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Girl on Girl- Sophie Gilbert

“Women belong in soft core photo shoots, not in parliament”

“Power for women was sexual in nature”

“Who wouldn’t want to be a girl again, given the alternative?”

Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang : The National Colonial Amnesia

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I cannot recommend offer-only enough. You know that thing you never get to do because it’s too competitive and it’s too painful to even try for fun because you’ve spent over ten thousand hours getting paid at the most .07 cents per hour to do it? Are you tired of doing free work for possible prestige? Possible opportunities on spec, but no

Maria Bamford • Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

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"At this point, I am done debating whether transgender children and adults exist. They do exist and always have, across every continent and throughout history. That should be a settled question. But I am not done fighting for a truly just society in which we embrace, empower and elevate all people — and in which transgender youth feel safe. That is... See more

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The Making of a Millennial Woman

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Observations from recent conversations with liberals/lefties

Universal moral principles don’t exist and aren’t desirable; always do what’s best for you.
Even when I explain that social justice puts me in a box that white people prefer, to white people, it is deflected to be about how white people are still racist, and it’s a question of power.
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It is only very recently that this postmodern hatred towards every kind of ideal has gone fully mainstream — mainstream enough to take over TikTok. Just ten years ago, teenagers still revered ideals. They looked up to the red-lipped sexiness of pin-up girl pop stars like Katy Perry, a standard of beauty that was artificial — injected with plastic... See more

the critic • The death of Ideals

general decline of left-revolutionary feminism and corresponding growth of “female cultural nationalism” accompanied a gradual rise, by certain former radicals, to echelons of institutional and media privilege with seemingly endless column inches to spare for these women’s newfound anti-utopian cynicism and bitterness

Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine

Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI

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