Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Feminism

  • More Than Misogyny—How To Be Both Right and Wrong

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    15 min read

    The fall of Graham Platner and cynical politics is already shaping up to be a case of people learning the wrong lessons for the right reasons.

  • Gamergate and making the world safe for bullying

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    5 min read

    I think I figured out what has been bothering me about ‪#‎gamergate‬. Here’s what I know in an oversimplified narrative: 1. Several journalist gamers (virtually all women) were victims of doxing and bullying online for writing about video games as if it were the mature, mainstream medium that it has become over the last 20 years.…

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  • Confessions of an accidental feminist

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    1 min read

    Go read Rachel Held Evans’ Confessions of an accidental feminist. Very good stuff. I always laugh a little to myself when I receive a Google Alert informing me that someone on the internet has criticized me as a “bitter, angry woman” intent on destroying the Church with my “radical feminist agenda.” I laugh because if these…

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