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Sounds a lot like a "they're asking for it"-type argument.


There's a difference between merely existing in public, versus vying for attention in a venue where several brands of "aim this at a patron to see them in a bikini" machines are installed.


And so installing the "aim this at a patron to see them in a bikini" machines made the community vastly more hostile to women. To the point where people say "well what did you expect" when a woman uses the product. Maybe they shouldn't have been installed?

They weren't placed there by God.


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Yes the only possible way I could care about the mass degradation of women is to get laid. I'll be sure to tell my wife.


Is that what you'd do to your sister or mother?


>There's a difference between merely existing in public, versus vying for attention

And you thought that was a different argument than "you shouldn't have worn that skirt if you didn't want to get raped"?


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Is that supposed to be funny?


Rapefest 2026 isn't an inaccurate name for X.


Exactly.


>versus vying for attention in a venue where several brands of "aim this at a patron to see them in a bikini" machines are installed.

The CSAM machine is only a recent addition.




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