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Laurie Penny

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Author, journalist, narrative designer, screenwriter. Geek, gender goblin, feminist killjoy, force of culture. Writer for hire, weirdo for free. They/them.
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The Boys Was the Show This Era Needed, and the One It Deserved, Too - Reactor

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By Laurie Penny
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Not long ago, I was in a bar with three drunk Norwegians, having a fight about Superman. They thought the world would be better if Superman really existed. I disagreed. Nobody, no matter how well-meaning or well-coiffed, should have that much power. “But Superman is a good man!” said the Norwegians, who come from a country with extremely high social trust on top of a giant oilfield. “Alright. But what if he wasn’t?” The Superman question is obviously, actually, about billionaires.
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Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored

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By Laurie Penny
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Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored

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By Laurie Penny
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Harrison Sullivan, known as HSTikkyTokky, in Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere. Photograph: Netflix/PA Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as a political problem? The modern manosphere has been metastasising for many years – and for years, mainstream culture has responded with a helpless shrug. There was nothing unusual about men hurting women, even if the technology was new.
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