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Chemsex, femcels, Harrington's Mengele. - by Katherine Dee

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But it feels like spaces for the ugly, the abject, and the unattractive—save for maybe fandom, where you’re permanently outside of yourself, or /r/ForeverAloneWomen—have been colonized by either the delusion of being attractive or attractive women. Not every woman who feels marginalized by mainstream conceptions of beauty is Phyllis Schlafly, Andrea Dworkin, or, well, queer. I don’t want my eating disorder content with a side of BPD e-girl with a harem of orbiters. The 89 lbs. hypersexual hot mess isn’t the only archetype of female pain. I long for content and digital spaces for invisible women, and if they aren’t, at least have the respect to don a digital hijab. When did sultry, seductive Lana del Rey become inextricably linked with the femcel, the FEMale CELibate? When I search “femcel” on Tumblr, why do I only see image macros of knock-kneed anorectics and pastel edits of Dominique Swain as Dolores Haze? I mean, I know why. But we need more spaces for female abjection that are abje

But it feels like spaces for the ugly, the abject, and the unattractive—save for maybe fandom, where you’re permanently outside of yourself, or /r/ForeverAloneWomen—have been colonized by either the delusion of being attractive or attractive women. Not every woman who feels marginalized by mainstream conceptions of beauty is Phyllis Schlafly, Andrea Dworkin, or, well, queer. I don’t want my eating disorder content with a side of BPD e-girl with a harem of orbiters. The 89 lbs. hypersexual hot mess isn’t the only archetype of female pain. I long for content and digital spaces for invisible wome

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