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Thea Zimmer's avatar

The fear these days of the consequences of even a miscarriage, mostly in red states, surely has something to do with low birth rate among middle and working classes. The rich are just too friggin weird--thanks for helping us figure them out!!

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Michael Crawford's avatar

This is excellent writing, excellent thesis, and strikes (to me) the perfect tone for the weird-ass bizarro world-simulacrum that we currently inhabit—against most of our wills.

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Megan's avatar

"It was never a libertine culture. It was always a rape culture." perfectly explains the amorphous feeling I had as a teenager in the 90s that the sexual agency I was supposedly being sold was actually still dictated by men, who pretty much just blurred the madonna v. whore rules to whatever they decided at any given moment. Fun times (then and now).

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