IYKYK (for the Kim Du Toit fans; the proto-Gamergate post was a post written by Kim Du Toit in 2004, which he titled “The Pussification of the Western Male”, and it is stupid as it sounds).

Since Trump’s usurpation of the few self-governance mechanisms the citizens of the mainland colony (aka ‘D.C.’) still possess, we have witnessed the spectacle of conservative Republican men pissing themselves about how dangerous it is to walk around D.C. Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin hilariously claimed he was afraid to drive around D.C. because he was afraid he would be carjacked (aside: Mullin has huge “I torture kidnap victims in my basement dungeon” energy). Another Republican and Paragon of Manliness, Rep. Tim Burchett told an interviewer that he sleeps in his office because he’s afraid to walk to an apartment (actually, he’s just cheap).

I was going to ignore this ninnyness because it’s just a dog-bites-man story: Republicans lie about crime in D.C. so often it’s just par for the course. But then Republican propagandist and plagiarist Ben Domenech excreted this onto Twitter:

As a D.C. native, I swear to you I walked around the National Mall as a kid in the 1970s and it was safe. I walked around the National Mall in the 1980s and it was safe. I walked around the National Mall in the 1990s and it was safe. I walked around the National Mall in the 2000s and it was safe. I walked around the National Mall in the 2010s and it was safe. I walked around the National Mall throughout the last five years, and it was safe.

If you are frightened to walk around the National Mall, you are not experiencing a crime problem, you are experiencing a psychological problem–and you really need help.

Look, I get it. Some people are afraid of heights. Some people are afraid of spiders. You’re afraid of the National Mall.