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@inthehands
It's this bit that haunts me all these years later:

"As Lili Loofbourow wrote of the Kavanaugh incident in Slate, adolescent male cruelty toward women is a bonding mechanism, a vehicle for intimacy through contempt. The white men in the lynching photos are smiling not merely because of what they have done, but because they have done it together."

"intimacy through contempt" was a gut punch because it described the basis of too many of my friendships

It rewrote my address book