Last month, a young woman filed a lawsuit against Cornell University, alleging that two years ago the university had failed to protect her from being raped by seven men at a fraternity house near the university campus.
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university → file → campus
She also sued the fraternity.
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She → sue → fraternity
The lawsuit has plunged the university into a crisis and invited criticism of the district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, who decided there wasn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges against the seven men.
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who → plunge → men
At this point, we can only guess why neither Cornell nor Van Houten did more in response to the young woman’s allegations.
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Cornell → guess → allegations
But there’s little question that we’re living through a time when men feel some impunity when it comes to attacking women.
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it → ’ → women
Nor is the impunity that some men feel in attacking them.
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men → feel → them
But the man now occupying the White House has contributed to a lower and more dangerous standard for what men can do to women with impunity.
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men → occupy → impunity
Trump was found in civil court to have sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Trump → find → writer
He has repeatedly insulted the physical appearance of female journalists, politicians and public figures.
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He → insult → journalists
He was caught on a hot microphone boasting about using his fame to forcefully kiss and grope women without consent, stating that being a star allows men to “do anything” and “grab ’em by the pussy.”
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men → catch → pussy
When women have spoken out against him, Trump has resorted to smear campaigns, as he did with Carroll, Stormy Daniels and Hillary Clinton.
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he → speak → Carroll
When women have stood up to him, he has exploded in anger against them, as he did with Megyn Kelly, Rosie O’Donnell, Kamala Harris, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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he → stand → Kelly
It has openly equated testosterone levels to strength, conducted a cage match on the White House lawn as part of its celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, fired senior female officials, and accused the Democratic party of being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies”.
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It → equate → ladies
Nor do I think it irrelevant that Trump, JD Vance and Trump’s erstwhile pal Elon Musk inhabit what’s been termed the “manosphere” – a place where the main events are dominance and submission.
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events → think → ?
The whole point is to humiliate weak men and to subjugate women.
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point → humiliate → women
An implicit promise of the 2024 Trump campaign was to restore patriarchy to America.
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promise → restore → America
Fifty-four per cent of men supported Trump in that year’s election.
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cent → support → election
After Trump’s re-election, sexist and abusive attacks on women – such as “your body, my choice” and “get back in the kitchen” – surged across social media, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
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attacks → get → Dialogue
Trump was introduced at the Republican national convention by Dana White, chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, who was once caught on tape slapping his wife in a nightclub.
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who → introduce → nightclub
JD Vance has claimed men in America are “suppressed” in their masculinity.
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men → claim → masculinity
Before becoming Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault.
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who → become → assault
(Hegseth’s own mother accused him of abusing women, though she later disavowed her words.
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she → accuse → words
He has denied the claims.)
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He → deny → claims
And as secretary, Hegseth has championed “high-T” men and blocked promotions of female officers.
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Hegseth → champion → officers
One of Elon Musk’s companies, SpaceX, reportedly paid $250,000 to a flight attendant who said Musk had exposed himself to her, though he denies the allegation.
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he → pay → allegation
In a lawsuit filed last year, former employees accused him of “treating women as sexual objects to be evaluated on their bra size”.
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employees → file → size
After kissing Trump’s derriere, Mark Zuckerberg, the third-richest person in the US, called for more “masculine energy” because the corporate world was becoming “culturally neutered”.
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world → kiss → energy
He told Joe Rogan: “Having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.”
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that → tell → merits
The Trump regime celebrated toxic masculinity by smoothing the way for Andrew and Tristan Tate to be extradited from Romania to the United States.
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Tate → celebrate → States
The Tate brothers had been accused of luring women to Romania and then forcing them to work as pornographic webcam performers.
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brothers → accuse → performers
Britain is also investigating the Tate brothers for rape and human trafficking.
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Britain → investigate → rape
(US marshals arrested the Tate brothers in Miami on 18 July, following an extradition request from the United Kingdom.
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marshals → arrest → Kingdom
They’ve denied all charges.)
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They → deny → charges
“I’m a Trump fan because I’m a man,” Tate has said.
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Tate → ’m → ?
“You have to support Trump if you’re a man.”
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you → have → Trump
Trump’s authoritarian manosphere is organized around a hierarchy topped by heroic male warriors.
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manosphere → organize → warriors
Winning is all about getting other males to submit to the dominant male.
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males → get → male
Women are relegated to subservient roles.
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Women → relegate → roles
Anything that challenges the traditional heroic male roles of protector, provider and controller of the family is considered a threat to the social order.
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that → challenge → order
LGBTQ+ people are believed to weaken the heroic male.
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people → believe → male
…and 6 more, not listed.
The Aporia
