Today we cancel Amanda Marcotte feminist writer for Salon and I'll admit

cancelling Amanda Marcotte is perhaps a little cheap it's like cancelling stubbed

toes or indigestion or headlice a little too obvious in case, Marcotte has earned her spot in this segment today by publishing an article for Salon that is so crushingly stupid, so fantastically ridiculous and dishonest that it's somehow against all odds manages to lower the bar for feminist writers and

salon a bar that was already sitting approximately 10,000 feet below sea level.

Here's the headline.

Men punching random women in NYC, a desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA.

You are fake news.

This is another one of those headlines that I saw circulating on social media and I had to stop to

verify that it was real.

At first I honestly thought that it wasn't. It's the kind of thing that a right-wing meme account might create as a joke and if they had it wouldn't have even been very funny. But this is not a meme. It's an actual article written and published without a hint of irony.

Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City.

As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown, including how often this is happening how many people are

involved or whether it's at all coordinated.

Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages.

Well actually no there's not a lot of racial diversity in the men who are committing these

assaults. We'll return to that in a moment. Still across the different stories a

couple of similarities pop out. The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty and

most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.

Some were on their phones or reading on tablets.

Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming.

Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives and that it seems is what enraged their

assailants.

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