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"It's also a rather patronizing assessment of the show’s fans, many of whom weren’t there for the full-frontal nudity and titillation."
"It's also a rather patronizing assessment of the show’s fans, many of whom weren’t there for the full-frontal nudity and titillation."
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"So what does it actually look like to have a truly liberated sexual culture? This year has brought plenty of critiques of sex, notably in Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex: A Provocation and Nona Willis-Aronowitz’s Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, _...Read More_
"So what does it actually look like to have a truly liberated sexual culture? This year has brought plenty of critiques of sex, notably in Christine Emba’s Rethinking Sex: A Provocation and Nona Willis-Aronowitz’s Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, _...Read More_
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>"Jamil Jan Kochai’s story collection reveals the surreal farce of the War on Terror."
>"Jamil Jan Kochai’s story collection reveals the surreal farce of the War on Terror."
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"On a recent spring afternoon, Michelle Harris was sitting in her home office in Western Massachusetts when the phone rang. She took a deep breath and looked at the Post-it notes stuck to her work computer, little reminders to stay calm _...Read More_
"On a recent spring afternoon, Michelle Harris was sitting in her home office in Western Massachusetts when the phone rang. She took a deep breath and looked at the Post-it notes stuck to her work computer, little reminders to stay calm _...Read More_
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>"With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings"
>"With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings"
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>"The jury in Virginia found that Ms. Heard had damaged her ex-husband’s reputation with an op-ed in which she identified herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”"
>"The jury in Virginia found that Ms. Heard had damaged her ex-husband’s reputation with an op-ed in which she identified herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”"
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‘Where once women refused, en masse, to keep men’s secrets, or to remain silent about the truth of their own lives, now, a resurgence of sexism, virulent online harassment, and the threat of lawsuits, all aim to compel women back into _...Read More_
‘Where once women refused, en masse, to keep men’s secrets, or to remain silent about the truth of their own lives, now, a resurgence of sexism, virulent online harassment, and the threat of lawsuits, all aim to compel women back into _...Read More_
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‘The Depp-Heard trial has refined the Gamergate playbook in a way that will haunt us for years to come. It has proven to extremists that if you rally around the right beloved public figure or institution, blanket them in a protective sphere _...Read More_
‘The Depp-Heard trial has refined the Gamergate playbook in a way that will haunt us for years to come. It has proven to extremists that if you rally around the right beloved public figure or institution, blanket them in a protective sphere _...Read More_
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"Early in Knocked Up, Ben Stone (played by Seth Rogen) tells his friends that a one-night stand has ended in pregnancy. Ben’s friend Jonah (Jonah Hill) offers him advice on the matter. “It rhymes with shma-shmortion,” Jonah says. “I’m just _...Read More_
"Early in Knocked Up, Ben Stone (played by Seth Rogen) tells his friends that a one-night stand has ended in pregnancy. Ben’s friend Jonah (Jonah Hill) offers him advice on the matter. “It rhymes with shma-shmortion,” Jonah says. “I’m just _...Read More_
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"This article discusses rape culture and rape apologism and includes some references to and descriptions of sexual violence." >"Mired in power relations and inequalities, fanfiction has long produced the most nuanced and productive _...Read More_
"This article discusses rape culture and rape apologism and includes some references to and descriptions of sexual violence." >"Mired in power relations and inequalities, fanfiction has long produced the most nuanced and productive _...Read More_
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"The Unabomber’s new wave of apologists miss the fact that violence was his critique."
"The Unabomber’s new wave of apologists miss the fact that violence was his critique."