EtanaRachel
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convergence of different kinds of far-right bigot
Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife
Misogyny is a gateway drug
www.ft.com/content/a92b...
Misogyny is a gateway drug
www.ft.com/content/a92b...
The online life of the Flydubai attacker
[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
www.ft.com
October 8, 2026 at 1:02 AM
convergence of different kinds of far-right bigot
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October 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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As someone with an autism diagnosis, I know full well that there are people born radically neurodivergent. But even the misdiagnosed are doubtless suffering a legitimate distress that they are trying to explain..
October 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
As someone with an autism diagnosis, I know full well that there are people born radically neurodivergent. But even the misdiagnosed are doubtless suffering a legitimate distress that they are trying to explain..
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Super piece that takes rising mental distress seriously while analysing diagnostic culture in relation to the rise of the neurological subject and how neuro-diagnoses might help explain the gap between impossible performance expectations & the 21st century’s sidelined question of who we really are.
How else might we address the question of diagnosis? Some thoughts in advance of the welfare storm to come substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do want from diagnosis?
Or how to circumvent a culture war
substack.com
October 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Super piece that takes rising mental distress seriously while analysing diagnostic culture in relation to the rise of the neurological subject and how neuro-diagnoses might help explain the gap between impossible performance expectations & the 21st century’s sidelined question of who we really are.
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We've been doing this for my whole life — longer than that, if you consider all the consciousness raising circles that led to things like TBTN — and while there is certainly some utility in survivors sharing stories it is not the systemic change that people seem to expect.
1987. We did this in 1987 yet today the sons AND daughters of the women who described men raping them at Take Back the Night are now administrators at DI colleges where they shuffle paper to prevent rapists from being held accountable for raping. Equity!
Share your story if you want, but know this.
Share your story if you want, but know this.
October 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We've been doing this for my whole life — longer than that, if you consider all the consciousness raising circles that led to things like TBTN — and while there is certainly some utility in survivors sharing stories it is not the systemic change that people seem to expect.
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We did this already and it was an exercise of limited utility and while I’m sure some individuals benefited from learning they are not alone it is simply not a real tool for effecting systemic change.
October 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
We did this already and it was an exercise of limited utility and while I’m sure some individuals benefited from learning they are not alone it is simply not a real tool for effecting systemic change.
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IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017
October 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017
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However shitty this year is, it's still funny to remember the only playoff game the Knicks lost was the one Trump was at.
September 28, 2026 at 6:44 PM
However shitty this year is, it's still funny to remember the only playoff game the Knicks lost was the one Trump was at.
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my friend has been saying this for years
September 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
my friend has been saying this for years
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1995 was still the grunge era. Plaid and combat boots were seen on runways in Milan. But yes, it was possible to simply not be a girly-girl without it necessarily being labelled as anything.
September 28, 2026 at 12:16 AM
1995 was still the grunge era. Plaid and combat boots were seen on runways in Milan. But yes, it was possible to simply not be a girly-girl without it necessarily being labelled as anything.
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Reupping my best work.
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/what-we-lost Came across a 1995 Sears ad that explains frumpy-but-horny better than I could in words.
What we lost
On a frumpy-but-horny Sears ad from 1995
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
September 27, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Reupping my best work.
So I was diagnosed a year ago with pernicious anemia which is caused by autoimmune gastritis, an attack on parietal cells and intrinsic factor. This has caused a B12 deficiency, an iron deficiency, a folate deficiency, and SIBO. It was preceded by two years of chronic hives.
September 28, 2026 at 12:27 AM
So I was diagnosed a year ago with pernicious anemia which is caused by autoimmune gastritis, an attack on parietal cells and intrinsic factor. This has caused a B12 deficiency, an iron deficiency, a folate deficiency, and SIBO. It was preceded by two years of chronic hives.
I'm begging people to understand that immunity exists. COVID was only a major threat because it was novel. Even if your first COVID infection caused bizarre health consequences years later, it doesn't mean later infections will.
If you’ve followed me a bit, you’ll know about the growing list of bizarre health consequences of my single covid infection four years ago. They are things you wouldn’t wish on any non-evil human. I don’t want more of them. Should I really have to risk my life to sit at a bar or buy a book?
September 27, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I'm begging people to understand that immunity exists. COVID was only a major threat because it was novel. Even if your first COVID infection caused bizarre health consequences years later, it doesn't mean later infections will.
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People are not sharing the lesbian bar masking story because we think that’s what all lesbians or people with pronouns are like
We’re sharing it because we all know these kind of bullies, they’ve terrorized us personally, and we’re tired of it in a time when real oppression is happening
We’re sharing it because we all know these kind of bullies, they’ve terrorized us personally, and we’re tired of it in a time when real oppression is happening
September 24, 2026 at 4:15 PM
People are not sharing the lesbian bar masking story because we think that’s what all lesbians or people with pronouns are like
We’re sharing it because we all know these kind of bullies, they’ve terrorized us personally, and we’re tired of it in a time when real oppression is happening
We’re sharing it because we all know these kind of bullies, they’ve terrorized us personally, and we’re tired of it in a time when real oppression is happening
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People who have so far been extremely successful in mandating extreme minority opinions by exploiting marginalized people’s desire to show solidarity & pay inclusion forward are angry that their absurd demands (which they make in similar ways across the country) are being spotlighted
No, it targets people who think that a bar going from having a mask mandate seven nights a week to having a mask mandate six nights a week is *literally genocidal*, and I don't have so much contempt for the disabled, chronically ill, or COVID-conscious to believe that they all think that.
September 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
People who have so far been extremely successful in mandating extreme minority opinions by exploiting marginalized people’s desire to show solidarity & pay inclusion forward are angry that their absurd demands (which they make in similar ways across the country) are being spotlighted
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The demand to validate and engage in people’s OCD rituals is in fact pretty triggering for me as someone in recovery from abuse-induced OCD, but that’s not a condition people care about the way “I’ve become convinced I can avoid ever getting sick” is
September 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The demand to validate and engage in people’s OCD rituals is in fact pretty triggering for me as someone in recovery from abuse-induced OCD, but that’s not a condition people care about the way “I’ve become convinced I can avoid ever getting sick” is
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No, it targets people who think that a bar going from having a mask mandate seven nights a week to having a mask mandate six nights a week is *literally genocidal*, and I don't have so much contempt for the disabled, chronically ill, or COVID-conscious to believe that they all think that.
September 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
No, it targets people who think that a bar going from having a mask mandate seven nights a week to having a mask mandate six nights a week is *literally genocidal*, and I don't have so much contempt for the disabled, chronically ill, or COVID-conscious to believe that they all think that.
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scratch a "Covid-conscious is my personality" Bluesky elder and an antivaxxer bleeds
September 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
scratch a "Covid-conscious is my personality" Bluesky elder and an antivaxxer bleeds
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you'll be shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that the person who posted this is doing soft antivaxx crankery in replies
No, it targets people who think that a bar going from having a mask mandate seven nights a week to having a mask mandate six nights a week is *literally genocidal*, and I don't have so much contempt for the disabled, chronically ill, or COVID-conscious to believe that they all think that.
September 24, 2026 at 9:55 PM
you'll be shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that the person who posted this is doing soft antivaxx crankery in replies
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no, i am not in solidarity with the patrons of this bar. these are the people who would want to argue about their feelings on communist vs socialist praxis in december 1932 while the SA rampages outside the door. i don't owe them my time or energy. no revolution has been made by people like this.
September 23, 2026 at 4:58 AM
no, i am not in solidarity with the patrons of this bar. these are the people who would want to argue about their feelings on communist vs socialist praxis in december 1932 while the SA rampages outside the door. i don't owe them my time or energy. no revolution has been made by people like this.
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that isn't to say that some parents aren't total pieces of shit who should be excluded from your life, I'm estranged from one of mine for this exact reason (though I regret that now), but I don't believe there's a whole generation of Evil Parents who deserve to be cut out because they're Evil.
September 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
that isn't to say that some parents aren't total pieces of shit who should be excluded from your life, I'm estranged from one of mine for this exact reason (though I regret that now), but I don't believe there's a whole generation of Evil Parents who deserve to be cut out because they're Evil.
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A lot easier and more opaque I should say. Back in the day, I'm not sure parents even knew they were being ghosted by their kids for a good while.
September 26, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A lot easier and more opaque I should say. Back in the day, I'm not sure parents even knew they were being ghosted by their kids for a good while.
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(it's just more apparent now because cutting off parents used to be a lot easier, people would just fuck off out of town then never answer their phone, you didn't have to see them all the time on Facebook or respond to their texts)
September 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
(it's just more apparent now because cutting off parents used to be a lot easier, people would just fuck off out of town then never answer their phone, you didn't have to see them all the time on Facebook or respond to their texts)