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Oh, fer cryin' out loud! Look what Slate's blaming on 'the patriarchy' NOW

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They can’t help themselves. It’s like a sickness or something:

Oh yeah. This sounds promising:

But the root cause of this problem—faked orgasms as sub-ins for honest conversations about sexual desires—lie in gender norms that compel men to strive for unrealistic benchmarks of sexual performance. “The image is that men are always up for sex, which makes you feel under pressure to perform even when you don’t want to,” Harvard urologist Abraham Morgentaler said of men’s reasons for faking.

At first, the knowledge that men, too, feel so much pressure to orgasm that they sometimes fake it makes the whole concept of the fake orgasm seem less insidious: Women aren’t the only ones who are sometimes more concerned with their partners’ feelings than they are with their own pleasure or desire to stop having sex. But when the rationale rests on gendered expectations, it still serves to uphold roles that form the foundation for toxic masculinity.

“Toxic masculinity”? Oy vey.

It’s a pretty handy catch-all, isn’t it?

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The patriarchy never sleeps! Not when there’s so much evil to spread.

https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/722891742291169280

Because patriarchy! Always and forever.

https://twitter.com/megaloltaku/status/722898240580890624

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