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“The dismissal of these questions is not a bug in the system. It is a feature—a feature covered up with endless fact-averse words. … Women, like the accused in witch trials, are not supposed to have a means of escape; if they could argue their case, if they could be justly exonerated and walk free, then male responsibility for the state of the world would begin to become devastatingly plain by contrast.”