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  1. for 5 timer siden

    I just published Why the Internet is Such a Terrible Place to Be a Woman

    2 svar 7 retweets 17 liker
    Angre
  2. Retweetet
    15. sep.

    Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation by . , , .

    1 svar 5 retweets 9 liker
    Angre
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    16. sep.

    'The male gaze feminists speak of has become Big Brother, making girls and young women compete for the prize of his abusive affection.'

    "The male gaze has become an algorithm in the form of Instagram, making girls and young women compete. Think about that for a second. Young people are competing to win a contest that’s basically the male gaze in algorithmic form."
    6 retweets 23 liker
    Angre
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    for 17 timer siden

    “The male gaze feminists speak of has become Big Brother, making girls and young women compete for the prize of his abusive affection. Think about that for a second. Our kids are competing to win a contest that’s basically the male gaze in…” — 

    2 retweets 3 liker
    Angre
  5. for 14 timer siden

    We need a culture capable of helping us make sense of this age, this epoch, the one beset by so, so many forms of new forms of mega-collapse.

    1 svar 1 retweet 11 liker
    Angre
  6. for 16 timer siden

    "Instaculture  rewards girls for looking, dressing, acting, speaking a certain way. A way conceptualised and codified into algorithms by coders who are men  who are much, much older than them."

    2 svar 11 retweets 28 liker
    Angre
  7. for 18 timer siden

    "Do you know what it’s actually like to live under a morality police? I do. And I can assure that what’s happening in Texas is exactly, precisely, eerily the way it begins. And from there, things collapse fast."

    6 svar 38 retweets 63 liker
    Angre
  8. for 18 timer siden

    "Teen girls are being driven to self harm because they feel unattractive. Who’s abusing them? The answer is: the algorithm.” But the algorithm is just the collection of the biases and prejudices—and in this case, the desires—of the people who wrote it."

    1 svar 14 retweets 36 liker
    Angre
  9. for 20 timer siden

    "Should teenage girls be spending their lives trying to please the male gaze in algorithmic form?"

    1 svar 16 retweets 29 liker
    Angre
  10. 15. sep.

    "The economics of our civilization are fatal right about now. Consuming twice as much as we invest can last about another 25 years or so, with increasingly devastating consequences, including catastrophic climate change."

    2 svar 12 retweets 37 liker
    Angre
  11. 15. sep.

    I just published The GOP Will Stop at Nothing to Destroy America

    1 svar 11 retweets 30 liker
    Angre
  12. 15. sep.

    "Suicide rates have skyrocketed in young women and girls, since around 2009. What happened in 2009? Social media became available on smartphones."

    7 svar 61 retweets 119 liker
    Angre
  13. 15. sep.

    "We should call Instaculture what it is: sexual trauma, the violation of boundaries, and being lied to by adults about it."

    5 retweets 15 liker
    Angre
  14. 15. sep.

    "Misogyny — and racism, bigotry, not to mention a heaping dose of self-hate — are hardcoded into the algorithm. Who are we supposed to be in Instaculture? Well, there’s a hierarchy."

    6 retweets 13 liker
    Angre
  15. 15. sep.

    "We’re gaining some kind of small awareness, these days, of how wrong colonisation and slavery were. Whose land was it? Not ours. But indigenous cultures, most of them, would have told you: it wasn’t theirs, either. It was for life. All life."

    2 svar 5 retweets 20 liker
    Angre
  16. 15. sep.

    Every civilization’s destiny is forged in the crucible of its economics.

    3 retweets 14 liker
    Angre
  17. 15. sep.

    "The male gaze has become an algorithm in the form of Instagram, making girls and young women compete. Think about that for a second. Young people are competing to win a contest that’s basically the male gaze in algorithmic form."

    10 svar 159 retweets 288 liker
    Angre
  18. Retweetet
    15. sep.

    "Don’t take my word for it. Take Facebook’s own. “Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression.” Worse, “this reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”

    I just published Social Media is Destroying a Generation of Young People — Especially Women
    5 retweets 12 liker
    Angre
  19. 15. sep.

    I just published Social Media is Destroying a Generation of Young People — Especially Women

    2 svar 14 retweets 26 liker
    Angre
  20. Retweetet
    14. sep.

    Good morning to these golden doggies and this baby deer and to these golden doggies and baby deer only. Credit: Imgur/Folkartwoman

    44 svar 255 retweets 2 437 liker
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