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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“Why Do Feminists Promote Sexual Liberation If They Believe We Live In A Rape Culture?”

Hmmmm . . . lemme see here. Um, something missing in the idea that sex = rape and rape = sex. What could it be . . . .? Oooooh! Maybe CONSENT?

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I feel quite blessed to have been completely ignorant of this publication until now. I guess we can look forward to articles like “In Just 7 East Steps You Can Please Your Man, Overthrow Democracy, and Introduce Your Family to the Benefits of Slow Food.”

No thanks. If I want to laugh at a ridiculous parody of women’s mags I think I’ll stick to Reductress.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Nitpick, I know, but this:

"Millions of women across America have been forgotten by the publishing world. They’re tired of having to go to trashy or politically biased sites and magazines just to get quality reads on health, beauty, and more."

This is what the National Enquirer already existed for, I thought.

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"-shitty alternatives to art that we consume like corn syrup."

For the win!

Whenever somebody says they're "unbeholden" about something " I just assume they're beholden as fuck.

"children being forced to wear masks, social distance, and carry the burden of adults’ fear, and they believe it’s a step too far… "

Now active shooter drills - that's just good sense.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I followed a link and read an Evie article. The writing was abysmal, on a third or fourth grade level.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“…but alas…” Oh my.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Evie might more appropriately be renamed Evita or Eva.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Wait, dril is old-fashioned?

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Marabel Morgan, I sense your spirit...

Man, that's a'wading through a tsunami of sewage. At least we're spared.

Of course, the idea of powerful liberals and liberalism is another perversion from the same cohort who gave us pro-life, liberal media, freedom as in the right to commit suicide and kill others while doing so, and so on and so forth.

Gotta say, thou', the writer's intellectual confusion about Thurman's feelings about her abortion and her pro-abortion stance, well, it's can be stressful being stupid -- oh, wait, I swore I'm going to be kinder, gentler, less easily triggered (altho' I've been easily triggered like deuces before it became a thing).

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Once again, Roy mucks about in the filth and reports back, so that we don't have to. Roy, you don't get paid enough!

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I think there's a bot farm or something out there that churns out right-wing "content" and then some Koch flunky sorts them into piles -- "Let's see, 'Who Cares About Covid, Death is a Good Christian thing' -- give that to the Federalist, 'Transgenders Want Your Children's Genitalia!' -- that's for Dreher, "My G*d Ben Shapiro is Such a Genius' -- Ben Shapiro obviously, 'Women Can be Nazis, Too!" -- it's about women, put it in the Evie pile."

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When you poohpooh the idea that women's magazines are hotbeds of leftism, I think you're underestimating how much what we regard as normal really terrifies rightwingers. I mean, positive portrayals of black and/or gay people, or just being mildly sex-positive, or suggesting that it's OK to feel sorry for criminals who had traumatic childhoods or believe that there are poor people who can't find jobs. It's the same as examples of niceness or pluralism in Disney movies. To a certain mindset these things are all Communist propaganda because they make them genuinely feel threatened. Like Ben Shapiro on the subject of Wet-Ass Pussy, you know.

And then the idea that culture is upstream from politics makes them grossly confused about the power these things exert. They can't recognize that media are reflecting changes in public attitudes (in search of dollars, duh) rather than causing them. They blame the creators of La Cage aux Folles for the tragedy of same-sex marriage.

And all that looms larger in their minds than the things you and I think of as leftist issues that Disney or ladies' magazines (other than maybe Teen Vogue) won't touch, like corporate greed or systemic racism, because those are so hard to think about, and what I saw on TV last night is easy. I.e., they're dumb and lazy. So I think they really mean it.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"...finding real-life culminations of the good men depicted in stories and movies is uncommon”

No, you don't say.

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The neat switcheroo into victim complex fantasia never does fail to amaze me. The "vaccine passport" (as if such a thing actually exists) equals Racism is gobsmacking. Which then is always followed by "We need to ban CRT because it says that Racism exists." [caveat: I know the principle is more complex & nuanced than that, this is the RWNJ reduction/parody]

Here's the better headline:

“Why Are We Ignoring That Acts of Racism are Racism In Action?”

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The whole Kulturkunst marchstep to the bottom reveals infinite worlds into the political psychology of teh Fascists. In Marxian analysis (which is not intended as an ideal, but a model for how things actually work in any society), society consists of an economic Base overlayed by the Superstructure. Base contains labor, capital, resources, economic relations, etc. The Superstructure is everything cultural or political that justifies & defends how that Base is constructed --so laws, policing, religion, education, art, music, etc. They are always reflections of each other, and real social change cannot occur until the Base itself changes.

For the Fascists, the model is reversed. If Culture is right, everything falls into place. Workers worry more about "miscegenation" than misapproriation; the "wages of sin" more than one's own wages.

The kicker here is how quickly most accept the Fascist model as natural & where the war actually is. This is one reason I'd argue that most of the Anglo-American world has been low-grade Fascism since 1865. Many are totally comfortable engaging the Fascists on the cultural side because it's easier than thinking about why they're there: they're there to protect some form of capitalism, labor exploitation (which is usually racially inflected), corporatist -- though not their accelerated, global versions seen today. A colonial, imperial model maybe...

Also, the culture war aspects are funnier & easier to mock, but not the systemic solution to Fascist bedbugs...

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“men work 8.5 hours, compared to 7.6 hours for women”

Its almost as though there’s a correlation between the number of men in upper management positions and the lower number of women in those same positions. It’s hard to “work” 8.5 hours a day when you can’t take 3-hour “working lunches” and compulsively check your stock portfolio online and call it “work.”

Also, maybe women are often forced into jobs with that purposefully keep them from full-time status and benefits?

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