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I can never take accusations of auto-whatever-philia seriously, because even if they're true, what's threatening about a person's erotic fantasies about *themselves*?

Tbh, Democrats at the federal level having a meaningful response to ICE as an agency would require them to grapple with the question that maybe immigration enforcement isn't the kind of problem that requires application of the state monopoly on violence, and that would probably require them to come up with a whole different model of "border security." (Which is quite possible even within Overton Window normie liberalism, but does leave them open to Republican attack ads about how "Democrats want your children to be murdered in their beds by cartel hitmen" while they work out the details of messaging, and most politicians are not very brave.)

At this point I don't understand why any resident of a blue state would support ICE no matter how racist or naively "law and order" they personally happen to be. ICE has shown it is willing, able, and enthusiastic to be weaponized by the government for sectional culture wars, and your personal stomping grounds might be in the line of fire no matter how many Trump stickers you have on your car. Is it really worth living under pseudo-military occupation just to own the libs and immiserate your local Mexican grocery store?

This is a different question from "Is Rocky Horror transmisogynistic?" (media can and does use transmisogynistic tropes to portray gender non-conforming cis men, gender-nonconforming cis women, and gender non-conforming feminine supernatural entities), but I don't think the Tim Curry version of Frank-N-Furter is a trans woman.

Not in the gatekeepy "Oh, she's not a proper trans woman, she's too horny/insufficiently ladylike/etc." way, but in the sense that I don't think Frank's personal gender goal is something as simple as Woman. In my opinion, whatever gender business they've got going on is a lot more esoteric.

(And also, a biology-oriented mad scientist of Frank's caliber could medically transition on their own without the involvement of Earth's medical system in whatever way they pleased.)

If the femdom feminists can be sincere about their belief that strong women exerting their benevolent influence is good for society and be horny about it, tradwife influencers can be sincere in their belief that maledom power exchange is the most godly marriage dynamic and be horny about it.

A lot of people assume that "kink = just playing" because they're leftists doing power exchange or otherwise involved in something that would be ego-dystonic if they took it seriously, but I don't think that's true for everyone under all circumstances.

I think Noel Fielding coming out as nonbinary could destroy the British terf movement. Not because of The Power of Positive Representation or whatever, but because it would make them *so mad* and The Great British Bake Off has enough normie cultural capital that publicly turning against it is likely to blow up in their faces.

Sometimes I like to think of "what if anti-capital-punishment ideas had been a more prominent part of French Enlightenment thinking, at least to the point that early in the Revolution people took up the idea that executing people for purely ideological reasons was the behavior of tyrants and not true sons and daughters of Reason?" Mostly because the idea of various French Revolutionary factions merrily cancelling each other via pamphlet like a bunch of modern social media leftists because they can't chop each other's heads off is funny to me, and partly because imagining what would have become of various historical figures if they hadn't been executed is interesting. But when considered in a most serious-minded way, this does introduce a couple of Big Questions:

Without the Terror, would the French Revolution have inspired more "copycat" revolutions in other places?

Without the Terror, would people have put up with Napoleon's power grabs?

I honestly think that since he's a leftie operating in a very religiously diverse city, Mamdani's religious background is probably going to play a much less overt role in his mayorship than the fearmongers liked to imply.

But as a Pathfinder fan, I'm a little sorry about this, because "gay-friendly militant Islam for universal healthcare" is the closest we're likely to get in real life to the church of Sarenrae.

I agree with that post in the sense that an education environment that puts a lot of emphasis on quantifiable academic performance is hard on many people, but in my experience "kids who disappoint their parents by being bad at test-taking in particular" and "kids who are at risk of institutionalization" are non-overlapping groups of people!

(Even RFK Jr. isn't trying to disenfranchise people with dyslexia.)

Why, if publicly rejoicing in the death of a very unpleasant person who was antagonistic to her community in particular was a deal-killer for DC, did they hire GFM in the first place? Love her or hate her, being edgy on social media has been an established part of her personal schtick for years. Did they hire her unaware of her reputation, or did they just over-correct for the social tendency to vilify trans women for minor transgressions and differences of opinion and assumed that the most controversial things she'd actually said were only some intracommunity queer specfic slapfights and telling off a few B-list terfs named like Downton Abbey characters.

My charitable interpretation of some of the public empathy I've seen for the late Mr. Kirk from other public figures is that "personal violence from a stranger" is a much bigger concern for famous people than it is for most regular people who haven't dealt with stalkers or internet bullying. Many people feel a certain sympathetic wince when their deepest fears happen to someone else.

My un-charitable interpretation is that famous people view themselves and each other - even other famous people they *despise* under ordinary circumstances- as members of a higher order of beings whose lives are, on some level, More Important.

Tbh, my first reaction when I heard about Charlie Kirk was to check and make sure he wasn't the conservative Charles my mom likes.

("OK, *not* the British immigrant who sometimes writes for the Dispatch. Carry on with the schadenfreude!")

I think a certain type of leftist conceives of odd-jobs-for-hire as uniquely bad even compared to equally precarious ways of making a living because selling your labor to a bunch of separate private individuals instead of one company increases the number of employers in the world and Employers are ontologically evil.

I think a fair number of modern terfs very well could have been condemned as witches if they'd lived in Early Modern Europe, just because everyone else in their preindustrial village would have hated their guts and been primed to believe the worst of them if accusations started flying around.

Atheist physicist experiencing what would be spiritual psychosis in most people but due to their rigid devotion to science it manifests as believing they've unlocked a higher understanding of quantum mechanics.

"What is a woman" gets treated as the Big Question of gender metaphysics, but under most circumstances when it isn't being asked as a gotcha, it's actually a practical question. "Who should be allowed into the Girls Club?" "What kinds of people can participate in this Thing For Women and allow the Thing For Women to continue to operate as intended?" This is why high-androgen (or just buff) but unambiguously cis women athletes wind up getting dragged into gender metaphysics debates and the whole idea that someone can disqualify herself from the social category of "female athlete" by being too good at the "athlete" part.

But "what is a man?" is a question with genuine metaphysical implications, if you're Catholic. Like for the purpose of administering the holy sacraments, is a he/they with Klinefelter Syndrome theologically male?

#gender #i would assume yes based on *conclave spoiler* but i haven't actually checked

People criticizing gentle parenting mostly seem to do it from the "your kid will be a brat who doesn't listen to you," but never bring up "Parents who phrase rebukes as concern are at risk of raising children who perceive expressions of concern as veiled rebukes."

Like the kind of person who interprets "You seem upset. Is something wrong?" as a criticism of their emotional regulation.

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