“Good Guys” Told

What is up with all this dehumanizing language? Honestly, I have no idea. But I do know this. If “good guys” feel perfectly at ease using degrading language that objectifies women when talking not only to one another but also to women they purportedly respect, then the bullshit that came out of the GOP this past election cycle (vaginas that can tell the difference between consensual sex and rape, for example) can be explained. A big pile of reasonably aware and well-intentioned people doing thoughtless shit creates a solid set of stairs for unreasonable, ignorant assholes to say and do what most of us (men and women alike) would deem shockingly destructive.

Oh, um, damn. That is an excerpt from KMA Sullivan’s essay “Women Are Bitches,” published at The Rumpus yesterday. You can skip your coffee and just read that paragraph a few times. [The Rumpus]