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Selling infidelity as feminism

Selling infidelity as feminism

Netflix's tiresome Ashley Madison docuseries is good for one thing: a reminder of how 'equality' and 'freedom' are coopted for heterosexual men's fantasies.

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A woman reacts to her unbearable husband in a 2000s-era Ashley Madison commercial. Still: YouTube.

After sitting through two-and-a-half hours of Netflix’s Ashley Madison docuseries, I can tell you there is precisely one interesting thing to be gleaned from it: the company tried to sell infidelity as feminism, and they did it because they desperately need…

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