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  Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! The Dehumanization of Renee Good: How Republican mockery strips women of their power “Fucking bitch” In the days after her death, Republicans described “Good as a “deranged leftist,” a “deranged lunatic,” a “violent, radical person,” and—again and again—a “domestic terrorist.” She was further characterized as “very disorderly,” a “victim of left-wing ideology,” a “violent rioter,” a “professional agitator,” and even a “left-wing terrorist” or “trained terrorist.” —  Open Letters by Mersault Across these labels ran a single insistence: that these women were not responding to reality, but were confused, brainwashed, overly emotional, mentally unwell—anything but credible witnesses to state murder. This process has a name:  monstering . Monstering is the systematic transformation of a person into something illegible as human—unstable, hysterical, dangerous, ridiculous—so that what is done to them no longer registers as violence, only...