Yes, there is plenty of competition, and a long way to go until December 31.
But, so far, if this isn’t the outright winner it is at least in the top three.
Excerpted from Amanda Marcotte’s article for salon.com (where someone actually approved her commentary), we have this:
Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA
Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages. Still, across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out: The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked. Some were on their phones or reading on tablets. Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming. Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.
Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same: The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him, and he is indignant over it. So he will make sure she has no choice but to look at him, either by getting in her face or — in these alarming New York cases — punching her. If he cannot capture her adoring gaze, well, he will make her stare at him in fear.
These stories resonate, as well, because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man’s every whim. Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there’s an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner.
SAY WHAT???????????
If I didn’t actually read this at salon.com, I would have assumed it was from the babylonbee.com satirical website.
Evidently, in the world of Amanda Marcotte (and whichever editor(s) at salon.com didn’t have the common sense to flag this prime example of idiotica), the random punching of women by men in New York City is because they are fans of Donald Trump…
…and Donald Trump, who has always had strong women around him (the campaign manager he hired for 2016’s winning presidential campaign – Kellyanne Conway – is a pretty good example, wouldn’t you say?)…is their woman-disdaining idol.
It has nothing to do with the rampant crime in New York, or Manhattan DA alvin bragg’s unwillingness to prosecute criminals. Nope, it’s Trump.
The fact that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election in Manhattan by 85% – 15%? The Bronx by 82.5%-17%, Brooklyn by 74%-25% and Queens by 69%-30%? Irrelevant ‘n’ immaterial. MAGA is running the show there. And everyone knows i…..well, everyone at salon.com knows it, anyway.
There you have it. A major contender for most idiotic article of the year so far.
I can’t wait to see what gives it competition as the election months go by.
