HeyJaredIt's Not That Bad
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Where Does All The Rage Go? (opens the original)
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During my career in media, I have seen how certain cases of male sexual violence against women become watershed moments. Gisèle Pelicot. Rebecca Cheptegei. Sarah Everard. Sabina Nessa. The “Rape Academy”. And, of course, #MeToo. Now, over the last week — and especially the last 48 hours — the Cornell 7 case has reached these same stratospheric levels of collective rage.While the most shocking stories often capture our collective attention, they spread like wildfire because they are rooted in a f
I Want To Stop Talking About Bodies But My God — We Still Need To Talk About How We Talk About Bodies (opens the original)
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I am stuck in a paradox: I don’t want to centre my body in my own life; I don’t want to bring it up all the time because then it makes people feel it’s okay for them to bring it up all the time; I don’t want to be defined by my body. And yet, I am constantly writing about body image. I cannot stop. I have an endless amount to say about body politics, about body fascism, about beauty standards. In one vein, I feel we — collectively as a society — need more of these conversations. But we also need
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