#problematization

And then they have the audacity to feel insulted when we make fun of their ridiculous acronyms.

Oh, just realized I typed a keyword, something that’s usually overlooked when speaking about wokeism: fun.

Do these people actually have fun? Because from the looks of it they have no irony let alone self irony. They don’t like to joke because it can “offend someone”, they can’t even tell a joke apart from a serious sentence.

So I believe this needs to be analyzed more in depth, maybe you can find something because I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that people with “certain beliefs” are less inclined to have fun and make jokes than, you know, regular folks. Oh, the horror to say “regular”, “normal” and so on. I deserve to be burned at the stake for saying this, I know.

They're some of the most joyless, insufferable, sanctimonious people on the face of the planet. The best comparison - and I realise this is not even slightly the first time it's been made - is the Puritans.

God, even modern fucking Xians at least find joy in the idea that a magical invisible space wizard loves them and plans to torture the heathens.

One of the reasons they're against comedy is that it has been historically used to challenge authority. When you laugh at authority, you become less or no longer afraid of that authority. They are now the authority. They are the ruling class. They occupy privileged positions in government, education, media, entertainment, tech, industry, everywhere. (For now.) And comedy is a no-no because they can't have their regime challenged, and they especially can't have people laughing at how incoherent and nonsensical it is.

These people are social constructivists, so they believe that reality itself is constructed through discourses - the way we talk about things. And all discourse is an expression of power. That's a real tenet of the ideology. So, they want to control the discourse.

I copied the following down some time ago, although I don't remember where it's from or who said it:

"They don’t use language to communicate they use language to manipulate"

They use language to create an alternate, parallel universe. "Trans women are women," "you can't be racist to white people," "you can't be sexist to men," "Islam is a religion of peace." These are all obviously false things. But the idea is to try to bed these ideas through language so that the words to object to what they're doing will not exist.

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

They redefine words to socially engineer the world the way they want it to be. Having any kind of fun works against this, because the versatility of language itself works against this. A double entendre, a pun, a song, anything that doesn't adhere to the approved language and message undermines the authority of their perfect, alternate universe.

It's not unlike how the church uses blasphemy to stifle unapproved thought. The Word of God is authoritative, and like a magic spell, the "wrong" words spoken aloud causes souls to be damned for eternity.

It's the same kind of magical thinking.

And then, of course, there's the fact this ideology is competitive. This happens in evangelical and charismatic Xianity too, where everyone compares themselves to everyone else and tries to keep up with each other to be more godly, more pious, more devoted to Jesus. The same thing happens here.

If you don't spot the problem, then the problem is you.

If you're having fun, you're not engaged in the holy sacrament of Problematization. To quote the execrable, repugnant scam-artist Anita Sarkeesian,

"Everything is sexist, everything is homophobic, everything is problematic, and you have to point it all out."

You're supposed to lecture everyone on why you're just more enlightened than they are, how they need to aspire to be anywhere near as morally sophisticated as you are. It's like luxury goods. They're showing off their high-priced, first-world, elitist ideals.

Rob Henderson describes "luxury beliefs" as status symbols.

Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods. Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.

When you think you're carrying around the moral-religious ideological equivalent of a genuine Hermès handbag, you can't be seen to be goofy and light-hearted. Being better than everyone else is serious business.

Here's a practical, real-time example of its competitive nature.

There's currently a ton of people huffing and puffing and posturing about abandoning Twitter/X and moving to Bluesky. But, what's happening on Bluesky?

The activists are now all now reporting each other. If you populated Bluesky with only far-left activists, then give it a few weeks, you'd then find a subset of extremely leftist people labelled "far-right" and "Nazis." Because that's how their ideology works.

Which is also why you should never be bothered about their attempts to label you. You just point out what they're doing to show how dishonest and manipulative they are, and you ignore them.

Intersectional moral superiority is a competitive sport. Kind of like veganism.

Lisa: Oh, the earth is the best! That's why I'm a vegetarian. Jesse: Heh. Well, that's a start. Lisa: Uh, well, I was thinking of going vegan. Jesse: [chuckles] I'm a level 5 vegan -- I won't eat anything that casts a shadow. Lisa: Wow. Um ... I started an organic compost pile at home. Jesse: Only at home? You mean you don't pocket-mulch? [takes out pocket stuff for Lisa to feel] Lisa: Oh, it's so decomposed!

By the way, these same people were huffing and puffing and posturing last year about abandoning Twitter/X and moving to Threads and Mastodon when Elon Musk bought and took over Twitter. Funny how they ended up back on Twitter/X. Almost as if Threads and Mastodon were failures, they need enemies to feel self-righteous, and storming off is part of their performative moralizing.

Most of them haven't actually deleted their accounts. Like Arnie, they'll be back.

So, yes. For a lot of reasons, they're humorless, joyless, killers-of-all-fun churchladies.

Note this is only avaiable to Latinx/Latine folx.

Travigender: a genderness tied to one's travestigender conformance and/or supremacy while inherently subversive.

The word is based on traviarcado (transviarchy), as it's casually used as a way of empowerment simultaneously as it's used within non-binary community to designate the gender trinarism enforced in some circles of travestigênere people.

ok, so I watched the scene of Supergirl’s next episode. it’s thanksgiving and Kara asks who wants to go first in saying what is thankful for, so James, Mon-El and Alex get up to speak. James end up speaking louder, so he gets to talk first. after an extremely awkward moment, Winn makes him sit down and then MON-EL GET UP AND START SPEAKING, when Alex clearly wanted to talk first (and was the next “in line” if you considered her spot at the table). then, when the men finally let her speak, she gets interrupted (of course).

okay, I get that the scene was written so we could see Alex coming out to her mother and friends in some other way, but lets just stop for a minute and think of how REAL and RELATABLE this situations are for women.

because whenever there’s an opportunity to speak in public, men always want to go first. and they actually speak louder, so we get silenced and they can be heard first. I don’t actually care if is something they do unconsciously, or if it’s something that happens because of the way our society was built... it’s just mean and this scene hit this nail right on the head for me.

so yeah, I just wanted to write about how sad (even though drunk Alex is one of my favorite things ever) this scene was, because how frequent the manterrupting happens for women... we have to fight like hell to be heard EVERY FUCKING TIME.