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Unrelatable 15. Voices of coercion

Fundamental to most of these utterances — begging, instructing, cautioning, admonishing the young woman — is the idea that not to obey…

2 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 15. Voices of coercion

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Mimi Kramer

Unrelatable 14. “Go ahead and step out of the car.”

I wasn’t a particularly socially conscious person. I was pretty disengaged from most of what went on in the present tense, interested in…

7 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 14. “Go ahead and step out of the car.”

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Unrelatable 10. Everything reminds me of everything

I wanted to have been targeted by Mr. New Yorker Writer simply because I’d wandered into his line of sight and not because of anything…

6 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 10. Everything reminds me of everything

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Mimi Kramer

Unrelatable 6. Unfocused

There is a kind of man who is easily angered by women, and the kind of woman who angers him is one who isn’t focused on him the way he…

3 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 6. Unfocused

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Mimi Kramer

Unrelatable 5. Irony in a moral key

What maddened Rose McGowan wasn’t so much that Weinstein continued to wield power as the fact that he continued to be celebrated and…

6 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 5. Irony in a moral key

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Unrelatable 4. Grooming

It’s always gratifying when people seem to take an interest in you for reasons that have nothing to do with sex.

6 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 4. Grooming

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Unrelatable 3. “Who will believe thee, Isabel?”

Going a little off the rails just very briefly is something I call having “an Isabella moment” because of a scene in Measure for Measure…

5 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 3. “Who will believe thee, Isabel?”

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Mimi Kramer

Unrelatable 2. There is no right move

The person at the center of a story about sexual extortion is entirely lacking in agency. And that’s unappealing. It’s also terrifying.

5 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 2. There is no right move

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Mimi Kramer

Unrelatable 1. Untold story

The story I didn’t tell is one I want to try telling now — now that the Me Too moment is over and no one is listening.

7 min readApr 21, 2023

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Unrelatable 1. Untold story

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Mimi Kramer

Reflections on the “Grace”/Ansari problem

A friend writes (I mean, a friend literally writes):

7 min readJan 19, 2018

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Reflections on the “Grace”/Ansari problem

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Mimi Kramer

Mimi Kramer

Bylines: NY Magazine, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, Time, The New Yorker and elsewhere. "Unrelatable" is a continuing series: https://mimikramer.substack.com/

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