Michael Sherman
@michaelsherman.bsky.social
as solid as they come
Film and Moving Image Studies MA student at Concordia University
Film and Moving Image Studies MA student at Concordia University
as far as I understand, she has yet to vote in a single way that deviates from the republican party status quo. it’s all just a performance for the media. in other words, she’ll make a great democrat
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
as far as I understand, she has yet to vote in a single way that deviates from the republican party status quo. it’s all just a performance for the media. in other words, she’ll make a great democrat
is it too soon to be added if you’re only in an MA?
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
is it too soon to be added if you’re only in an MA?
https://bsky.app/profile/radosh.bsky.social/post/3lsjvj4256c2q none of the journalists even bothered to fact check them with what zohran said verbatim. as he has been with each statement since he has started his campaign, zohran was incredibly measured!
June 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/radosh.bsky.social/post/3lsjvj4256c2q none of the journalists even bothered to fact check them with what zohran said verbatim. as he has been with each statement since he has started his campaign, zohran was incredibly measured!
Certainly! The sheer number of contemporary facile critiques of the depiction of sex in film suggests astonishing levels of media illiteracy. The landscape for nuanced criticism is bleak...
June 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Certainly! The sheer number of contemporary facile critiques of the depiction of sex in film suggests astonishing levels of media illiteracy. The landscape for nuanced criticism is bleak...
And not for nothing, MacKinnon, unlike a lot of writers of her generation, has been steadfast in her support for trans rights for decades. Her essay on Marxist Feminism in 1983 has an incredible foonote where she asserts not just gender but also sex as a social construct.
June 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
And not for nothing, MacKinnon, unlike a lot of writers of her generation, has been steadfast in her support for trans rights for decades. Her essay on Marxist Feminism in 1983 has an incredible foonote where she asserts not just gender but also sex as a social construct.
I apologize for taking a ton of space here, and willing to concede that I'm maybe being naive about MacKinnon's invocation. Just thought I'd chime in with a Gen Z perspective of my respect for her and Srinivasan's academic writing.
June 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I apologize for taking a ton of space here, and willing to concede that I'm maybe being naive about MacKinnon's invocation. Just thought I'd chime in with a Gen Z perspective of my respect for her and Srinivasan's academic writing.
Srinivasan does a much better job articulating this than I do, but I hope there's a way to take MacKinnon's diagnosis can move people toward liberatory rather than puritanical notions of sex.
June 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Srinivasan does a much better job articulating this than I do, but I hope there's a way to take MacKinnon's diagnosis can move people toward liberatory rather than puritanical notions of sex.
When pornography (and certainly not the extant generic form of feminist porngarphy) has intractably become the foremost pedagogical tool for sex for teenage boys, I think that lends some credence to MacKinnon's POV.
June 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
When pornography (and certainly not the extant generic form of feminist porngarphy) has intractably become the foremost pedagogical tool for sex for teenage boys, I think that lends some credence to MacKinnon's POV.
For sure! Their policy prescriptions flatly didn't work. The reality, I think it is safe to say, that nearly every gen z kid in the US has their first interaction with sex mediated through internet pornography which I think has reasonably granted legitimacy and prescience to MacKinnon's stance
June 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For sure! Their policy prescriptions flatly didn't work. The reality, I think it is safe to say, that nearly every gen z kid in the US has their first interaction with sex mediated through internet pornography which I think has reasonably granted legitimacy and prescience to MacKinnon's stance
But I think there's something appealing in MacKinnon and the second-wave feminist's call to politicize pornography, sex, and desire more broadly amidst what feels like, in progressive spaces, a hegemonic belief that these concepts exist on the plane of individuals.
June 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
But I think there's something appealing in MacKinnon and the second-wave feminist's call to politicize pornography, sex, and desire more broadly amidst what feels like, in progressive spaces, a hegemonic belief that these concepts exist on the plane of individuals.
Srinivasan's essay on "Talking to My Students about Porn," I think gets to exactly why Catherine MacKinnon has an appeal for, what seems like, a meaningful portion of Gen Z. To be clear, I absolutely want to repudiate MacKinnon's suggested policy solutions.
June 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Srinivasan's essay on "Talking to My Students about Porn," I think gets to exactly why Catherine MacKinnon has an appeal for, what seems like, a meaningful portion of Gen Z. To be clear, I absolutely want to repudiate MacKinnon's suggested policy solutions.
I'm entering this conversation with some trepidation not having read the primary sources in feminist porn studies. My limited familiarity has come through reading Amia Srinivasan's essays in the The Right to Sex, which I understand have many detractors.
June 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I'm entering this conversation with some trepidation not having read the primary sources in feminist porn studies. My limited familiarity has come through reading Amia Srinivasan's essays in the The Right to Sex, which I understand have many detractors.
sadly even he, a guy who participated in wild cat strikes, kinda equivocated on violent protest. here's the full interview archive.ph/KPeSR
archive.ph
June 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
sadly even he, a guy who participated in wild cat strikes, kinda equivocated on violent protest. here's the full interview archive.ph/KPeSR
The last couple days I've been thinking about Mike Davis' last interview before his passing where he talked precisely about the issue of left institutions lack of willingness or readiness to capitalize on the appetite for protest from young people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The last couple days I've been thinking about Mike Davis' last interview before his passing where he talked precisely about the issue of left institutions lack of willingness or readiness to capitalize on the appetite for protest from young people.
Jamelle is one of a kind at major publications. How he got his NYT editor to let him open a column with an eighteenth brumaire quote is beyond me: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/opinion/midterms-republicans-election-denialism.html
April 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Jamelle is one of a kind at major publications. How he got his NYT editor to let him open a column with an eighteenth brumaire quote is beyond me: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/opinion/midterms-republicans-election-denialism.html
they periodically do cordial interviews with "enemies" to get their takes, but this episode does good introspection about how their interview with a 25 y/o New Right guy ended up platforming a real Enemy: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair - Dissent Magazine
Nate Hochman was fired from Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign after producing a video containing a Nazi symbol. Matt and Sam reflect on why they invited him on the show in 2021—and on what his traj...
www.dissentmagazine.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
they periodically do cordial interviews with "enemies" to get their takes, but this episode does good introspection about how their interview with a 25 y/o New Right guy ended up platforming a real Enemy: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
dang, this episode is paywalled, but I think what you're looking for: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tea...
TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont | Know Your Enemy
Matt and Sam bring you the latest from the “caesarist” wing of the conservative movement: including a new piece on the Claremont Institute and Sam's profile of Blake Masters. Subscribe on patreon.com/...
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
dang, this episode is paywalled, but I think what you're looking for: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tea...
A fair number of the episodes are more rooted in discourses and scholars from a hundred years ago than you're probably looking for, but they have quite prescient episodes from 2022 and 2024 discussing Peter Thiel and the politcal candidates he backed in the midterms and obviously Vance.
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A fair number of the episodes are more rooted in discourses and scholars from a hundred years ago than you're probably looking for, but they have quite prescient episodes from 2022 and 2024 discussing Peter Thiel and the politcal candidates he backed in the midterms and obviously Vance.
My favorite podcast is two millennial socialists former grad students discussing the intellectual traditions of the modern conservative movement. It's called Know Your Enemy and is sponsored by Dissent.
March 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
My favorite podcast is two millennial socialists former grad students discussing the intellectual traditions of the modern conservative movement. It's called Know Your Enemy and is sponsored by Dissent.
For sure! His book on Clarence Thomas is fantastic
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
For sure! His book on Clarence Thomas is fantastic
If January 6 and Elon Musk taking over the government can't convince the "Trump's not a fascist" camp of what this is, I'm not sure anything can. Maybe if they start making specific allusions, say a hand gesture. Oh wait...
February 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If January 6 and Elon Musk taking over the government can't convince the "Trump's not a fascist" camp of what this is, I'm not sure anything can. Maybe if they start making specific allusions, say a hand gesture. Oh wait...
"What the right-wing populist marchers were demanding in 1934 Paris was 'republic by plebiscite.' Meaning: a true sounding of the French people’s desires, to get around a corrupt parliamentary system 'dominated by Jews, and special interests, and the Masons.'"
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"What the right-wing populist marchers were demanding in 1934 Paris was 'republic by plebiscite.' Meaning: a true sounding of the French people’s desires, to get around a corrupt parliamentary system 'dominated by Jews, and special interests, and the Masons.'"
"[Ganz] introduced to me an idea that blew my mind a little. It was articulated during a political crisis in France in the late Third Republic that culminated in a failed march on the Chambre des Députés on the night of February 6, 1934, leaving 16 dead."
February 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"[Ganz] introduced to me an idea that blew my mind a little. It was articulated during a political crisis in France in the late Third Republic that culminated in a failed march on the Chambre des Députés on the night of February 6, 1934, leaving 16 dead."