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Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activis...

"Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as a political problem? The modern manosphere has been metastasising for many years – and for years, mainstream culture has responded with a helpless shrug."
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#misogyny
#manosphere

My pronouns are they/them, not she/her.

"It was apparently inconceivable that violence against women could constitute a crisis – unless, of course, the violence was blamed on immigrants or on transgender people, at which point women’s safety suddenly shot to the top of the political agenda."
@pennyred.bsky.social gees it laldy

Candid footage of me meeting my best friends’ baby for the first time

May I take this opportunity to congratulate all the anti-wokers for winning their precious little culture war. Well done, guys, hope the liberal tears were worth it.

May I take this opportunity to congratulate all the anti-wokers for winning their precious little culture war. Well done, guys, hope the liberal tears were worth it.

Thank you!

"But until straight men can be trusted not to self-regulate with sex and romance in that compulsive, dehumanising way - well, anyone who behaves like that probably shouldn’t be dating at all, let alone dating multiple people."

Straight Men Are Now Banned From Polyamory. Change my mind.

"I’ve watched genuinely good-hearted men, who truly didn’t set out to exploit anyone, become fuckboys simply because they were overwhelmed by options, were pathologically conflict-avoidant and hated making choices."
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Straight Men Are Now Banned From Polyamory. Change my mind.

Sorry to be obnoxiously 2014 about all this, but patriarchy is still the problem. open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

Straight Men Are Now Banned From Polyamory. Change my mind.

"I’ve watched genuinely good-hearted men, who truly didn’t set out to exploit anyone, become fuckboys simply because they were overwhelmed by options, were pathologically conflict-avoidant and hated making choices."
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Oh no, I’m sorry.

But sir, your picture clearly reveals you to be a cat…

What should I be sounding reluctant about?

Straight Men Are Now Banned From Polyamory. Change my mind.

open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe... I really wish it hadn’t come to this.
(New essay)

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

This is a good response.

Temporarily Embarrassed Sex Criminals Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: almost every man on earth has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein's victims than he does with any of the guests.

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‘Patriarchy is a pyramid scheme’

"Weaponising male rage against women’s supposed social-sexual dominance is a convenient proxy war. It’s a decoy for the rage… that comes with being in a putrefying world system. It is a stand-in for t unspeakable experience of class shame. For t indignity of loneliness & disappointment and decline."

Patriarchy is a pyramid scheme. Patriarchy funnels the rewards of male violence towards the elite while collectivising the shame, pain and frustration. Ordinary, alienated men & boys are left to stew in the self-loathing that says intimacy is something they have to tear from another human by force.

Brill “The story claims that the real power differential in society, the one that actually matters, is women’s sexual power over men.
… The power, specifically, to withhold sex and everything that is supposed to come with it: pleasure, care, intimacy, validation, belonging, status, self-respect.”

Temporarily Embarrassed Sex Criminals Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: almost every man on earth has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein's victims than he does with any of the guests.

Patriarchy is a political system for making traitors out of men.
I wrote about organised misogyny and the Epstein Files.
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"Patriarchy is a political technology. It is designed to persuade men that their interests lie with a small elite rather than with the other half of the human race."

Temporarily Embarrassed Sex Criminals Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: almost every man on earth has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein's victims than he does with any of the guests.

open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

‘Patriarchy is a pyramid scheme’

Temporarily Embarrassed Sex Criminals Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: almost every man on earth has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein's victims than he does with any of the guests.

Patriarchy is a political system for making traitors out of men.
I wrote about organised misogyny and the Epstein Files.
open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

By ‘invent’ do you mean ‘enforce’?

Laurie Penny (@lauriepenny) This is the most practical, in-depth piece of writing advice of the series so far. Narrative Voice is such a basic technique that almost nobody bothers to explain it- which leaves a lot of writers...

This is the most practical, in-depth piece of writing advice of the series so far.

Narrative Voice is such a basic technique that almost nobody bothers to explain it- which leaves a lot of writers struggling without knowing why.

Here’s how it works. You’re welcome.

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They finally arrested the Arsehole Formerly Known As Prince.

They finally arrested the Arsehole Formerly Known As Prince.