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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!
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
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???"
Honestly, I'm here for it. The biphobic stuff I would hear from women kept me in the closet for a long time
I notice you're avoiding the question 
Biological determinists btfo
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Okay credit where credit is due, I stole this from Cloudy on Twitter
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