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trimethylpurine • yesterday at 8:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Berger had no credentials or education in anthropology or any science whatsoever but invented a whole movement that I think doesn't carry any scientific weight. His reputation is truly undeserved.

I think the fact that his work has been largely adopted by media experts, and is taught as dogma in film/media studies course work at the college level should be a strong signal that our ideas as a society about sex and body image are severely distorted and deeply problematic. Not in light of his work but because of it.


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tclancy • yesterday at 11:16 PM

Can you expand on that and point me at resources in this topic? Interesting.