professional fool

I don't know how I'm supposed to explain to ostensibly trans-friendly feminists that "women are beautiful soft things made of glass, men are obsessed with violence and sex" is exactly what the patriarchy wants you to believe. Patriarchy wants you to believe that being a woman and/or having a vagina (patriarchy generally believes those two things are synonymous) makes one shatter on impact with reality. It makes you easier to control if you are scared shitless of the other half of the population, and it makes you more compliant with your lot in life if you believe it is in the nature of the other half of the population to rape and kill rather than realise those were choices those individual rapists and murderers made. There is no way to make gender essentialism progressive and feminist, because it is one of patriarchy's tools of subjugation. Stop trying to make it progressive.

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

ive really started to despise the idea that porn/erotica is like, a lesser form of art just because it summons horniness rather than a more sophisticated emotion, like sadness or joy.

I think this ties in with the idea that the action and horror genres are inherently lesser forms of art. Never mind that a well-written sex scene or fight scene can brilliantly illustrate character and dramatically change the plot. Sex, action, and gore are all "lowest common denominator" stuff, clearly only present to sell your work to the rubes. Well, okay, you can have some of these elements, in small doses, as a treat, but more than that arbitrarily determined amount and you're not making real art, are you?

zero moral nuance