Writing

· Feminism · Politics · Essay

COWARDS

The war on women is the war on democracy. Pick up a weapon.

A note from Lawrence

This is the most personal case I’ve ever made in print. It starts with something that happened to me when I was eight years old, and with what it taught me about men who feel entitled to smaller bodies and a civilization prepared to look away.

From there I lay out the war on women count by count: the predator class that keeps producing new names, the legislatures and courts grinding away at women’s autonomy, and the online pipeline radicalizing boys. Women have been fighting this war alone for long enough. The men who stay quiet are the cowards in the title. What side are you on?

Read the full story