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I'd add the US's long history of using interracial cuckoldry to oppose change. Prominent proslavery Americans constantly accused abolitionists of wanting to sic freed blacks on the nation's strategic white women reserve, or wanting to have black wives (apparently bad).

I'm an astrophysicist who lost funding to the dark matter people when they became cool and I still felt weird about that comparison? 🤷🏼‍♀️

At the same time, bravo for probably the most precise treatment of this phenomenon ever. And also, strategically avoided questions: what could be done about this? I mean, *believable* solutions?

i'm glad the guy enjoys porn but this article is nutso just in my specific lane: ✅ liking helen lewis ✅"transgenderism" ✅"tons of trans women enjoy [sissy porn][because they are doubtful about their gender identity]" ⁉️bridget's "canon identity as a trans woman has been hotly debated" coolcoolcool

yes. you don't explain why it's important, so you're introducing a powerful tool of transmisogyny to people who can't be trusted not to use it. relying on cis readers to click through (ha) & read a breakdown written by a trans woman (ha) is irresponsible esp w/ the associations made subsequently

I'm also not seeing any discussion in the article of irony or humor. Maybe it's my own POV on smut but so much of it is deliberately absurd and winking. Which isn't to dismiss criticisms of the industry, it just feels like this analysis is as po-faced as the right-wingers it seeks to call out.

A fascinating explanation of why MAGAs are so fucked up. Another angle (for another article?) could be the role pedophilia plays in the modern right wing. From Epstein on down, the cruelty and power imbalance is just as intrinsic to MAGA as IRCP theory. I think this should be explored.

I've thought this was the case for a long time. Thank you for tying it all together. It explains some of the anger directed at Hillary/Kamala. One thing, that I find interesting, is if you go to TikTok or Instagram, many folks who basically use the accts to promote their OF's, are maga.

Wow. So instead of seeking therapy and learning how to talk back to their irrational thoughts, we get this ratcheting up of misogyny, and racial animus. Could it also be giving people an excuse for their own laziness? Self-improvement pays off, but here’s a way to justify staying stuck.

PORN shaped Internet data transmission & streaming video tech. In 90s my biz Pharmacy was struggling with msg data limits (avoid timouts) on limited network bandwidth. Also online pymt systems. Banking was struggling too. Pornhub figured those out & then online pay-per-view Streaming video.

Ha, I've long been joking that we might just reach those voters and counterbalance fox propaganda if we found a way to inject truthful messaging into porn.

Good article, but it kind of annoys me that the author couldn’t say “yes,and” instead if “no, but” to the feminist theorists, painting his porn-based assessment of the right as having more substance than that of the women. The women were correct and it took away from the point of the article.

I don't know whether the author of this article has as good a grasp on trans women as they seem to think. Like, do *tons* of us really watch sissy porn? And not just before our transitions but during and after them? From what little of it I've seen it's clearly aimed at cis men.

Sissy porn seems to present feminisation more than anything else as a) thoroughly degrading and b) a path to gay sex with men, which... isn't how trans women would generally look at it. We actually get harassed online by sissies (who steal our personal pics and put them in porn) quite a lot!