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Quality Contributions Report for July 2026

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You know, I'm old enough to remember when there was an entire feminist movement devoted to letting women post their nipples on instagram. Like, there was a point in time where women were fighting to be able to (in theory) bare their breasts online and in public.

Also Slutwalks.

Just sayin'.

Its schizophrenic to say that nudity (at least, topless nudity) isn't a big deal and shouldn't come with social Disapprobation but then make a law to criminalize posting a person's nudes online.

We've got literal Porn Stars trying to get their own content removed from the internet. I'm actually somewhat sympathetic but this ultimately creates a method for one gender to remove evidence of their past behavior from easy access, and not the other.

I'm old enough to remember feminist-as-in-liberal, but today feminist-as-gynosupremacist is the rule of the day.

It's all very confusing, like how parties that call themselves "conservative" are far more reform-minded than parties that are not, how self-proclaimed "liberals" have nothing to do with classical liberalism, etc.

I'm actually somewhat sympathetic but this ultimately creates a method for one gender to remove evidence of their past behavior from easy access, and not the other

Yeah, that's why I'm not sympathetic. This is a highly-mechanized world, and man and woman should have equal political privilege. This just removes it from men without any benefit.

I'm old enough to remember feminist-as-in-liberal, but today feminist-as-gynosupremacist is the rule of the day.

It's all very confusing, like how parties that call themselves "conservative" are far more reform-minded than parties that are not, how self-proclaimed "liberals" have nothing to do with classical liberalism, etc.

Feminist-as-gynosupremacist is just feminist. It is not possible to be feminist without being gynosupremacist. Gynosupremacy is fundamental to and inseparable from feminism. The "feminist-as-in-liberal" you recall had as much to do with classical liberalism as your 'self-proclaimed "liberals"' do. The only difference between feminists of the past and feminists of today is that feminists today have more power and thus fewer of them feel the need to hide their bigotry behind the trappings of liberalism.

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Its schizophrenic to say that nudity (at least, topless nudity) isn't a big deal and shouldn't come with social Disapprobation but then make a law to criminalize posting a person's nudes online.

The reason feminism is fundamentally gynosupremacy is that it asserts the supremacy of the female perspective. They seek to define women's perceptions of men's actions as the objective truth over men's intentions, and simultaneously women's intentions as the objective truth over men's perceptions of women's actions. In the case of nudity, the "schizophrenia" you see is a direct result of this: women perceive men as sexualizing them when they are topless and believe the men are in the wrong because they didn't intend for the men to perceive them that way. They believe they should have complete control over how men perceive them. If men are perceiving them in an undesired manner, that must be addressed.

If men are perceiving them in an undesired manner, that must be addressed.

This reads as fundamentally true to me.

Its also that whole thing where women get really upset if you to tell them dress modestly in public... but if a guy in public is leering at them and they don't find him attractive they will literally go on TikTok to call him out as a creep, even if he has made zero actual overtures to them. The womans' behavior must absolutely NEVER be policed regardless of its obvious effect on others, but males' behavior must be CONSTANTLY policed if it makes the women uncomfortable. Which, surprise, is a determination only women can make, so its resistant to formalized rulemaking.

"Clothing is not consent" is absolutely true... but Dave Chappelle's observation is also true. If your dress and behavior sends a particular signal, its not really fair to get mad at guys who respond to what the signal usually means.

If your dress and behavior sends a particular signal, its not really fair to get mad at guys who respond to what the signal usually means.

Which also applies to women when dealing with men in dresses and fake tits (and the signal that usually means).

"Clothing is not consent" is absolutely true

"Consent" (when it means as it is meant here, not the definition you'd expect from a plain dictionary reading) is the root of the problem, and the specific tool that is used to legitimize the excess here.

The "feminist-as-in-liberal" you recall had as much to do with classical liberalism

While I admit it's in the same vein of "show me one righteous man and I won't destroy the city" I do assert that some of them indeed exist.
(They also tend to be on the tomboy-ish end of things; I suspect that has something to do with it. The younger examples tend not to call themselves feminists, though.)

Perhaps this is more why I'm worried about destroying the entire edifice (and going back to androsupremacy as so many reactionaries do); limiting the worthy caught in the crossfire is important. I don't think that would happen even if we put them in charge, since if they did manage it they'd basically be the equivalent of a modern "racist" that doesn't even know what racism was outside of overusing the word "nigger" (and most of what their heuristics of racism are now simply happen to be objectively correct things; limiting immigration is simply correct), but it is frustrating that specific framing dominates.

Funny how it's never the attractive ones that are into the exhibitionism-style nudity, isn't it.

Funny how it's never the attractive ones that are into the exhibitionism-style nudity, isn't it.

Well, not so much funny as expected: the goal is ensuring that women can freely exploit their sexual attractiveness to extract benefits from men without having to fear attracting undesired attention from doing so. The "attractive ones" don't need to resort to exhibition-style nudity to exploit their sexual attractiveness, so they have less incentive to engage it.

And I think more directly, there are many valid reasons why one should be able to find out if one's girlfriend was previously an online prostitute, too.

But that's not a right enshrined in law, and if the law DOES enshrine the right to take down all sexually explicit materials that a person previously created, its clear where the incentives will flow.

Your link is broken because you forgot to include "https://" at the start of it.

TY.

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