I miss the days when I had a lot of leftist followers who would send my own posts to me through the tumblr messaging system and demand I explain it to them
Just be me and be politically inscrutable to all of your readers at once, without explanation.
Equality Golbat: You have the right to refuse sex for any reason. That doesn’t mean all reasons are exempt from ever being questioned.
If you refuse to have sex with someone on the basis of their race, religion, disability, gender, or sexuality, that is a problem you have to solve for yourself. If you are so hung up on the idea that sex must be able to provide you biological children, that is also a problem you have to deal with.
Basically , if your stance is “i can’t date [x] person because of [a vital aspect of their identity and experience],” understand that line of thinking is bigoted. This person would be much better off with someone who accepts them for who they are, where they won’t have to change themselves for someone else’s (bigoted) satisfaction.
-Glaceon
By definition it kind of does though
Yay rape apologising as progressivism!
Also wtfomgbbq it’s not ok to refuse to have sex or a relationship based on religion?
Or gender?
Ok, is this for real or satire?
Like, this appears to be saying that it’s “a problem you have to deal with” for an atheist lesbian to not have a relationship with a Christian man.
I… think it might be real? The About claims all their mods are “queer.”
So if you’ve possibly got no monosexual posters (or your monosexual posters desperately don’t want to be monosexual), having an attraction based on genitalia or even things like a subconscious skeletal shape reading of sex, despite that being kind of essential for previous long-term human survival as a group, might seem “fake.”
Even though monosexuality is very, very not fake.
And in addition to potentially pushing people into unhealthy sex that they don’t want, this sort of approach can also create TERFs and others, who, when told that their reasons for refusing sex aren’t good enough, desperately go hard on attacking the validity of entire sexes as a way out.
rocketverliden asked:
Nah, actually I was thinking that there are lots of other southerners we could choose from for replacement statues, specifically ones that weren’t all “rah rah slavery” and so on. Some of them could be a lot more modern, others from before the war, and so on. U.S. founding fathers from those states would be the ideal option for many of them - it reaffirms membership in the US, still has lots of historical weight, and so on.
They shouldn’t be more black than the proportional share of the population, though.
The goal here is to provide an alternative, positive regional identity for the white southerners that is not rooted in the racism inherent to the Confederacy. (And the racism was inherent - at least one governor or whatever went on about how yeah, this was about slavery, and yeah, this was about “the inferiority of the negro race” and so on.)
History is big. There is a lot that can be chosen from when we decide what to emphasize. There are many people, with many stories. With this, we could step sideways.
(The exception is generic confederate soldier statues, which should stay. After all, the side that wins the war usually thinks it’s the ethical side, since most factions fighting a war think they’re the ethical side, so removing them just means legitimizing the idea of removing monuments to soldiers of losing sides in general.)
However, I don’t think the capital-L Left, in broad strokes, wants the southern whites to have a positive southern identity. I think it wants to crush them in order to celebrate itself and its righteousness.
It doesn’t like the founding fathers, either. It doesn’t like the United States of America.
It could celebrate the power of the very ideals this nation’s founders espoused as the source of some of the very power that overturned the cruelty they allowed at this nation’s founding. But most of those people were white men, so they won’t.
China really needs a decent land tax to ease the housing bubble, encourage investors to rent out their properties instead of leaving them vacant, and provide local governments with badly needed funds so they’re not so dependent on land sales and loans that will never be paid back.
was I expecting to see “Xi Jinping liked this” or something
I’m definitely not Xi Jinping or in contact with Xi Jinping. Don’t worry, Argumate. You’re safe, for now.
Okay, let me make a real post out of this for Prof. Sto– I mean @afloweroutofstone.
I think part of the public liking of anime and posting of anime tiddies, despite being considered low-class activities on the internet, reflects a coming meltdown in masculinity.
There’s a common perception that masculinity is essentially impervious to attack, which is driven by focusing almost entirely on men at the top and ignoring men at the bottom or treating them as non-men. (Also by ignoring what masculinity of the kind people want to attack even is.)
The real weaknesses of masculinity, however, are at the margins, not from Trudeau wearing pink. The men who are already having trouble performing masculinity and being judged wanting just… giving up on performing masculinity in terms of its integration with society.
For now, the broader status hierarchy based on performing masculinity in order to appeal to a combination of other men and neurotypical, heterosexual women, is holding.
But it’s going to erode as new, competing status hierarchies form and expand among those who have no reason to abide by their low status in the old ones. We’re seeing a war and division over them in “geek” culture, currently, but new culture hierarchy conflicts are going to spread as the gender system destabilizes.
This is one of those rebellions that begins with the peasants out in the provinces and makes its way into the city.
It’s visible in all sorts of low-status men that many of your readers would hate. But if it were already accepted, it wouldn’t be a true revolution, and this is what not being accepted looks like, in part, WRT the male gender role.
It’s possible for a dead character to have great influence on the plot without being undead or some other form of not-really-dead.
In real life, such things are echoes, or mechanisms setup beforehand.
Many years ago, I observed a discussion between an acquaintance and his father. The father said that the shows the son watched did not deal with death. The son said that Dragon Ball Z did deal with death - that the characters had died at such and such time, and were trapped in the spirit realm. But the father said that, as those characters came back, and so on, that they hadn’t really died, not in the way we understood it, and that the work didn’t really deal with death.
…how difficult is it to become a Girl Scouts troop leader? Just wondering.
Like… fuck it. I’m good with kids, I’m decent at teaching, I’m WFR trained, I know how to camp and organize activities…. sure, I might not be the sort of person most parents would allow their impressionable young children around, but Girl Scouts as an organization is famously accepting, so maybe I could form a troop that Actually Does Things someday.
just don’t say things like “I demand minions” and you’ll be fine
You don’t say things like that. You get henchmen through a combination of admiration of your enormous ambition and force of will, exploitable personal flaws among your henchmen, and money. Begging for henches is just bottom tier, the incel of supervillainy.
everyone is capable of being bigoted and aggressive. women can be misogynistic, men can be misandristic, homosexuals can be homophobic, and so on and so forth
I am capable of doing significant harm to myself. everyone is capable of doing significant harm to themselves
therefore, the only truly safe space is empty
No Lives Matter
East Asian people shamelessly adopting/stealing (a debate to be had there) black American music is a huge growth industry right now. The Teriyaki Boyz were way ahead of their time.
Ironically you could argue that they’ve also appropriated the act of appropriating black culture, because that’s a foundation of white American culture
Do you believe in cultural intellectual property rights, or not?
That’s the real question posed.
