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Jul 29, 2021Liked by Genevieve Gluck

Women's liberationists understood that gender was no more than institutionalized and romanticized sadomasochism. It logically flowed from that understanding that gender must be abolished for women to be liberated from patriarchy. This remains true, no matter which sex is performing femininity.

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This is one of the clearest examples of the emperor’s new clothes yet. To not appear transphobic or uncool, whole educational establishments are condoning and praising acts/works that in any other circumstance would be condemned.

Truly a sacred caste.

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His slightly humiliating denouement offers him satisfaction anyway, no depth of depravity satiates him. Academia should not be giving him/it light;

let private agencies and collectors wallow in their own filth.

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Jul 29, 2021Liked by Genevieve Gluck

This is excellent. Reading Genevieve’s longer version now. Huge respect to all of you who have the energy and resilience to research this stuff.

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They must also have stomachs of steel. I don't want these images or scenarios in my head for my own mental health and happiness. I pray my family never encounter it either. This should never be normalised.

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i'll prepare myself but will read the longer version - and dont look this up online but i was at a conference at queen mary uni - london -a few years back - where the lead talk was about 'pig sex' - a gay male thing - and using a porn 'documentary' as 'evidence' in his argument - which is totally ridiculous as however the porn narratives are 'constructed', the industry tries to persuade its audience that the actors lifestyle is attractive. - i'll try and find the name of the male academic and post here.

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https://cuntemporary.org/queer-feminist-ecocriticism/ -it was v much a queer conference - i hadn't totally realised then that young pro-porn 'feminists' dont really understand the basics of seventies/eighties feminists structural analysis. the 'pig sex 'academic' was joao florencio (at exeter uni). i was there to see the keynote speech by feminist silvia federici, and i dont entirelly understand what her connection might be/ why she agreed to be involved (i have read a little of her work but i dont really understand how italian feminisms fit into the bigger picture).

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These men are truly psychopathic ... they need therapy, not surgery

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I think a number of them need jail, you know, to get in touch with reality.

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Sadly they’d probably be sent to a women’s jail ..

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Ye GODS and Little Fishes!!!!! Send The Meteor, FAST, for The Human Race is done now....These sick, SICK males....Oh godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd! Keep them ALL away from women and girls, from boys too, their minds are utterly deranged. I grew up with Love, with Making Love, with getting to know a person before any sexual activity took place....We had values, self-respect and happiness. We were intelligent and we laughed and had hope. And NOW this is LIFE? THIS is what goes on inside the minds of way too many? All this evil hedonism that's been allowed to fester and spread, that's been deliberately spread into the minds of children, globally, by sick teachers, sick head teachers, sick porn-filled techies who've created this HELL! Is it any wonder that young girls want no part of this, that they want to pretend they're boys, so that no man can treat them like this....Schools teaching them of anal sex and oral sex, and filling their minds with 'being in the wrong bodies'....and it's all being ALLOWED to happen! I LOATHE this evil that's been put upon once innocent, happy minds...The STEALING of Childhood, the STEALING of LOVE, the manifestation of sick, mentally deranged minds being allowed to spread their sickness everywhere!

Why, oh why, oh WHY are not more Good Men & True standing up with we women? WHERE ARE THEY ALL? Why are they not uniting with Graham, with Morty, with all the other men who ARE standing up for women, for children, for girls?

This repulsive behaviour has been pushed upon idiots as NORMAL...when most of those pushing it, taking part in it, teaching it to The Young, should be locked up in Mental Institutions, for LIFE, kept away and left to their deviant deviancies, where they can only harm each other and not the rest of us....

Sorry if this post is somewhat deranged, but I want to scream with rage and revulsion over these twisted, mentally sick humans who are ruining the lives of so many, making life so horrible, removing all the magic, removing all the LOVE and all the DECENCY which once, we truly DID have.

I don't drink...but if I did, I'd be as drunk as Father Jack right now and throwing bottles at the wall.....

Thank you to all those fighting to expose this hell. Your work is much appreciated.

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I absolutely agree with every word you said.. Nearly incandescent with rage ,too !!

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I second that comment.

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Indeed. Incandescent. F*cking livid.

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Jul 29, 2021Liked by Genevieve Gluck

Analysis spot on!

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Having difficulty understanding most of that ,it's so completely BIZARRE !! Feel as if we've been transported to a parallel universe where everything's gone crazy!! How on EARTH can the people who "govern " the Western world allow these horrors to pervade decent society ??

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Unfortunately, as we were told to 'change the channel' if we didn't like the entertainment fare offered on TV, we should have been vocalizing en masse our discomfort and revulsion at some of it decades ago.

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Because they’re parasites. The whole damned thing called “civilization” is a sickness as well. Codependency from beginning to end. We sure don’t live in a balanced way like indigenous peoples do. We’re cutoff from nature, which promotes codependency instead of interdependency. I’ve been wondering lately if there’s really any way to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse. It strikes me as always having been abusive to most of the population most of the time. Perhaps because I’m a woman less than five feet tall, I’ve been identifying with Yoda lately.

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Yes, yes, yes! Only in a totally human-created environment (concrete, steel, and filth) can people be so cut off from reality that they believe the crap they profess to believe.

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I'm not remotely surprised. I went to an ivy league university. Coming from a working class family that discouraged higher education for women, I slipped in the back door by getting a job there. I worked in the business school and then the president's office. I'm sure it's no surprise that I learned far more working there than attending classes. Higher learning my arse, they are purely money driven institutions. And bastions of conservatism. It was there in the early 90's I took a biology of women course, cross listed with biology, nursing and women's studies. It was absolutely sodden with queer theory (thought that term was never mentioned.) Given my background I was intrigued by the idea that what I thought were the limitations of my biology were merely ideological impositions. It wasn't long after this I met my ex, a man who said he was actually a woman born in the wrong body. I've talked about the gruelling years that ensued with G. I recently tried to google that course. The women's studies department is gone, of course. I learned though that transitioning is now included in tuition. Student health will even kindly refer students to a surgeon at the med school. This whole travesty is going nowhere in the US. These poor young people will be volleyed back and forth between the medical establishment and the legal system for years. It needs showing up for what it is over here, a ruthless American capitalist enterprise. Fuck Princeton, fuck the ivy league, these places produced the people that created this travesty and they exist to churn out more.

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The new upside down world is all for profit. We'd be dishonest if we said we couldn't see how it has been slowly introduced over the years, piggy backing on other issues.

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The sissy porn aspect of this really rattles me. I didn't see the open embrace of it coming. I still can't believe it. I'm so grateful I got out before I realised this stuff would be glorified. Not to give TMI but if you are in a relationship with one of these men, they practice these thing on you. I mean what do people think happens when a man who thinks like this is in a relationship with a woman. they hate us. the number of times i was choked to show how he wanted it done to him. sick. brought to you by princeton.

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i so sorry for you. academia needs to be taken down for promoting such twisted fantasies.

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I totally agree. All "education" in the U.S. is a capitalist enterprise. Even community colleges have been infected with the business ethic, it's just that you get out with some training and without a huge debt load. As for our so-called elite schools, they just crank out minions to support the status quo or be our rulers. The economist Michael Hudson said years ago that if one didn't subscribe to the Wall Street ethos one couldn't get a job at the elite schools; consequently all the students get is indoctrination not information.

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A chilling way to start the day. Outraged that his absurd little wank fest didn't get the reaction he wanted. Is there even a sliver of difference between this twonk and a flasher in a grubby mac?

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It also beautifully demonstrates how fabulously we can take all their power away by not even raising an eyebrow when confronted with all their hideous kink. They demand a reaction, they want it, they crave it. We are all getting so desensitised to this nonsense there will very soon be no shock left in any of us. And that in itself is sad yes, but also empowering because with shock comes fear, and we mustn’t be afraid of these bullies. That’s the control they want.

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It’s Mummy with a toddler, isn’t it? The toddler seeking to outrage & hurt Mummy & Mummy saying “Yes, dear, very good, can I take a selfie with you?” Except he’s a full adult who longs to outrage women.

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I may be on a serious tangent, but… I received an email invite from some group “UNIFY The World”. I scrutinized the colorful email ad, was immediately triggered by the name Sophia & dug a bit deeper. Turns out that in their “A Gathering of Stories II: The Heart of The Feminine” livestream ‘experience’, a man named Daniel, aka “Zhenevere Sophia Doa” is a participant (it said in teeny tiny print). This site is his: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/lifeisafestival/zhenevere-sophia-dao. Wondering if its the same man?

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Yep. Same porn addict. I listened to that absolutely insufferable podcast. He is a 54 year old TIM who is very egotistical/ thinks he’s an enlightened spiritual leader. Claims to have rewritten Shakespeare’s Hamlet into (a T-version) “Hamlette”. Will be performed this year @The Swan Theater, Santa Fe, NM. I took notes…they’re mostly “WTF?s” But here’s 1st paragraph on podcast: “My personal notes:

Whispering man, claims to not be altering his voice WHILE clearly altering his voice (speaking in an octave higher than his natural voice, in a creepy man-whisper). Claims ‘Anger is a spiritual quality’. 🤣 Keeps dropping barely veiled threats regarding his strength, power and ability to wield it against those who upset him. 😳”. And here’s an addtl paragraph just for fun: “His Whispering is reminiscent of the “Kung Fu” tv show actor who hung himself in a closet while masturbating…(David Carradine). This is the way Mansion spoke to his followers. Cult leader-like. His tautological lecturing of incessant vagueness is cringeworthy.“

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Excellent work for the activists who swear down that the movement ISN'T about fetishes.

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Pretty obvious the faux-intellectualisation of porn type stuff is to:

1. Get off on being able to show their private sex stuff publicly and get the public to talk about it (see also: most of Twitter once you scratch the surface).

2. Keep universities in business, because this is hardly furthering human knowledge.

I miss the days when we had real counterculture and innovation. 'Intellectualising' porn is as bad as calling it 'art'.

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Never fails to astound me how much males can get away with when they hide behind the shield of gender identity.

Hetero non-trans male gets his dick out in front of women = flasher, pervert, sicko. If he claims to be trans and his penis self-identifies as a lady dick, he's suddenly vulnerable and oppressed and we must now believe him to be stunning and brave.

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