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Ritualistically shaming public-facing women has become something like a cultural hobby. Moral puritanism helps us do it

This essay builds upon concepts that I first discussed in Who’s afraid of amber heard?, an essay about social deviance, carceral feminism, and the myth of the model victim. I think this piece is enhanced by reading that one first, but no pressure! Let me be clear: in a fair and just society, the Adam Levine cheating scandal would have been pretty good internet gossip for maybe 24 hours. I long for a world in which we could have a good day in the group chat and then go back to admitting that we have never cared about Adam Levine, his wife Behati, or Instagram model Sumner Stroh even a little…

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