Yeah, I'm Seeing It Too

DILF: Did I Leave Feminism is still available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and via your local bookshop at Bookshop.org. If you do buy it from an Internet behemoth, leaving a review helps make it discoverable to other readers.

Be Not Afraid #4 is still at comic stores and on Comixology. Issue #5 is coming in January, with an FOC of December 22.

Hey, guys! Just checking in to see how you're holding up. Obviously, I have an essay for you today. It's going to be really relevant, and have a lot of words in it, and you will leave it convinced of how smart I –

Well. At any rate. Once I get around to writing this incisive and relevant essay, which will point with infallible judgment to the problems that plague our era, while also providing hope and even (dare I say) some new solutions, I'm sure that –

OKAY.

So it turns out there have been some recent revelations, in re: the profound misogyny that still rules and structures society, and which manifests, not only in revered educators giggling with each other about the hopelessness of female students trying to learn anything, but also in seeing those students as appropriate targets for sexual aggression, and indeed, in grown men trading in the rape of underage girls, passing girls around like party favors, as if to say that's the only thing a young woman's life could ever be worth.

But those are bad guys, and I'm sure that in the mainstream of society, there are still many people who love and respect young women –

Well, sure, right, the Internet is a trash hole, but offline, I'm sure young women still move in a society that – for the most part – loves and respects them, and one in which rape and sexual assault are viewed as horrifying attacks on the victim's inherent worth and dignity.

I mean: I'm no Pollyanna. I would be much more pessimistic if these victims were grown women, because we seem to have collectively decided that, once a woman reaches her early twenties, any amount of sexual objectification or degradation is fair game. But we're talking about little girls. Teenagers, at most. I think we can all agree that –