One of my childhood friends became a child bride to escape being pimped out by her step father. 13 years old.

It happens here too. Far more than most men are willing to admit.

It's not feminists who cannot distinguish reality. It's men who refuse to see that so many of their number are predators and exploiters.

Last year a male patriarch murdered their LGBTQ child and set the body on fire inside their car in my city.

Wanna talk about the number of missing Indigenous women?

You are blind. And feckless.

Also, I grew up in Appalachia, fool. Don't talk to me about western privilege like you think you've got some big gotcha. Not all of America is or has been coastal elite. There's a lot of places that have known nothing but poverty and exploitation for generations.