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Harry Daniels sings Addison Rae’s ‘Fame is a Gun’ to Woah Vicky and Clavicular.

This is isn’t confusing at all if you interrogate these people’s actual beliefs and the way they think society should be structured. They imagine a separate group of women, “whores,” made up of sex workers, “loose women,” hostesses at expensive nightclubs, and potentially divorced women/widows who would serve the function of men “gaining experience” while preserving virginal brides. They’re kind of mimicking Victorian class attitudes where this “virginal woman” really only applied to upper class women. The whole thing was of course a myth, most upper class women had affairs constantly (especially because so few marriages were love marriages) but it was kept shrouded in secrecy and covered up by shotgun weddings or women just passing off offspring from an affair as their husbands. Look up the Duchess of Devonshire.

I’ve written about the backlash to Adult Braces: “I do feel great sympathy for Lindy West. How was she to know that the great omertà of Millennial Feminism—that we had to take whatever people said about their life stories at face value—had broken?”

But to answer your question, even though your dodging the discussion here, yes I think the oppression of white men in contemporary America is worse than what black slaves went through in America. I would argue that the fact black slaves had a lower suicide rate than white men today largely speaks to this. Clearly the institutional pressure against Whites is more destructive on them than slavery was for blacks.

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