Tina Fetner
@fetner.bsky.social
Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
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Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
December 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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I shouldn’t be surprised and yet this one caught me off guard. WTF.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I shouldn’t be surprised and yet this one caught me off guard. WTF.
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Check out my latest article in Contexts: From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades
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From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades - Alicia M. Walker, Arielle Kuperberg, 2025
Mainstream media often plants seeds of curiosity. Challenging common notions about kink, BDSM practitioners share their media-fueled awakenings in their own wor...
journals.sagepub.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Check out my latest article in Contexts: From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I have some, uh, epistemological questions
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I have some, uh, epistemological questions
I’m no Kieran Healy, but my book also sold more copies than Olivia Nuzzi’s, and it contains useful info on sexual behaviour that will not make you want to claw your eyes out.
My Data Visualization book sold more copies than this in its first week and is also better-written.
Yikes!
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m no Kieran Healy, but my book also sold more copies than Olivia Nuzzi’s, and it contains useful info on sexual behaviour that will not make you want to claw your eyes out.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Is there anything better than students saying that they enjoyed your class after they submit the final exam? Just pure kindness and joy. 🥰
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Is there anything better than students saying that they enjoyed your class after they submit the final exam? Just pure kindness and joy. 🥰
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Ms. Magazine captured so much of what I want to say w/ Man Up in the title of this essay, which is an adapted excerpt from the book & part of a pair of pieces out this week- stay tuned for #2 tomorrow, which is a q&a interview with me & the inimitable Jackson Katz
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence
excerpt from Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, published in September, on men and mass shootings
msmagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ms. Magazine captured so much of what I want to say w/ Man Up in the title of this essay, which is an adapted excerpt from the book & part of a pair of pieces out this week- stay tuned for #2 tomorrow, which is a q&a interview with me & the inimitable Jackson Katz
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...
It’s so important in these dark times to share the history of brave resistance from dark times past.
All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.
Years before Stonewall, a cafeteria riot became a breakthrough for trans rights
All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s so important in these dark times to share the history of brave resistance from dark times past.
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"Misogyny is not a side-effect of extremism, it's a major predictor of it." Watch as SPA's @milleridriss.bsky.social discusses research findings from the US and the world on patterns and behaviors leading to a rise in violent extremism on the Australian Weekend Breakfast show.
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Misogyny is not a side-effect of extremism, it's a major predictor of it." Watch as SPA's @milleridriss.bsky.social discusses research findings from the US and the world on patterns and behaviors leading to a rise in violent extremism on the Australian Weekend Breakfast show.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Texas A&M, Indiana University, and now University of Oklahoma. Are no university administrators willing to stand up to this coordinated wave of anti-trans bullying?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Texas A&M, Indiana University, and now University of Oklahoma. Are no university administrators willing to stand up to this coordinated wave of anti-trans bullying?
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Some #sociologyoforgasms for your afternoon thanks to @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social.
Stop Faking, Start Fixing: Rethinking the Orgasm Gap
Think women’s orgasms are elusive? Think again. The problem isn’t biology, but the cultural script around sex. Here’s how to stop faking and start fixing.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Some #sociologyoforgasms for your afternoon thanks to @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social.
We are currently in a politics of schoolyard bullying, and the way out is to come together to stand up to the bullies. It’s really not that complicated.
www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...
www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...
A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare.
Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.
www.readtpa.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We are currently in a politics of schoolyard bullying, and the way out is to come together to stand up to the bullies. It’s really not that complicated.
www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...
www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...
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He’s a 10 but he flushes out the details.
He's a 10 but he says he respects you to the UPmost degree
He’s a 10 but he orders eXpresso
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
He’s a 10 but he flushes out the details.
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Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
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"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
The animal rights protesters are now the right-wing anti-vaxxer freedom-convoy truckers. Everything makes sense and all is well.
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The animal rights protesters are now the right-wing anti-vaxxer freedom-convoy truckers. Everything makes sense and all is well.
That those hand-wringing about the lack of research on treatment for trans kids want to stop research on trans kids really gives the game away, doesn’t it?
The subtext to outrage over a clinical trial to get more data on puberty blockers for GAC is that people being trans is an adverse outcome to these people.
You can't say there isn't enough clinical trial evidence and then say we shouldn't do clinical trials.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
You can't say there isn't enough clinical trial evidence and then say we shouldn't do clinical trials.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New puberty blockers clinical trial to begin after UK ban - BBC News
Those taking part in the study will be children under 16 who are going through puberty.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That those hand-wringing about the lack of research on treatment for trans kids want to stop research on trans kids really gives the game away, doesn’t it?
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
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The clitoris isn’t a “button." It's a complex organ, and most of it is internal. In today's show, we're exploring what you need to know about the clitoris with Dr. Maria Uloko.
https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-451-the-surprising-science-of-the-clitoris/
https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-451-the-surprising-science-of-the-clitoris/
Episode 451: The Surprising Science Of The Clitoris (Essential Listen) - Sex and Psychology
Throughout history, the clitoris is something that has repeatedly been discovered, described, and then forgotten.
www.sexandpsychology.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The clitoris isn’t a “button." It's a complex organ, and most of it is internal. In today's show, we're exploring what you need to know about the clitoris with Dr. Maria Uloko.
https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-451-the-surprising-science-of-the-clitoris/
https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-451-the-surprising-science-of-the-clitoris/
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Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections