The right’s Lena Dunham delusion: Anger, misogyny and the dangers of business as usual

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4. It's surprisingly good for a short article; another zinger, that sounds exactly what you are saying

And what we see in small microcosms, all over the Internet, DU being no exception

Earlier this week, Roxane Gay opened a piece in the Guardian with an exchange she had with a young woman who asked her how to make feminism more accessible to men. “I told her that I don’t care about making feminism more accessible to men,” she wrote. “In truth, I don’t care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.” Gay’s lack of interest in rebranding feminism to make it more palatable is, I think, applicable here. So is a recent piece from Black Girl Dangerous creator Mia McKenzie, who wrote critically of the United Nations’ HeForShe campaign for, among its other problems, centering men while ignoring “just how much men do benefit from gender inequality.”

This benefit is why so many men (and women, frankly) want to talk about false accusations in order to derail a more sweeping conversation about affirmative consent. It’s why public conversations about sexual violence are rarely about power, privilege and structures. It is also why so many men want to silence women who are sharing their stories outside the narrow parameters of what’s currently acceptable. Because talking about non-consent and violence against women as something that isn’t just about monsters who creep in the night – but as something that pervades the culture, operates interpersonally and institutionally — means being implicated in it, owning that responsibility and figuring out where to go from there.