This is an absolutely brilliant essay on the sexism powering the rise of Graham Platner - and the tragedy that if Platner were ever to *truly* change his ways, the bro audience propelling him to stardom would drop him like a hot potato.
Jeremy Fassler
"No": "a weapon that these men do not want women to have, which is why the spectre they always invoke is so relentlessly feminine; maternal & dominant, the figure that so many men can most relate to as the first woman who did them wrong because she had power" www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-graha...
For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.