"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,”

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.

I get a lot of versions of this question, and I answer it seriously every time, because it’s both important and not important at all. Anyone who asks respectfully gets my whole ass answer.

It’s just not really about that. My job isn’t about defending the idea of hurting someone else. It’s about stopping the state from inflicting further hurt, torture, pain. It’s about pushing back for some fairness against a monumentally stacked system. And it’s about stuff that’s normal human stuff that counts as crime for some reason.

Yeah, it’s 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 they’re 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 mom’s 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 dad’s house because his new girlfriend wants you to stop coming around. It’s 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 doesn’t do it, we know this by now. So I argue for mercy and for real solutions to real problems. I’m here to build a future, not get caught up with doing violence to someone because of the past.

So yeah, sometimes it’s hard, but mostly my conscience is dead clear: I’m 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 that’s not possible, I just want to tell the authorities they don’t 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 don’t 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 it’s far more damaging and awful than any individual crime. The average prosecutor has more blood on their hands than a serial killer, but it’s 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, it’s because I put my hands over the wounds and try to stop the flow. I’m okay with it.

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. “Proving” that someone is a “pedophile” is why we have barbaric shit like the penile plethysmograph, and it’s 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 “a convicted sex offender whose crime was against a child.”

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.

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.

The same slogans, the same panic, the same moral shortcuts — recycled endlessly with minor cosmetic changes.

And then you stumble on something like this.

Something so perfectly self-revealing that you couldn’t 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 they’re making a strong ethical point — and accidentally exposing an entire worldview in the process.

That’s when the boredom disappears. Because at that point, you’re no longer arguing with opinions. You’re 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 “class traitors”.

Let’s 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 don’t monetise every output, you’re not just naïve — you’re 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 doesn’t, it is unethical.

Which is… bold. And historically illiterate.

Public domain art. Creative Commons. Open-source culture. Free fonts. Free textures. Free brushes. Free tutorials. Academic publishing. Fan art. Zines. Modding communities.

All of these apparently should be “ashamed of themselves”.

Because someone, somewhere, might not get paid. I’ve already written about this logic before.

What’s actually being expressed here is not care for artists.

It’s hostility toward autonomy.

The idea that an artist can decide:

how their work is used whether it’s monetised whether it’s shared freely whether they value reach, community, experimentation, or joy

is deeply offensive to people who need a single moral rule to police everyone else.

If your worldview collapses the moment someone says:

“I’m okay with not charging for this”

then the problem is that you’ve reduced art to a toll booth.

The irony is delicious.

These same people will:

pirate movies, download games, use free software, rely on open-source tools, consume endless free content

…but the moment an artist consciously chooses to give something away?

Suddenly it’s class warfare.

And here’s the part that really matters:

This argument quietly reveals the endgame.

Not traditional:

“protect artists” “support creativity” “build sustainable systems”

But:

force scarcity, remove choice, and shame anyone who doesn’t comply

That’s coercion.

So no — AI didn’t take us “too far”. This did.

And yes — somehow, incredibly, this is even lower than “using AI kills people”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think the over sanitation of the internet is doing similar things to people's psyche.

I know it's a somewhat common belief, but it's also straight up medical misinformation and I wish people would stop saying it.

"Anon please, pocket-deer-boy supporting salem isn’t surprising since they’re 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, “problematic and illegal kinks” rape, pedophilia, incest and zoophilia aren’t kinks but they are something they support. But even then they can’t 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".

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".

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 you’re telling me you can imagine it, but I’m just supposed to take it as a given you’re telling the truth.

When we know what happens when we keep predatory people in the community. Look at Epstein’s emails. When we don’t 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 aren’t surrounded by enablers and minimizers?

I’ll gladly accept that my imagination is impoverished if you just tell me what’s so easy to imagine.

"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")

I can’t make that sound right in my head. I just… I can’t.

And people say I don’t care about my fellow human beings because that thought is horrifying to me.

Also, I was thinking about this a bit ago and…

It’s not that I can’t imagine a world where a very gifted social worker could convince Ghislaine Maxwell how bad what she did really was. It’s not that I can’t imagine her breaking into operatic sobs as the house of cards collapses.

It’s that that’s a fanfic.

It’s redemption arc RPF.

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.

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 I’m 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 it’s gotta be.

But fucking hell, man.

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.

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).

"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

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.

the crowd murmurs uncertainly.

“If someone wants to steal your dog,” I continue, “there are easier ways to do that. They don’t have to crawl into a chimney.”

Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.

“People disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,” I shout. “Literally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?”

“I have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!” Someone yells, throwing a shoe.

“You seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?” Another cries.

“Only a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!” Says a third.

A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid

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.

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.)

the crowd murmurs uncertainly.

“If someone wants to steal your dog,” I continue, “there are easier ways to do that. They don’t have to crawl into a chimney.”

Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.

“People disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,” I shout. “Literally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?”

“I have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!” Someone yells, throwing a shoe.

“You seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?” Another cries.

“Only a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!” Says a third.

A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid

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.