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(this interview of Stormy Daniels is so fascinating...)

SD: We are thought of as less than people. When every story about me broke, it was “porn star Stormy Daniels, real name X,” and they printed my real name everywhere. Every time you see Whoopi Goldberg’s name, or Nicolas Cage or Bruno Mars, they don’t put their real name in parentheses behind it. I had so many female journalists do it to me. And when I said something to them, [they’d say,] “Say her name. Say her name. Her name is Stephanie Clifford, say it! She’s not just porn star Stormy Daniels!” But they never paused to think that maybe that’s the name I wanted. And you just outed my family. I guarantee you wouldn’t misgender me, so why would you use a dead name? And they thought they were doing the right thing because they’re on their big high feminist fucking #MeToo horse and they never even stopped to do the most basic feminist thing, which is ask the woman in the center of the storm what she wants to be called. And nobody did it.

AG: What’s your thinking on (feminist as a label)? I’m not asking you to own a label or reject it. I just want to hear what your thoughts are.

SD: I mean, in the beginning, it turned me off so much. Historically, I haven’t had a great track record with women. You know, because I was a porn star, they were threatened by me. And then within the industry, this includes both adult movies and dancing, how much money you make is directly related to how pretty you are. That’s a recipe for a female friendship disaster. So most of my friends are men.

So when this stuff first blew up, all these hardcore feminists tried to use me to further their own agenda. They tried to say I was raped and they tried to do the whole #MeToo thing, which got way out of hand, in my personal opinion. But slowly, after everyone beat it into me “You are a feminist,” I was like, “I’m not a feminist. I’m a humanitarian. I’m a peopleist, not a feminist.” But I guess I just kind of have to deal with it at this point. I just love men so much.

 

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i am like 75% sure my S76 battery's starting to swell up. it's not Bad, like it's faint enough i actually thought it was my hand eating through the plastic casing (enough time for me to emergency back up ALL THE THINGS lmao) but also, yeah, there's a warp, and sometimes a faintly acrid smell that i always associated with my old mac, and i'm not comfortable leaving it on power overnight at this point. (kudos to my mom for actually noticing it, i trained her well :D )

wehhhh weh at least i hadn't sent it yet to get the key fixed and it's their problem lol
(krad start finishing your last trade instead of bitching on here omfg)