Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He’s A Pedophile

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Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.

By Jesselyn Cook and Andy Campbell

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iac.

This isn't a fringe idea at all -I've read some books (one example which comes to mind is a fantasy novel written by a woman) where a (not satirical) element of the story was that of women volunteering to keep young men happy by engaging in prostitution for the 'greater good' that would come from young men not being denied (frequent) sex.(1)

I remember reading, also, 'The Rainbow Cadenza' by J. Neil Schulman, where women are drafted into organized prostitution in order to keep straight men happy. (I think the book has problems and it is problematic, but it did make me think which I appreciated.)

When I read this, my (female) friends' general response was: that could never happen.

Except it could.

Finally, I think it really bears noting that there is also a big difference in the way white women's and WOC's bodies have been and continue to be treated, which is something discussed in several critiques of 'The Handmaid's Tale'. (2,3)

References:
(1) My review of 'Shifting Plains', by Jean Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/513042380
(2) The Handmaid's Tale's race problem: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/31/the-handmaids-tales-race-problem
(3) In Its First Season, The Handmaid’s Tale’s Greatest Failing Is How It Handles Race: http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/the-handmaids-tale-greatest-failing-is-how-it-handles-race.html

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It's very telling that the most repeated "solution" to incels I see online is to shove them off onto sex workers to fix. This is horrifying because siccing violent misogynists on sex workers will likely result in increased abuse, rape, and murder of sex workers.

Thank you for the links. I'd seen some critique regarding the post-racial cop out happening on Handmaid's Tale elsewhere. Haven't watched the show and definitely need a refresher on the book because I'd completely forgotten Atwood hand-waving the entire black population into camps never to be mentioned again. :/ Seems like most western dystopian fiction is ultimately just “what if white people had to endure the lived experiences of poc?” Even the alien invasion genre is all just colonizers fearful of being colonized by something with bigger guns.

I read Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts for a class and it discusses the commodification of black reproduction during slavery, the bolstering of the eugenics movement tied up in the history of Planned Parenthood, the forced sterilizations, medical experiments in pursuit of contraceptive research, the welfare queen myth, etc. It really crystallized for me that the history of reproductive rights balances on this terrible fulcrum where white women achieving the freedom not to have children comes at the cost of black women (and other woc) being denied the freedom to have children. And the conversation about reproductive freedom myopically centering abortion effectively obscures this reality.

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Sorry for the belated response on my part!!

"It's very telling that the most repeated "solution" to incels I see online is to shove them off onto sex workers to fix. This is horrifying because siccing violent misogynists on sex workers will likely result in increased abuse, rape, and murder of sex workers."

iac.

"Thank you for the links. I'd seen some critique regarding the post-racial cop out happening on Handmaid's Tale elsewhere. Haven't watched the show and definitely need a refresher on the book because I'd completely forgotten Atwood hand-waving the entire black population into camps never to be mentioned again. :/ Seems like most western dystopian fiction is ultimately just “what if white people had to endure the lived experiences of poc?” Even the alien invasion genre is all just colonizers fearful of being colonized by something with bigger guns."

tbh, I'd forgotten about the book myself until I read critiques of the show. :)

"I read Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts for a class and it discusses the commodification of black reproduction during slavery, the bolstering of the eugenics movement tied up in the history of Planned Parenthood, the forced sterilizations, medical experiments in pursuit of contraceptive research, the welfare queen myth, etc. It really crystallized for me that the history of reproductive rights balances on this terrible fulcrum where white women achieving the freedom not to have children comes at the cost of black women (and other woc) being denied the freedom to have children. And the conversation about reproductive freedom myopically centering abortion effectively obscures this reality."

Wow. Thanks for the reference, I hadn't heard of Roberts' book -I will definitely go read it.

And iac.