Also telling that with each revelation of rape group chats of tens of thousands, or rape sites with millions, we're met with handwringing about women's "misandry" & "extremist" views & centering some alleged harm women are doing to deflect from the piling receipts of men's abuse.

No matter what the historical conditions or the actual state of women's rights and status, at basically any moment over the past century and a half you could make a name for yourself as a writer or intellectual by saying that feminists were overwrought and annoying.

Like I don’t think that guy has some ineffable claim to volkish authenticity that makes his views more legitimate and important than mine. Not even if he lives in the Midwest or drives a truck or something.

The extremely obvious conclusion is that all the pro-marriage, pro-natal stuff is just a thin veneer for the same patriarchal desire to force women to submit.

That's it. You can explain everything you need to explain with that. No need for the performative confusion.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...