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Bootleg version of David Foster Wallace’s graduation speech “This is Water”

Lot of great stuff in Chapter 8. Not totally sold on all of her cultural analysis (Is The Matrix the movie we’d pick as an example of valorizing white male patriarchal violence?), but the stuff about how the most retrograde misogyny and violence is projected on to racialized others is spot on. I’m thinking in particular of the way that Israel’s genocidal violence has been justified with reference to the evil Islamist hatred of women and queers. The part about the Hillside Strangler is also very interesting. I’m currently working on a research project about sexual assault with my students (a topic they chose by vote), and one of the questions that came up is what the link between mental illness and sexual assault is. There’s a pretty common attitude that sexual assault is such abberrant behavior that someone who commits it is almost definitionally mentally ill, which as hooks points out erases the misogynistic/patriarchal character of the crime.

New Hexbear Reads post for the week just dropped, come through!

https://hexbear.net/post/4169918?scrollToComments=false

Damn that is better. Maoist Standard English is an artform

I feel like pretty much anyone is physically capable of punching a hole in drywall

skill issue

I mentioned the statistics here are dubious elsewhere in the thread, but anecdotally it definitely seems like the case

Idk and the original survey was in some magazine, no idea how valid those exact figures are. Anecdotally, though a lot of straight women do have that outlook and I’m glad an open discussion is being had.

Also a lot of women jumping into the comments unprompted to say, “What?? Just because I don’t want to have sex with a guy who has had disgusting gay sex and probably has AIDS, that makes me homophobic???”

I notice you’re avoiding the question

The real question is why are you standing on one leg while doing that? Who are you trying to impress?

All I want for Christmas is bird flu (baby)

Nation of Islam in shambles

Damn I was going to post this yesterday but then I got eepy and forgot

Whatever station this is is out of service for the weekend (probably due to maintenance) and they’re telling people what alternatives there are to taking the trains at that station

People are joking around the about @[email protected] joining the site a few months after it opened rather than when it launched (July 26, 2020)

And a bunch of people who joined early on are also showing up to the thread