yeah, the people arguing that we should give the Joss Whedons and Louis CKs a pass because they created meaningful stuff ignores all the meaningful stuff that *didn't* get created because of men like them https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1359562754642878476

Like, I *can't* spend too much time thinking about what I could have *made*, what I could have accomplished, who I could have been, if I hadn't had to constantly deal with the misogyny and abusiveness of my industry.

Behavioral scientist Sendhil Mullainathan talks about poverty as a "tax on cognition." People in poverty literally have their ability to *think* drained away by the pressure and exhaustion and humiliation of just trying to survive in a world that hates poor people.

And that actually holds true for most marginalized groups. Just having to fucking deal with existing as a woman in a misogynist, abusive environment means that that's where a lot of your brain power and energy is going.

And that is exponentially worse if you're a woman of color, a trans woman, etc. It's there if you're a non-binary person. Or a man of color. Or a disabled person. Or a non-neurotypical person. Or. Or. Or.

And a lot of us stay angry, because anger is the place we fix our gaze to balance as we walk a tightrope over the yawning pit of grief at the stuff we'll never do, the people we'll never be, because we have to spend all that energy dealing with this shit. To look down is to fall.

The harm men like Joss Whedon do can't actually be measured, because we'll never know what the women who worked with him would have done, would have made, would have accomplished, if he hadn't created an environment that drained them.