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Essay: Trickle-Down Misogyny

Mona Eltahawy · 28 Sept 2026

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  1. When more than two dozen women have said that the current president of the United States of America sexually assaulted them and the majority of voters in the U.S. chose him not once but twice to be their president, it sends a blaring, glaring greenlight to men everywhere that they too can sexually assault with impunity.
  2. They grew up in a United States of America in which Donald Trump was fruition, not an aberration; in which Donald Trump, sexual predator, could surround himself with other sexual predators and misogynists in a reminder that powerful and violent men rarely, if ever, are held accountable and that those powerful and violent men are rewarded, not punished.

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