By the way, I haven't seen much discussion of the fact that a few weeks ago, a major American publication ran an article doing nothing other than rehashing what a college student's ex-girlfriend publicized about his sexual preferences on Twitter.
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The case should be way too easy. "What if the genders were reversed?" "Isn't this kind of like GamerGate, except the media switched sides?" Yes, yes. But this sort of thing isn't new, either. Peak Jezebel posted a sorority's spreadsheet of data on sex with male classmates.
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I don't have a great understanding of why this would seem acceptable to anybody. Even if these weren't college students, there's no news value in an ex-girlfriend's account of what some random person enjoys or doesn't enjoy sexually. So what gives?
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I don’t think that Jezebel is the problem. The problem is the mutation of public attention in media and academia into a popularity contest among immature influencers. Jezebel (or even many of the op eds of major newspapers) don’t deserve adult attention.
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