Rebecca Traister

And then out of that, that brutal reassertion of power over bodies that those at the top did not want to have participating in realms where they'd been previously excluded. Out of that comes the reassertion of that drive, that need, that fight from the bottom to say, actually, those victories that you tried to kill from the last century, and that you did, right?

And then out of that, that brutal reassertion of power over bodies that those at the top did not want to have participating in realms where they'd been previously excluded. Out of that comes the reassertion of that drive, that need, that fight from the bottom to say, actually, those victories that you tried to kill from the last century, and that you did, right?

And then out of that, that brutal reassertion of power over bodies that those at the top did not want to have participating in realms where they'd been previously excluded. Out of that comes the reassertion of that drive, that need, that fight from the bottom to say, actually, those victories that you tried to kill from the last century, and that you did, right?

Like Brittany's saying, and like what we're acknowledging. No, that's not the end of the story. You don't just get the past back without any view that there's going to be a future. And that there's going to be a future of these people at the bottom who have a will and have had a raw will. That this country began with people whose bodies were forcibly taken.

Like Brittany's saying, and like what we're acknowledging. No, that's not the end of the story. You don't just get the past back without any view that there's going to be a future. And that there's going to be a future of these people at the bottom who have a will and have had a raw will. That this country began with people whose bodies were forcibly taken.

Like Brittany's saying, and like what we're acknowledging. No, that's not the end of the story. You don't just get the past back without any view that there's going to be a future. And that there's going to be a future of these people at the bottom who have a will and have had a raw will. That this country began with people whose bodies were forcibly taken.

Raped, put to work, had no rights, had no voice, had no acknowledgement as full humans, could extract liberty. Horribly, horribly. That people who had no votes could extract votes. That people who had no rights to bodily autonomy could extract some legal protections for bodily autonomy. That has happened, but it's also had to happen multiple times. Right. And that's the important thing.

Raped, put to work, had no rights, had no voice, had no acknowledgement as full humans, could extract liberty. Horribly, horribly. That people who had no votes could extract votes. That people who had no rights to bodily autonomy could extract some legal protections for bodily autonomy. That has happened, but it's also had to happen multiple times. Right. And that's the important thing.

Raped, put to work, had no rights, had no voice, had no acknowledgement as full humans, could extract liberty. Horribly, horribly. That people who had no votes could extract votes. That people who had no rights to bodily autonomy could extract some legal protections for bodily autonomy. That has happened, but it's also had to happen multiple times. Right. And that's the important thing.

And so where does that situate us? It's really important. That's the long term versus the short term. It is really important to note that those women who Brittany talks about who stiffen their spines right in ways that we would prefer that we did not have to do. That the stiffening of the spines was like, nope, we have to do this process again.

And so where does that situate us? It's really important. That's the long term versus the short term. It is really important to note that those women who Brittany talks about who stiffen their spines right in ways that we would prefer that we did not have to do. That the stiffening of the spines was like, nope, we have to do this process again.

And so where does that situate us? It's really important. That's the long term versus the short term. It is really important to note that those women who Brittany talks about who stiffen their spines right in ways that we would prefer that we did not have to do. That the stiffening of the spines was like, nope, we have to do this process again.

But that it has been done, not just in the last century, but the century before that, and it has been taken back. And part of what I watch when I have been still, as we talked about at the beginning of this, when I have just been sitting through it, tuning some of it out, but also not really tuning it out, like...

But that it has been done, not just in the last century, but the century before that, and it has been taken back. And part of what I watch when I have been still, as we talked about at the beginning of this, when I have just been sitting through it, tuning some of it out, but also not really tuning it out, like...

But that it has been done, not just in the last century, but the century before that, and it has been taken back. And part of what I watch when I have been still, as we talked about at the beginning of this, when I have just been sitting through it, tuning some of it out, but also not really tuning it out, like...

I am watching the displays, like the victory displays, the rolling around in macho, white, masculinist, brutality, grotesque, the rolling around of people who are behaving through their, like, peacocking around their domination and... brutal possibilities. They are behaving like people who aren't scared of anything. But I believe they're behaving that way because they're terrified.

I am watching the displays, like the victory displays, the rolling around in macho, white, masculinist, brutality, grotesque, the rolling around of people who are behaving through their, like, peacocking around their domination and... brutal possibilities. They are behaving like people who aren't scared of anything. But I believe they're behaving that way because they're terrified.

I am watching the displays, like the victory displays, the rolling around in macho, white, masculinist, brutality, grotesque, the rolling around of people who are behaving through their, like, peacocking around their domination and... brutal possibilities. They are behaving like people who aren't scared of anything. But I believe they're behaving that way because they're terrified.

And they want the people at the bottom to think that there's no hope. They want everybody, right? They're like threatening Republican politicians, like Republican senators. It's working. They're saying Elon Musk is going to point his money cannon at you if you challenge this, you know, Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, like all these, you know, this oligarchy, broligarchy, whatever.

And they want the people at the bottom to think that there's no hope. They want everybody, right? They're like threatening Republican politicians, like Republican senators. It's working. They're saying Elon Musk is going to point his money cannon at you if you challenge this, you know, Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, like all these, you know, this oligarchy, broligarchy, whatever.