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Social Media and Chastity!

Social Media and Chastity!

Digitization is still a feminist issue.

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Virginia Heffernan
Sep 24, 2024
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Mary Wollstonecraft on an iPhone.

Please do burn this book: Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller. It’s still spreading not just debunked lies but a panic about female chastity and popular entertainment that Mary Wollstonecraft expertly exposed sexist gibberish two-hundred and fifty years ago in A Vindication …

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