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MRAs respond to campus rape policy reversal with tepid applause, jokes about Betsy DeVos’ vagina

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date September 8, 2017
64 Comments on MRAs respond to campus rape policy reversal with tepid applause, jokes about Betsy DeVos’ vagina

By David Futrelle

I have to say, I expected a bit more from our nation’s Men’s Rights Activists. Yesterday, arkoudaphobic education secretary Betsy DeVos handed MRAs a huge gift, announcing that she would be putting an end to Obama-era policies on campus rape that MRAs and conservatives have been pitching fits about for the past six years.

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Check out my The Cut piece on Betsy DeVos and her terrible campus rape announcement

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date September 7, 2017
101 Comments on Check out my The Cut piece on Betsy DeVos and her terrible campus rape announcement

Betsy DeVos: An education crisis all by herself

By David Futrelle

Sorry I was out of commission yesterday! This is part of the reason why: my latest piece on The Cut about education secretary Betsy DeVos’s new campus rape policy, which turns out to be not really much of a policy at all.

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MRAs met with Education secretary Betsy DeVos, because this is the world we live in

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 12, 2017
145 Comments on MRAs met with Education secretary Betsy DeVos, because this is the world we live in

Betsy DeVos: Have you ever REALLY looked at your hands?

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By David Futrelle

UPDATE: DeVos met with MRAs Thursday; here’s what she told reporters afterwards.

The Trump administration has given a lot of fringe political weirdos a certain not-quite-legitimacy. We’ve seen “alt-lite” conspiracy slinger and bobblehead salesman Mike Cernovich given White House press credentials; meanwhile, Twitterbanned right-wing pseudo-journalist Chuck Johnson seems to have become entangled in one of the developing Trump/Russia collusion scandals, working at the behest of a longtime Republican donor (now deceased) who was apparently willing to drop big bucks to help Trump by somehow uncovering Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.