According to “The Women Leaving the New Right,” a viral piece by Sam Adler-Bell in New York magazine, the movement has “dropped the pretense of protecting women” and gone full mask off, revealing what was always underneath: cruelty, contempt, and, most of all, misogyny.
I find this framing frustrating. It’s familiar to me: I’m often accused of only pretending to care about girls and young women because I have conservative instincts. These are incompatible, apparently; any compassion I have for girls must be a front for an evil political agenda.
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