Trump's election has really ushered in a disturbing era where all of the worst types of men on the internet- MRAs, incels, the "I think you'll find it's actually ephebophilia" flavor libertarians -are not only crawling out from under their rocks but loudly proclaiming their hatred of women as a perfectly rational response to feminism and the perception of losing the culture war. If they're not running people down with trucks, or shooting up schools, they're running for office
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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
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There has got to be some sort of brain damage for a person to think like this and say it out loud with so much self assurance. He's even running for Congress! Wow! I mean, I realise that men are more often than not entitled, lacking empathy and selfish to the core, but they at least know enough not to say stuff like this out loud because they will out themselves as monsters.
This guy needs to be removed from society ASAP. There must be grounds to arrest him in here somwhere! He probably has a long trail of victims behind him. He has nothing of value to contribute and has already caused enough evil.
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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 ( ... )
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This guy needs to be removed from society ASAP. There must be grounds to arrest him in here somwhere! He probably has a long trail of victims behind him. He has nothing of value to contribute and has already caused enough evil.
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People are open-minded.
I don't think the majority of any population is open-minded to THAT.
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