Erika Santana

…orting friends back home who responded to his “locker room talk” with a maternal tsk-tsk face — and to the growing #WomenAgainstFeminism movement — do you know who started the first rape crisis center? And who fought to criminalize the rape of a child? And who started the National Sexual Assault Hotline? I’ll give you a hint, it was not the good brethren of this country. A grassroots movement of feminists did that, a handful of women broke their silence and go-along gal compliance.

Remember Andrew Dice Clay? He was big in the ’80s. He made jokes about choking his wife unconscious during sex, and killing homosexuals and immigrants. He delivered lines like, “Women are always looking for someone to treat them like the pigs they are,” and the audience went wild.

… I’d stupidly walked into the corner of an open cabinet. Because, like the Washington Post in 1990, I understood it was my job to help men feel better about themselves. It was my job to understand that their gross, abusive language was just locker room talk. Most men don’t mean to hit us or rape us or verbally abuse us. They don’t really want gay people strung up and hung. It’s just a macho act, you know? Like the Diceman. Besides, if women don’t like that sort of thing, why do they go for guys like tha…