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Nov 23, 2021Liked by Genevieve Gluck

Spokane, of course, is famously welcoming to this sort of deviant behavior. It would be interesting if someone left hard copies of this article lying around in public places. Genevieve, would you object to it being distributed in that manner?

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I fully support it!

Serial killer "Donna" Douglas Perry is from Spokane, and I know that a local news station there broadcast pornography by mistake. What on Earth is going on in Washington?

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We often muse that serial killers and wackiness roughly correspond with Cascadia (Yukon River down to the end of the Cascade mtn range.)

Spokane and the Idaho panhandle also have a concentration of a certain sort of mindset. (I don't want to accidentally get your blog flagged for extreme content, so I'll stay out of those weeds.) Here's a recent fun incident with the representative from Spokane.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/rep-matt-shea-fined-nearly-5000-for-damage-to-capitol-steps-during-march-protest/

I ping-pong around a lot, so I'm likely to be thru Spokane again in the near future. Thanks for the go-ahead.

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Has anyone else noticed how many men who work in IT want to transition? Could scifi fiction be right? There are subliminal messages being sent from another galaxy that are seen so often that they believe them to be true? Or is it that they live in the world of code for so long they forget what reality actually is?

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Or that amongst the males in the field there is a higher proportion with a mindset predisposed to view others less empathetically?

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I think this is it. There's a higher rate of autism among men in IT, and autism and make people very literal (for example about gender), less empathetic because they don't understand others' feelings (so little sympathy for women/they may think women should be flattered by their desire to be a woman), and more likely to miss social cues (therefore more likely to not realize they're making others uncomfortable/what not to wear, say, etc).

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Apart from the first question, I was being sarcastic!!

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I was adding another thought to the long list of reasons why certain groups of men might be prone to higher rates of arseholery 😂

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I'm shocked and disappointed to see you using the incorrect term "child porn". Children cannot consent to the production of sexual images reproduced as a consequence of exploitation. The correct term is images of child sexual abuse. Please refrain from using this outdated term in the future; it is highly offensive and deeply hurtful to survivors of childhood sexual exploitation. 

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Thank you, and I understand your concern as someone who is very angry about the ongoing situation -- by which I mean the explosion of child abuse in this manner in all its various aspects. It's a topic I frequently try to highlight as safeguarding measures for children have been horribly decimated by not only the proliferation of pornography, but also the erosion of boundaries presented by gender identity ideology. I have updated the headline, but I would like to make you aware that I copied the term directly from a legal definition that can be seen here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors

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