The fact that men who disagree with me feel entitled to comment on my looks never surprises me. If I’m being honest, I take a certain kind of satisfaction from their disparagement. At least I’m making the right kind of enemies, I think, as I flag death threats about my vagina as spam. I do not, however, take any pleasure in seeing how other AFAB people are treated by trolls. When I first saw that Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz had singled out a young activist on Twitter, I was enraged. I had no idea that Olivia Julianna was about to become the hero we need.
In case you missed it, last week, Republican congressman Matt Gaetz gave a speech to a group of young neofascists in which he claimed that abortion rights activists are too ugly to be fuckable. I’m just going to trust you to effectively deconstruct that. When Olivia Julianna, a 19-year-old activist in Texas clapped back, Gaetz posted her photo, insinuating she was exactly the kind of woman he had been referring to in his speech.
