Okay, so I haven't watched the show but I just read a preview of the source material on Amazon and, well, if anyone claims to be reading these books because of "allyship" or similar, then that is uh definitely a thing they can tell themselves

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This is the money paragraph, and it's not just male sexuality but maleness in general that gets the non-negotiable treatment. Men can consume great art or watch porn (or both!). But media for women is assessed through a social justice lens. This particular front of the culture war is women's work.

I'm Canadian and am quite sure that if this happened in Canada, we'd be writing letters to our representatives that were slightly more firm than polite.

the common wisdom is *still* to think all the objections come from Christian conservatives! This is the first I've heard of this story about books being pulled for "woke" reasons, whereas every few weeks my feed is wall-to-wall commentary about the conservatives driving the book cull in Alberta.

aw man, I didn't realize why this was being retweeted *today*

Most of my colleagues as well as myself have stopped assigning homework. It's all in-class assessments now. I hate it.

michellerempelgarner.substack.com/p/no-brainer... I haven't seen her video, but two years ago she tabled legislation that would outlaw the distribution of deepfake nudes without the consent of person whose likeness is used. As things stand, the deepfakes produced by Grok are not illegal in Canada.

I'm anti-institutional-statement for this sort of thing but man did it ever give away the game when leaders stopped staking out their brave and principled positions as soon as they encountered pushback.

dated April 26, 2024 - yup, that tracks

There are tons of scientific studies about the health benefits of chocolate, just saying

Not to detract from your main point, but hospitalized patients can vote via special ballot: connectfm.ca/en/news/post...