The #iamjanedoe movement seems to have been born out of an attempt to protect Jane Doe's identity after an independent journalist put out a public call Monday to name her "so we can all evaluate her veracity … since her lawsuit didn't hesitate to name and shame seven of her peers as gang-rapists."

"Independent journalist" is usually code for "angry crank with a platform".

So let's name this asshole. Michael Tracey.

Let's look over his history:

Started with the Young Turks (you know, the "leftist" outlet cofounded by this asshole). While working with them already showed his colours in how he deals with women. Citing Wikipedia:

In June 2017, Congresswoman Maxine Waters walked away from an interview with Tracey and pushed aside his hand and microphone. The incident was captured on video. Tracey said that Waters had "initiated unwarranted physical contact" and "shoved" him, but that it was "not a violent shove".

And here you can already see the manosphere rearing its ugly head. He harrasses a woman. She pushes aside the hand he shoved in her face. He has a whiny conniption. The pattern begins: a woman did something dismissive to a man, so he freaks out.

The hypocrisy of this toad becomes more apparent when you read the next major incident:

In 2019, Tracey criticized an article by Kevin Poulsen in The Daily Beast, which revealed the identity and criminal history of a man who had allegedly created a modified video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made her appear drunk.

So apparently exposing the ID of an asshole who attacked a woman with deepfakes is bad, but exposing the ID of a rape victim is just fine, eh Mikey?

His manosphere credentials are already finely polished and we're only at 2019.

But it's not only women he hates and men he loves. He also apparently loves war crimes.

In April 2022, Justin Ling wrote in Foreign Policy that Tracey had questioned the authenticity of photos relating to the Bucha massacre as potential "war propaganda".

I can already hear the bleating voices of war crime deniers. "He only said that it was potential propaganda." We here in the trade call that "JAQing off". Just Asking Questions. Questions meant to derail conversation. It's never done for anything other than nefarious purposes.

But it's OK. It's not like he stopped hating women. That continued on:

In September 2025, Tracey was ejected from a news conference featuring survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse after Tracey questioned the veracity of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.

JAQing off again. This time to a rape victim. The manosphere pattern is secure.

If you have the stomach for it, just perusing the headlines of this rabid piece of manosphere shit's Substack will show you a distinct pattern of questioning rape victims, questioning women with authority, and excusing or denying the crimes of men in power committing atrocities against women and children. (Yes, that's an Epstein reference.) This living, walking, unfortunately still breathing pile of dysentery effluent is exactly why "Man or Bear" became a thing: bears don't punch down on women to prop up the kings.

I'm the real Jane Doe, now go ahead and find out everything about me.

I'm Jane Doe from Cornell.

Fuck these people. I'm Jane Doe.

This whole thing has really reinforced just how much I would pick the bear over a man. If I ever see a man with a Cornell degree, they're immediately a rapist in my eyes. There are no "good ones".

Oh, also, I am Jane Doe.