Over at NBC, which is supposedly a mainstream outlet, there is a column by Marie Bianco advocating women going to gay to stick it to the patriarchy. Here’s the WEIRD start to the whole disaster,
Over the past week, an assortment of trending stories — from Jeffrey Epstein to the Dayton and El Paso mass shooters, to Miley Cyrus’s separation and Julianne Hough’s declaration that she’s “not straight” — together have laid bare the strictures of an American patriarchy on the edge of a nervous breakdown. As the status quo, heterosexuality is just not working.
Are those three people really representative of “Heterosexuality” or the “patriarchy?” Jeffrey Epstein is a famously weird pedo, Miley Cyrus is a rolling celebrity mental breakdown and I don’t even know who the hell Julianne Hough is. But, let’s go on…
As a snapshot of 2019 America, these stories present a startling picture: Men continue to coerce, harass, rape and kill girls and women — and go to extreme lengths to avoid responsibility for their actions. On the other side of the issue, girls and women are challenging heterosexuality, and even absconding from it altogether.