scaryr🦊@merveille.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:55:40.977Z
I cannot emphasize enough how visible this was even 25 years ago as an undergraduate at MIT.

scaryr🦊@merveille.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:02:25.068Z#
It was very obvious they focused on women from more sheltered or religious backgrounds as well.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com·2026-09-27T18:04:15.117Z#
Absolutely
Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:09:15.581Z#
Which is a category Aella herself falls into, and the whole, "homeschooler from Moscow, ID," of it all feels like a skeleton key that explains so much about her
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:11:19.296Z#
And I get a layer of "maybe none of the taboos are real, let's start at zero and see where it goes" but you can't have billions of dollars until you know where it goes.
Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:14:59.597Z#
That's a huge problem with people coming from homeschool culture, where everything is taboo and forbidden, and nobody learns the difference between things that are actually taboo for a reason, and things that are taboo because evangelicals are obsessed with control and think everything is dangerous.
Helena Claire@helenaclaire.bsky.social·2026-09-27T23:51:43.546Z#
There's also the dynamic of "I'm going to Hell anyway at this point so 🤷‍♂️ " that others learn how to manipulate to get a woman to go waaaay beyond her comfort zone.
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:15:29.993Z#
yeah. And like, it is OK to go to sex clubs and have orgies and break out of monogamy or whatever else! It's just not ALSO your job.
scaryr🦊@merveille.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:17:48.595Z#
It's definitely not your job to try to recruit anyone who seems even mildly hesitant about any part of it, but that's another place the evangelical cultural machine hurts us all.
Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:20:01.433Z#
And maintaining a boundary between work and orgies is kind of important, and not just something people say as a means of control!
@sufficiency.bsky.social·2026-09-27T22:42:11.763Z#
So much this. Class of ‘97 myself.