BLOG #24: INCEL BASKIN AND ROBBINS
Yeah ok I’m really writing this at 2:48am on a (technical) Monday morning aka really late Sunday night because I feel like real life is Idiocracy (2006) and I’m scared. And invested. And scared that I am invested. In Love Island . This is about gender roles and reality TV and some other stuff keeping me up. I started thinking about this when I was on the phone with Gigi the other day and he told me about this post he saw. “It’s, like, cringe, but it’s true. It said ‘people are focusing too much on women good and not gender bad.’” And it is cringe, and it is very cringe 2018-post-woke1.0, and it is…correct. Women good is akin to “believe women,” an aphorism that emerged in the wake of #MeToo. “Believe women” is important, because of the statistics that show how women do not report sex crimes or other assaults/abuses because both a social and judicial system that tries to minimize their experiences, make them out to be liars, etc. “Believe women” did, however, also become a weapon onlin...
