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Saturday, June 4, 2022

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"Some women are opting out of sexual relationships altogether and adopting labels like asexual or 'femcel' (female celibate)."

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 04:17 PM PDT

"There has even been a rise in millennial nuns. These women are fighting back against an ideology that has always best served the likes of Hugh Hefner. In doing so, they are trying to rediscover their sense of self-worth. In 2021, a TikTok video by a young American woman called Abby went viral. In the video, Abby tells the camera: 'I, like many other college students, am someone who is entangled in hook-up culture, and often hook-up culture makes it difficult for me to determine whether or not what I'm doing is good for me and kind to myself. Very often as women we are led astray from what we actually deserve. So here's what I've been doing lately . . .' She pulls up onscreen a series of childhood photos of herself, and explains that the men she's hooked up with have often made her feel undeserving, not only of love but also basic respect. So she's trying to remind herself of her worth as a person by playing the role of mother to her inner child. 'Am I OK with that for her?' she asks tearfully, gesturing at her younger self in the photo. 'Would I let her be a late-night, drunk second option? Would I let this happen to her?' She shakes her head, weeping: 'From a third person, caretaker point of view, I would never let any of this stuff happen to her.' Abby is trying to mother herself, though she isn't quite sure how to do it."

From "Women have been betrayed by a culture of porn gone wild/The sexual revolution was supposed to liberate women. Yet the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe and the nightmarish world of violent pornography which today's young women must navigate suggest otherwise" by Louise Perry (London Times).

Here's the author's forthcoming book: "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution."

I've got 10 TikTok selections for you today. Let me know what you liked best.

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 02:10 PM PDT

1. They ruined "Satisfaction."

2. When Johnny Depp impersonated Donald Trump.

3. Reviewing Grandma Sue's pear salad.

4. "Walk That Lonesome Valley."

5. The Queen turns on the lights.

6. "You just have to have the courage of your convictions."

7. The lemon used to douse the shrimp....

8. If European-Americans experienced microaggressions.