oomfies if you live near these cities I highly encourage y'all to make a fuss. businesses do listen when their customers complain and if they don't u can always protest
Eli Erlick, serial rapist, has a new book and is on tour. Both feminists & trans people are contacting venues & planning protests at the readings.
Erlick thinks silence and fame can be bought. Survivors of queer rape culture & their allies disagree.
Lisa Bonet is one of the few women who has made me feel fine about being hairy since i was a teenager because we look similar and when i saw that the hair on her arms didn't do anything to make her ugly i realized that people just want to demonize women's bodies
she does not try to cancel him she examines how he speaks to audre lorde in their 1984 conversation and discusses how he argues with her about the womens movement and how oppressed men can play a role in patriarchal oppression. critiquing men on their personal misogyny≠canceling
Because AGP is a distortion of normal male sexuality, which is highly visual, it’s common for TIMs to internalize their idealized woman in form of 2D representations, selfies, etc, which they fall in love with, like the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus.
This causes confusion when their internal self-model doesn’t get affirmed by strangers, who, like most humans, are unconsciously able to detect someone’s natal sex in 99% of cases, especially given the dimorphic effect testosterone has on the voice.
"Honor and Sex" by Salwa in TWV2 discusses honor culture in the Global South. I always thought this piece would be great for a consciousness raising group, so I formatted it as a short zine! Link to that + the Substack article below
@nellheretotell I could not finish that book! So disturbing what incels say 🤢 but yea it's really well done and I like that she's bringing light to the issue
So, chatbots are accessing people’s private data to tell them things “no one could possibly know,” and some folks see this as proof that the bots are angels / demons from another realm. The internet has broken a lot of brains. I’m begging you to log off. Read a book. Go outside.