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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 11d

ok but why does "art that makes you uncomfortable" mean rape porn half the time? like i was just having a conversation about how one of my favorite films triggered a literal panic attack, i promise the critique of rape porn isn't primarily driven by "discomfort" or "ick" or whatever.

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 12d

"The review of mifepristone marks the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has marshaled false medical claims and junk science in an effort to constrain the freedoms of pregnant women and curtail their access to relief," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan

www.theguardian.com

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

judith's dagger has a good essay on this: immerautonom.noblogs.org/sex-desire-a...

Sex, Desire, and Violence – Immer Autonom

immerautonom.noblogs.org

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

rape is bad and sex is good, therefore rape must not be a kind of sex at all. this is absurd and very much not what feminist critiques of the "uncontrollable desire" model of rape were trying to argue. they absolutely criticized our culture for constructing "sex" in patriarchal, rapey terms.

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

liberal sex positive feminists have taken this basic idea - that rape is driven by a desire to exercise power, not uncontrollable horniness - and used it to cast sexual violence outside the domain of "sex" entirely. this is often rooted in a tendency to essentialize sex as neutral or even good.

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

yes and no. the idea that "rape is about power, not sex" was meant to communicate the first part of this post: rape is not the result of uncontrollable desire. it was never meant to fully *desexualize* rape as a practice of social domination though, and that's problematic.

Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 12d

What you have to understand is that sexual violence is violence, not sex.

It is not motivated by an inability to control one's sexual desires; it is motivated by a desire to hurt, contaminate, defile, often in response to perceived slights

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

y'all know you can just go to 4chan if that's your thing, right??

extra rabbits @fatalizm.net · 14d

We keep telling this restaurant we’re deathly allergic to censorship and they keep insisting it’s just a little bit.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 21d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

making it clear that everyone in a porn video consented is good actually

Raelyn of Roan @lesbionagem.bsky.social · 12d

"we permit sexual content but only with clear consent"... You mean: speech?? Not everyone can speak.
The person/character needs to sign a contract "on camera" now???

God forbid some BDSM or kink stuff 🙄

Bluesky @bsky.app · 21d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 12d

a lot of folks who took a principled stand in favor of platforms deplatforming fascists are about to make a hard 180 and suddenly decide deplatforming is censorship actually

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15d

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms.

Trump will now pull millions in federal funds.

"Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right."

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Chicago Public Schools Defy Trump, Reject Trans Bathroom Ban Demands

The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Miss Anemia 1997 @bitegavemepowers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16d

“The University of California will survive federal funding cuts if it must... It will not survive the sacrifice of our institutional autonomy, academic freedom, or civil rights on the altar of a specious claim to be ‘combatting antisemitism.’” jweekly.com/2025/09/24/j...

Jewish faculty to UC: Don’t negotiate with Trump

More than 200 Jewish faculty across the UC system sign a letter expressing alarm that leaders have allegedly begun negotiating a settlement.

jweekly.com

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 16d

indigenous systems of knowledge production did not and do not need legitimization by way of their alleged similarity to white western science, they do not need approval from that or any other western discourse full stop

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 16d

the problem with "indigenous people were actually already doing science, we were just too racist to recognize it" is that you are still upholding white western forms of knowledge production as the standard against which all others are judged

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 16d

yes definitely appreciated that!

trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 17d

we - and here i mean marginalized critics of science more generally - absolutely do question the absolute epistemic authority of science, as well as the onto-epistemology that underlies the western enlightenment metaphysics which tends to guide most scientific practice today

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 17d

and certainly it's true that reactionaries strawman these arguments, presenting them in the most ridiculous light possible. but "scientific ways of knowing and their knowledge products aren't universal or transcendent" is in fact a common argument made by indigenous sts scholars

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 17d

really enjoying this. the only critique i have is he does this thing liberals often do in the face of radical decolonial critiques of science, where they try to water down those critiques bc surely reactionaries are lying when they say these scholars deny the universality of scientific knowledge

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18d

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

The War on Science

YouTube video by Shaun

www.youtube.com

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18d

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

The War on Science

YouTube video by Shaun

www.youtube.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

media.tenor.com

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 28d

fuck widow so fucking much

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28d

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 28d

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

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trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social · 28d

i'm sorry *third* phase??!? 😭😭😭

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 28d

"Don't speak ill of the dead when they can no longer defend themselves." Actually their entire life is their defense. Their legacy is the sum of their words and actions, a testament to the person they were. If you want people to remember you fondly, don't leave behind only rancid memories.

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