In a House Congressional hearing today Rep Terri Sewell(D-Alabama) drew attention to RFK Jr's remarks(https://bit.ly/4espIdl) when running as a presidential candidate before joining Cheeto's campaign in 2024 In his comments eugenics expert RFK said that all black kids with ADHD should be taken away from their parents and be placed in federally run institutions Just another case of racism from the far right
When people have or gain wealth they realize in a society that values money as the ultimate that they are top of the heap ie superior to those who don’t have That they have become superior to the rest of society It’s no secret that the wealthy are endeared to the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) and that the Trump-Epstein file coverup has been done so Cheeto can protect his wealthy donors But the CNPP ideology is more sinister than covering up perverse sex scandals
Since Reagan the American ultra wealthy have always believed that they are the “chosen ones” and because of that reality they should not only always be given the power to rule over the “inferior” parts of the electorate They should also be compensated for their “superiority” in leading society with big tax breaks And this “superior” group of people should be allowed to manipulate voter data Enter fascist Peter Theil and his Palantir CEO Brad Karp have made public their opinions(https://bit.ly/4sPDrPz) how they will use AI to reshape the American electorate in their own fascist image A technological electoral coup without having to raise a weapon in the civil war of political ideologies But they need that VOTER DATA
Now Cheeto’s comment about immigrants not having white reporter’s DNA(https://bit.ly/4sbKXnZ) is just another tell of what the CNPP thinks of WE the People Not all men are created equal is a rallying cry for racism and engenders the “blue blood” of the Nazi Aryan nation There is a direct correlation between the CNPP, immorality, racism/anti semitism(why do American Jews support Nazis?), greed, perversity, and power It’s all plainly in front of us if WE care to look
The enmity aroused by abortion extends well beyond reproductive health. The deepest fault line in the entire abortion conflict is the collision between moral certainty and human suffering. Dobbs didn’t settle anything – it intensified everything. Dobbs (moral certainty) is invidious discrimination of women (human suffering), by men, for prescribed belief.
Right out of the gate, the reasoning in Dobbs excised the woman and never considered her again. Dobbs (moral certainty) is patently unconstitutional. Dobbs purposefully abused “liberty interest” in Glucksberg to excise, not just the woman’s agency, but the whole woman. When the woman (human suffering) is excised, there really is nothing to talk about, there is no abortion, no miscarriage, no birth, certainly no children, likely or unlikely to thrive, nothing really – well, there is the end of human life.
Dobbs compounded its errors when it instructed States that they need only have a ‘rational’ justification to do anything they wanted to do to women if the State used abortion as its pretext. That too is patently unconstitutional, it denies women their explicit, extant 14th amendment “liberty” to be free from oppressive restrictions by authority on their way of life and behavior.
The recent podcast by Andra Watkins with Sam Osterhaut put a spotlight on clothing restrictions legislated (pending) in the great state of Ohio (check me on location) aligns with this discussion. Consider that stats used to indicate 1in 3 girls experienced sexual assault. The data in this article says 80%… of adult women. Jesus wept. Women get vilified for being “aggressive”. Men get a pass. On and on. Great layout of all the many too many ways men get believed; women get dismissed. And then Mel in her self-serving wisdom (oh surely you jest!) urges victim testimony…. Expose. Diminish. Dismiss. Rinse/repeat??
Thank you, thank you Evan Fields! Your post is one of the few moments in my life that I experienced women being seen for our strength, intelligence, empathy, perseverance, and our capacity to hold the collective good, the community, the hive if you will, as more important than a single individual. I am sending this post to every woman I know. It is the boost that women need right now.
was a girl growing up in NYC. I literally lost count of how many men exposed themselves to me as a young girl/ woman. Now I hear Deepak Chopra is in the Epstein files, it’s really hard not to hate men
I know, same here. Why do men think that exposing themselves is sexy and will draw us in? If you've seen one you've seen them all. Give women a break, we are busy. I was fortunate to have a fifty-two-year marriage to a wonderful man. I wish a good partnership to all, both men and women.
I'm still sad/angry about Swalwell. He deceived us. He could have been a good guy. This column is going to generate many offers of marriage for Mr. Fields. Good on ya.
there's an old saying "If you want to know how a man will treat you watch how he treats his mother" boy did I ever screw up... some days are just so overwhelming old sayings are about all I have left... I'm an Italian 80yo hippie grandma/nonna... here's another favorite "If your head is made of wax don't walk in the sun" Ben Franklin
Anyone else think that the "male loneliness epidemic" is basically the male entitlement epidemic dressed up to win sympathy for those who suffer from it? My #1 question is "Why does it have to be discovered, identified, and explained over and over again?" I started college in 1969 at Jesuit-run Georgetown University. Talk about a crash course in male entitlement, with a generous dose of sexism on the side. My slightly older female peers in the antiwar movement had stories about the sexism and outright misogyny in the male-dominated New Left. (Robin Morgan's classic 1970 essay on the subject, "Goodbye to All That," is very worth reading 56 years later.) The male-led (but women-powered) civil rights movement wasn't immune either.
The revelations of MeToo almost a decade ago weren't news to any of us who'd been around the block a few times. The Epstein scandal is shocking in its extent but not in its essence. So, short version: Evan Fields, you're on the right track for sure, and I thank you for it, but the track goes back much farther than the current round of scandals, and the scandals will keep recurring if we not only believe women but acknowledge the roots of this male entitlement in virtually every aspect of our culture.
Thank you. I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother (in a happy egalitarian marriage) and I've been watching the slow erosion of character misdirecting young people to strive for dominance, material wealth and fame in succeeding generations of both women and men but men are particularly susceptible and lost at this point. The more they listen to man-o-sphere mouthpieces the deeper in the woods they will find themselves, even if attaining a measure of success according to the gospel of Bro, they will be miserable, angry and unfulfilled. Likewise adopting dictates of fundamentalist religions in order to put women beneath them.
Women do need men and want a ...healthy, reciprocal...relationship, but can live without it in absence an appropriate partner.
I was on the leading edge of women in my early 20s entering a very male dominated paramilitary profession and experienced quid-pro-quo sexual harassment by my primary trainer. Concurrently there was a case of sexual harassment in training winding its way through the various channels in another nearby facility. This was the early 1980s and there was no real process to handle it in place. I heard how that unfortunate woman was spoken about, that she was only claiming to be harassed because she was failing training and even in the unlikelihood that she attained professional status, a pall would hang ever her career. She eventually was failed and forced out. I saw myself in her struggles.
So I said nothing and fought an existential tooth and claw battle with a married man insisting that I sleep with him in exchange for fairness. Soon the "tension" between us was evident to everyone, coworkers calling it a "personality clash" and I finally had to go to my supervisor and throw myself on his mercy. I took my training reports and laid them out showing the pattern between other assessments and those of my trainer and asked to be reassigned. Fortunately my supervisor was a reasonable man and I never had to train with that primary trainer again. I soon was certified and one evening shift when I was alone with that man I said, "We both know what happened here and now that I'm your equal I'm going to document every second that you are late and I'll report every questionable decision or activity." I told him, "I'm not a vindictive person but I'm coming for your job so you'd better walk on water."
He took me seriously (as he should have) and bid out for every job he was qualified for and was gone in under 2 months. The upshot to all of this: I was on a late shift again, alone with another coworker when the conversation turned to my former trainer. That coworker told me that the man was practically drummed out of the military taking a general discharge because he was sexually harassing trainees which apparently was common knowledge in our facility. OMG. I said, "Didn't anyone stop to think that the clash between us was in fact a very serious sexual harassment situation?" The coworker seemed confused and flummoxed by my assertion. Years later we had someone come from the facility where that trainer had fled and said that he was still harassing young female trainees. Sigh. I eventually became powerful enough to be in position to help protect young women coming up. I gave each of them the offer to help them should they need it.
Every fresh revelation like Swallwell is just another deep sigh. MeToo# was smothered after a few months of accountability by powerful men that chafe under accountability and the diminution of "perks" of power.
Again thank you. Each man that sees us, gets it and speaks openly about it helps.
Misogyny is a form of emotional abuse, and it can be the forerunner of physical abuse. While I enjoy the company of men, over the years I quickly learned how to avoid misogynistic men when they show their true colors. The bigger problem occurs when you encounter them in the workplace, and you need that job to survive. Then, you have to document, document and further document incidents (fbo HR and/or law enforcement incident reports)....This is especially the case if there is an uneven power dynamic. As for misogynistic men feeling "lonely", then I suggest they do the work on themselves on their "issues." with a mental health professional. I am only interested in well-adjusted adult men; I refuse to play the role of their counselor.
At the moment, it seems to me that there are many good people of both sexes trying hard to improve our society. As an older man I will admit to being much perplexed by the emotional malaise that is afflicting young and somewhat older men. I understand the foul economics, but all of us are affected by that. How much of what is reported is actually true I don’t know because I never see it in my day-to-day life. Instead, I meet young and other men who are trying to make a go of things and having relationships and families. YMMV.
Just a correction: the phrase was never “Believe all women.” That is a right-wing sleight of hand used to make the idea seem extreme and which makes it easily falsifiable (vis the 2-10% false reports). The phrase is “Believe women” which is more of a presumption and flipping of the default position but still admits of truth-seeking.
And then we have the fundamentalist Christian right teaching girls that they must dress extremely modest, no bare leg, no make up because otherwise they’ll be a temptress and cause grown ass men to…have no accountability? No agency to control their urges and hormones?? The 12 year old in gym shorts asked for it?? What do these fundamentalists think they are teaching their sons? Oops I answered that…entitled domination.
This is so true. The underlying assumption is either that men can't control their urges and/or that they shouldn't have to. So it's up to women and girls to do it for them? In 1982 a Wisconsin judge (in)famously referred to a 5-year-old sexual assault victim as an "unusually promiscuous young lady." He resisted calls to resign but did concede that some of his words were not "well-chosen." I haven't forgotten that one. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/24/Judge-refuses-to-resign-over-remarks-on-5-year-olds-sexuality/9484380696400/
Genetic Superiority And The Nazi Republicans
In a House Congressional hearing today Rep Terri Sewell(D-Alabama) drew attention to RFK Jr's remarks(https://bit.ly/4espIdl) when running as a presidential candidate before joining Cheeto's campaign in 2024 In his comments eugenics expert RFK said that all black kids with ADHD should be taken away from their parents and be placed in federally run institutions Just another case of racism from the far right
When people have or gain wealth they realize in a society that values money as the ultimate that they are top of the heap ie superior to those who don’t have That they have become superior to the rest of society It’s no secret that the wealthy are endeared to the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) and that the Trump-Epstein file coverup has been done so Cheeto can protect his wealthy donors But the CNPP ideology is more sinister than covering up perverse sex scandals
Since Reagan the American ultra wealthy have always believed that they are the “chosen ones” and because of that reality they should not only always be given the power to rule over the “inferior” parts of the electorate They should also be compensated for their “superiority” in leading society with big tax breaks And this “superior” group of people should be allowed to manipulate voter data Enter fascist Peter Theil and his Palantir CEO Brad Karp have made public their opinions(https://bit.ly/4sPDrPz) how they will use AI to reshape the American electorate in their own fascist image A technological electoral coup without having to raise a weapon in the civil war of political ideologies But they need that VOTER DATA
Now Cheeto’s comment about immigrants not having white reporter’s DNA(https://bit.ly/4sbKXnZ) is just another tell of what the CNPP thinks of WE the People Not all men are created equal is a rallying cry for racism and engenders the “blue blood” of the Nazi Aryan nation There is a direct correlation between the CNPP, immorality, racism/anti semitism(why do American Jews support Nazis?), greed, perversity, and power It’s all plainly in front of us if WE care to look
Amen
The enmity aroused by abortion extends well beyond reproductive health. The deepest fault line in the entire abortion conflict is the collision between moral certainty and human suffering. Dobbs didn’t settle anything – it intensified everything. Dobbs (moral certainty) is invidious discrimination of women (human suffering), by men, for prescribed belief.
Right out of the gate, the reasoning in Dobbs excised the woman and never considered her again. Dobbs (moral certainty) is patently unconstitutional. Dobbs purposefully abused “liberty interest” in Glucksberg to excise, not just the woman’s agency, but the whole woman. When the woman (human suffering) is excised, there really is nothing to talk about, there is no abortion, no miscarriage, no birth, certainly no children, likely or unlikely to thrive, nothing really – well, there is the end of human life.
Dobbs compounded its errors when it instructed States that they need only have a ‘rational’ justification to do anything they wanted to do to women if the State used abortion as its pretext. That too is patently unconstitutional, it denies women their explicit, extant 14th amendment “liberty” to be free from oppressive restrictions by authority on their way of life and behavior.
The recent podcast by Andra Watkins with Sam Osterhaut put a spotlight on clothing restrictions legislated (pending) in the great state of Ohio (check me on location) aligns with this discussion. Consider that stats used to indicate 1in 3 girls experienced sexual assault. The data in this article says 80%… of adult women. Jesus wept. Women get vilified for being “aggressive”. Men get a pass. On and on. Great layout of all the many too many ways men get believed; women get dismissed. And then Mel in her self-serving wisdom (oh surely you jest!) urges victim testimony…. Expose. Diminish. Dismiss. Rinse/repeat??
Thank you, thank you Evan Fields! Your post is one of the few moments in my life that I experienced women being seen for our strength, intelligence, empathy, perseverance, and our capacity to hold the collective good, the community, the hive if you will, as more important than a single individual. I am sending this post to every woman I know. It is the boost that women need right now.
I’m 70 years old
was a girl growing up in NYC. I literally lost count of how many men exposed themselves to me as a young girl/ woman. Now I hear Deepak Chopra is in the Epstein files, it’s really hard not to hate men
I know, same here. Why do men think that exposing themselves is sexy and will draw us in? If you've seen one you've seen them all. Give women a break, we are busy. I was fortunate to have a fifty-two-year marriage to a wonderful man. I wish a good partnership to all, both men and women.
I do think they want to draw us in when they do that. I think it’s a power play & they want to scare/intimidate young girls
I'm still sad/angry about Swalwell. He deceived us. He could have been a good guy. This column is going to generate many offers of marriage for Mr. Fields. Good on ya.
there's an old saying "If you want to know how a man will treat you watch how he treats his mother" boy did I ever screw up... some days are just so overwhelming old sayings are about all I have left... I'm an Italian 80yo hippie grandma/nonna... here's another favorite "If your head is made of wax don't walk in the sun" Ben Franklin
Anyone else think that the "male loneliness epidemic" is basically the male entitlement epidemic dressed up to win sympathy for those who suffer from it? My #1 question is "Why does it have to be discovered, identified, and explained over and over again?" I started college in 1969 at Jesuit-run Georgetown University. Talk about a crash course in male entitlement, with a generous dose of sexism on the side. My slightly older female peers in the antiwar movement had stories about the sexism and outright misogyny in the male-dominated New Left. (Robin Morgan's classic 1970 essay on the subject, "Goodbye to All That," is very worth reading 56 years later.) The male-led (but women-powered) civil rights movement wasn't immune either.
The revelations of MeToo almost a decade ago weren't news to any of us who'd been around the block a few times. The Epstein scandal is shocking in its extent but not in its essence. So, short version: Evan Fields, you're on the right track for sure, and I thank you for it, but the track goes back much farther than the current round of scandals, and the scandals will keep recurring if we not only believe women but acknowledge the roots of this male entitlement in virtually every aspect of our culture.
Thank you. Your article was so wonderful to read because of "Not all men but a man" is so spot on
Thank you. I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother (in a happy egalitarian marriage) and I've been watching the slow erosion of character misdirecting young people to strive for dominance, material wealth and fame in succeeding generations of both women and men but men are particularly susceptible and lost at this point. The more they listen to man-o-sphere mouthpieces the deeper in the woods they will find themselves, even if attaining a measure of success according to the gospel of Bro, they will be miserable, angry and unfulfilled. Likewise adopting dictates of fundamentalist religions in order to put women beneath them.
Women do need men and want a ...healthy, reciprocal...relationship, but can live without it in absence an appropriate partner.
I was on the leading edge of women in my early 20s entering a very male dominated paramilitary profession and experienced quid-pro-quo sexual harassment by my primary trainer. Concurrently there was a case of sexual harassment in training winding its way through the various channels in another nearby facility. This was the early 1980s and there was no real process to handle it in place. I heard how that unfortunate woman was spoken about, that she was only claiming to be harassed because she was failing training and even in the unlikelihood that she attained professional status, a pall would hang ever her career. She eventually was failed and forced out. I saw myself in her struggles.
So I said nothing and fought an existential tooth and claw battle with a married man insisting that I sleep with him in exchange for fairness. Soon the "tension" between us was evident to everyone, coworkers calling it a "personality clash" and I finally had to go to my supervisor and throw myself on his mercy. I took my training reports and laid them out showing the pattern between other assessments and those of my trainer and asked to be reassigned. Fortunately my supervisor was a reasonable man and I never had to train with that primary trainer again. I soon was certified and one evening shift when I was alone with that man I said, "We both know what happened here and now that I'm your equal I'm going to document every second that you are late and I'll report every questionable decision or activity." I told him, "I'm not a vindictive person but I'm coming for your job so you'd better walk on water."
He took me seriously (as he should have) and bid out for every job he was qualified for and was gone in under 2 months. The upshot to all of this: I was on a late shift again, alone with another coworker when the conversation turned to my former trainer. That coworker told me that the man was practically drummed out of the military taking a general discharge because he was sexually harassing trainees which apparently was common knowledge in our facility. OMG. I said, "Didn't anyone stop to think that the clash between us was in fact a very serious sexual harassment situation?" The coworker seemed confused and flummoxed by my assertion. Years later we had someone come from the facility where that trainer had fled and said that he was still harassing young female trainees. Sigh. I eventually became powerful enough to be in position to help protect young women coming up. I gave each of them the offer to help them should they need it.
Every fresh revelation like Swallwell is just another deep sigh. MeToo# was smothered after a few months of accountability by powerful men that chafe under accountability and the diminution of "perks" of power.
Again thank you. Each man that sees us, gets it and speaks openly about it helps.
Misogyny is a form of emotional abuse, and it can be the forerunner of physical abuse. While I enjoy the company of men, over the years I quickly learned how to avoid misogynistic men when they show their true colors. The bigger problem occurs when you encounter them in the workplace, and you need that job to survive. Then, you have to document, document and further document incidents (fbo HR and/or law enforcement incident reports)....This is especially the case if there is an uneven power dynamic. As for misogynistic men feeling "lonely", then I suggest they do the work on themselves on their "issues." with a mental health professional. I am only interested in well-adjusted adult men; I refuse to play the role of their counselor.
The accepted saying that women are too emotional needs to be turned on its head. It is men who are too emotional.
Or many men are not emotionally intelligent enough to deal with emotions, positive or negative. Many either retreat or lash out.
At the moment, it seems to me that there are many good people of both sexes trying hard to improve our society. As an older man I will admit to being much perplexed by the emotional malaise that is afflicting young and somewhat older men. I understand the foul economics, but all of us are affected by that. How much of what is reported is actually true I don’t know because I never see it in my day-to-day life. Instead, I meet young and other men who are trying to make a go of things and having relationships and families. YMMV.
Just a correction: the phrase was never “Believe all women.” That is a right-wing sleight of hand used to make the idea seem extreme and which makes it easily falsifiable (vis the 2-10% false reports). The phrase is “Believe women” which is more of a presumption and flipping of the default position but still admits of truth-seeking.
Excellent point. "Believe women" translates into "Take women seriously -- even when they say things that make men uncomfortable."
And then we have the fundamentalist Christian right teaching girls that they must dress extremely modest, no bare leg, no make up because otherwise they’ll be a temptress and cause grown ass men to…have no accountability? No agency to control their urges and hormones?? The 12 year old in gym shorts asked for it?? What do these fundamentalists think they are teaching their sons? Oops I answered that…entitled domination.
This is so true. The underlying assumption is either that men can't control their urges and/or that they shouldn't have to. So it's up to women and girls to do it for them? In 1982 a Wisconsin judge (in)famously referred to a 5-year-old sexual assault victim as an "unusually promiscuous young lady." He resisted calls to resign but did concede that some of his words were not "well-chosen." I haven't forgotten that one. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/24/Judge-refuses-to-resign-over-remarks-on-5-year-olds-sexuality/9484380696400/
Wow. I didn't know about this. How disgusting.
That is nauseating. And sadly not altogether surprising.
This is why I've remembered it all these years. :-/
Hi Evan. Do you know what studies Heather Ashley cites? Thanks.