ㅤyou got a killer scene there, man

every time a trans man who does not want to be called a twink gets called a twink I will personally go out into the world and rend 1 parked car to shreds with my teeth. cut it out

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!

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

christianity is bad including the values actually

i think it is very depressing that like every aesthetic people try to emulate are of people doing things but they themselves are incapable of being somebody that does things… the mall goth 2005 aesthetic revived in 2022 but nobody goes to the mall to be annoying and weird and nobody lets themselves be cringe… the cottagecore aesthetic but nobody knows how to raise gardens or live self sufficiently … the dark academia aesthetic but nobody actually reads books…. The obsession of looking like you are a type of person who does something without actually doing anything … the Instagram effect

we need to bring back the word Poser

It's dumb just how angry and from what angle some people get at the idea a video game character has been "desexualized," but I think it actually is very weird and not good that video game companies are toning down even the most inoccuous breasts on characters. It's bad. Like some of the characters in question were never in any way lewd or inappropriate designs.