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Really enjoyed this. Particularly this quote. I think we are in a vibe shift. Not sure to where but you can feel it. 2010's moral purity is going bye bye.

"we're in a very different moment now. And I think in the conclusion you describe this as we've gone

from sort of sexual purity, you know, judging celebrities for their sexual antics to moral

purity, judging people for their wrongthink, their bad opinions. So we're no longer having a short

skirt that's a problem. It's having the wrong opinion on anything.

Yes, yes.

But it does seem to still be women who largely bear the brunt of that.

Oh, very much. I think purity culture of every form always falls hardest on women.

I read a really interesting interview with the singer and producer and songwriter Charlie XCX

from earlier this year, where she was saying that she's just, she's sick of being in this

environment where she feels like she has to second guess herself creatively all the time,

because of what people might think. And he said, you know, I just want to go back to the old Paris

days. So I do think we have reached kind of, we've reached the limit of that censorious culture."

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So glad you enjoyed it. Sarah is great, as is the book.

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