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Jennifer Aniston’s 100,000 hits
“Jennifer Aniston Goes Viral,” also called “Jennifer Aniston’s Sex Tape,” is an ad for smartwater. It contains a series of typically viral tropes (various animals behaving in entertaining fashion, animated babies etc). At one point she kicks a man in the groin, and says “sorry, but that’s worth like 100,000 hits.” Doing a lazy, disorganized…
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Cobra Kai, good and bad
Cobra Kai season 4 episode 7 has a training scene where the sensei has a little girl student kick all of the male students in the groin. The last student says he doesn’t want her to, but she does anyway. The scene ends with all of the male students on the ground, writhing in pain,…
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Misandry investigations #2: #killallmen
This is a hashtag that started trending in early 2014. The hashtag comes up in many of the articles I’m looking at that also discuss misandry. Many of them are in favor of this hashtag, using the line of thinking I described in my misandry overview. I thought I’d take a minute to do a…
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Misandry investigations #1: overview
“Misandry” is hatred of men. While the equivalent term for hatred of women, “misogyny,” is ubiquitous in social, psychological, and political discourse, I almost never see the word “misandry.” I just did a google search on “misogyny” and got (about) 49,400,000 hits; “misandry” got (about) 1,680,000. As with mga, I assume this is because misandry…
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Some brief thoughts about Will Smith and Chris Rock
Earlier this year Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the oscars. This was in the middle of the event; Rock was hosting, making jokes about people in the audience. He made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith being bald, at which point Smith came up onstage, slapped Rock, and went back to his seat, where…
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Lizzo’s GRRRLS and meta-invisibility
There is a new Lizzo song, GRRRLS. The lyrics describes a situation where Lizzo and her girlfriends are about to beat up a guy and cut off his penis (“ima go Lorena Bobbitt on him, so he never fuck again/no-oh, now you can’t fuck again, bro”). As far as I can tell, there’s nothing else…
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Sex Education, season 1 episode 1: meta-invisibility
This is a show that presents itself as sex-affirming in a playfully taboo-breaking way. In some ways it is affirming, in the sense that there is some frank discussion and presentation of sexual topics. But just in this first episode (I haven’t watched any more of the show, but I assume it’s all like this?)…
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Mother of the Year
Don’t Kick Boys in the Balls! A Mom’s Story… – YouTube This is a short youtube video by a mom, talking about an incident where her daughter kicked her son in the groin. The son is obviously in severe pain; his face is red, he can’t talk, he’s crying, he’s rolling back and forth on…
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Skins, Orange is the New Black, invisibility
Skins – S2 E4 – Michelle – video Dailymotion In season 2 episode 4 of the television series Skins (British version) at 28:46, a female character grabs a male character’s testicles and squeezes. Jai, the female, does this because Chris, the male, lost the tent for the group’s day at the beach. The first shot…
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youtube questionnaire
There are a number of youtube videos of girls and women who have blogs answering questions about kicking guys in the balls. Two users in particular, marcopolo and olivia, would send a questionnaire to girls with vlogs. So I watched a bunch of them and took notes. I don’t know how many of those videos…
Male Genital Assault 