People get really mad when feminists object to depictions of rape that seem catered to male power fantasies or even when someone says "eh, not my thing." "Art is supposed to make [rape victims] uncomfortable!" But no one gets mad at men who don't want to read victim narratives

One in eight girls sexually assaulted or raped before turning 18. Women and girls typically don’t need to read about rape and sexual assault to know it’s bad. We have our lived experiences for that. We’re also tired of sexual trauma against women being used in fiction as

This is esp annoying for stuff like "male loneliness crisis" where the correct analysis of reality is that it's stupid contrived reactionary propaganda but a thousand fingerwagging freaks on here will insist you have to always pander about it unless you want trump to win 3 terms

@Smitroverse When these types hype up homer, who they haven't read, they're really thinking of Vergil, who they also haven't read

Because the 25-year-old socialist at your office is going to lecture you about how your gatorade is made with the blood of the Global South but they're not going to do a mass shooting.

the problem with the "alien" "franchise" is that they're trying to build a mythology that explains the alien this is remarkably inferior to the original premise "there is an alien and it kills you"

“making grok anti-woke” and it starts praising hitler and divulging rape fantasies about real people is too on the nose it’s almost unreal

What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English by Anthony Madrid ⁦@parisreview⁩

The myth that Pakistani grooming gangs were protected by some kind of skewed PC/Woke deference is completely undermined by the reality that the 80% of grooming gangs that are white were also ignored. The scandal here is not race but the toxic disregard for working class girls.

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@emilykmay When boys outperformed girls on exams it was viewed as a natural and correct sign of their high intellect and diligence. When girls started to outperform boys on exams it was seen as a national crisis schools needed to fix.

This, in fact, is nice, and ascribing it to "Yookay" just shows how nakedly racist all of that stuff is

quite curious how the only men I know who don’t “feel welcome” by the literary world are talentless hacks who can’t stop being misogynistic freaks in public

whoops lost myself for about eight years there

Has anyone written about how the tech bros went from an obsession with "skill maxxing" and trying to "hack" body and mind to be superhuman to this "um, if you don't outsource everything to AI and let your mind and body turn into smooth slop you're a luddite" mindset?

Belated comment here but it is so, so funny that Richard Dawkins is identifying as "culturally Christian" now. This analysis of the New Atheists was made virtually the moment they emerged and they rejected it as the worst kind of slander

I don’t think the LLM-evangelists realize that the rest of us can never again trust anything they claim to have made. “I wrote an essay on how AI has improved my life!” Why on Earth would I read that? You can’t be counted on to communicate your thoughts using your own words.

I am a Silicon Valley transhumanist psychopath who is here to till you that a fully-automated luxury utopia awaits if you'll just let me and my friends have another trillion dollars. I am also here to tell you that the most rudimentary social programs are naive and impossible.

The problem with relying purely on books like the Hunger Games to critique those in power is that men like Elon Musk read the hunger games and think they are Katniss Everdeen