When I was in grade school, National Geographic was not a Rupert Murdoch organ, or even a marginal basic cable channel. It was a scientific journal that produced a handful of nature specials over several years for PBS, and those shows were such a big deal that you didn't get assigned homework the day they aired, you just had to watch the TV show...
This election has illuminated a lot of dark corners of public discourse, but the one that takes me by surprise is the sexism. It hasn't just brought a lot of used-up and distasteful ideas out where we can see them, it switched on the light in the room where I keep my rage. This is where the surprises are. It's a shed full of the poisons I drank and the blades I used to shave myself away. I didn't even know I kept them...