(I'm not sure where that screenshot is from, but it looks like AI) I really love how the curator described the theme:
"I know that [fashion has] often been seen as the stepchild [of the art world], but, in fact, the dressed body is front and center in every gallery you come across."
"The idea was to put the body back into discussions about art and fashion, and to embrace the body, not to take it away as a way of elevating fashion to an art form,â
So, it's about not removing the body from fashion. Not trying to "elevate" fashion by obscuring the fact that it's meant to be worn. Saying that fashion is art, it doesn't have to imitate traditional art to be worthy.
Fashion is not made "lesser" or "base" by proximity to a human body.
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hi!! sorry if you've been asked this question before, but as someone who wants to be a lawyer, how do you deal with defending people that morally you really don't agree with? thanks!
I get a lot of versions of this question, and I answer it seriously every time, because itâs both important and not important at all. Anyone who asks respectfully gets my whole ass answer.
Itâs just not really about that. My job isnât about defending the idea of hurting someone else. Itâs about stopping the state from inflicting further hurt, torture, pain. Itâs about pushing back for some fairness against a monumentally stacked system. And itâs about stuff thatâs normal human stuff that counts as crime for some reason.
Yeah, itâs hard to do a sex abuse case. Sometimes the images stick around and it bothers me. But honestly? Mostly those cases have real plausible theories of innocence or theyâre cases that I will lose because the evidence is there, and the question is not whether the perpetrator will go to jail but how long.
Those cases are so rare, though. I get so much pointless bullshit. Felony of a teen taking momâs car without permission. Two kids that try to break into a car and get so scared by the alarm that they run away. Trespassing on dadâs house because his new girlfriend wants you to stop coming around. Itâs just human stuff, and the violence of the state is not necessary or helpful.
I also reject the idea of punishment completely. The state has a responsibility to stop people from hurting other people again. But inflicting pain doesnât do it, we know this by now. So I argue for mercy and for real solutions to real problems. Iâm here to build a future, not get caught up with doing violence to someone because of the past.
So yeah, sometimes itâs hard, but mostly my conscience is dead clear: Iâm not responsible for the crime. The damage has been done. I want to start the healing process, and I want it for everyone involved. When thatâs not possible, I just want to tell the authorities they donât get to just Do What They Want.
The more I do this job, the more I am a genuine pacifist who is against violence in all forms, and actually I donât see a contradiction between that and what I do for a living. State violence is a pervasive evil that tears apart families, communities, and countries, and itâs far more damaging and awful than any individual crime. The average prosecutor has more blood on their hands than a serial killer, but itâs invisible: people who died in jail, who froze to death on the street, who were shot in a drug deal. Their violence begets violence.
When I get blood on my hands, itâs because I put my hands over the wounds and try to stop the flow. Iâm okay with it.
Also: people donât ask doctors how they can stand to treat bad people. Why ask me?
#i find people have such an inherent misunderstanding of the roles of defense attorneys (understandably but still)#in that most people i talk to seem to be envisioning me personally defending the right of people to commit crimes or that like. Crime Is#Good Actually#âyeah this person did X but they should never face any consequences ever please and thank you judgeâ#(and people think this would WORK??? a different tangent on a lack of legal education and cop shows being awful etc)#meanwhile i am simply protecting peopleâs rights. yes even those peopleâs#idk i could write my own post but op Gets It and also a prosecutor just filed the DUMBEST motion ive ever seen and i need to respond to that#instead lmao (via @anixit26)
The number of people who respond to my post about how even the guiltiest person in the world deserves rights with "but not [crime I think makes you undeserving of rights]!" is truly insane. People really truly think that being accused of a crime makes you irredeemably evil and protecting the rights of those accused means you are also evil.
Which in itself is a completely idiotic phrase. Pedophilia is a completely imprecise term and everyone means something different when they say it. Especially on Tumblr. âProvingâ that someone is a âpedophileâ is why we have barbaric shit like the penile plethysmograph, and itâs why Tumblr goes on idiotic witch hunts over people who draw or like fanart.
Things that are provable are ACTS that people have DONE. So you probably mean âa convicted sex offender whose crime was against a child.â
In which case, Iâve defended several, notably on cases involving failure to properly register, but also plenty of registered sex offenders on other later crimes. Usually shit like trespassing or assault and battery.
I don't care about drawings, I care about getting rid of the absolute worst living things that have waived their human rights away by commiting one of the worst things that can be done to the most vulnerable people humanity has to offer: children.
This is not a debate, so you know.
A pedophile is an adult homo sapien who is attracted to children. That's all there is to it, and a lot of parts of the world would be better if their brains were splattered for all to see.
They really deserve scaphism or being skinned alive, a slow and painful death of some sort, but people have shit to do.
I was molested. Repeatedly. By 2 different family members. I know firsthand that it is one of the worst things that can happen to a person.
It is a huge problem that requires more action than most people are willing to take.
And I'm still anti-carceral and anti-violence.
Would stricter policing have helped me? No. Would harsher punishments have helped me? No. Would killing either of them help me? Not in the slightest.
There are real things that can be done to help (not going to go into detail about them here, not the point of the post, but they all focus on helping), but "kill all pedophiles" does nothing. Even "kill all offenders" (one of the people who attacked me wasn't a pedophile by your definition. He was an opportunistic predator, he would have preferred to be raping adult women if he thought he could get away with it, but kids are easier.)
Every tiny bit of effort you want to put towards "killing all pedophiles" would be better spent helping restructure society so that kids have more autonomy. But that's not as fun to fantasize about :(
I think maybe you enjoy fantasizing about killing people, and it feels better to imagine that the victim deserves it.
Which like, whatever. Have whatever weird pastime you like. But don't interrupt people talking about a real solutions to a serious subject to use my trauma as fodder for your fantasies. It's disrespectful.
so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.
so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.
so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.
Most people, especially poor people, don't have a passport- they're like a couple hundred dollars and kind of a pain to get. No one I know in real life has one. We can get a Social security card, but those don't have a photos so they don't count as ID for most things.... I'm struggling to think of what other IDs exist.... You can get a non-driver's state ID (essentially the same thing as a driver's license, subject to the same rules as a driver's license except the driving part, issued by the same office). But other than that "photo ID" means passport or license.
So, yeah, a lot of trans people might not be able to vote in the next election...
Sometimes this discourse gets boring because itâs repetitive.
The same slogans, the same panic, the same moral shortcuts â recycled endlessly with minor cosmetic changes.
And then you stumble on something like this.
Something so perfectly self-revealing that you couldnât design it on purpose. Not as satire. Not as parody. Not even as a thought experiment. Nobody forced this argument out. Nobody threatened anyone. No substances involved.
Just a person, sincerely typing, convinced theyâre making a strong ethical point â and accidentally exposing an entire worldview in the process.
Thatâs when the boredom disappears. Because at that point, youâre no longer arguing with opinions. Youâre observing a phenomenon.
And it deserves a closer look:
This is genuinely fascinating.
Apparently, artists who release their work into the public domain or under Creative Commons are now âclass traitorsâ.
Letâs pause on that for a second.
According to this logic:
sharing your work freely is betrayal
generosity is sabotage
accessibility is violence
and choice is immoral
If you donât monetise every output, youâre not just naĂŻve â youâre actively harming your peers.
This is not an argument against AI. This is not even an argument about labour.
This is an argument against freedom.
The position boils down to something very simple:
Art should only exist behind a paywall.
If it doesnât, it is unethical.
it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesnât matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply do not enjoy being treated like shit.
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So a trans man wanting facial hair and being excited to shave isn't ok because it's "fetishising aspects that make [trans women] dysphoric" but it's ok for even one person to say that trans men should consider ourselves lucky that we can be raped pregnant? Ok.
But are we really? Transfems are more hated than Transmascs in the current patriarchy. We bare the brunt of the hate from the right wing and are overly represented to the point that people who aren't transfem are getting hurt. The trans sports debate is solely surrounded around trans women and we are all fucking tired. Don't think for a second you aren't the one on top
Yes, we are. Transphobic society is rigid on what it believes is the 'correct' gender for people born with or forced to have certain genitalia. It permits nobody, excuses nobody and goes easy on nobody.
There are anti-trans theories and rhetorics which focus on trans men and trans masculine people too. But my trans sisters aren't 'above me' just because they're not targetted by ROGD theory or 'young girls mutilating their healthy breasts' statements.
Do you really believe that trans women are inferior to trans men, or is this something you're saying because you're hurting about the way cis people treat us and the specific treatment trans women get for being hypervisible?
Let me break it down for you. A non passing trans man may not be viewed as a man but instead a tomboy or butch lesbian. While on the other hand a non passing trans woman will be seen as a potential sex predator, degenerate failed male or easy target for physical and sexual violence. Not to say trans men don't face their own unique struggles because they most certainly do but in this current period of time I wish i could trade struggles and stop being so hyper visible and hated for nothing that is my own fault
I fully empathise with your feelings of hurt, the treatment of trans women throughout history and into modern day is unacceptable in every way. You are simply women trying to live your lives and the circumstances of your birth shouldn't be used against you so insidiously by cisnormative society. I love my trans sisters deeply even if a minority of them hate me or say rude things about people like me.
I'm glad we're able to agree that trans men also face their own unique struggles. However, I am asking politely for you to engage in some perspective. Butchphobia exists and causes a lot of violence to be enacted against masculine women and trans men viewed as masculine women. This includes but is not limited to assault (physical and sexual), rape (especially for 'corrective' reasons) and murder. A 'woman' who achieves a certain degree of masculinity is also viewed as a predator, a good deal of butchphobia surrounds the idea of them being aggressive, hypersexual and likely to abuse and rape and this is also said of trans men who are seen as 'just butch women' too.
I understand the sentiment of 'I wish I could trade places' but you life would not be easier or better if you did, there would just be different awful things happening to you which nobody cares about and everyone pretends doesn't exist.
Sorry for the long reply and any weird phrasing or spellings, it's late where I am and I'm a little tired.
It's all good. Atleast you took some time to understand where I was coming from. You know I can't even mourn the fact I will never be able to have children as a trans woman without some TME telling me how I should be glad and how lucky I am and how it's actually a blessing in disguise yadayadayada
Of course. I'm going to assume by 'TME' you either mean 'trans men' or 'people AFAB' and I would appreciate it if you were more clear going forward (not forcing you to keep talking to me though). I'm Autistic and process things better if it's more direct language.
Did you bring up pregnancy because I did? I fully understand and have no qualms with you mourning your inability to get pregnant in general. I can understand why that might be something some women want even if I don't want it.
The ignorance only comes in when sexual assault to achieve it is viewed as 'lucky' or 'something you should be glad can even happen' - and that's what I was upset about. I hope we can both agree that pregnancy as a result of rape is terrible (and not lucky or something we should be happy can happen) even if the victim would otherwise have been happy to become pregnant consensually and others who cannot get pregnant and want to exist. If we don't agree on that I'll have to end the conversation right here.
No i totally agree with you. Sexual assault is fucked up and that's not what I would ever want to happen to anyone or me if that was the only way I could get preggers. Also I didn't even realize I used the term TME. I'm autistic as well and that creates alot of other struggles for me when interacting with nuerotypical people who dislike me for multiple reasons (Voice, Trans, Autistic, Annoying)
No problem! Well, I don't think you're annoying if that means anything coming from a random nonbinary nobody like me. I'm going to sleep now it's almost 3am but feel free to chat to me whenever you like. /Notforcing
genuinely if you are seeing takes like the OP was describing, you are following the wrong people. That is such an extremely uncommon take that even after 13 years on this website, following a ton of trans women, I have not seen it. I've certainly never heard anything like it IRL. I only ever see takes remotely like these from other trans guys complaining about them (or through screenshots of TERFs talking about them). Genuinely. 99.99999% of trans women are not saying anything like this and you need to use the block button if you do see them.
Itâs something Iâve seen as a result of migration from other websites to this one, specifically ones known for shitty takes of this caliber. So itâs not everyone, just people very dedicated to cynicism. However, itâs easy to let it get your goat even if you know that because of how extreme it is. Weâd all like to think weâre above that but it happens to everyone
It is true that everyone gets upset when they see people being bigoted against them. However, the healthy way to deal with this is to block that person so that you see less of it, comfort yourself, and complain to your friends about it if necessary.... Not causing the problem for others. Sharing the upsetting take is just spreading it.
And if a website is algorithmically insisting on showing you niche bigotry you would never otherwise experience, it is essential to stop using that website.
But this is Tumblr. There is no reason I would ever have to see this kind of take if people would stop tracking it in from spelunking in the bigotry mines.
So a trans man wanting facial hair and being excited to shave isn't ok because it's "fetishising aspects that make [trans women] dysphoric" but it's ok for even one person to say that trans men should consider ourselves lucky that we can be raped pregnant? Ok.
But are we really? Transfems are more hated than Transmascs in the current patriarchy. We bare the brunt of the hate from the right wing and are overly represented to the point that people who aren't transfem are getting hurt. The trans sports debate is solely surrounded around trans women and we are all fucking tired. Don't think for a second you aren't the one on top
Yes, we are. Transphobic society is rigid on what it believes is the 'correct' gender for people born with or forced to have certain genitalia. It permits nobody, excuses nobody and goes easy on nobody.
There are anti-trans theories and rhetorics which focus on trans men and trans masculine people too. But my trans sisters aren't 'above me' just because they're not targetted by ROGD theory or 'young girls mutilating their healthy breasts' statements.
Do you really believe that trans women are inferior to trans men, or is this something you're saying because you're hurting about the way cis people treat us and the specific treatment trans women get for being hypervisible?
Let me break it down for you. A non passing trans man may not be viewed as a man but instead a tomboy or butch lesbian. While on the other hand a non passing trans woman will be seen as a potential sex predator, degenerate failed male or easy target for physical and sexual violence. Not to say trans men don't face their own unique struggles because they most certainly do but in this current period of time I wish i could trade struggles and stop being so hyper visible and hated for nothing that is my own fault
I fully empathise with your feelings of hurt, the treatment of trans women throughout history and into modern day is unacceptable in every way. You are simply women trying to live your lives and the circumstances of your birth shouldn't be used against you so insidiously by cisnormative society. I love my trans sisters deeply even if a minority of them hate me or say rude things about people like me.
I'm glad we're able to agree that trans men also face their own unique struggles. However, I am asking politely for you to engage in some perspective. Butchphobia exists and causes a lot of violence to be enacted against masculine women and trans men viewed as masculine women. This includes but is not limited to assault (physical and sexual), rape (especially for 'corrective' reasons) and murder. A 'woman' who achieves a certain degree of masculinity is also viewed as a predator, a good deal of butchphobia surrounds the idea of them being aggressive, hypersexual and likely to abuse and rape and this is also said of trans men who are seen as 'just butch women' too.
I understand the sentiment of 'I wish I could trade places' but you life would not be easier or better if you did, there would just be different awful things happening to you which nobody cares about and everyone pretends doesn't exist.
Sorry for the long reply and any weird phrasing or spellings, it's late where I am and I'm a little tired.
It's all good. Atleast you took some time to understand where I was coming from. You know I can't even mourn the fact I will never be able to have children as a trans woman without some TME telling me how I should be glad and how lucky I am and how it's actually a blessing in disguise yadayadayada
Of course. I'm going to assume by 'TME' you either mean 'trans men' or 'people AFAB' and I would appreciate it if you were more clear going forward (not forcing you to keep talking to me though). I'm Autistic and process things better if it's more direct language.
Did you bring up pregnancy because I did? I fully understand and have no qualms with you mourning your inability to get pregnant in general. I can understand why that might be something some women want even if I don't want it.
The ignorance only comes in when sexual assault to achieve it is viewed as 'lucky' or 'something you should be glad can even happen' - and that's what I was upset about. I hope we can both agree that pregnancy as a result of rape is terrible (and not lucky or something we should be happy can happen) even if the victim would otherwise have been happy to become pregnant consensually and others who cannot get pregnant and want to exist. If we don't agree on that I'll have to end the conversation right here.
No i totally agree with you. Sexual assault is fucked up and that's not what I would ever want to happen to anyone or me if that was the only way I could get preggers. Also I didn't even realize I used the term TME. I'm autistic as well and that creates alot of other struggles for me when interacting with nuerotypical people who dislike me for multiple reasons (Voice, Trans, Autistic, Annoying)
No problem! Well, I don't think you're annoying if that means anything coming from a random nonbinary nobody like me. I'm going to sleep now it's almost 3am but feel free to chat to me whenever you like. /Notforcing
genuinely if you are seeing takes like the OP was describing, you are following the wrong people. That is such an extremely uncommon take that even after 13 years on this website, following a ton of trans women, I have not seen it. I've certainly never heard anything like it IRL. I only ever see takes remotely like these from other trans guys complaining about them (or through screenshots of TERFs talking about them). Genuinely. 99.99999% of trans women are not saying anything like this and you need to use the block button if you do see them.
You know how kids are supposed to be exposed to some level of dirt and grime as they grow up so their immune systems can learn what's a deadly disease and what just causes some slight irritation? And if a kid grows up in a too clean environment they're likely to develop severe allergies or a hyper immune disorder?
I think the over sanitation of the internet is doing similar things to people's psyche.
No that ship with an age gap isn't the same as pedophilia, you're just having the moral equivalent to hay-fever.
"Anon please, pocket-deer-boy supporting salem isnât surprising since theyâre willing to bat for zoos, so supporting a rape apologist means nothing to them. enough with trying to boil these things down, they are okay with people that would harm animals for sexual gratification, âproblematic and illegal kinksâ rape, pedophilia, incest and zoophilia arenât kinks but they are something they support. But even then they canât say it fully without hiding behind terms. At the end of the day these people need to just come out and say they support abuse and victims mean nothing to them."
every time i see this post. i genuinely wonder what was going through their head. because it does not say "ferals". it does not say "quad" or whatever other term they use. hell. it does not even talk about "anatomically correctness" or shit like that. it SPECIFICALLY SAYS ZOO, and follows it with "other problematic/illegal kinks".
if someone said "dni pedos, other illegal stuff" and they said the same thing, they know it would not be received as well. in all honesty someone saying "i love zoos" even as a joke or for "shock" humor should have them rethinking their life.
This conflation of thoughts with real life actions is concerning. Murder is wrong. Murder is 100% wrong, and I think everyone can agree about that.
But murder in fiction isn't wrong. Murders happen in some of my favorite movies. People have favorite characters who are murderers. I'm not going to send Agatha Christie harassment because I "think it's sus that she spends so much time imagining murdering people".
If you think somebody being okay with role-playing something is the same as somebody beyond okay with doing that in real life, do you then think all LARPers are murderers?
How do I lack imagination if I struggle to imagine how we keep the general population safe if we are in principle against sequestering someone away from the community?
Like youâre telling me you can imagine it, but Iâm just supposed to take it as a given youâre telling the truth.
When we know what happens when we keep predatory people in the community. Look at Epsteinâs emails. When we donât take things like that seriously, people like that end up treating harming others as a joke⌠and worse still, people around these predators start to treat what they do as a joke too. Those people friendly joshing around with him knew what he did.
So help me and my terrible imagination out Ms. Newsom. How do we keep the mod5 dangerous people in society in the community and yet also make sure they arenât surrounded by enablers and minimizers?
Iâll gladly accept that my imagination is impoverished if you just tell me whatâs so easy to imagine.
But if you canât tell me, donât pretend something is wrong with my brain. Donât accuse me of having some kind of disability or limitation just to get away with lying.
"If you're concerned about what will happen to rapists and murderers when we abolish prisons, you just lack imagination!"
"Alright...if you're so imaginative, what will happen to rapists and murderers when we abolish prisons?"
"That's not my responsibility! You're just deflecting! You're demanding emotional labor from minorities! We don't need to have every detail planned out, we need to abolish prisons NOW!"
(facepalm)
The OOP comparing prisons to slavery is a ridiculous bit of rhetoric. She can just accuse anyone that has concerns about prison abolition of basically being pro-slavery and tada! She doesn't even need to justify her own position! Yes, people had concerns about "the economy" that they used to argue against the abolition of slavery. Obviously slavery isn't justifiable whether it's good for the economy or not, but her comparison is bad. There were already many areas slavery wasn't legal where the economy was doing well. There are no developed countries where prisons have been completely abolished on a mass scale. There are countries with highly reformed prison systems that are doing well, which is why many people who aren't pro-prison abolition are pro-prison reform. But we have no alternate system to point to.
You could argue that like slavery, prisons are so inherently immoral that any good caused by prisons isn't justifiable...but you'd need to argue that either:
We can prevent/mitigate rape and murder without prisons (which most prison abolitionists don't appear concerned with demonstrating is possible, hence "you just lack imagination")
The harm inflicted on rapists and murderers by prisons is not worth preventing/mitigating the harm cause by rape and murder. That prisons are so inherently immoral that even if rape and murder could be prevented/mitigated by prisons, it's still not justifiable to imprison rapists and murderers. Anyone affected by rape or murder needs to just take it on the chin and realise that they're acceptable collateral damage.
Yeah, that exactly. 2 is how it often FEELS like to me, like since it would be cruel to punish the woman who abused me as a child I just have to live with it and not worry about who else she might have hurt.
I canât make that sound right in my head. I just⌠I canât.
And people say I donât care about my fellow human beings because that thought is horrifying to me.
Also, I was thinking about this a bit ago andâŚ
Itâs not that I canât imagine a world where a very gifted social worker could convince Ghislaine Maxwell how bad what she did really was. Itâs not that I canât imagine her breaking into operatic sobs as the house of cards collapses.
Itâs that thatâs a fanfic.
Itâs redemption arc RPF.
Just because I can imagine it doesnât mean I should act like I expect it.
I don't claim to have all the answers. I will point out some flaws, however, with the reasoning as presented.
You say that prisons are necessary in order to protect society from violent antisocial acts (rape, murder, etc.) Yet we live in a world where prisons both exist and yet the vast majority of these acts (when committed by people in positions of power especially) go un-punished. Simultaneously, the prison system that *does* exist causes an immense amount of harm, especially to marginalized people. Let's not forget that prisons also facilitate their own violence! For example, trans women are especially vulnerable when placed in men's prisons and trans women of color are often forced into the margins where it is very easy for the white-supremacist and carceral authorities to throw them in jail for trumped-up or even made-up charges. I also find it hard to condemn comparisons between prisons and slavery when (in the USA at least) prisons *are* used as a way to extract forced labor from minority (e.g. Black) populations. The whole *history* of Jim Crow tells us that mass incarceration comes directly from the former slaveholding class seeking to maintain their power over the formerly enslaved.
I think we need to end rape culture and the violent patriarchal foundations that it sustains and is in turn sustained by. Prisons demonstrably do not stop sexual violence (and as I said they enable violence in many cases), so if your concern is about protecting people from that violence then prison abolition has very little to do with that. The burden of proof should not be on the prison abolitionist to prove the counterfactual - the fact that it is difficult to imagine a society where we have eliminated both the violence of rape and the violence of prisons is not a justification for the continued existence of prisons. And if you're arguing about prison abolition vs reform, well, that's a whole different argument. Neither will lead to good outcomes so long as the structures that enable violence (patriarchy, racism, rape culture, etc.) remain.
What youâre getting at now is what concerns me. If we choose not to punish anyone just because weâve historically been bad at punishing the powerful, how does that lead to anything but the powerful doing whatever they want?
No one seems to have the slightest interest in answering that question and I find it alarming.
The more I read of the Epstein files, the more I see of the elite not even noticing what they do to people, the more alarmed I feel.
Why are people so allergic to trying to figure out how to hold the powerful accountable?
It truly sickens me and makes me profoundly doubt the left.
Except that the alternative is the right, people who exalt the powerful rather than just ignore them. So Iâm stuck here, because I have a slightly higher tolerance for people with blinders on than I do for people who say the way it is is the way itâs gotta be.
But fucking hell, man.
Can we please focus or are we gonna keep pretending we canât do anything about these shitheads?
More people are raped in prison than rapists are sent to prison. A woman is more likely to be sent to prison, and then raped in prison with no recourse, than a victim is to ever see their rapist go to jail. The current system does not help rape survivors.
So, what do I think we should do to reduce rapes and murders? Make people safer and more secure. If you can safely leave a situation, you are less likely to be raped and murdered. If we put every ounce of effort and money into helping people have their needs met rather than punishing (or "sequestering") people who make them unsafe, we would have far less problems as a society. If you don't rely on an abusive partner for housing, you are less likely to be raped and murdered by your intimate partner. If you don't rely on a good grade to keep your housing and scholarship, you are less likely to be coerced by your professor. If you don't rely on your boss for money you need to live, or a landlord to keep a roof over your head, those people have less power to rape you. If no one needed to steal to survive, theft and the murders associated with it would be drastically reduced.
People need houses and food. Take the money we are currently spending on police and prisons, spend it on making sure everyone has adequate housing and food. This would prevent far more violent crime than prisons do.
The idea that there are a meaningful number of inherently violent "bad guys" who just want to hurt people, and only don't because they're scared of prison is a boogie man. A tiny fraction of people. Less dangerous than melanoma. We don't need to be spending the resources we currently are to "prevent" them. If the cops disappeared overnight, I would not murder or rape or steal from anyone, and that's the case with the overwhelming majority of people with their needs met.
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My main quarrel with this is the points about the puritans, which are incorrect -- the puritans did definitely believe in the idea of salvation through "works" (works in this context being with the Christian definition of "doing actual things for people on earth rather than just talking + thinking about God") but like 90% of the time salvation through works to them meant preaching, which was something that the puritans felt was underemphasized by the catholics and episcopalians of the day and therefore were big on; and doing godly things for people -- feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, heal the sick, bury the dead, things of that nature. They didn't mean, like, toiling in the fields when they said that. Secondly "the puritans believed in never having fun" is another sort-of-true misconception that usually comes from them not liking holidays such as Christmas, and from Cromwell banning theatre. Neither of those things happened because they got a kick out of people being miserable. They weren't keen on Christmas because Christmas is not explicitly called for as a church holiday in the Bible, and the puritans' strict adherence to Not doing things that the Bible didn't call for was one of their biggest defining characteristics; the second was because "redemption through works" could also mean not sinning, and they saw theatre as sinful for... reasons that I can't really defend in any way but my point is that there were reasons, they didn't just do it randomly to make people miserable. Next: it's true that capitalism encourages Working Hard and Not Having Fun, but capitalism does not encourage it because of the puritans. Like that simply is not because of the puritans. Capitalist conditions and puritan beliefs are only very vaguely connected in a few places in the world. And the puritan extremists tended to be anarchists, not capitalists. Google the Diggers and Ranters, I'm begging you.
And anyway all that aside I am also fascinated by how this post dead seriously claims that like mediaeval field labourers or whatever had better lives than modern people. "In olden times people had better lives because technically if you add up the number of hours that peasants spent doing backbreaking labour in service to their liege lord it's less than the number of hours that I spend at my relatively simple office job" ok but they also had smallpox. and feudalism. and they were constantly starting the bloodiest wars imaginable over the stupidest shit on earth. I know capitalism is bad but I'll be honest I think I would take living in a time when we can you know cure basic fevers in ways that don't involve being bled by a man in a plague mask and don't have the divine right of kings as our main political belief over living in some hypothetically better mediaeval world any day
Nowhere in the drowned post did they say that medieval peasants lived happier, longer, or better lives. Just that they did work for others for fewer hours. You choose to compare the back braking labor of farming to an office job and not one of the many back-breaking physical labor jobs that also work 40+ hours a week in the modern day.
I followed the person I reblog this from, so we must have something in common, but I'm really struggling to understand what people's beef with this drowned post is other than incorrect information about Puritans (sorry, Puritans).
Even if the information isn't perfect, it's good to remind people that the way later and distribution of resources in society is man-made and changes over time. It's important because it reminds people that we can make changes. We could organize the workforce differently. We could improve society somewhat.
generally speaking a lot of people wrongly take TERFs and other transphobes at face value when assembling their awesome rhetorical gotchas in a way that makes them seem like gullible suckers
"do these TERFs realise that they're never going to get bathroom genital inspections implemented" yes they do they're not trying to get them implemented they're trying to intimidate trans women out of existing in public so they'll detransition or die
"umm im a trans man with a beard and if i used the bathroom these stupid TERFs want me to they'd hate that lol" right that's because they don't want you to use any bathroom they want you to detransition or die
"lol social contagion theory is stupid do these parents really think isolating their kids will magically turn them cis" well you see they actually think itll make them detransition or die
Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you donât fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a âproblemâ
I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.
Adding it this way because I'm not directly giving this person the reblogs that they want.
It is never just sex, and sexual assault in porn cannot be separated from nuclear bombings, nor can it be separated from war (even in film, because i suppose that only happens in movies) when real people are assaulted daily in real life wars.
Jan Villarubia: "I was given drugs and alcohol before being filmed and then porn producers would record me saying that I was NOT under the influence of any drugs or alcohol prior to filming.
I gladly accepted the drugs and alcohol because I didn't want to feel the pain of penetration from an over-sized man or from being told to hold poses for still camera shots while being penetrated and choked."
Aaron Crowley: âThere came a point where [my talent manager] unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis and sat in a chair and said, âIf you want to be a part of this industry, this is a part of it.â
And what he was doing there was basically seeing if I would be comfortable with exactly what was gonna happen to me in porn, where I was no longer in control of my body. Was I going to submit and do what I was told? Was I going to acquiesce to the demands of the producers and everyone else on set?
Thatâs sexual assault. But because itâs porn and because sex is the nature of the industry, sexual assault is the nature of the industry. Itâs normal. This is exactly what goes on. He was right there, saying sexual assault is a part of this industry.â
Felicity Feline: âI worked for a site called Facial AbuseâŚitâs basically a site that is extremely degrading and rough. It promotes explicit, horrible acts onto womenâŚmainly to vomitâŚand be called names and to do really awful things on cameraâŚI was 21 years old and confused so I agreed to do it.
I wish more than anything that I never shot for that company.
So the scene starts off with an interview type of thingâŚThey start asking me questions like have you ever been molested as a child or touched by family members? They start asking these weird questions to dig for information that they can use against meâŚÂ They wanted to break me.
c: exoduscry
A snippet from Aurora Snow's interview with The Daily Beast, that shines a light on the real abuse and real exploitation in the industry.
" But stopping was not in her contract. Snow says someone grabbed her and tried to forcefully penetrate her anally with one of the approved devices, but she did not consent to extras utilizing them. She dodged him just in time and yelled at him, but he laughed at her.
âHe was laughing like I was a joke, saying things like âBut youâre Aurora Snow, you can take it.â But I could not take it. I was shatteredâmy nerves so frayed I was entirely unable to explain how what I consented to turned into something I never imagined.â
Snow said she was not in a scene she agreed to. No one came to her defense. The cameras kept rolling."
"For example, one study found that 1 out of every 8 porn titles shown to first-time users on porn home pages described acts of sexual violence. And according to studies analyzing the content of porn videos themselves, itâs estimated that as few as 1 in 3 porn videos (33.9%) and as many as 9 in 10 videos (88.2%) show acts of physical aggression or violence, while 48.7%âabout halfâcontain verbal aggression. These studies also found that despite the levels of violence and aggression, the targets were almost always portrayed as responding with pleasure or neutrality."
"But thatâs not all. This study from 2011 found that women are more likely to watch pornâespecially the more hardcore categoriesâwhen they have suffered sexual assaults and psychological violence at the hands of their families. Just read this personal account, and this personal account to see personal experiences that back this up. Also, not surprisingly, more research has shown time and time again that there is a direct connection between pornography and sexual assault."
Fight The New Drug
Lastly, comparing fetishized sexual assault to war is not only tone deaf, but disingenuous at worst and ignorant at best. There are thousands, maybe even millions of testimonials from the families of women and little girls who have been raped during real life wars, and from the women and little girls themselves. There are testimonials directly from the men who have committed these sexual assaults, who are proud of it, who keep photos and diary entries as trophies.
c: wikipedia
"Rape, among other acts of wartime sexual violence, was frequently committed against female Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. It was an aspect of the various human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States and South Korea, as well as by local Vietnamese combatants. According to American political scientist Elisabeth Jean Wood, the sexual violation of women by American military personnel was tolerated by their commanders. American professor Gina Marie Weaver stated that not only were documented crimes against Vietnamese women by American soldiers ignored during the international legal discourse that occurred immediately after the conflict, but modern feminists and other anti-war rape campaigners, as well as historians, have continued to dismiss them."
c: wikipedia
"Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (ć °ĺŽĺŠŚ),[6] a euphemism that literally means "comforting, consoling woman". During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea and other countries into sexual enslavement for Japanese soldiers; however, the majority of the women were from Korea."
Here are some testimonies from the last survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937. The Nanjing Massacre was led by the Japanese military during the second Sino-Japanese war, who invaded Nanjing, China and engaged in a campaign of mass killing and mass rapes.
What is happening? My city is still plastered in pride flags, including my progress flag and Palestinian flag, neither of which have been griefed. Is my area just unusually cool? It's a blue dot in a red state...
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I tap the mic. âMost people donât want to crawl down your chimney and steal your dog.â
the crowd murmurs uncertainly.
âIf someone wants to steal your dog,â I continue, âthere are easier ways to do that. They donât have to crawl into a chimney.â
Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.
âPeople disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,â I shout. âLiterally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?â
âI have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!â Someone yells, throwing a shoe.
âYou seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?â Another cries.
âOnly a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!â Says a third.
A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid
I don't know. Men do really really stupid shit to peep on women.
Police said the remains were so decomposed, it appears the man could have been dead inside the portable toilet for months.
That's not even the one I was looking for. So the count is up to 2 men died in a porta potty tank to peep on women. One in a septic tank in a womens bathroom and at least one other caught alive.
The notion that men "wouldn't wear a dress willingly" is hair brained at best. My grandfather and great grandfather did it for fun and fundraisers. My grandfather did a damn good Doris day. And shaved his legs.
Men can and will do things that aren't masculine. Hence why trans women are still the men they are born as bathrooms (eh not super important) and chageing and locker rooms (massively more important because of the state of undress) are sex designated precisely because sex is an immutable fact and gender is some made up bullshit. If you don't want to be counted as men trying to force access to women in a state of undress then maybe don't force access to women in a state of undress, have you thought of that?
Do you mean the urinary leash of the 19th century that barred women from having lives outside their homes?
Or the one the trans movement co-opted because they don't like useing the bathroom of their sex (aka it's not that they don't have an option they just don't like it.)
I think that we should in fact make all gender restrooms to pick up the gap for people. It also gives father's a place to take thier young children to the bathroom or the changeing table. I don't think there should be laws because men enforce them and if we know anything about men we know they hate "masculine" women.
Don't feel like it's co-opting at all. I'm starting to feel the squeeze because I'm afab and look like a man. I used to use the men's room with no problem, but with these anti-trans bathroom bills I am scared because every time I do I'm technically breaking the law. I look like a trans man to people who know what they are looking for, which makes using the men's risky, but I am stocky, tall, and have facial hair. I would say 90% of people assume I'm a man. I don't think the people who want these laws in place will leave me to pee in peace in the women's restroom... I am a real person and it is affecting me right now.
A trans woman has never hassled me in the restroom, but cis women have, and now they've made it legal for a police officer to drag me out and check my ID and possibly arrest me if I don't have it on me đ
I tap the mic. âMost people donât want to crawl down your chimney and steal your dog.â
the crowd murmurs uncertainly.
âIf someone wants to steal your dog,â I continue, âthere are easier ways to do that. They donât have to crawl into a chimney.â
Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.
âPeople disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,â I shout. âLiterally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?â
âI have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!â Someone yells, throwing a shoe.
âYou seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?â Another cries.
âOnly a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!â Says a third.
A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid
I don't know. Men do really really stupid shit to peep on women.
Police said the remains were so decomposed, it appears the man could have been dead inside the portable toilet for months.
That's not even the one I was looking for. So the count is up to 2 men died in a porta potty tank to peep on women. One in a septic tank in a womens bathroom and at least one other caught alive.
The notion that men "wouldn't wear a dress willingly" is hair brained at best. My grandfather and great grandfather did it for fun and fundraisers. My grandfather did a damn good Doris day. And shaved his legs.
Men can and will do things that aren't masculine. Hence why trans women are still the men they are born as bathrooms (eh not super important) and chageing and locker rooms (massively more important because of the state of undress) are sex designated precisely because sex is an immutable fact and gender is some made up bullshit. If you don't want to be counted as men trying to force access to women in a state of undress then maybe don't force access to women in a state of undress, have you thought of that?