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I was just on a book panel called “Voices of Cultural Change” with four older white men & they literally solicited multiple audience questions before letting me speak ?
Here's a fun item about Nicholas Negroponte, the excruciating moderator who moderated this excruciating event
Another fun item: he told me with deeply sincere condescension before the panel that, since he'd never had sisters or daughters & had gone to a boys' school, he'd "never thought about" any of the stuff about women's lives I wrote about in my book. He's fully 75
Last fun item is that of course he didn't ask me a single question, just nodded along as the other men talked for 50 minutes; as I was walking offstage he told me he wished he'd asked me what he'd meant to, which was whether we should call Epstein's girls "prostitutes or victims"
I made the Chloe meme face, walked away thinking he was a nightmare, ate mushrooms in the pool that evening & forgot his name the next day. Too bad he’s apparently so goddamn predictable I had to remember
I think 1 of the reasons this is irritating me is that publishing a book has made it clear that some people (always men who are older than me) have the same instinctive reaction to a young, easygoing woman who can think seriously as they would to a dog that could sit up & talk
They are infinitely more comfortable & familiar with the idea of young women who are, say, on a billionaire’s private plane at his sad little service. It is a terrible pleasure to watch them all show their ass
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