Thanks for the correction. What was the NYT doxxing threat? I'm out of the loop.
The odd thing about the current nice guy zeitgeist is how utterly reversed things were just a hundred short years ago. It used to be women who were considered man-crazy and hysterical. If a woman failed to land a good man via her looks, family, and connections, she faced a lifetime of ruin. Or if she had a baby out of wedlock, she landed a fate like Fantine's in Les Miserables. "You'll be a spinster" used to be a real and terrifying threat for a young woman. When I was a young woman, there was still an idea that I had to have skills just in case the man didn't arrive for me, died, or was generally bad. When I learned to type, there was still the specter of "learn how to type because you could end up a spinster".
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The odd thing about the current nice guy zeitgeist is how utterly reversed things were just a hundred short years ago. It used to be women who were considered man-crazy and hysterical. If a woman failed to land a good man via her looks, family, and connections, she faced a lifetime of ruin. Or if she had a baby out of wedlock, she landed a fate like Fantine's in Les Miserables. "You'll be a spinster" used to be a real and terrifying threat for a young woman. When I was a young woman, there was still an idea that I had to have skills just in case the man didn't arrive for me, died, or was generally bad. When I learned to type, there was still the specter of "learn how to type because you could end up a spinster".