Jessica Valenti: The Men Who Ruin Us

[Nevilledog]

https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-men-who-ruin-us

Tonight, a judge ruled that a drug that’s safely ended pregnancies for over twenty years should no longer be available—not just in anti-abortion states, but everywhere. We knew the ruling was coming, just as we did when Roe was overturned. As was the case then, foreknowledge doesn’t make the moment any easier.

There’s no real way to prepare for the feeling of despair that rises in your body as you’re reminded, once again, that you’re no longer a full citizen in your own country.

I want to be useful, and smart. I could write about how this decision lays bare the lie of ‘states’ rights’, or how a singular activist judge being able to wave away decades of science and progress is a sign of our decaying democracy. I could write out the ways that the FDA could respond, or what the Biden administration should say and do. But others will do a better job of all that. Besides, that’s not at all what’s on my mind.

What’s weighing on me—almost literally, my head and body feel heavy—is the look on my 12 year-old daughter's face each and every time I have to tell her another piece of bad news about women. But it’s not just her face I keep seeing. It’s the looks on the faces of the men who are ruining us.

Donald Trump. Brett Kavanaugh. Matthew Kacsmaryk. Smug and assured, ignorant and shameless. Somehow we’ve ended up with the dregs of humanity robbing us of our own.

*snip*

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. The anti-abortionists have won nothing.

The backlash coming will kill Republicanism....and the self-righteous morons have no clue.

[LoisB]

3. AMEN!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Men who do not care at all about fetal cells.

It is all about power, control, getting votes and raising money.

And yes, a deep hatred of women.
They get off on killing and torturing women.

[LoisB]

4. Hear, hear! I believe you have nailed it.

[LostOne4Ever]

5. What they have stolen

We will take back!!!

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[Sky Jewels]

7. Hell yes. These piece of crap males

who so ruthlessly destroy our lives … we’ll, I can’t say what I’m thinking.

[LittleGirl]

8. A judge practicing medicine/science with out a license.

Disbar him. My god when will it end?

[grantcart]

9. You mean like MTG?

[Scrivener7]

10. Great piece. And don't miss the headline below it for the next piece: "Hell hath no fury lik a man

rejected."