The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain

The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain

(Audio) You Are Not Entitled to Someone Else’s Mind

On emotional intimacy, bodily autonomy and the battle of the sexes

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Helen Pluckrose
Aug 12, 2026
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Yesterday, the feminist Substack account, Liberating Motherhood, published a letter from a female reader struggling with a profound mismatch in needs for emotional intimacy in a heterosexual relationship. The response from the writer of that account, Zawn Villines, has annoyed me intensely. It seems to me to be a perfect…

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