Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 November 2024

Jane Coaston (@janecoaston.bsky.social):

I am also increasingly of the opinion that widespread access to pornography has led to a weird time in which men see women in real life through the lens of porn, which is why right wing chuds are convinced all college aged women do is have orgies

BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social):

there's still a fundamental and deep injustice here in the 'men fear women laughing at them, women fear men killing them' way. but those feelings of social humiliation and being cheated are also real for a lot of young men - and bound up in a lot of entitlement and horrible shit.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Respectfully, you have the cart before the horse.

Misogynist pornography is an expression of a culture that exists independent of that body of work.

We know this in part because patriarchy / violent misogyny has existed long before the invention of the camera, and the printing press.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Widespread access to porn certainly makes the misogynist backrooms more attractive to young men, and makes a part of a useful tool to manipulate their sexual anxiety - but those are symptoms, epiphenomena, not causes