The headline reads "Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA." The claim from writer Amanda Marcotte is that the random attacks "are an extreme manifestation of men feeling entitled to women's time and attention."
Stephanie Weng was attacked near Manhattan's Union Square by "a creep spotted in a 'Lilo & Stitch' sweatshirt," the New York Post reports. The man punched Weng in the face.
Weng sounds like a Chinese name. It couldn't possibly be that the MAGA-enraged (black) fellow who did the thumping was expressing anti-Asian xenophobia rather than misogyny?
| Mostly, I suspect, he was thumping those he expected would not hit back. Asian women, for some unknown reason, have a reputation for being gentle and submissive. |
But still, you know. They coulda been, right?
Ashley Cruz was hit in the face by a man on 6th Avenue and 14th Street.
Skiboky Stora has been arrested for punching one woman.
Only one?
| Only one that he was arrested for. Heaven only knows how many others there were before or since. |
A perfect exemplar of white rage. It could have been because she's Hispanic, not because she's a woman, but don't you believe it, not for a moment. Marcus Garvey, for those who don't recall him or never heard of him, used to dress up like a Gilbert & Sullivan admiral and advocate for Colored Folk (they weren't black back then) to return to the Mother Continent…
"He is a frequent candidate for elected office and performing artist who records rap music under the name Designer Attitude," the Post states.
See? MAGA. Toldja so.
Malliak Miah was arrested as well and charged with assault after he was suspected of punching a woman in the face in Greenwich Village. Other attacks have been reported to police.
That's totally irrelevant to Salon, however, which claims that the women "were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants."
Aren't we all "just living our lives" until we're dead? Then we don't care.
Marcotte brings the attacks back to the complaint that men are enraged by women who don't pay attention to them.
You'd think after a while they'd get used to it.
"These stories resonate," Marcotte writes, "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. Unleashed by Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...and the MAGA movement, there's an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner."
You sure?
Marcotte then links it all back to Jordan Peterson, "trad wives," Ben Shapiro, and "backlash" against feminism.
Oh, Jordan! Oh, Ben! How could you?
And who does Salon blame for all that? Young, male Trump voters, not criminals. "The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny. But it's less a backlash than a tantrum, a rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance but fear that, this time,
... but only this time...
women won't buckle to their bullying. This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way," Marcotte writes.
Ummm... Yes. In a dark way. You sure that's not racist?
As to who is actually to blame for the direct,
Especially not their faces...
to know that men who do this are losers, lashing out because they've learned that actually, women don't owe them anything just because they're men."
Sadly, I suppose, some men and some women continue under the illusion that we owe each other a bit of respect and good behavior. But the number does seem to be diminishing.
Marcotte, of course, doesn't know anything about the men suspected in these attacks. She only knows that they are men and that is enough for her to label them with the most vile of all labels: MAGA.
I think the biggest news in this article is that Salon is still around.
| They think of themselves as a smart tabloid with a leftwing, San Francisco sensibility (not something I would boast about, but I’m not the target audience). In the almost thirty years since founding, they’ve apparently never once made a profit, which points to the popularity of the viewpoint even among those who share it. |
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