Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Chilling Morning Ritual In Face Of Death Threats

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38. I use the title of a 1995 book by June Stephenson of the same name. This is before computers

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and Internet research could broaden and deepen her numbers and research, so it needs updating in all the categories of her thesis: that men, violence incurs costs to everyone and not just the victims
-- witnesses, spouses, children, society, medical, court costs and social costs in dollar terms.

To me, her book raised a real problem for women in this and other countries. But her book wasn't well received by male reviewers, predictably. I still have it somewhere in my women's studies collection.

In a final chapter she attributes the crimes she gives (for its day) well researched numbers for, to massive sexism, beginning with school instruction that emphasizes men's roles in history; and societal inculcations about "manhood" that prevent men from feeling empathy for others, along with the business world's presumptions that income inequality is women's problem and men's inherent right, since women have had little to no say about the public sphere, which men took over, for millennia.

Some of her solutions: Involve men more in daily child care; reduce media depictions of violence and access to guns. One suggestion that stood out to me is that men should pay an extra tax for their costs on society, which could then be spent, for examplein providing help for troubled boys, or to rehabilitate prisoners.

The general gist is that what less money women make is spent on prevention and clean up of damage men do to them and others in women's sphere or in public. Women pay disproportionate taxes toward law enforcement funding, or laws that restrict them, laws that they have little to no say in.

That's a more detailed look at what I meant.

We're still dealing with male outrage and simmering resentment that women expect "mere equality" without even having to work to earn it.

And so the currents across continents that women leaders like Hillary, AOC, or Malala Yousafzai, etc., have to swim against.