In February, a group of men who participated in sports talk shows casually spread a mean and untrue rumor about a teenage girl’s sex life on state television, leading to her being humiliated and ruthlessly harassed. It feels like 2007 is again, and the talk show plays paused briefly before our country was busy making fun of Britney Spears’ collapsed schedule.
On Bro-Y on ESPN Pat McAfee ShowMcAfee, titularly chatted about an undergraduate rumor he heard, thus introducing a part of the NFL draft pick: A social girl at the University of Mississippi cheated on her fraternal boyfriend with her father. McAfee didn’t mention the young woman or her boyfriend’s name, but later shared a clip on X with his 3.2 million followers (the post is still rising as of April 3). Barstool Sports Personality Jack Mac Promoted a meme coin named after the related girl: Mary Kate Cornett, a first-year college student. Cornett denied the rumor, but that didn’t stop it from spreading like wildfire.
As reported in the New York TimesAs the rumors spread, harassment of Cornett was in trouble. She had to leave the university dormitory and move into an emergency housing after campus police said she was in danger. A fake tip was sent to the police to send a SWAT team to his mother’s home. Cornet’s voicemails and text messages were filled with degenerate messages from strangers, calling her a prostitute, telling her to commit suicide. Her 89-year-old grandfather conveyed a similar message. Cornett now says she intends to take legal action against McAfee and ESPN. ESPN and McAfee declined to comment on sports and other news outlets.
There are some things from the 2000s – something you would read on the feminist blog at the time. It has all the rhythms of classic Aughts slut cheating: an anonymous teenage girl, the man on the talk show takes her humiliation as idle chat, like Chit-Chat picks up until the girl gets anonymous threat from strangers. Very Swiffer Girl, In the graphic tape, an eighth grader made the boy she was obsessed with. Very Vanessa Hudgens Her private nude photos were leaked in 2007 when she was forced to apologize to her fans and scramble to save her Disney career. Basically, this is all the plot of the 2000s talk show host Apologize for. The only really new part is X’s Memecoin and right-wing ecosystem that can make this gossip flourish.
Of course, one might think that we are now beyond this national slut deception. We live in a post-world world. This culture must have surpassed the sexual humiliation of teenagers.
However, in a sense, the story of Ole Miss is a long time. right Interested in restoring the Bush era fanaticism (think The girl is crazy) and Pure Culture (Thinking: Obsession with Britney Spears’ Virginity) for years. Pure culture and propaganda culture go hand in hand. Strict humiliation of purity will enable Raunch’s sexual objectification. Both are united by the compulsory objectification and humiliation of women, whose bodies are always controlled by men.
As sociologist Bernadette Barton shows in her 2021 book Pornography in America: How Exposed Culture Destroys Our SocietyRaunch has become a post-Trump right self-concept. Patton points to “a meme of provocative women who explicitly connect provocative women’s bodies to Trump utensils” or “a contrast to the “sexy” conservative women of ugly, unpopular liberals”.
“No longer limited to the old dichotomy structures women as virgins or prostitutes,” Patton said. “Undesirable culture promotes a new sexist dichotomy: Hot or not. ”
Ideology claims that all hot girls are their own and asks them to serve men for entertainment. Holding this position can give a woman a certain amount of cultural currency, which is why the right-winger likes the crow that hot girl votes for Trump, and only the ugly girl is free. However, being a hot girl also made her understand the possibility of vicious, highly sexualized humiliation and harassment that Cornet faces. This is ideology, allowing the right to be taken like a politician Hawk Tuah Girl As a symbol of the magazine, Kamala Harris is also smeared as “The Original Eagle Tower Girl”.
Its purpose is to degenerate, dominate, clearly show that exists in order to satisfy men. Humiliation of an anonymous teenager is a natural end for entertainment. This has always been something that lurks under the hottie Trump jokes about.
