Calling Out Public Disrespect Toward Women, Michelle Obama the next target

Send us Fan Mail A joke that lands as disrespect isn’t harmless, especially when it’s aimed at a woman on one of the biggest public stages in America. We react to the viral moment where a fighter calls Michelle Obama a man on the White House lawn, and we don’t let “it was just comedy” dodge the real question: why is humiliation so easy to aim at women, and why does it get waved off so fast when the target is a Black woman? From there, we get into the bigger pattern behind the headline: misog...