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Buster Keaton in “The Haunted House” for your header gif today. Links to the archived film short and other info here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/ghosts-busterin-out-all-over-the

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TW assault content. Uggh on Man the Mighty Hunter garbage. I remember taking Biosocial Anthropology in the 90s, when the supertoxic version of Sperm Competition prevailed (the idea that men rape and are violent because “the best sperm win.”) Rape is great for natural selection was the message. I unconsciously stopped going to class, weird because it was only my 2nd female anthro prof as a major--and I really needed a mentor. Now I realize that I may have stopped going because the academic theory (proto Jordan Peterson faulty analogies with other primates) was so offensive, traumatizing, and wrong in a way that I could not argue back. It was almost like a justification of patriarchy based on patriarchal assumptions of nature. Learned helplessness response. I took an incomplete, then withdrew, made a year of misery, which I somehow always blamed on myself for missing class and being a bad student. Tales from pre-feminism, I guess.

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