1. I don’t know if you are serious when you say you don’t know how this tweet feeds into rape culture. I’ll explain it anyway and I’ll be as plain as possible. So, here’s a thread @vngalwana.

2. Instead of challenging her work, he writes ‘Pauli must get ten boyfriends’, his very premise is to deploy the trope of a sexually frustrated woman, who needs a ‘dick cure’ from 10 men. @vngalwana

3. What is it about Pauli’s work that brings conversation about sex? Nothing. So, the tweet is not about the substance of her work, it’s about a woman who is ‘mad and angry’ because she has not been laid or not laid enough’. That is the language of rape culture. @vngalwana

4. He is also dog whistling. He doesn’t have to mention ‘dick cure’ for women and those who support him to understand what he is saying. That is how he goads his supporters to abuse Pauli. You can read the comments to figure out whether he succeeded or not. @vngalwana

The notion of ‘mad and angry’ to describe women you want silenced is as old as time itself. Such women, according to mysogynists, need the fix of a man. They need to be put in their place. That’s what he says in the most crude and yes, violent way. @vngalwana