How to Stop OnlyFans: A Response to Matt Walsh

The shame of this has its own perverted delusion: an addict’s pride in the genius it takes to satisfy an addiction.

shame shuts people down. On social media or in the twenty-four-hour news cycle, we frequently hear, “If you vote X way or think X way, you’re an idiot.” We don’t denigrate the opinion, we denigrate the opinion holder.

Victimhood rather than stoicism or heroism has become something eagerly publicized, even sought after, in our culture. To be a victim is in some way to have won, or at least to have got a head start in the great oppression race of life. At the root of this curious development is one of the most important and mistaken judgements of the social justic

Is sexy wrong? Is sex wrong? It can’t be wrong, but how can something that has forever been twisted to subjugate women not feel wrong? My girls stare at me, waiting for the verdict. Delivering it feels above my pay grade.

These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world—digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism—makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral living very hard. You don’t end up using a news story about a dead toddler as a peg for white entitlement withou

The shame of this has its own perverted delusion: an addict’s pride in the genius it takes to satisfy an addiction.