Misogyny Is the Biggest—and Most Unflattering—Trend of 2023
glamour.com. The tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police. The suffocation of women's rights in Afghanistan following the Taliban's return to power.
The rise of . The trauma feeding frenzy of the . That Jeremy Clarkson wrote about Meghan Markle. Need I go on? Simply put, last year was a banner one for assholes and an objectively wretched one for women.
And the forecast for this year is shaping up to be similarly bleak. Take, for instance, CNN anchor Don Lemon's February on-air fiasco During a conversation about 51-year-old Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her controversial suggestion that older politicians like President Biden should be required to undergo mental competency testing, Lemon shared an unsolicited, not-at-all-accurate “theory” on how women age. “She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime,” Lemon said. “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry.
A woman is considered to be in their prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” Prime for what exactly? Childbearing? Political discourse?
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