i know you guys (feminists, especially of the radical persuasion) are like really into âinvisible womenâ right now (for good reason, itâs a good book) the same way you were all into âright-wing womenâ and âwoman-hatingâ a few years ago but i think, somehow, everyone somehow skipped right over âmen who hate womenâ by lauren bates which really crystallizes a lot of the shit we are dealing with now and have been dealing with for the past two-ish decades. itâs not a fun book. it delves into extreme misogyny. but presumably you are not going to respond like charlotte gainsbourgâs character in âantichristâ (who also studied misogyny) and decide women are inherently evil and thatâs why you need to graphically cut off your clitoris with scissors (lars von trier, why?), so, i think this would be really helpful and really eye-opening if you guys would just, please, check it out from your library.
wait whatâs that? a link to overdrive where you can check out a pdf from your library system and/or request an inter-library loan? wow thatâs super crazy how libraries work and all.
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive
crazy! who is this âlauren batesâ anyway?
yeah that makes sense. whatâs women under siege?
Women Under Siege Project - Wikipedia
also, as a companion piece, i recommend âkill all normiesâ by angela nagle, which tracks the competing online cultures of 4chan and tumblr and how it emerged into the alt-right. it was published in 2017.
sucks to have to, like, go find it though right?
weird, donât know how that got there! also, while googling this, i found a completely different book called âit came from something awfulâ by dale beran about the foundation of 4chan (it spread from something awful and 2channel) and 8chan (this split from 4chan right around gamergate) and how they coalesced to, as he puts it, âmeme donald trump into officeâ. it was published in 2019. iâll have to check it out and get back to you about it.
Amazon.com: It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office: 9781250189745: Beran, Dale: Bo
(yeah, iâm not happy to have to provide an amazon link either, but iâm not getting a ton of alternatives when trying to look it up and it seems to be on sale at the moment, so there it is).
nobody seems to remember 7chan, though, which predated 8chan by quite a lot and split because 4chan explicitly started banning the sharing of lolicon images (anime-style drawings of very young girls, usually in some sort of sexual situation. yep, it does go full penetration and qualify as digital pornography. youâre really not going to like how they learned just how that would look like. hereâs a hint: remember how many artist communities are hostile to tracing? yeah. and what would they be tracing from? this is not a fun train of thought) and was considered the far more lawless alternative to 4chan during the late 2000s-early 2010s. itâs still around by the way. considering that they have an entire board devoted to sharing nothing but sexually suggestive to outright explicit lolicon images, iâm not sure how. the only time they ever seem to come up though is when people remember that they have a board dedicated to men sticking their penises in wine to enjoy the sensation, somehow, and then drinking it after to explain how the penis affected the taste of the tannins. yep. not joking. real thing. âthe vineyardâ. maybe donât go on the digital child porn website and look it up, though. also they apparently had some sort of server error at some point and lost a bunch of images though the text aspect of the threads are archived. maybe thatâs how theyâre still allowed to function, i donât fucking know. i donât really want to think about this for much longer than i have to. anyway, read âmen who hate womenâ.
