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In The Desert .. Seymour Walks..

i guess the thing is that when people talk about how e.g. cheating in college doesn't actually matter, there's this implicit assumption that the credentials are worthless. like nobody would say "yeah it's nbd if my airplane pilot bribed their test instructor to let them skip the test, do what you need to do to survive under capitalism" because there's an obvious sense in which a bad pilot will kill you. and obviously not all degrees are safety critical but like, it rarely feels like the conversation about e.g. AI usage on homework gets into that level of nuance?

like okay: kids buying fake drivers licenses get beer is very different from kids buying fake drivers licenses and actually driving with them, right? but if you treat the two as the same thing you're going to get very confused.

no matter how bad you think you are at sex, you are not as bad at it as SUPER MARIO

I THINK MARIO IS AVERAGE AT SEX!!!!!!!! BE NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

personal least favourite media criticism experience has got to be when people are like it's so great that the writers don't rely on sexual abuse/assault as an easy shortcut to actual character or narrative development and you're like sure i guess and then they're like i mean it's just so gratuitous and unnecessary, you'd have to be some kind of sick pervert who hates women to rely on something like that, honestly unless you're making something About sexual violence i don't think it should exist at all, it's just lazy writing, and you're like oh this never had anything to do with caring about victims for you did it

in a similar vein, when people recommend a work on the basis that it contains no themes of sexual violence and there's blatant subtext that suggests otherwise but now you know if you point it out you're going to be seen as a disgusting predator and fun ruiner and expected to submit a comprehensive disclosure of your own personal history of abuse for review to determine whether you're "allowed" to talk about it

But like genuinely. "humans have an innate need for spirituality" should be pretty transparently a reactionary opinion. It's simply not true and equates something that some people get benefit from with it being a fundamental aspect of being human (and one that is missing it most people today). You gonna start arguing "children *need* fathers or they grow up broken" next?

"Squeaky clean" is doing a lot of heavy lifting if it's referring to a middle aged fag, old enough to have served under Don't Ask Don't Tell. Like, sodomy laws were still constitutional in his adult life.