Amanda Marcotte's article about men punching random women in NYC is a desperate last gasp of male rage fueling MAGA you are fake news, and it's written and published without a hint of irony. She's a feminist writer for Salon.
00:01:14.980Still, across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out.
00:01:18.620The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.
00:01:23.620Some were on their phones or reading on tablets.
00:01:25.520Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming.
00:01:27.480Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.
00:01:31.440While it rarely turns to violence, most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men
00:01:36.300who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives.
00:01:41.960In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women for looking at their phones.
00:01:46.620But I'm old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.
00:01:49.960A quick aside here, that didn't happen.
00:01:52.180Nobody yelled at her for reading a book in public.
00:01:54.340Much of what she said in that paragraph is exaggerated or entirely invented.
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00:02:53.180Let's get to the crux of the issue from Amanda's hallucinatory perspective.
00:02:57.340Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same.
00:03:01.720The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him and he is indignant over it.
00:03:06.560These stories resonate as well because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim.
00:03:16.260Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there's an upswell of loud male entitlements shouting at us from every corner.
00:03:22.160We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson who clamor to his events to hear him croak out a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance.
00:03:30.640Or the rise of trad wives online who make a living pretending they're unemployed and housebound.
00:03:35.360Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can't stand that a blockbuster comedy starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection.
00:03:43.060The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny, but it's less a backlash than a tantrum.
00:03:47.380A rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance but fear that this time women won't buckle to their bullying.
00:03:53.200This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way.
00:03:59.880Now before we get to the content of this screed such as it is, the first thing we notice is just how tired and lame and dull the writing is.
00:04:06.340Amanda Marcotte has been writing essentially the same article over and over again for 20 years.
00:04:10.140Now of course, 20 years ago, she wasn't talking about Donald Trump or MAGA, but the basic themes and concepts are the same.
00:04:15.580And there really is only one theme and one concept, which is that men are misogynists and various bad things are happening because of our misogyny.
00:04:21.860And this is my biggest problem with people like Amanda Marcotte.
00:04:23.920It's not that everything they say is wrong, and that's a given.
00:04:26.460It's that they can't even manage to be vaguely interesting while being wrong.
00:04:57.760And Democrat voters, if they vote at all, which they probably don't, they are repeat violent offenders, career criminals who are on the street, able to attack and victimize random women because of policies that Amanda Marcotte supports.
00:05:09.940In fact, not only is this not a MAGA phenomenon, but if you go somewhere that is really MAGA country, a predominantly conservative place where you're likely to see American flags and red hats and all the rest of it, in those places, women aren't getting brutalized as they walk down the street.
00:05:24.540These attacks on women are supposedly the result of right-wing male rage, and yet they're only happening in blue cities.
00:05:30.460Go to pretty much any neighborhood with a majority of Trump voters, and any woman will be perfectly safe walking down the street at any time of day or night.
00:05:37.820Amanda hates white Republican males more than anything.
00:05:40.120She blames us for all the violence against women.
00:05:42.240And yet, you never hear about a rash of violent attacks on women in white Republican areas.
00:05:47.700So she's obviously wrong about who is responsible for this violence.
00:05:55.120These attackers aren't going after these women because they feel entitled to their time, or they're mad at the women for looking at their phones, or because they're filled with some kind of patriarchal sense of entitlement.
00:06:05.120They do it because they can, and they'll keep doing it for as long as they can, until we make it so that they can't.
00:06:11.140And we don't do that by printing, you know, scolding lectures in salon.
00:06:15.640Now, what you do is you do that by locking them in prison forever.
00:06:19.900She's an advocate for criminal justice reform, quote-unquote, which means putting these violent predators back on the street and keeping them there.
00:06:28.960I mean, she doesn't care if the violent attacks continue.
00:06:31.100At least it gives her something to write about, even if she's writing the same article over and over and over again, and somehow still missing the point every single time.
00:06:39.080And that is why she is today, I must say, canceled.