"However bad #Orwell's attitudes toward women were, the warning he gave us in “1984” was not that society might someday become so twisted that women would criticize him. [#1984] was a warning against the kind of leaders who call their opponents “vermin" . . . it was written about leaders who become cult figures, whose idealized image is plastered everywhere as a symbol of belonging, who hold rallies at which their followers join to scream in ecstatic hatred."
