https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2
I wish Rebecca Solnit — author / activist — lived next door to me, so we could casually share ideas. I appreciate her effective truthiness.
Excerpt from: The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything (link)
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I’ve found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don’t want to take the blame. And one of the prerogatives of power is to be in charge of blame, and abusers routinely exercise that power to make their own acts someone else’s fault.
Related: Jenny Holzer, truisims: ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE
Martha Rosler Semiotics of the Kitchen: