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Trigger warnings all over the place! Attempted murder, intimate partner violence, sexual coercion of people in vulnerable positions, attempts to shaming/guilting women into disliked sexual acts, racism and classism of an extraordinarily snotty kind, WON'T SOME WOMAN PLEASE THINK OF THE MENZ?1!, violence against women, and OH YEAH THAT ATTEMPTED MURDER THING!
So, both Feministe and Jezebel have kicked the year off by awarding feminist cookies and yet more public platforms to serial sexual harasser, self-appointed monitor of young women's attire, noted racism apologist, friend of MRAs, and self-identified "feminist" Hugo Schwyzer. Oh, yeah, and he was involved in organizing one of those Slut Walk things too . . . which is totally the most useful and least problematic way for a straight man with a history of sexual misconduct with his own students to contribute to the cause. /sarcasm Anyway, what did he use the attention for? At Jezebel, he wrote a post about how more women should submit to a specific sex act because it makes men feel accepted and loved and cleansed. At Feministe, he discussed how hard it was to forgive himself of attempting to murder one of his ex-girlfriends. No, he never went to trial for attempted murder. Yes, he says he consulted a lawyer before the Feministe interview to find out exactly what he could say about the event in an online interview without forcing the state to reopen the case. Some of the Feministe commenters (rightly) responded with a resounding HELL NO, and comments were closed. Some of the Jezebel readers tried to bring up the attempted murder (and his history of sexual misconduct with his students and his history of sharing details of sex with his various exes in public posts made under his real name without their consent) in comments, and their comments were deleted. Then Feministe posted an apology and left comments open, so the argument about whether women should be taking advice on feminism and sex from a man who tried to kill his girlfriend rages on.
I'm not linking to Feministe or Jezebel because NO. I'd rather link to these commentaries:
Flavia at Tiger Beatdown responds to the dual clusterfuck at Feministe and Jezebel
The tumblr created in response to the Feministe-Jezebel clusterfuck and to Hugo Schwyzer's popularity in general
The official SF Drama grudge post, which contains bonus Scarleteen WTF Even though the Scarleteen person eventually backtracked and did the right thing in the end, I'm still boggling about how she waffled over removing Hugo's writing from the site because any of the other contributors might write something she disagrees with in the future and then she'd have to get rid of them all. Because there's such a fine line between EXPRESSING A DUBIOUS OPINION IN WRITING and TRYING TO MURDER SOMEONE.
So, both Feministe and Jezebel have kicked the year off by awarding feminist cookies and yet more public platforms to serial sexual harasser, self-appointed monitor of young women's attire, noted racism apologist, friend of MRAs, and self-identified "feminist" Hugo Schwyzer. Oh, yeah, and he was involved in organizing one of those Slut Walk things too . . . which is totally the most useful and least problematic way for a straight man with a history of sexual misconduct with his own students to contribute to the cause. /sarcasm Anyway, what did he use the attention for? At Jezebel, he wrote a post about how more women should submit to a specific sex act because it makes men feel accepted and loved and cleansed. At Feministe, he discussed how hard it was to forgive himself of attempting to murder one of his ex-girlfriends. No, he never went to trial for attempted murder. Yes, he says he consulted a lawyer before the Feministe interview to find out exactly what he could say about the event in an online interview without forcing the state to reopen the case. Some of the Feministe commenters (rightly) responded with a resounding HELL NO, and comments were closed. Some of the Jezebel readers tried to bring up the attempted murder (and his history of sexual misconduct with his students and his history of sharing details of sex with his various exes in public posts made under his real name without their consent) in comments, and their comments were deleted. Then Feministe posted an apology and left comments open, so the argument about whether women should be taking advice on feminism and sex from a man who tried to kill his girlfriend rages on.
I'm not linking to Feministe or Jezebel because NO. I'd rather link to these commentaries:
Flavia at Tiger Beatdown responds to the dual clusterfuck at Feministe and Jezebel
The tumblr created in response to the Feministe-Jezebel clusterfuck and to Hugo Schwyzer's popularity in general
The official SF Drama grudge post, which contains bonus Scarleteen WTF Even though the Scarleteen person eventually backtracked and did the right thing in the end, I'm still boggling about how she waffled over removing Hugo's writing from the site because any of the other contributors might write something she disagrees with in the future and then she'd have to get rid of them all. Because there's such a fine line between EXPRESSING A DUBIOUS OPINION IN WRITING and TRYING TO MURDER SOMEONE.