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It has become a "joke" within a bizarrely mediocre community but whenever someone on here wants to praise Spindlehorse's shows for something they sincerely enjoy they have to express their animosity towards Viv on behalf of this insecure sexism that she made something they like.
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I think that the biggest problem facing discussions on the social impacts of art is that they're generally framed within a winner-takes-all approach: accepting that artistic works can shape reality in some ways means they must shape reality in all ways imaginable. -
and exploitative. Real women (and also men and non-binary individuals), made out of flesh and blood, are hurt, violated, and even killed as a result of it, all for profit. It must be opposed, with seriousness and diligence, as a particularly exploitative capitalist endeavor. -
Florian retweeted
While it’s true some people dismiss astrology on misogynist grounds, I’m afraid that Le Guin said it best.
What was the "overall positive effect" of the recent murder of 120 Iranian children in Minab? What pragmatic consequence can be used to justify exploding dozens of innocent kids into piles of limbs and rubble?
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Once again, a lot of the online vitriol thrown at VivziePop turns out to be motivated by mysoginy.
It is absurd that a tweet in which a man says that women "need to stop writing gay men" has hundreds of likes, and barely no one is calling out the blatant sexism here.
















