There’s an awful article in The Washington Post today about how young men see the Tate Brothers as role models who have ‘easy answers’.
I’m not linking to it because I don’t want to give it any traffic.
The tone of the piece is about how hard men have it right now. How they get mixed messages and don’t know whether they should be ‘alpha’ or not.
Let me be perfectly clear, they don’t have it hard. This is accountability. That’s all. Men are finally being told they have to be responsible for their actions. That they can’t get away with misogyny, assault, rape and abuse. That we are fighting back.
If that’s ‘confusing’ for them, that’s their problem.
The Tate brothers don’t have the answers. They’re just propagating the same misogynistic and fascism adjacent narrative that many men have heard for years.
That Trump and Musk are only too happy to support.
That women are less than. That men can and should dominate us. That ‘being a man’ involves subjugating women.
It doesn’t. It shouldn’t. Call it out. Support women. Believe victims.
Say Gisele Pelicot’s name today. Let’s change the narrative.
This is everyday, until another woman is killed then the police investigate what went wrong and ...rinse and repeat!
