I know what it’s like to feel unsafe walking on the street in the late afternoon, or walking alone at any time of day. Women with nerves so frayed they’d break whatever it was they were holding-glasses, plates, cups would just fall out of their shaking hands even when they were well away from their husbands. Saw bruises on the bodies of the women who cared for me. I saw school friends married off at 15 to men twice their age. I grew up with stories of men murdering their female partners with crossbows and other implements, dismembering the women in their lives with grinder machines, raping their step-daughters, tossing female bodies into forests. In an essay entitled “There Is Too Much Feminism: On the Rise of the Mauritian Alt-Right”-Ariel Saramandi argues that the Mauritian men with whom she grew up were “mostly … retrograde, patriarchal,” unaware that “progress was coming whether they liked it or not and that soon, in a decade or so, they’d be embarrassed by their youthful rancor.” Saramandi continues,
An earnest and moving essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books about the alt right in Mauritius is sadly plagued by lazy factual errors that undermine its intellectual integrity, and irresponsibly attempts to mar the reputation of former Evergreen professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.
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