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November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM

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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM

jube

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always amazes me when liberals say the quiet part out loud like this. most people only hated covid denialism because trump/the right was doing it, but were perfectly happy when biden did it the ""respectable"" way.

October 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM

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dropping this essay once again along with these excerpts that i think are pertinent and then dipping out of this conversation: jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...

Exerpt from "This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars" by Jude Doyle: At any rate: The sex-positive camp thought the anti-porn feminists were closet Republicans, and they were sometimes right; the anti-porn feminists thought the sex-positives were rape apologists, and they were sometimes right; both sides were being unfair and selectively spinning facts to fit a narrative, but that was only possible because they kept giving each other ammunition.

Exerpt from "This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars" by Jude Doyle: In her book The Right to Sex, Oxford professor Amia Srinivasan suggests that younger feminists are more interested in recuperating the anti-porn side of the Sex Wars partly because porn has been more ubiquitous for their generation than it was for Gen-Xers or even older Millennials. "I imagined my students would find the anti-porn position prudish and passe," she writes, but instead, "they were riveted:"
Could it be that pornography doesn't merely depict the subordination of women but actually makes it real, / asked? Yes, they said. Does porn silence women, making it harder for them to protest against unwanted sex, and harder for men to hear those protests?
Yes, they said. Does porn bear responsibility for the objectification of women, for the marginalization of women, for sexual violence against women? Yes, they said, yes to all of it.

Exerpt from "This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars" by Jude Doyle:
Significantly, Srinivasan writes, the men in her class were just as likely to agree to these statements as the women, if not more so. The reason was that anti-porn feminism's most controversial position - that porn is teaching people how to have sex; that you are likely to imitate the acts you see in porn when you have sex, and that porn therefore affects the way you treat your partners - had become an accepted commonplace of day-to-day life:
"Almost every man in that class would have had his first sexual experience the moment he wanted it, or didn't want it, in front of a screen," Srinivasan writes. "And almost every woman in that class would have had her first sexual experience, if not in front of a screen, then with a boy whose first sexual experience had been."

Exerpt from "This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars" by Jude Doyle: In other words: The men in that class acknowledged that they were using porn as their primary means of sex education, and the women in that class had come to understand that much of the bad or unsatisfactory sex they were having came down to some guy using moves he'd only seen in porn.
Using "pornography" as a general term here is misleading - there are clear differences between written erotica and a privately run OnlyFans and the non-consensually posted revenge porn that gets uploaded, with appalling regularity, to sites like PornHub - but if we confine our analysis to the sorts of mainstream porn videos aimed at straight men, and if we acknowledge that this porn is explicitly regarded as a teaching tool by its audience, I would argue that it's

September 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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not gonna bring the twitter quote dunk habit over here but this is such an absurd take when we're watching them reboot mccarthyism in real time

September 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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yeah lmao. this example is exactly what im talking about. a social contract is not an inherent moral good. the meme above can just as much be used to be about a trans person being intolerant of "god's will". i dont think this essay solved the paradox or was trying to its explaining how it works

September 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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sorry this post just annoyed me bc no it doesn't when nobody can recognize obvious dogwhistles

September 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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my dinner consisting of hod dog with dill pickle + home made pickled onion + pickled carrots on the side. lactic fermentation they could never make me hate u