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Anti-Anti-Rape - The Drift

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A fter sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman resurfaced in January, “Red Scare” host Anna Khachiyan wrote: “Are we really still doing this? #MeToo was rejected at the ballot box!” In the wake of almost a decade of anti-anti-rape sentiment — much of which calcified in the hyper-discursive, ideologically slippery podcast and social media sectors — Khachiyan’s refried Paglia-isms hardly shock. What alarmed me was an accelerating sense that I could no longer intelligibly refute such claims. Before the 2024 election, Donald Trump was found liable in two suits brought by E. Jean Carroll, though a jury found him culpable not of rape in the first but of sexual abuse. (He was also found guilty of defaming Carroll’s character.) Carroll was awarded a staggering $88.3 million damages in all; still, a little over a year after the second trial, the former president was once again the president-elect. As of this writing, both his personal lawyers and the DOJ are appealing the judgment

Anti-Anti-Rape - The Drift Issue 15 | June 17, 2025 Image by Ivy Sanders Schneider Issue 15 | June 17, 2025 Issue 15 | June 17, 2025 Anti-Anti-Rape ​ | On the #MeToo Backlash Jamie Hood A fter sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman resurfaced in January, “Red Scare” host Anna Khachiyan wrote: “Are we really still doing this? #MeToo was rejected at the ballot box!” In the wake of almost a decade of anti -anti-rape sentiment — much of which calcified in the hyper-discursive, ideologically slippery podcast and social media sectors — Khachiyan’s refried Paglia-isms hardly shock. Wha

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