Please Stop Shoving That Bernie Sanders Rape Essay In My Face

Emily Pothast
7 min readApr 3, 2020
48 years ago, Bernie Sanders wrote a spicy take about rape culture, and men can’t stop showing it to me.

Hey, did you know that Bernie Sanders once wrote an essay about a woman having a rape fantasy? If you are blissfully unaware of this fact, then you are lucky, and also you are probably not a woman who has had the audacity to express frustration with Joe Biden being the presumptive Democratic nominee despite his well-documented history of creepiness toward girls and women.

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Emily Pothast

Artist and historian. PhD student researching religion, material culture, media, and politics. emilypothast.com