“The internet, like most spaces, is a male dominated place, but the specific wormhole of the web I’d discovered seemed to be the most blatant and accurate display of its masculinity. There was something violent in a faceless man hovering pantsless over the picture of a woman. If I played all the videos at once, in different windows on the screen of my Macbook, that would be the patriarchy given definitive form: hundreds of dicks ejaculating on the faces of women.”
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Excerpt from I Want to be a Tribute Star.
You can read the rest of my essay on tribute porn, desire, and masculinity here.
Published on June 19, 2014 17:20