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Chomsky was born in 1928. This doesn't justify him being a sexist piece of shit, but it certainly can explain him being a sexist piece of shit.
He was well into this forties when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was made law which essentially stopped discrimination against women for getting checking accounts and lines of credit, which were hard to come by at many banks prior to that.
Until 1976, nearly every state had a "marital exemption" for rape, at this point Chomsky was pushing 50. It wasn't until 1993 that marital rape was codified into federal law as being a crime nationwide, at this point Chomsky was in his sixties.
He was 17 when World War II ended in 1945.
Chomsky is a massive piece of shit for this, but I mean, are we really that shocked that a motherfucker from the beginning of the Silent Generation, literally on the edge of being from the Greatest Generation, is a sexist pig who thinks women are the devil? In two years he'll be a 100 god damned years old.
Not excusable, but I mean, I'm just... not shocked, honestly.
My parents were silent generation and my siblings and I sometimes discuss how really amazed we are that they never seemed that racist and such.
Chomsky’s attitude seems representative of a lot of men and women (most of whom were younger than him) who had always described themselves as feminists, but who had similar feelings that #metoo was unfounded hysteria.
Epstein was capitalizing on that and promoting it, not just with Chomsky but with a lot of other academics outside of his usual circle.
A LOT of Boomers and silent generation people are really protective of rapists and child molesters and the systemic rape culture that enables it. Just look at how they circled the wagons around woody Allen for example it’s pretty disgusting
It seems like a fair number of men hid their abusive tendencies behind a thin veneer of feminism. I'm looking at you, Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman.