We rarely ask the following questions.
Who benefits from our rapes?
And how?
Who benefits from the torture murder, terrorism and blackmail variously trivialized as domestic violence and sexual harassment?
Who benefits from forcing women to bear children—i.e. withholding reproductive knowledge, contraception and abortion?
I do not mean the sadists and those who derive unearned moral superiority from castigating women for making the same choices they themselves make. They are, as Lenin said in a different context, useful idiots.
I mean, who funds them?
I mean, Why do our political elites across party lines largely tolerate police who refuse to investigate the widespread male violence against women that constrains our life? Why do they largely restrict women’s access to birth control and abortion? Why are they largely opposed to the even broader concept of reproductive justice?
Indeed, why are so-called liberal and progressive men so often opposed to these things?
Who is tolerating the on-line inciters, the incels, the MGTOWs, the pro-rape brigade? Why do the social media platforms tolerate them?
In dollars and cents, what’s in it for them?