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Subscribe to The Week in PatriarchyI’ve spent this week thinking a lot about redemption. Lower-level staffers in the Trump White House are eager to get out but can’t seem to find new jobs (don’t have much sympathy, to be honest), but as Hope Hicks exits it’s clear that she’ll be doing her redemption tour in no time. In the same way I imagine Ivanka will manage to rise from the ashes of her father’s disgusting tenure, Hicks will be fine.
She’ll leverage her celebrity and good looks into some sort of narrative that paints her as an unwitting victim – just as Ivanka did recently when she suggested it was “inappropriate” for a reporter to ask her what she thought about her father being accused of sexual harassment and assault.
We can’t let the women of this administration take advantage of how white femininity is put on a pedestal. Don’t forget, for example, that it was Hicks crafting responses to her then boyfriend Rob Porter’s domestic violence allegations. The stink of bigotry is just as strong on them as anyone else.
Glass half full
Retailers across the country are changing their policies on selling guns thanks to the incredible activism by the students in Parkland. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but the momentum of this movement does feel – and I hope it is – unstoppable.
What I’m RTing
Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones)
My daughter came home from school and said they had a lock down today. She wrapped her arms around herself & said, “Mama, I was scared.” She told me she kept saying to herself please don’t let it be a bad guy. We should be ashamed. This is the world we sustain for our babies.
February 27, 2018
Sam Montgomery (@sammontgomery)
Looking at a man's bookshelf or collection of records or list of favourite movies like pic.twitter.com/oPNc6FAOG3
February 26, 2018
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