“I ain’t reading all that” your brain is rotting and shrinking

for this beautiful pride month i am reading a noted work of queer literature. the leopard by giuseppe tomasi di lampedusa

the "pedophile" as an image in most usamerican's head is just as constructed as anything else. It's always people lurking and luring kids online and, not, like, your relatives or private boarding school teachers or your youth group pastors. It's an extension of suburban paranoia of the Other that simultaneously closes rank within racial and class lines (even while shielding those accused of the crimes being talked about if they're of the "right" background). It's a confluence of anti-feminist satanic panic, end of history at the end of the cold war bringing the paranoia inwards, and a group of people so inundated with their alienated suburban protestant upbringing that they don't see other people if they see those different than them: they see criminals, and worse and worse attributes to slap onto the said criminals. It's a sickness of the culture.

it's always "kill all pedophiles" to mean "brutalize those we have social position to brutalize" and not, like, "let's seriously examine what social forces allow children to get victimized." Stepping out of even the suburbs, the number one pedophile organization is US military abroad. It's no wonder that the HOA-PTA thought upholders that hate both foreigners bringing this up AND examination of mechanisms of abuse love using racialized people of the usa as a rhetorical device; these yanks barely know, let alone interact with, racialized people!

I totally respect the haterism and love the energy but i really don't care about arsenal at all, no feelings whatsoever, neither positive or negative

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

did you guys know that imagining something = as good as having it

it's actually better than having it because you dont have to have it

TRUE.

So can non-disabled people stop doing that thing where they act like it’s morally righteous to force yourself to work while you’re sick and assume taking sick days automatically equates to laziness. Any time now. That’d be great

to me it is a tragedy that people are still mystified by leftists who seek to abolish the commodity form, yet still support surrogacy and prostitution, the commodification of female flesh. it’s not a contradiction at all. it has never been a contradiction. men are humans and women are less than cattle. if women do not organize around upending their sexual subordination, the most that women can hope for is libertarianism. men get to have communism. men get to mobilize people for their liberation. to exploit a man constitutes a social, biological and spiritual aberration that must be corrected by any means necessary. to “exploit” a woman simply doesn’t register as objectionable. a non-being’s pain means nothing. what does it mean to exploit a vessel? and a non-being certainly can’t incite a moral objection to its condition, because its condition is null, tantamount to a non-sentient object. mere matter and mass that has no interiority at all. it’s never really hypocritical to care about “human rights” and “liberation” while disregarding women. we have been displaced from that category for thousands of years.

so far women fucking men and having children with men and dating men and marrying men and living with men and cooking for men and cleaning up after men and mothering men and working with men and befriending men and entertaining men and counseling men and defending men and loving men has not convinced men to stop hating us but any minute now ladies

this isn't an indictment of women btw. it's men who respond to women's love with contempt. it's men who scoff at the idea that a woman could be his equal partner in life when it is a woman's place to love and serve him. worship him. it's men who see penetration as degradation so that when a woman lets him fuck her she loses her value. after orgasm he feels disgust instead of love because there's something fucking wrong with him. maybe deep down he knows he's not worthy of love, so any woman who loves him must be of low worth herself. but he tells himself it's because she's beneath him, how dare she expect anything from him? it's men who revile the thought of having to earn a woman's love, disparage women's fantasies of romance, refuse to try, refuse to change. love doesn't fix men because in his mind he's just getting what he's owed by birthright. a woman's love is like a dog's love. they love blindly and live to please and do what they're told and take whatever scraps of affection they can get from their master. man's best friend knows her place is on the floor. man's own colossal failure to see our humanity. his actions stem from that failure. there is no one right answer for women because he's the one who's irrational. how do you convince someone to see you as a human being when it should be obvious? if love isn't the answer, what is?

so far women fucking men and having children with men and dating men and marrying men and living with men and cooking for men and cleaning up after men and mothering men and working with men and befriending men and entertaining men and counseling men and defending men and loving men has not convinced men to stop hating us but any minute now ladies

this isn't an indictment of women btw. it's men who respond to women's love with contempt. it's men who scoff at the idea that a woman could be his equal partner in life when it is a woman's place to love and serve him. worship him. it's men who see penetration as degradation so that when a woman lets him fuck her she loses her value. after orgasm he feels disgust instead of love because there's something fucking wrong with him. maybe deep down he knows he's not worthy of love, so any woman who loves him must be of low worth herself. but he tells himself it's because she's beneath him, how dare she expect anything from him? it's men who revile the thought of having to earn a woman's love, disparage women's fantasies of romance, refuse to try, refuse to change. love doesn't fix men because in his mind he's just getting what he's owed by birthright. a woman's love is like a dog's love. they love blindly and live to please and do what they're told and take whatever scraps of affection they can get from their master. man's best friend knows her place is on the floor. man's own colossal failure to see our humanity. his actions stem from that failure. there is no one right answer for women because he's the one who's irrational. how do you convince someone to see you as a human being when it should be obvious? if love isn't the answer, what is?