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how come Perez Hilton is not imprisoned????

…images replicating images replicating images, all trading in the currency of sex and the commoditizing of body horror

final girl, the hardest chapter to read so far. And it’s about… you guessed it… torture p*rn 💀

The ideal woman of the era had “breast like an inflatable doll, no hips at all, and the tidy, a hairless labia of an unviolated six year old”. Such a form, is worth noting, can’t actually be humanly attained. It has to be purchased.

will my body be able to contain the amount of rage i feel? 🚬

The recent history of technology is written on women’s bodies[…] Womanhood has been tailored into something narrow and even archaic, by a media culture that has strained us to surveil ourselves and adjust things accordingly.

sick and tired 🫩

“If the hero’s curse is unwanted virginity, then who is the villain who cursed him? Inevitable: a teenage girl”

oh. my. fucking. god.