This galls me. It has nothing to do with "the patriarchy." These are just con artists, sociopathic criminals. Yet they have the last word in the piece to spew inane propagandistic nonsense. I don't think most people realize this, but a prosecution doesn't have to prove motive even in a murder case. It's certainly not required to explain a simple con job.
Since the publication of “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge” on July 22, six other men have come forward with accounts of Shuman’s attempting to pick them up, including one who says that, as with Hay, she told him she was pregnant with his child.