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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, January 3, 1921
The reason womenâs clothes donât have pockets is so they can sell you a purse. The reason so many womenâs clothes are sheer is so they can sell you something to go underneath.
Womenâs clothes are made to be bought; menâs clothes are made to be worn.
Annnnnnnd there it is
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of âthis is satire, duhâ, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they arenât tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, theyâre laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, theyâre laughing at sexual harassment, theyâre laughing at child abuse, theyâre laughing at anti-semitism, theyâre laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.
And the âsatireâ is so often pathetically weak. There isnât a single nativist in this entire country who canât laugh at a âder takin er jerbsâ joke, because those jokes donât actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. Itâs just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for âsatireâ has been set? Thereâs occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.
But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, theyâll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. Thatâs why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.
I worked with a guy who would yell âderka derka jihad!â out of his truck at Middle Eastern people.  Or refer to them as âderka-derkas.â
âDerka derka jihadâ is a joke from Stone & Parkerâs Team America: World Police, and itâs (in a generous interpretation) a satire on âthis is what narrow-minded Americans think Arabic sounds like, silly Americans!â
But about 95% of the audience thought the joke was âArabic sounds ridiculous, itâs not even a real language!â  The movie does extremely little to discourage this.  [click here if you are prepared to experience a full-body cringe]  The level of satire is somewhere between âextremely subtleâ and âalibi.â
I know satire is subjective and the public is hard to predict and all that, but I think an easy way to tell that the thing youâre participating in isnât satire is when youâre inventing new racial slurs and theyâre catching on.
South Park is the opposite of satire.
Hereâs how South Park fans think Jonathan Swiftâs A Modest Proposal happened. Swift wondered, âwhatâs the most offensive, politically incorrect thing I could write about? I know! Eating babies!â He wrote an essay saying everyone should eat babies. People were very offended by this essay, which makes it funny. People thought Swift was serious but he wasnât, kek, he was just being satirical! He fooled them!
Hereâs how Jonathan Swiftâs A Modest Proposal actually happened. Swift lived in Ireland, a colonial property of England. He was enraged by the ways the English government, Irish puppet government, and Irish wealthy oppressed the poor of Ireland, causing poverty and famine. He wrote a bitterly sarcastic screed carrying their callous dehumanization to its logical extremeâwith your cruelty, you might as well just eat their babies! Swift sarcastically included a long paragraph of his actual policy proposals in the essay: âTherefore let no man talk to me of other expedients,â strengthening his accusation that to pretend it was impossible to help the poor was viciousness at the level of baby-eating.
The cruel English politicians Swift was satirizing didnât misread the satire as agreeing with them, because he didnât just say the same things as them in a snotty voice, because thatâs not what satire means. Nobody said, âYeah, Swift, thatâs a great idea, letâs go eat us some babies!â The targets of satire arenât supposed to agree with it.
The late great Terry Pratchet was a master satirist. His works are fucking hillarious. His friend and co-writer Neil Gaiman explains what made him such a great satirist: âThere is a fury to Terry Pratchettâs writing: itâs the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld.â And âanger is the engine that drives him.â Anger at what? â Against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness.â That is satire: a white-hot righteous fury at injustice, channeled into humor. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
Nihilistic apathy and opposition to any and all political opinions and âwaaahhh, those buzzkills are telling me not to call people retarded, but thatâs hard and I like calling people retardedâ is not a basis for satire. If you were to take every distinguishing characteristic true satire has and do exactly the opposite, youâd wind up with something like the genre South Park popularized.
âTHE TARGETS OF SATIRE ARENâT SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH IT.â
this is so important
just being âsatireâ doesnât give your work value, itâs gotta be good satire

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Gay culture is reblogging Gay Culture Is posts knowing full well thatâs not gay culture but rather mental illness and social alienationÂ
Gay culture is mental illness and social alienation

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A blueprint for white folks wondering what we want from âalliesâ (comrades) in the struggle.Â
i also want to talk about how dysphoria can fuel eating disorders to the point that thinness maintained by a restrictive eating disorder can feel like an integral part of gender expression for trans people & how the demonization of fatness in our culture can hugely hinder the recovery even of people whose eating disorders always revolved more around dysphoria than the fear of being fat
i want to talk about how the culturally enforced ideas of thinness as the epitome of androgyny, thinness as the epitome of femininity, & âmaybe not thinness but definitely a lack of curves that can sometimes only be obtained by thinnessâ as the epitome of masculinity poison our thinking as trans people & contribute to an overwhelming epidemic of eating disorders in our community disproportionate to even the epidemic in wider sociey
i want to talk about how controlling our food to control our bodies & to control our minds & to feel like we have some control over circumstances that are wildly out of our control is horrifyingly commonplace in the trans community & no one is talking about it
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Huffpo, everybody.
Can someone tell me what high crime or misdemeanor Trump has committed that merits this? Or is the HuffPo just publishing outright fantasies?
God dammit, Iâm now in the position of defending Huffington. I didnât want to be here. Okay, @angrybell ⌠actually, @ literally everyone who reblogged this uncritically as a tacit endorsement and agreement. Such as @the-critical-feminist that I reblog this from. My first question has to be: are you serious? Donât read that with a tone, donât read that as an attack. Thatâs my first question: Are you asking a serious question about what high crimes or misdemeanors Trump has perpetrated? Are you asking a sincere question or is this the sort of rhetoric that doesnât translate well into text? And, if you are actually asking this question, are ou going to hear the answer or are you going to immediately start concocting your counter-argument because you just know in your heart that anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong, so you start formulating a plan to prove them wrong before you actually hear what they have to say? Next: did you read the article that was posted in the link you responded to? Because the author of that article does a reasonable job of explaining their thought process behind the headline. Or did you lash out before you read the article? Okay, presuming that you did read the article in good faith, evaluate its points, perform the follow-up research to understand context, and still disagree with the central tenets and simply believe that the authorâs reasoning does not hold up for whatever reasons you have chosen not to state, and you believe their source information is falsified for whatever reason you have chosen not to state, I will move on. After I have given you and yours every conceivable benefit of the doubt and every charitable assumption. Because if the article itself doesnât convince you, thereâs the fact that Donald Trump has broken literally every federal law against corruption and conflict of interest. Not one or two, not most, not all but a few. Literally every single law we have against corruption, from the Constitution to the informal guidelines circulated as a memo from the White House ethics scholars. Heâs broken literally every one of those rules. Heâs openly traded favors for money and favors for months now. Hell, that Chinese influence-peddler that paid him off for sixteen million dollars should have been enough to get him convicted of treason. Sharing code-word level classified information with a government on the opposite side of an ongoing military conflict isnât *necessarily* treason, unless the information was part of a share program with an allied nation and wasnât his to distribute. Thatâs aiding a foreign aggressor at the expense of a military ally, and thatâs treason. Giving aid and comfort to enemies of the nation. Obstruction of justice is pretty clear-cut, thatâs an impeachment, except that the justice in question is also a matter of national security, so thatâs treason. Again. Defaming the former president? Misdemeanor, impeachable. The way he drags his heels nominating posts in Justice and State could be prosecuted as dereliction of duty. If he has tapes of Comey, heâs on the hook for contempt, if he doesnât then heâs on the hook for witness tampering. Hell, deleting the covfefe tweet is destroying federal records, which is a misdemeanor, and impeachable. The man doesnât go a week without bringing on an impeachable offense. Strictly speaking, every time he goes to Mar-A-Lago heâs committing grand larceny by fraud, because heâs taking millions of dollars of American funds for his own benefit, after promising not to do that. There are dozens, hundreds maybe, of impeachable offenses already in this 140 days, âhigh crimes and misdemeanorsâ. Actual counts of treason, punishable by death by hanging, is probably only five or six counts. Only five or six counts of high treason by our sitting president. His job does not put him above reproach. His job is to *be* above reproach. And heâs failing that job.
Trumpâs supporters probably believe heâs done nothing impeachable or treasonous because they spent eight years claiming on no grounds whatsoever that Obama was impeachable and treasonous, just because they didnât like him. They now probably convince themselves that these facts about Trump are as fake as their Obama theories and theyâve ruined the gravity of these terms for themselves.

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Donald Trump Announces Ban on Transgender Troops Including 15,000 Actively Serving
SHAMEFUL. This harms military readiness and puts lives at risk. There are more than 15,000 active serving transgender troops. Threatening 15,000 currently serving troops who put their lives at risk is unpatriotic and dangerous.
from Joshua Block (ACLU attorney):
and hereâs the ACLUâs official statement:
This is an outrageous and desperate action. The thousands of transgender service members serving on the front lines for this country deserve better than a commander-in-chief who rejects their basic humanity.
Let us be clear. This has been studied extensively, and the consensus is clear: There are no cost or military readiness drawbacks associated with allowing trans people to fight for their country. The president is trying to score cheap political points on the backs of military personnel who have put their lives on the line for their country.
There is no basis for turning trans people away from our military and the ACLU is examining all of our options on how to fight this. For any trans service member affected by todayâs announcement: Please get in touch with us, because we want to hear from you. [x]
if you want to support trans people serving in the military, please consider donating to the ACLU. as mentioned in their official statement, their examining all options on how to fight this ban.Â
also, to all the people on tumblr today that responded to this blatantly transphobic ban with some snarky edgy response about how denying trans people entry to the military is a âgood thingâ, because 'the military is bad anywaysâ: fuck you
my fiance has a degree in biotechnology and cytogenetics and worked at bed bath and beyond and older people would always ask him, âso did you go to college?â and when he said yes and told them his degree they would say, âwow!! then what the heck are you doing working here??â and if that doesnât tell you how disillusioned and ignorant the older generations are to the situation many millennials are in right now i donât know what will