Really worth reading if youre grappling with the misogyny of our culture and the role it plays in violence toward women. (And if you care about the power of language to shape our world for good or ill.) The opening paragraph is a good hook. It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net called Isolated Event. To keep the ball out of his net, the mainstreams goalie shouted “mental illness” again and again. That “ball,” of course, was the meaning of the massacre of students in Isla Vista, California, by one of their peers...
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:32:26 +0000
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