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s05e100 | Stairway to Selfhood: Life after Detransition, with Elle Palmer

Calmversations

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The Disconnection Between Female Internet Gamers and Male Attention

There was such a huge disconnect. Like, I don't know, just like immediately being seen as like, oh, you're a girl. You fit into this box now that I've created in my head. And I just, I fucking hated that. But leaving the Twitch community, you know, it's just thinking about how simple it was like in my head as a 15-year-old to stream and have all these guys want to take advantage of me. "I had no desire to be like a sexual human being until I was older," she says.

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