That video of Rhiannon Giddens and Wu Man is very obviously *not* Wu "suddenly realising" and "spontaneously joining in". The joy on their faces is real, because they played well together, but this is not some Noble Savage who's unaware of American folk music and its use of the pentatonic.

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We actually do know how to reduce rape. We do it the same way we disincentivize other behaviors: we punish it severely and consistently. The issue is not that we don’t know the solution, but that we lack the will to carry it out.

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I don’t care about changing men’s hearts or making them into feminists. I think serious attempts to do so are doomed to cooptation or failure. We cannot convince men to care about women and we don’t need to. The asymmetry in power is a given, so meaningful feminist action must be insurgent.

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I'm kind of tired of pretending that "sense of brotherhood" is a real, meaningful term and isn't just a euphemism for men's spaces where they bond over misogynistic humiliation rituals and coach each other on how best to commit sexual assault.

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I've started wearing a Red Sox cap in an effort to be awkward and tell people I don't watch baseball whenever anyone talks to me about it

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