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FOCUS: Rebecca Solnit | A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing. Blame Capitalism 
'Feminism and capitalism are at odds, if under the one women are people and under the other they are property.' (photo: Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images)
Rebecca Solnit, Guardian UK
Solnit writes: "Since the Toronto bloodbath, a lot of pundits have belatedly awoken to the existence of the 'incel' (short for involuntary celibate) online subculture and much has been said about it."
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