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not enough talk about the ai boyfriend thing. you can write articles on futurism and wired about those lonely weird men roleplaying with ai girlfriends but not all those women on reddit just ruining their perception of reality because now theyre comparinmg real men to a thing that just agrees with them all the time. at least those lonely men by and large know they're playing with hyperreality

men do this with regular porn of course (thinking women should be like that) though this is well trodden territory for writers. the fact remains this is a thing that is happening to lots of women and they're choosing not to write about it much. i have theory of why but it's sexist.

@sun Actually not quite, there's a few modern medical papers showing that woman can get excited by imagination/reading while males are more visual, which is why a lot of people says that smut novels on woman has the same effect as porn on male brains

@kumicota popular media, science covers it generally. big gap.

@kumicota as an example you could write a shitty but true article about how ai boyfriends are the new smutty romance novel and shaming them but its never happening

@sun yeah, it's like how a girl doing only fans isn't shunned but a man who subs to an only fans is, society in general still sees woman as a purer being than men in general and the truth is more complex than the fiction

@kumicota @sun
cannot tell post is joke or not
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@ageha @sun Not quite, it sounded way worse than I thought but I blame on ESL and because it's fedi I can't just delete

@kumicota @sun
ah kay

well, assuming you mean so then, that one's pretty inverse of true. "slut shaming" generally is "applies mostly to women" thing, and for onlyfans and similar these days there's e.g. guys make facial recognition platform specifically to link sex workers to other public personae tried to keep separate, so people can go harass them there

@ageha @sun
Yeah which is wrong and who do it should be arrested.

I had to think for a while but what I wanted to say is that that porn consumption for woman isn't seen as a bad thing while for man it is and both carries the same problems of dependency, unreal standards,...

I should use have the example of owning sex toys instead of that.

@kumicota @sun
guess you grew up during 2010s internet feminism?

gosh i feel old xx

@ageha @kumicota @sun

either way women's consumption of media or smut is not comparable to porn, prostitution, etc or other subgenres of the sex trade used to commodity the bodies of women, youth, and LGBT people en mass.

It's weird that with everything related to AI and the ways that men are trying to use it to replicate gfs/housemaids (same to them) or children to abuse but women idealizing men who do not actually exist (like 90% of the romance genre) is the problem lol