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Drake Bell came forward as a child sexual abuse victim in "Quiet on Set." He has also pleaded guilty to crimes against children. But Bell's supporters have attacked his victim and his other accusers, editing court footage for TikTok and sending vile DMs.
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This is just a new way to sexually harass women. It’s taking away your bodily autonomy and forcing you into nonconsensual sexual material, which can then be used to humiliate and discriminate against you. Not to mention the psychological effects
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More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.
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Since she was a little girl, men have been making “jokes” about wanting to rape Greta Thunberg. These “jokes” are rape culture. Men use sexual violence as a threat and a punchline when women and girls do things they don’t like.
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Please talk to your children and your younger siblings and cousins about what they’re watching on Twitch and YouTube. These influencers aren’t all fun and games. Andrew Tate was allegedly trafficking and imprisoning women and forcing them into digital sex work while INFLUENCING
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Leaving the Oppenheimer theater and heading to the Barbie theater
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Someone on Reddit said they think Selena Gomez thinks a social media break is when you close the app and I think that's exactly right
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A lot of people are defending their in-theater phone use by saying they get bored during long movies. I get that. But here's the thing — boredom is a part of life. Movie theaters are shared spaces. You aren't entitled to distract other people from the art because you're bored.
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Elon Musk was just in a Twitter Space with a few journalists and after getting like 3 questions he had to leave because he couldn’t answer a single one
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One of the most infuriating double standards is the idea that women are responsible for cooking in the private sphere (for their families and others) but men dominate the world of professional cooking for other people where they get paid
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Something the "groomer" panic totally obfuscates is that childhood sex ed can teach kids how to avoid being taken advantage of by adults, by teaching them early what consent is and that their body is their own
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Andrew Tate texted a woman "I love raping you" and described strangling her in an audio she shared with UK police. The police told her there was "an ounce of doubt" that prevented them from prosecuting him.
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Personally I think it’s alarming that people film in public spaces so frequently now that there’s a chance you’ll be in the background of someone’s viral video and other people will go viral analyzing your behavior and then people might identify and harass you further
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Fun fact: Wearing heels every day can cause ingrown toenails, irreversible tendon damage, nerve damage, bunions, osteoarthritis, and lower back pain. Also they’re uncomfortable and limit your range of motion and ability to run.
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People getting on their phones during long movies IN THE MOVIE THEATER seems to be happening much more frequently and I personally think there’s a serious internet addiction problem that we as a culture have yet to articulate let alone address
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“Parents can teach sex ed to their kids” Can parents name every STD and how they’re transmitted? Can they teach you how to identify date rape drugs? Can they define “pelvic floor”? And more importantly — would they?
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Don’t forget that Megan Thee Stallion was shot, went through unimaginable pain and fear that night, may have have bullet fragments in her feet for the rest of her life and STILL people chose to harass and villainize her. PROTECT victims. BELIEVE victims.
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For people who have been studying the misinformation campaign around the Depp v Heard trial, this verdict is chilling. The success of Depp’s “redemption arc” narrative reveals a lot about our social media platforms and ourselves.
A thread of things I learned during Depp v Heard:
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It’s almost funny watching people convince themselves that CEOs make 400x their employees because they “work really hard.” Tell me with a straight face that Bob Iger works harder than the Disney World custodial staff.
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The “bridezilla” phenomenon is a direct result of societal conditioning that tells women their wedding day is the most important day of their life while simultaneously teaching them not to expect attention or care on other days besides the one where they’re a bride
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The video of that baby scrolling on the phone officially lives rent-free in my head now. I can't stop imagining what the baby was doing. What if the baby was on Amazon. What if the baby orders an Uber
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If you think fast food jobs are for teenagers, then don't expect to get fast food between the hours of 10 PM and 3 PM the next day. No more morning coffee or drive-thrus on the way to work. You can only acquire McDonald's in the early to late afternoon. Sorry, you asked for it!
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I know y’all get mad at people for conflating The Weeknd with his character on The Idol but I must note the show is shot at The Weeknd’s house, with The Weeknd’s music playing, with The Weeknd’s character being friends with The Weeknd’s music producer who has a cameo as himself—
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The real, factual definition of child grooming is forming a relationship with a child and sometimes their family to gain the child’s trust for the purpose of sexually abusing them. It has nothing to do with LGBTQ people or drag and saying it does is harmful to real child victims
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I firmly refute that you can be good at your job, cook your own food, exercise regularly, have friends, keep your home clean AND have a dating life... something has to give
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Sophie Turner in 2020: “I’m an introvert, I’m a homebody […] If I could stay at home all day I would, so this is great for me. I leave my house like once a day anyway to walk my dogs and then that’s it.”
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Rina Sawayama is 100 million times braver than all the outlets that wouldn’t cover this and people who wouldn’t acknowledge this. Hope she gets to own her masters someday. She’s so talented and underrated
Rina Sawayama calls out Matty Healy before playing her song ‘STFU!’ at Glastonbury:
“I wrote this because I was sick & tired of these micro-aggressions. This goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers & mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I've had…
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Just your regular reminder that Stockholm Syndrome is just a theory and it was created about a female hostage by a male psychiatrist who didn't even know her in order to explain away her testimony of police incompetence in extracting her
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The Colleen Ballinger allegations have gotten progressively darker and involve older teens and very young adults coming forward about distressing situations with much older adults that left lasting trauma. It’s not a joke or a meme and I hope people take it seriously for them
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One thing about the current popular trad wife/housewife depiction is they aren’t actually doing hard, essential domestic labor — you rarely if ever see them clean their own giant sparkling kitchens or bathrooms or cook substantial food beyond desserts or special treats.
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Kids frequently go to concerts with female pop stars who wear sexy outfits, perform suggestive dances, and sing lyrics about sex — the kids sing along, wear their merch, and copy their mannerisms. This is never seen as a problem but equivalent drag performances are. You know why.
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TikTok is teaching young people how to make disordered eating ✨aesthetic✨ just like Tumblr did and it scares me
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Johnny Depp defenders crowdsourcing thousands to pay to unseal new pages and texts that support Amber Heard’s case AND outing a bunch of Marilyn Manson texts that support ERW’s case in the process… sometimes fate has a sense of humor
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Adele and Taylor Swift are almost the same age, both write songs about heartbreak, yet you don't see the same kind of mud-slinging against Adele that Taylor continues to get 15 years into her career
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A key difference in how the "male loneliness epidemic" versus the rape and domestic violence crisis is discussed: male loneliness is assumed to be a shared responsibility, a collective impediment, while the relentless and increasing sexual violence against women and girls isn't
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People calling this “boundaries” are misusing the term and failing to recognize controlling, abusive behavior. Boundaries are things you set for YOURSELF. Example: “Being around alcohol violates my boundaries, so I will leave this party.” You cannot control other people.
Jonah Hill’s ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady accuses him of emotional abuse.
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It’s so depressing to me that at one point in my life I thought the US was going to elect its first female president and now I’m unsure what rights we’ll have after the next few elections
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There’s a bot on Reddit that posts this every time someone mentions Chris Brown and it ALWAYS bears repeating
Jordin Sparks tells
@TMZ
people should forgive Chris Brown:
“That shouldn’t even be a conversation anymore. It’s about his talent… People deserve to be able grow and learn and be able to live their life without things hanging over them. Everybody deserves that, him especially.”
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“I could never be convinced to join a cult” and “I can spot a manipulator a mile away” and “I could never be abused” are all variations of the same wrong sentiment. Your false belief that you are above manipulation and abuse stems from victim-blaming culture.
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The viral Addison Rae deepfake is one of dozens I’ve seen. They’re incredibly disturbing. Back in 2020 on a podcast Addison said she wouldn’t be comfortable having an OnlyFans, but men on the internet did it anyways without her consent. It’s a violation.
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(TW abuse) The two top Reddit comments about the Jonah Hill texts on r/Fauxmoi are worth reading
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If the police can't prosecute self-admitted rapists who say they love to rape, then what are the police for, exactly? What are rape survivors supposed to do, exactly? And why do people say "just go to the police?"
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Phoebe Bridgers is one of the only prominent celebrities/artists to speak up about the double standards and victim blaming in online culture around Amber Heard
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A lot of people find American culture hypocritical because on one hand it seems obsessed with sex but on the other it seems disgusted with sex. At the core of the ideology isn’t sex at all — it’s the subjugation of women
Sharon Stone claims Basic Instinct influenced a judge to deny her joint custody of her son by telling him: "Do you know your mother makes sex movies?"
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A man beat, tortured, and nearly killed an 86 year old woman — literally destroyed what remains of her life — and his justification is that he thought she was a pedophile. Transphobia at its core is about justifying male violence toward women. They’ll tell you it’s the opposite.
We keep telling you, it's cis women that will consistently be targeted and harmed due to transphobia.
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Twitter is currently mass-banning accounts that go against it and Elon Musk’s interests, including journalists who cover him/the company, Mastodon, leftist accounts, and more
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The contradictory Oxford comma use, the missing punctuation, the random insertions of Elon-speak… It’s always immediately noticeable when copy editors get fired
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Lots of people talking about Psycho homages, not enough people talking about how she’s clearly on the Universal lot where the Bates Motel set and the tram ride is
The Bates Motel appears in Ti West’s ‘MAXXXINE.’
In theaters July 5, 2024.
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In light of today’s news that Meta provided a woman’s DMs to law enforcement to prosecute her for getting an abortion, I’m curious how social media company employees feel about their work being leveraged for these kinds of purposes. My DMs are open and I have Signal.
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Seeing people post things like “wait, when did people start liking Amber Heard? I thought we didn’t like her” is so telling because it shows how many just go with whatever the most popular opinion is regardless of the truth. And that’s exactly what happened in that case
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Jeffree Star is trying to make a comeback off mascara drama and claiming the Hollywood elite destroyed him in 2020, when in reality he paid a sexual assault accuser $45k in hush money that year and pushed his SA allegations under the rug
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Men will be like “yeah I degrade my girlfriend to lower her self-esteem on purpose so I can manipulate and exploit her and also I don’t believe women should have rights” and other men will be like please… innocent until proven guilty
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A woman said she turned down a man at the gym and he made a deepfake video of them having sex, then showed it to other guys at the gym and posted it online. He got banned from the gym but she doesn't feel safe there anymore either. by
@fortesalatifi
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“LaBeouf drove maniacally, removing his seat beat and threatening to crash the car […] While in the gas station parking lot, he threw Tahliah against the car and attempted to strange her violently while screaming in her face.” — FKA Twigs’ 2020 lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf has been cast in Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming $100 million epic feature
#Megalopolis
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Jessi Smiles did everything she was “supposed” to do. She went to the police. She got an admission of guilt. She went through court. And he got charged. And yet she’s STILL being questioned, doubted, and shamed by people who weren’t there. THAT is rape culture.
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NEW: Gloria Steinem, NOW, Women’s March, Know Your IX, National Women’s Law Center, and 140 organizations and experts in the field of women’s rights, domestic violence, and sexual assault have signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard
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Seeing people say things like “Gen Z is too smart for organized religion” no no don’t get it twisted Gen Z is simply joining cults led by lifestyle influencers instead
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Celebrities of all kinds need to stop pretending that a small group of people being mad at them on Twitter for brief periods of time is some kind of systemic disadvantage that prevents them from doing what they want. They earn tens of millions every year in “Friends” residuals
Jennifer Aniston says there’s a whole generation that finds ‘Friends’ offensive now:
“Now it’s a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians… There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of…
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People have been review-bombing the experts called by Amber Heard’s team. This is the psychiatrist who testified today. All in the last 10 minutes
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Britney Spears’ ex going to the media to complain about her censored nude Instagram posts is a repeat of history and people are swallowing it hook, line and sinker. And btw, he did this in a tabloid that has historically humiliated and sexualized her. Thread.
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“The Idol” is over. The show’s final scene was shot in front of a live audience at a Weeknd concert and went viral as the show aired, meaning the last scene and overall arc of the series was spoiled for everyone who bothered to tune in.
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Does his PR have a 5-hour timer set up to call TMZ again every time it goes off
Sources tell TMZ that Joe Jonas filed for divorce after allegedly catching Sophie Turner doing or saying something on a ring camera:
“Joe had access to a ring cam that he said captured Sophie saying and/or doing something that made him realize the marriage was over.”
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Men don't turn TO patriarchy — patriarchy already exists as the default society they're born into and raised within. Men have to turn AWAY from patriarchy as a conscious choice, and women/non-men aren't responsible for male loneliness and alienation
i really loved barbie and the themes around gender inequality and holding women to unrealistic expectations, but i also hope we don't neglect the themes around ken/men in society who feel lonely and alienated and thus turn to patriarchy out of anger and desperation
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Surreal and depressing to see people get dogpiled for asking that their real-life friend who passed not be turned into an internet true crime obsession
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People are like I’m traveling to Dubai 😎 where homosexuality is punishable by death 🤪 and a husband can legally beat his wife 🙃 and the women of the royal family have made multiple escape attempts but some are still being held captive 😅 anyways what hotels should I visit
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Iggy Azalea clearly had no idea this could be made public. She came on Twitter and said she was neutral in the case and hadn’t even spoken to Tory Lanez recently. According to her letter she hired his staff while he’s in prison and doesn’t believe he could hurt a woman. Wow.
(1/3) Iggy Azalea’s full letter written to a Los Angeles judge prior to Tory Lanez’s sentencing, obtained by
@meghanncuniff
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Dear Honorable Judge Herriford,
I'm writing to you in regards to a case in your court.
My name is Iggy Azalea and I've been a successful musician for…
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If Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney was any indication, the entire conservative media ecosphere is going to go ballistic starting midnight on May 31. Every store will be draped in rainbows and every product willl have pro-LGBTQ marketing for June. It’s already starting with Target
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Four men testified that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted them. A majority-male jury didn't side with any of them, clearing Spacey of all charges. A reminder of how men treat other men, too, when they make sexual assault allegations.
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The (alleged) James Charles interactions with minors show a pattern of JC getting aggressive + claiming that the minor lied about their age once screenshots leak.
It's an increasingly worrisome use of his power dynamic. He shouldn't be privately messaging young fans at all.
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Media literacy around this trial was abhorrent. Most people, even if they say they did, DID NOT watch the trial. They watched TikToks and YouTube videos, most of which were biased for a clear economic purpose. That’s not the same thing.
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Y’all ever feel like Bella Swan in that scene in New Moon where she sits in a chair in her bedroom for 3 months straight
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After years of studying some of the meanest comments on the internet, I’ve concluded that one of the demographics most willing to attach their real name and face to their incredibly cruel comments is white grandmothers
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From what I recall, people didn’t blare audio out of their phones in public as much back when they all had headphone jacks and you could buy cheap headphones most places for like $5. Anyways
My oldest man opinion is that headphones with cords are better
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The leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US isn’t health complications. It’s homicide. Often by a partner. The research to support this was completed as abortion rights began rolling back in many US states.
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I didn’t expect to wake up to a call from my editor telling me a YouTuber with 2.8M subscribers uploaded a secretly recorded phone call with me.
I really didn’t expect that YouTuber to then reveal on a livestream that he didn’t read the article he made a 20-min video about.
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Jenna Marbles is engaged 🥺🥺🥺 I’ve been waiting for her happy ending since I was 13 memorizing her videos 😭
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Would it be acceptable for Jonah Hill’s ex to tell him he can’t act in any more movies with women, take his shirt off, or pose for sexy pictures? No? It wouldn’t be acceptable? Okay, then the opposite is true too.
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During the Depp trial you couldn’t say a word that went against the narrative of “Depp good, Amber bad.” Even neutral statements against misogyny meant you’d be smeared and harassed for months. I look forward to the people who made their jokes getting “this you?” moments now.
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Every day I’m heartbroken by the continuous shift away from text online to audio/video. I don’t WANT to LISTEN or WATCH things. I want to READ things
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I don't know how you can speak out against beauty standards one day and sell Flat Tummy Tea to your followers the next.
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My stomach dropped when I got to this part of the Jonathan Majors investigation
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In James Charles’ “comeback” profile he says he still has to find potential partners on Instagram because — and I quote — he does not believe there are other famous gay men his age
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Jeffree Star has been accused of sexual assault. A months-long investigation I conducted found multiple allegations of violence and $10,000 hush money payment offers for his accusers.
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Quick misinfo fact-checks if you have friends or family defending Tory Lanez:
“His DNA wasn’t on the gun” — WRONG. It was inconclusive.
“He shot in the air” — WRONG. His witness said he shot “everywhere.”
“She stepped in glass” — WRONG. Bullet fragments were found in her feet.
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The Idol is anti-feminist spectacle. It’s a bastardization of the original artistic concept that was created by a woman. Her perspective as an artist was dismissed and excluded from the end product by The Weeknd. Levinson was brought on to re-center the male POV as dominant.
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Men are more likely to be sexually assaulted than be falsely accused. So if you actually care about men and male victims, you won’t contribute to a culture that prioritizes the rare false accusation over the all-too-common survivor of sexual violence.
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It’s truly mental gymnastics to position yourself as a victim of the unhoused simply because you have to see unhoused people on your commute. Poor you, having to acknowledge that poverty exists and we’re not meeting the needs of the most vulnerable
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Yesterday, I made my debut on Libs of TikTok. Cheers! I’ve been commenting more on the anti-LGBTQ hate machine, so it was only a matter of time. On the plus side, this gives me an opportunity to talk about Chaya Raichik's account through the context of my own tweet.
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I wish Greta didn’t have to grow up in this world. I wish climate advocacy wasn’t viewed as deserving of punishment. I wish girls and women were respected. I wish I didn’t have to see these “jokes” on my timeline.
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Men shouldn’t police their girlfriends’ outfits PERIOD but on top of that, these are the kinds of pictures Jonah Hill said were too “sexy.” This is just a woman existing in a swimsuit (a modest one piece and hat nonetheless) and in weather-appropriate clothing.
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When people cherrypick from Amber’s testimony, hyper fixate on her emotions and “body language,” lie about her, and make fun of her, they feed into this culture that hurts ALL victims. Even if Amber isn’t a victim, this behavior hurts victims.
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TW: rape
A woman is accusing Dom Zeglaitis, AKA Durte Dom from the Vlog Squad, of rape. She told me David Dobrik was present that night, filmed her, and used the footage for a “threesome” plot in his vlog.
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Many people who consumed this trial don’t even know that Amber has evidence, or that a UK judge ruled in her favor for 12 out of 14 incidents of abuse she testified to (with evidence).
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“She lied” is an allegation, too. If you’re going to accuse someone of being a liar, you should have to defend that allegation — and it should be treated with scrutiny, not taken as true just because someone said it.
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I don’t think people really fully grasp the implications of this. Influencers have done very bad, criminal things, but this is another level entirely.
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The same people leading the charge against Amber Heard are already turning to Evan Rachel Wood & Marilyn Manson, next. Last night, I saw people comparing Olivia Wilde to Amber. It’s more than just this one case. It’s a push to categorize women more broadly into the “bad” pile.
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