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As someone who studies sex offenders, I suppose I'm supposed to weigh in on that article. You know, THAT one discussed on the last day of #ASA2022 published in QR that I won't link. (Content warning: sexual violence) 1/8
First: I have no idea what the IRB was thinking. Purposefully inducing a physical sexual response to drawings of children "for research purposes" is wildly irresponsible. While studying those who cause harm is necessary, trying to become them is not. 2/8
Second, to correct a misconception I've seen repeated on many threads about the article: empirical evidence demonstrating a causal link between looking at drawn sexual images of children and someone actually harming a child is inconclusive. 3/8
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It was an angry and #sadasa realizing the ableism of the entire conference—long distances to walk, no arrows pointing anywhere, no printed program at all!! The shuttle did not actually take me anywhere I wanted to go. People have had the same complaints for years! @ASAnews
ASA is not for the disabled. With an aging population that is shrinking in size, good luck with that! #sadasa
I’m not paying this ridiculous amount of $ to brave August heat, not getting let into a session despite my vaccination checkmark, taking Uber and having a driver press his penis against me in an effort to “help me into the car” due to crappy shuttle service.#sadasa #ASA2022
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Yesterday afternoon @ASAnews had security eject me from the conference because earlier in the day I dared to critique Brittany Freidman's presentation on the book she's working on about BGF. #ASA2022 Image
I used to be tight with B I even had her crash at my pad when she was in LA doing her fieldwork. She a out of towner of course. For years I had shared copies of my work with her pre-publication even though she had never shared anything she was working on with me. 2/
When my Invisible Hand article got published in 2020 after 3 rounds of R&R&R I emailed her with the good news and to congratulate her after seeing her interview in Jacobin. 3/
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