what is life even

hey why do tumblr users think "intersectional feminism" means "denying that any woman who holds any privilege ever in any situation is affected by misogyny"

"Ur so chill" thanks i gave up

Cheney voted for Kamala Harris despite being a piece of shit like imagine losing the moral high ground to Dick Cheney

how do i say "horror novels these days are too woke" without sounding like a right winger. what i mean is: this one is about a woman serial killer who kills Bad Men, that one is about ~anticapitalist activists~, this one is ~queer~, that one is about *spins wheel* someone dealing with the ghosts of their immigrant roots, all of them are about intergenerational traumaaaaa. okay. cool. but is it good though. is it fucking scary

something something, losing the ability to convey horror through abstraction, through metaphor, through symbolism, through allegory, through raw unexamined un-psychiatrized feeling. if the real horror is.... dun dun dun! the patriarchy then i just feel preached to. don't use fiction as a vehicle for Saying Something About Society. write with total vulnerability and then see what it says. it will be probably be far more interesting and horrifying than what if the monster was uhh my mom's abuse or whatever. this brand of new horror writers are all so terrified of actually disclosing anything about themselves. it's like if an instagram infographic performance was a mediocre contemporary novel

One of the difficulties of book discourse online lately is that there genuinely has been a huge rise in "progressive" literature that feels like it was written for a Tumblr post about "bad characters are okay as long as the text doesn't agree with them!" - that are super didactic, or allergic to making an actual villain out of anyone from a marginalized group, and so on - and yet there are also a ton of right-wing weirdos on book sites still who throw fits about "woke" if there's a gay character or a Muslim character or even a major female character who exists to be something other than a love interest / damsel in distress / masturbatory description about how big her boobs are. (You especially see this if you read anything that combines more than one of those identities, and especially that has powerful women or LGBTQ+ people in a non-Western and/or historical setting. So many people just cannot wrap their heads around that, say, non-cishet Muslims are real people who exist in the world, or that people in the past having different attitudes about sexuality and gender from today applies just as much to 2.5-kids-and-white-picket-fence heteronormativity as it does to contemporary queer culture.) So I wholly sympathize with the delicate dance of how to say "I am a person who cares about representation and thinks it is good, but I would like these new diverse takes on well-worn genres to be well-written and to be written for adults who can handle some challenging concepts and moral ambiguity, please!" It's hard! It sucks! And yet it's important enough that we have to do it.

*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

Concussions-to-Lovers speedrun

It’s so funny that nonvoters are always going on about mutual funds and community organizing because that’s just reinventing local government but worse lol

I propose a forced merger of all the red fly over plains states. They do not need that many senators