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Sexism Reddit Is an Unexpected Beacon of Hope in Our Cold World

The oddly effective catharsis of reading about someone else’s bad relationship

Jessica Valenti
GEN
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3 min readSep 4, 2019

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BBefore I go to sleep at night — after spending the day writing about women’s rights, sexual assault, and misogyny — I like to scroll through Reddit’s advice forums and read about the weird…

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Jessica Valenti
GEN
Writer for

Feminist author & columnist. Native NYer, pasta enthusiast.