CassandraXIV

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

I grew up around naked old people who weren't even my family! Gasp! And it was a good thing. I grew up around old-school hippies at a place called Lothlorien (in Indiana) and one of my friends dads held a sauna day every Sunday in the middle of the woods (like you cannot drive to their house, you park about a quarter mile away and walk into the woods kind of woods). All day random old people came to get naked, high (pot), and sweaty. Just random old peen and boobs swaying with the leaves. No big deal. These are things that I believe made me more at home in my body, made me more excited about aging, made me more willing to fight for my security and safety.

Bodies are just bodies. Nothing sacred and nothing inherently shameful or sinful either. The fact that we still can't get that through everyone in however many years it's been is just fucking idiotic.

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

"why do people even bother to research new technologies when they don't work at 100% efficiency in the first try? it's not like they'll start working based on iterated research or something"

i wish people in general enjoyed combing through their reasoning and ideals periodically. i mean i understand why they don't, it can be super uncomfortable to admit you were wrong, especially if it was in public. but if you get in the habit of it, it kinda feels to me like when you've been poring over a super complicated math problem for ages and FINALLY found the spot where you wrote 1 instead of -1, and the whole thing snaps into focus. like ha! there's the bugger! get the fuck out of here you! extremely extremely satisfying to make your brain make sense again.

i think the most recent result of this was a few months back when i was talking with international friends about ethics, and i tripped and fell flat on my face over my ingrained USian individualism. like damn, what the fuck, i thought i kicked you out years ago! so now whenever it pops up again i can just point and laugh at it in my brain. bro really thought he could pass as a value that's coherent and consistent with the rest of my worldview, what a dumbass.

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs