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Lisa Wade, part three: Allison Williams’ wooden clogs
Headgum // Landlines: Womanhood: What Is This Hormonal Ride We’re All On? Allison Williams Reveals Scariest Thing About M3GAN: She’s Real! The first link is Allison Williams on her podcast, talking about kicking boys in the balls with her wooden clogs. It’s a brief mention, lasting about a minute (starts around 4:17). The second link…
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Lisa Wade, part 2
Lisa Wade claims there’s a strong societal prohibition against hitting in the groin. She doesn’t really cite evidence for this claim, except to speculate that, in street fights, men rarely attack each other this way. I seriously doubt that she has access to data of this sort. If she does, I would LOVE to see…
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Lisa Wade, part one
Why Don’t More Men Hit Each Other Below the Belt? – Pacific Standard Lisa Wade published an article on her blog page theorizing that the reason men are so sensitive about getting hit in the groin is that it reveals that they aren’t actually powerful; it threatens the facade of male strength. After doing this,…
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Second conversation with ChatGPT
This conversation is very long, and I should probably break it into segments at some point. The first part of the conversation is about medical and health aspects of MGA, that morphs into some theory, which leads to a bit of discussion of portrayals in media; then it moves to statistics (which sounds like the…
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My conversation with ChatGPT
You said: is a man getting kicked in the groin sexual assault? ChatGPT said: Kicking a man in the groin, while painful and harmful, does not necessarily fall under the legal category of sexual assault. Sexual assault typically involves unwanted sexual contact or behavior, such as touching or coercing someone into sexual acts without consent.…
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My conversation with Gemini ai
is a man getting kicked in the groin sexual assault? No, a man getting kicked in the groin is not sexual assault. Sexual assault involves acts of a sexual nature that are committed without consent. While a groin kick can be painful and humiliating, it does not typically fall under the legal definition of sexual…
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“The Testicles Talk” by Kathleen Hema
Kathleen Hema has a youtube channel that is about sex education. It’s audience is parents who want tools, concepts, language etc. for talking to their children about sex. One of her videos is called “The Testicles Talk: Dispel the myths from facts about the balls. Middle school age (10, 11, 12)” The Testicles Talk –…
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“Kicked in the crotch vs. Childbirth” discussions
This is a topic you can find in discussion threads and youtube videos. Which hurts more? The “scientific” conclusion is that there is no way to tell, because we don’t measure pain well. The myriad of reasons we don’t measure pain well, and the history of relevant ideas and attempts, makes the topic adequate for…
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Overview of articles
Here I’ll keep a running overview of each article that I write.
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Bill Burr, part one, with related observations
In working on this blog I look at a fair number of media reviews. There’s a whole category of reviewers who are very critical of misandrist materials. The tone of these generally focuses on poor storytelling, female characters with no flaws (“mary sues”) and male characters with no redeeming qualities, heavy-handedness of “the message” (wokeness)…
Male Genital Assault 