Friday, April 05, 2019

Some Tweets from Jessica Valenti

Some  Tweets from Jessica Valenti:





  1.  11 hours ago
    The men who are bothered by the response to Biden should be asking themselves why their desire to hug women without asking trumps women’s desire to feel respected.
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  2.  11 hours ago
    Again, it’s this idea that women are only allowed to complain about the “monsters.” That anything not rising to the level of rape or violence is unimportant.
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  3.  11 hours ago
    “Why are we talking about this thing that women care about and impacts their daily lives?”
    Joe Biden may be overly tactile, but he’s no monster. Why are we arguing about his hugging instead of having a serious political debate, asks .
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  4.  12 hours ago
    This this this
    Replying to @JessicaValenti
    It’s the classic move of putting a woman’s request for dignity outside the sphere of the reasonable and in opposition to the values of friendliness and community. Asking not to be manhandled by some pawing grandpa suddenly makes *you* the one who’s out of line.
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  5.  12 hours ago
    When women talk about the every day indignities we face - the too close hugs, the shoulder rubs - a huge hurdle is the fear that we'll be accused of overreacting. That we'll be laughed at. Biden is proving that fear correct.
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  6.  12 hours ago
    This honestly really pisses me off
    He just patted a kid he invited on stage on the head. “By the way, he gave me permission to touch him,” he says.
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  7.  12 hours ago
    Biden taking this about as seriously as I suspected
    Biden comes on stage and hugs IBEW President Lonnie Stephenson. "I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie," Biden says, to uproarious applause from the (mostly male) crowd.
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  8.   Retweeted
     Apr 4
    Hell of a cartoon in The New Yorker
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  2.  Apr 4
    Am so looking forward to a presidential debate where each old man trades barbs on how many women's shoulders/pussies have been grabbed. That will be fun and awesome for sure.
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  3.  Apr 4
    Protect at all costs
    oh Dear oh Dear I Have Just Learned About This New Concept Called Personal Space And I Would Like To Say I Am Very Sorry
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  4.  Apr 4
    I can see it now: a whole speaker's bureau of "reformed" men making 20k a speech during sexual assault awareness month
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  5.  Apr 4
    *Of course* the men who jerked off in front of their colleagues are going to re-emerge as sexual harassment experts. Truly next level.
    Mark Halperin being asked to weigh in on Joe Biden's inappropriate behavior toward women!!
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  6.   Retweeted
     Apr 4
    Wish dudes could also connect the dots that a decline in sex might also have something to do with women feeling more empowered to say no
    From ’s newsletter today: The decline of sex is another sign of stagnation in American society
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  7.   Retweeted
     Apr 3
    for the , I wrote about the history of New York's lionhearted congresswomen, a league of unbossed women who led the way for .
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  8.  Apr 2
    Will never get used to the handsy racist uncle you block on Facebook being president
    At same NRCC dinner, Trump says of wind farms: “They say the noise causes cancer.”
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  1.  Apr 2
    I think there's another column in me about the way women are meant to feel like we are "biased" about men's bad behavior when in fact we're the most reliable narrators possible. We have PhDs in this shit.
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  2.  Apr 2
    To those who characterize what Biden does as "friendliness" or say women are just misreading the situation: We have been dealing with these kinds of interactions since, unfortunately, childhood. We are the experts in what they mean.
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  3.   Retweeted
     Apr 2
    Hello! I was on with talking about Shrill and the importance of fat representation
    has sparked wide-flung interest in a conversation about body image, fat-shaming and invisibility, and other issues faced by people who identify as fat. joins the conversation with , Executive Editor of .
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  4.  Apr 2
    Just when I thought I was done with Twitter, it bestows this beautiful gift
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  5.   Retweeted
     Apr 2
    "It’s about the daily indignities women are expected to put up with because those experiences fall short of explicit harassment or assault," writes
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  1.   Retweeted
     Apr 2
    "Every shoulder rub and unwanted kiss tells us how little our personal space, privacy, and dignity really mean. Women are reminded of our place again and again and again. And then, when we’re told it’s all in our heads, we’re reminded one more time."
    I wrote about Joe Biden & the everyday infringements that chip away at women's sense of safety and bodily autonomy
    5 replies105 retweets366 likes
     
     
  2.  Apr 2
    I wrote about Joe Biden & the everyday infringements that chip away at women's sense of safety and bodily autonomy
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