While the phrase “no homo” is traditionally frowned upon by the LGBT community, I think it’s actually a wonderful way to contextualize affirmations as entirely platonic, and we should let the straights have it in exchange for us using “no hetero” when delivering affirmations to the opposite sex
Something to think about, but I don’t think it’ll catch on.
@mitigatedchaos how about this sci-fi take on gendpol:
“Men are indeed worse than women in various ways, more antisocial, violent etc…
And we have egg-combining technology so we can make a Lesbian Utopia…
HOWEVER, we should still keep the population at approximately 50:50… For the long-term psychological benefits of romantic interaction, given most women are straight.”
You say this, but I already once did a fake nation writeup where they created a single-sex and it turned out terrible - not because they weren’t gay enough, but rather, because they embraced the worst aspects of both masculinity and femininity simultaneously. (And also, they would have been less bad off if they had just a few teaspoons of Feminism, but that wasn’t going to happen, for Reasons.)
Anonymous asked:
Gender, on Tumblr, is a Discourse Attack Surface:
Woman? “Shut the fuck up, you sexist bitch.” “Hush, Karen,” and so on.
Man? Obviously you don’t understand the Lived Experiences of Womyn, you’re an oppressor, you’re coming from a place of privilege, et cetera.
Transwoman? You can’t be a true woman because you were socialized male, and therefore oppressor, at birth. (Or various right-wing criticisms.)
Transman? Why are you trying to become the oppressor gender, you delusional wannabe oppressor?
Nonbinary? Make up your mind / stop trying to escape your obligations to WOMEN
And so on.
Not providing it makes it more difficult for [discourse rival] to avoid engaging with the content of a post by writing it off as written by [enemy gender]. They still can, but they have to assume the gender to do so, which is a discourse liability.
But on some level, you’re right - it’s probably no accident that all my long-term exes are bisexual women of some kind or another.
Mike Cernovich acquired a copy of that “Shitty Men in Media” list (he was offering $10,000) and is using it to run hit pieces
says he’s going to give the accused a chance to reply, I suspect that’s an excuse to sequence them strung out for maximum news impact, in priority as culture war enemies
What a moron.
These people are going to get away with it, because the accusations will forever be associated with the alt-right. If he’d waited a week or two, someone else would have taken the bait, published, and the media would have eaten it up.
But now the whole issue has been coded “of interest to racists” and everyone else will be careful not to touch it. The people involved will defend with “You’re accusing me of sexual harassment? Aha, I see you’re a fan of Mike Cernovich” and it’ll never go anywhere.
here you are assuming Cernovich intends to bring abusers to justice in an effort to help women
which
i mean
Nah, the analysis still applies if he wants to take down Biddle et al. for being sociopolitical enemies. Where it falls apart, of course, is if he really just wants to gather money and love from guess existing base for “boldly standing up to the hypocritical liberal media establishment,” etc. In that case, he’s actually better if the left drops it as a result of his support, because it gives him more “lone voice crying the wilderness” cred.
Beyond just him, does it not empower the hard right in general if this wagon circling happens?
One of the things that’s been really empowering for the hard right (in my opinion) are conditions in Europe, including sex crimes. Because of just who was committing those crimes, they were able to gain a temporary monopoly on “justice” as a platform for that particular issue.
Do people realize how bad that is for Liberals?
They’re building a narrative that the Left and the Liberals are thick with pedophiles, molesters, and sex traffickers, and that when they aren’t committing those crimes themselves, the Left and Liberals are willing to overlook them depending on ethnicity.
Circling the wagons isn’t what the Liberals should do. The way to prevent the hard right from gaining ground in Rotherham was to be better than they were, by actually enforcing the laws, like they are supposed to and, ostensibly, which is in line with their principles.
We’ve seen that at least some of the hard right are willing to fabricate a narrative if they have to, but a non-fabricated narrative has a lot more solidity to it.
So maybe they circle the wagons, and this outsider can’t actually take these guys down. But what if the point isn’t to take them down? What if the point is recruitment? Long-term recruitment, shifting the margins of power, which, when you only need a majority, matters.
Their faction is relatively small right now, but it has room to grow in proportion to how badly their rivals fuck up and/or are disconnected from reality.
http://sharkodactyl.tumblr.com/post/165166952339
totally, obnoxiously, horribly uncharitable:
can i want to fuck the monster girls tho
because i’m like them and they’re like me and we both need someone
also like
“every kind of woman is sexualized”
no, they really aren’t. and the insistence that they are is very typical of a certain kind of abled feminism. the kind that insists that all women are drowning in catcalls when some women would give their left tit to be considered someone’s, anyone’s, lust object.
Maybe the reason some people relate to monstergirls is because they are incapable of viewing themselves without shame.
@argumate on the one hand, it seems dubious to poke the bear’s nest by resurrecting the weak men post and its attenant cloud of discourse, but on the other, it’s still hilarious every year how butthurt people were about it. Potentially still are? Haven’t been paying enough attention to know if the discourse is fresh.
it’s a complicated and it takes time and careful words to unpack.
there are a few posts going around Tumblr of the form “if your friend has to drive you places because you have no car then I will be dating him, not you” followed by general acclamation; yeah girl, respect yourself, etc.
if widely held, this view guarantees one or both of these:
1. you’re damn right there will be a wage gap
2. many people will be dissatisfied with their relationship options
statements seen as being generally “pro-women” are read as non-sexist, even if they have implications which are exceedingly sexist.
for groups to be equal, individuals must be equal; if there is a preference for inequality at the individual level, it’s going to drive inequality at the group level.
one cannot complain about people reacting to an incentive structure that you yourself participate in creating.
Also, it’s surprising that the fact that as many as one in five women may have a condition which results in elevated androgen levels almost never comes up in the gender discourse. Like, here we are debating about whether hormones have an impact on cognition and development, and if so, what that might be, and meanwhile the distribution of androgens is not uniform within women as a sex!
Okay guys, I’ve solved the gender discourse. You can go home now.
Gentle reminder that I don’t think that men are bad or that women are bad, but the discourse around them dating is bad:
surely human relationships are the most difficult thing people ever attempt.
Hot take: making human procreation depend on human relationships was a bad idea.
Ice cold take! You are like 85 years late at least!
I was gesturing towards arranged marriages more than eugenics and artificial wombs, but either way I was hoping that this take was so cold it became hot again.
Sterilize everyone and have the State raise all children from embryos!
… h-hey! p-put down those torches and pitchforks!
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