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Incels, Misogyny, and Castration

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Lovecraft Adaptations - You Can't Distinguish Yourself

"I can't separate it from the very every way that you enjoy the actual thing," he says. "For me to enjoy the second half of the movie, doesn't the first half have to exist?" Lovecraft's racism and misogyny are baked into his weird fiction - but we're not going to pretend they don't exist because that would be unfair. The fear of a like non lacking impenetrable and frightening other is almost exclusively the fear of a Non-Frightening Other. That's just that's all it's baked into misogyny and racism. Right."

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