Drew Afualo Will Never Stop Making Fun of Misogynist Men

Drew Afualo is ne'er astatine a nonaccomplishment for words. On the taxable of idiot men who get a emergence retired of shaming women online—nitpicking them implicit their weight, their dress, oregon their assemblage number (when it comes to intersexual partners)—she, successful fact, won’t unopen up.

It is wherefore her fans, and detractors, support coming back. In the years since Afualo archetypal started blasting men for their shitty, anti-feminist behaviour connected TikTok successful 2020, she has go a household sanction among Gen Z acknowledgment to her high-caliber, laser-focused, adjacent Shakespearean tongue-lashings.

As big of The Comment Section podcast connected Spotify, Afualo is adamant astir wherever and with whom she stands. Her platform, she says, is 1 men bash not person a spot on. “As idiosyncratic who makes a surviving by fumigating the net of these quality roaches, I ever say, I person the astir assertive signifier of occupation information determination is,” she writes successful her caller memoir-manifesto Loud: Accepting Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve, retired July 30, “because men volition ne'er halt being terrible, and I volition ne'er halt calling them retired for it. I slumber soundly astatine nighttime connected a mattress that those bitches paid for.”

The look is working. Afualo is everyplace now—8 cardinal followers connected TikTok, 1 cardinal connected Instagram—and possibly astir proudly, surviving rent-free successful the minds of Logan Paul-loving podcast bros who consciousness threatened by pistillate empowerment. Over the telephone from Los Angeles, we talked astir the power of family, however wit works, and wherefore she’s not overly acrophobic astir TikTok getting banned.

JASON PARHAM: If it’s OK, let’s statesman with the biggest quality of the week. Vice President Kamala Harris announced her presidential run, and volition beryllium the apt Democratic nominee. How are you feeling astir that?

DREW AFUALO: Hopeful. I consciousness similar immoderate pistillate successful a presumption of powerfulness is simply a triumph for women everywhere. It’s precise exciting.

I’ve heard a batch of Kamala can’t bash it. She’s not ready. Why bash you deliberation it’s truthful hard for definite radical to judge a pistillate tin beryllium president?

Probably the aforesaid crushed that, you know, the patriarchy has convinced astir radical that women can't bash thing without the assistance of a man. But if we were to hint each the world's problems backmost to a source, it ever comes from a man. I don't know, you archer me, wherefore bash radical deliberation women are incapable erstwhile men person created each of the world's problems?

You prosecute akin topics successful Loud. In 1 chapter, titled “It’s Okay to Be Mean,” you write, “Since the advent of societal media, the net has been a minefield for anyone who is not a cisgendered heterosexual achromatic man.” I precocious joked with a person however I sometimes wonderment if the archetypal prevarication of societal media was that everyone deserves a dependable online. So galore platforms person go a breeding crushed for hate.

The radical that I stitch [on TikTok] are beauteous indicative of “Well, possibly not.” For me, determination is simply a quality and a curse to the internet. It’s fantastic that truthful galore radical person recovered assemblage and connections done the net and been capable to scope truthful galore people, myself included.