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"text": "1994 \"Book review: Fire With Fire\", backlash.comhttp://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/3-mar96/page23.html\nShe talks about the fact that women objectify men just as much as men objectify women, and she even admits her culpability in doing so by talking about how sometimes she wishes she had a group of \"nubile 17 year old soccer players\" to keep her happy."
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"ref": "1999: Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 3.04)",
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