Jordan Harbinger

Huge.

My view of men has been shaped by a vacuum of positive examples.

My father committed suicide at the age of 19, when I was just 14 months old.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

That is so sad.

My mother was 19 and pregnant with my sister, and she was the one who found him.

Oh my god, I can't even imagine.

Your poor mom.

She has never healed from that trauma, and as a result, our house became a revolving door of men who got worse and worse, from drug addicts to abusers to both in one and many things in between.

What a childhood that must have been.

That's really tough.

I have two sisters who are my entire world, and watching us all grow up in that environment, I realized I don't have a single example of a quote-unquote good man in my life.

The few people I can identify are not very close to me.

I think of an uncle or two I see a few times a year, maybe one of my grandfathers, but his ex-wife, my grandma, has been a lesbian since their divorce, so even then I just have low confidence.

Okay.

I don't know why that makes me chuckle a little.

I'm just imagining this 88-year-old woman who's like, I'm done with men.

Time to be gay.

Lately, staying informed has turned my skepticism into something stronger and deeper.

Between the Epstein files and the normalization of predatory rhetoric, it feels like we're shown what men do when they have unlimited power.