyway, pandering to a shrinking but still reliable voting bloc."
#Trump #gender #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #media
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