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Our current institutions are not working. If the list was an imperfect response, it is up to us all to find a better alternative

Months after a short-lived, crowd-sourced list of “Shitty Media Men” made headlines and sowed controversy, the creator, Moira Donegan, has outed herself. In a powerful essay for New York magazine, Donegan explained the impetus behind the list, how it expanded and spread far beyond what she anticipated - and just how nervous that made her.

For those of us who have seen the list and found it simultaneously exhilaratingly radical and terrifyingly unaccountable, Donegan’s accounting is cathartic. It captures our own appetite for a public reckoning about abusive men, tempered by our discomfort with the medium, its diffuseness and anonymity, and the nature of a small minority of the accusations.

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