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  • If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.

    If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!

    https://george-orwell.org/1984/6.html


  • i’m not an expert on playboy, but i have to think “feminist” would be quite a stretch… “progressive,” maybe. that said, when it comes to big adult entertainment industry publishers like playboy, it’s all consensual–no one’s getting their pictures taken against their will. men (and women) consumers of such media are there for T&A, and the talent are there for money; everybody wins. the fact is that some women enjoy showing off their bodies, and if they can get paid boatloads of money to do it, all the better.

    all of that starts scaling downward the further down the ladder you go, an example being the girlsdoporn scandal where the women were coerced into making movies they were told would never be released domestically. the whole thing ended with the owners of the business landing decades in prison, as it should be.