Oh god, including Natacha V/C, who worked for this very site. Ick.

Excellent! Yeah— for some reason, “tough old broad” is the other phrase that springs automatically to the mind and lips. Can’t say why, but Dumb/Dippy Broad and Tough Old Broad are the only phrases I actually use it in. Language is such a funny thing.

I’m going to read it.

I’m sure Maggie’s book will be very substantive.

Right? Of all the has-beens of yesteryear that we never wanted to see again, HERS was not the name I’d’ve picked first.

She had to patiently wait out the riot grrrl years, because Take Back the Night actually won that round, and nobody was there to hear her bullshit anymore... But the limit of collective cultural memory is approximately 20-25 years, and, sure enough, *ding!!* here she is again, right on schedule. Just in time for…

“The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing “beloved” individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.”

We made a spreadsheet locally and now my rapist has tried to get me fired.

The utter grossness of Roiphe’s actions and Harper’s willingness to do this aside, everyone should pause to read Donegan’s piece at some point today. Especially given how quickly she must have turned it around, it’s a powerful, lucid, and moving piece. The part where she describes watching the cells on the spreadsheet…

The aim is to make this a discussion instead of a reckoning.

I was going to say, where has this dippy bitch been for the past 5 years? (Answered my own question with “resting dormant in her coffin since 1993, of course”.)

Donegan’s piece is amazing. I love her line about how sexual harassment takes a toll on women in how we end up “spending hours dissecting the psychology of the kind of men who do not think about your interiority much at all.” Incredibly relatable.

These sort of hit pieces are going to become common. The men in power are not going to let this “watershed” moment pass without push back. The aim is to make this a discussion instead of a reckoning. We’ll all talk about listening to both sides and they can walk away with nothing changing. It’s like talking to your…

What gets me about the wider Toby Young thing..... is yet again the way that these governments/influential groups react with surprised indignation to finding out awful people are awful, and do and say awful things.

Fucking Katie Roiphe. Of course it was fucking Katie Roiphe.

They aren’t based on a rumor. Donegan’s article confirms that she was being contacted by Harper’s to establish that she was the one behind that article. They wouldn’t have done that if they weren’t seriously considering outing her.

She’s so giraffe-like I’m surprised one of her brothers hasn’t tried to hunt her.

[Marv Albert voice] From way downtown!

I was already drifting at that point, I just left sooner than I would have otherwise. Agnostic humanist and pretty content with that (and considering I was raised by both a practicing Catechism teaching Catholic and an Atheist, in retrospect I’m not surprised that’s where I ended up). I still consider myself…