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Ha. Weird, I was literally 30 minutes ago reading some poems by Wilfred Owen. Seems a strange reference though. Maybe just a reference to the bleakness?

This seems contradictory. In an earlier part, he said that only high-risk individuals saw an increase in sexually aggressive behavior with increased usage, but now he's saying every user does? An inconsistency to be sure.

There is also a glaring need to specify in these studies whether we're talking about any use, moderate use, or high use, and define what those terms mean.

For the most part, I think he's done a pretty good job at producing evidence to back up his claim without getting into moral discussions, but this chapter definitely is religious-coded. A mother should be modest? A dad should set curfews and rules for his daughters, but the son just needs a good ol' man-to-man conversation? Ugh.

Individualism is one of the leading tenets of *liberalism*? Interesting. I feel like that one could easily go both ways. After all, isn't the prevailing conservative viewpoint that individuals are not representative of their circumstances, but unique people with individual choices? Not a reflection of the system as a whole?

"...she is not *fighting* the sexually repressive patriarchy by letting millions masturbate to a film of men abusing her. She is playing to them."

Interesting point here. Even if we take the tack that there are women who genuinely enjoy degradation and humiliation (and I am not saying there aren't), then 1. Are we sure that the number isn't artificially inflated) & 2. Their actual desires still reinforce the patriar

"But it struck me right then that I didn't know anybody who seemed to believe it. I didn't know anybody who didn't talk about life like it was small, its possibilities limited to whatever they, themselves, could imagine."

Oh, Fannie. I'm disappointed in you. This is veering into "everyone's too woke" territory.

Oh... oh no. That's not what "cis" means. How did an editor let THAT slip by?