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“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.” — André Bazin Contempt opens with a shot of a shot. On the lot at Cinecittà studios in Rome, from a distance about 50 yards away, the camera peers up a slight incline to where a scene is about to unfold. We see that on the right side of the immense CinemaScope frame, a long set of tracks has been laid down, stretched all the way down to our vantage point.

Last week, Deliciously Ella founder Ella Mills wrote a very powerful piece for Grazia. In it, she describes feelings of ‘self-hatred and sense of failure’ coupled with ‘rock-bottom self-esteem’, which peaked with intrusive thoughts after the birth of her daughter. Some of you m… ncG1vNJzZmiqn6iursHNnZuemZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89om56kmZi2sMHSpbBmnZyhrg%3D%3D

Is “Latinx” a thing? Should kinks be allowed at parades? And what’s queerbaiting? The start of June means the arrival of Pride Month, and with Pride Month comes heightened, annoying discourse about every facet of our existence. Much of this includes reevaluating the media we used to hold near and dear, seeing how well it holds up and ruining it for others when it doesn’t. In the last year, we’ve dog-piled Ryan Murphy and seen Ellen DeGeneres get dethroned as America’s favorite lesbian — both of which were a long time coming.

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This is a chapter in my series on History of the Manosphere. There are far too many players in the Manosphere for me to do a piece on all of them. RSD is the one that I am most familiar with. I may leave some parts deliberately vague for the sake of not doxing myself—what you believe or don’t believe is up to you, but this is what I have seen, and you are welcome to draw your own conclusions.

The times are changing in college basketball. With name, image, and likeness rules set to pass in five on July 1st, more minor rule changes were also implemented this week — including the use of technology on the bench and the allowance of on-court instruction for non-coaching staff members. And the biggest news of all, of course, was the announcement of the impending retirement of (arguably) the face of the sport: Mike Krzyzewski.

One of the most controversial subcultures in contemporary womanhood right now is the tradwife. Writers such as Sara Petersen, Virginia Sole-Smith, Meg Conley, Kathleen Jezer-Morton and Anne Helen Petersen have documented them extensively. My friend Monicalived like one for a week for Vogue. But when gathered with a group of friends last week, it transpired that most of them still didn’t really understand what a tradwife actually was - and how she became an endlessly replenishing lifestyle meme.

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     I notice a tiny, almost infinitesimal, difference in the treatment of women who accuse Republican presidents of sexual misconduct compared to women who accuse Democrats.      See if you can spot the difference.      Stormy Daniels is the stripper and porn star who tried to extort Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2016, threatening to tell the tabloids they’d had sex, a claim he denies. Whether Trump’s description of his extortion payment to Daniels as a “legal expense” constituted a criminal violation of the federal campaign finance laws is a central element of New York’s prosecution of Trump.