As to why Americans would vote for a convicted felon and rapist who said during his campaign that he would be a “dictator” on his first day in office, I agree with Heather Cox Richardson. ""There is no doubt,"" she said, that both racism and sexism played an important role in Harris’s defeat, and ""my own conclusion is that both of those things were amplified by the flood of disinformation that has plagued the U.S. for years now.""

I was thinking about that sexism when I found this post this week: ""Inspired by the Ukrainian feminists I’ve been researching—Nataliya Kobrynska is the type of writer often called ‘ahead of her time,’ but really, women have always been writing and advocating against patriarchy and misogyny—only we've been led to believe otherwise. In 1884, she initiated the creation of the Society of Ruthenian Women in Stanyslaviv, writing:  'We have set a goal to promote women’s ideas via literature,' she said, 'for the latter is the best way to show the bright and dark sides of our social system, its requirements and drawbacks'… Yes!

""And I've found the superhero I needed all my life: Ms. Fury. Predating Wonder Woman by six months and cat woman by a quarter-century, it was a popular comic written by a woman—June Tarpé Mills. And Ms. Fury was a single mother. So great!"" - Freya Rohn

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