An open letter to media outlets discussing Ghislaine Maxwell: There is no such thing as an “underage woman.” An underage woman is a girl.
Megan Garber
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Megan Garber
@megangarber
Atlantic writer. 2025 New America/Emerson Collective fellow.
Joined January 2009
- An open letter to media outlets discussing the Gaetz investigation: There’s no such thing as an “underage woman.” An underage woman is a girl.
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- Hannah Arendt warned of a world where it would begin to feel like "everything was possible and nothing was true." That world gets closer, day by day.
- "Stumblingly drunk.” “Aggressively drunk.” "Belligerently drunk.” One of the questions lurking in all the Kavanaugh chaos is who, in America, is afforded the luxury of lost control: theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
- One of misogyny’s fondest fantasies is that women are naturally manipulative. But the country is in crisis right now because a man—too vain and too scared to admit the truth—did what he always does, instinctually, when reality proves inconvenient: He lied. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
- I wrote about empathy becoming Orwellian:
- “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter.”The @nytimes has deleted this, saying it was “poorly phrased,” but this is not about the wrong choice of words - it’s the constant diminishment and laughing off of women’s pain.
- There was clear video of the interaction between Jim Acosta and a White House staffer during today's news conference. Sarah Sanders mischaracterized it—in cynically gendered terms—anyway. The expansion of the post-truth press shop continues apace: theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
- Last night, Laura Ingraham described a basic democratic exchange—members of the American public questioning their elected leader—as an “ambush.” The absurdity of that, and the danger, is part of what I tried to think through here:
- I find it helpful to think about Fox not just as a source of news or opinion or propaganda (though: yes), but also as a language. Fox has its own grammar. Fox has its own lexicon. And Fox has a totalizing influence on many of its deeply loyal viewers. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
- We live at the mercy of Donald Trump’s mind. That fact is the result of so many failures. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
- This will end, in some quarters, both with Megyn Kelly treated as a martyr and with NBC treated as an exemplar. She is not. It is not. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
