i love how in shit like stoner or a clockwork orange they’ll establish the main character is a rapist, and then they’re like “oh, something bad happened to him. isn’t that sad?” ahh well no, you established he was a rapist, so now i think he’s subhuman chimp scum who should be blown apart by a shotgun. are you stupid?
Yeah what was this mid century male idea that kept popping up of like “what if the authoritarian government grabbed me up and took away my desire to rape…” What are you a fucking animal
HEY BY THE WAY THAT WASN’T JUST “kinda sexist” AND “weird”
JULIA IS NAMED AFTER A REAL WOMAN, JACINTHA BUDDICOM, WHO GEORGE ORWELL TRIED TO RAPE. he held her down, bruised her and ripped her skirt before she got away. he inserted her into his book, told a fictional version of her that he wanted to rape her, and the version which he wrote of her just laughed it off
as a big fan of classic lit, a lot of people wanna ask why i haven’t read and refuse to read anything by george orwell. because his fiction is an outlet for his rape fantasies. same for tolstoy. i am not reading that shit!!!
Happy Pride Month here's your much needed reminder that same sex love is beautiful it's 1000% okay to reject dick havers for any reason and anyone who tells you otherwise is backwards and homophobic 🏳️🌈👩🏽❤️💋👩🏾
people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother
I’m not watching all that but I find it interesting that she’s so male centred that she immediately assumes I’m talking just about TIMs and their makeup purchases. Yes that’s included, but I’m also talking about things like tucking/binding tape, binders, packers, trans themed merchandise, “gender affirming” merchandise, etc. Most of these are actually marketed towards TIFs, because companies saw a demographic of women who weren’t buying into femininity and found a new way to market to them. Because god forbid women not shell out money on these things.
And of course blah blah blah “gender affirming care” as if that’s not just cosmetic surgery. I’m so done with trans identified people pretending that their desire for cosmetic surgery is somehow special and different and more legitimate than everyone else’s just because they slap that label onto it. Sorry, you’re no different than somebody who wants a nose job or fake abs or whatever. “Gender affirming care” is just as much of a product sold to you preying on your insecurities as any other cosmetic surgery. Doesn’t matter what pompous name you give it.
I also find it interesting that she opens with pointing out that I’m a lesbian, and using my silly shark plush post as an example of the big bad boogeywoman: Twansphobic Lesbians™️. Why single out lesbians? Me being a lesbian has nothing to do with me making fun of your stupid lame ass shark product. It’s so weird that she combed through my blog for mention of my sexuality so she could whine about the Twansphobic Lesbians. But she and those who agree with her will never do any critical thinking about why so many lesbians seem to be “transphobic”. They’ll never listen to us about the harm their movement is doing to us. They’ll just continue painting us as horrible evil villains because they hate that we don’t play the role of the ally-by-default that they expect of us. How dare we as women and as homosexuals have opinions of our own instead of doing whatever we’re told by men and straights?
A Yorkshire farmer's journal from 1810 reveals surprisingly modern views on being gay.
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News
A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier than previously imagined.
Historians from Oxford University have been taken aback to discover that Matthew Tomlinson's diary from 1810 contains such open-minded views about same-sex attraction being a "natural" human tendency.
The diary challenges preconceptions about what "ordinary people" thought about homosexuality - showing there was a debate about whether someone really should be discriminated against for their sexuality.
"In this exciting new discovery, we see a Yorkshire farmer arguing that homosexuality is innate and something that shouldn't be punished by death," says Oxford researcher Eamonn O'Keeffe.
The diaries were handwritten by Tomlinson in the farmhouse where he lived and worked
The historian had been examining Tomlinson's handwritten diaries, which have been stored in Wakefield Library since the 1950s.
The thousands of pages of the private journals have never been transcribed and previously used by researchers interested in Tomlinson's eye-witness accounts of elections in Yorkshire and the Luddites smashing up machinery.
But O'Keeffe came across what seemed, for the era of George III, to be a rather startling set of arguments about same-sex relationships.
Tomlinson had been prompted by what had been a big sex scandal of the day - in which a well-respected naval surgeon had been found to be engaging in homosexual acts.
Historian Eamonn O'Keeffe says the diaries provide a rare insight into the views of "ordinary people" in the early 1800s
A court martial had ordered him to be hanged - but Tomlinson seemed unconvinced by the decision, questioning whether what the papers called an "unnatural act" was really that unnatural.
Tomlinson argued, from a religious perspective, that punishing someone for how they were created was equivalent to saying that there was something wrong with the Creator.
"It must seem strange indeed that God Almighty should make a being with such a nature, or such a defect in nature; and at the same time make a decree that if that being whom he had formed, should at any time follow the dictates of that Nature, with which he was formed, he should be punished with death," he wrote on January 14 1810.
If there was an "inclination and propensity" for someone to be homosexual from an early age, he wrote, "it must then be considered as natural, otherwise as a defect in nature - and if natural, or a defect in nature; it seems cruel to punish that defect with death".
The diarist makes reference to being informed by others that homosexuality is apparent from an early age - suggesting that Tomlinson and his social circle had been talking about this case and discussing something that was not unknown to them.
Around this time, and also in West Yorkshire, a local landowner, Anne Lister, was writing a coded diary about her lesbian relationships - with her story told in the television series, Gentleman Jack.
But knowing what "ordinary people" really thought about such behaviour is always difficult - not least because the loudest surviving voices are usually the wealthy and powerful.
What has excited academics is the chance to eavesdrop on an everyday farmer thinking aloud in his diary.
Tomlinson was appalled by the levels of corruption during elections
"What's striking is that he's an ordinary guy, he's not a member of the bohemian circles or an intellectual," says O'Keeffe, a doctoral student in Oxford's history faculty.
An acceptance of homosexuality might have been expressed privately in aristocratic or philosophically radical circles - but this was being discussed by a rural worker.
"It shows opinions of people in the past were not as monolithic as we might think," says O'Keeffe, who is originally from Canada.
"Even though this was a time of persecution and intolerance towards same-sex relationships, here's an ordinary person who is swimming against the current and sees what he reads in the paper and questions those assumptions."
Claire Pickering, library manager in Wakefield, says she imagines the single-minded Tomlinson speaking the words with a Yorkshire accent.
There are three volumes of Tomlinson's diaries at Wakefield Library
He was a man with a "hungry mind", she says, someone who listened to a lot of people's opinions before forming his own conclusions.
The diary, presumably compiled after a hard day's work, was his way of being a writer and commentator when otherwise "that wasn't his station in life", she says.
O'Keeffe says it shows ideas were "percolating through British society much earlier and more widely than we'd expect" - with the diary working through the debates that Tomlinson might have been having with his neighbours.
But these were still far from modern liberal views - and O'Keeffe says they can be extremely "jarring" arguments.
If someone was homosexual by choice, rather than by nature, Tomlinson was ready to consider that they should still be punished - proposing castration as a more moderate option than the death penalty.
Tomlinson's former home was still there in the 1930s (bottom left), but has since disappeared beneath housing and a golf course
O'Keeffe says discovering evidence of these kinds of debate has both "enriched and complicated" what we know about public opinion in this pre-Victorian era.
The diary is raising international interest.
Prof Fara Dabhoiwala, from Princeton University in the US, an expert in the history of attitudes towards sexuality, describes it as "vivid proof" that "historical attitudes to same-sex behaviour could be more sympathetic than is usually presumed".
Instead of seeing homosexuality as a "horrible perversion", Prof Dabholwala says the record showed a farmer in 1810 could see it as a "natural, divinely ordained human quality".
Rictor Norton, an expert in gay history, said there had been earlier arguments defending homosexuality as natural - but these were more likely to be from philosophers than farmers.
"It is extraordinary to find an ordinary, casual observer in 1810 seriously considering the possibility that sexuality is innate and making arguments for decriminalisation," says Dr Norton.
Who was the writer of this diary?
Matthew Tomlinson was a widower, in his 40s when he wrote his journal in 1810 - a man of a "middling" class, not a poor labourer but not rich enough to own his own land.
"I try and imagine how he would have looked," says library manager Ms Pickering.
There are no pictures of Tomlinson, who is thought to have lived between about 1770 and 1850.
"Very dour," she suggests. And a "bit of a hypochondriac".
There are thousands of pages of handwritten journals - but some volumes appear to have been lost
"I imagine if you stopped him at his gate for a chat he'd talk about his gout more than anything else.
"I'd love to have a conversation with him about what Wakefield was like at the time," she says.
No-one knows how these private diaries, covering 1806 to 1839, ended up in Wakefield Library, but they were there by the 1950s and are presumed to be part of an earlier acquisition of old books and local documents.
There are three surviving volumes and at least another eight are missing.
But they show vivid detail about life in Wakefield in the early 19th Century.
Tomlinson, from his home at Doghouse Farm, recorded the life of nearby Wakefield
During elections, Tomlinson was appalled by the corruption, the rum drinkers having to be carried home in wheelbarrows and the "hired ruffians".
And at Queen Victoria's coronation he was sceptical about expensive ceremonies and celebrations, calling them all "humbug".
This was not a closed world. His social circle seemed to be avid readers of books and newspapers, following reports of revolutions abroad and riots and insurrections at home.
They saw elephants marching through Wakefield in a circus parade and military bands who had competed to hire the most talented black musicians.
We know where he lived - Doghouse Farm in Lupset, because he carefully wrote it on the front of his journals.
The farm, at the edge of the landowner's estate, is now under a housing estate and a golf course. All that survives are his diaries.
It’s really irritating how the top of the bbc is all about trump right now. Idgaf about it. He’s not dead. I do give a fuck about the car bomb set by the new IRA. Slightly more concerning, to be honestly.
It’s really irritating how the top of the bbc is all about trump right now. Idgaf about it. He’s not dead. I do give a fuck about the car bomb set by the new IRA. Slightly more concerning, to be honestly.
Voting is your civic duty. It is your responsibility to participate in your local elections. Show up to each and every single one of them*. Form opinions about every single thing on the ballot and vote on them. It’s not hard - I generally spend about an hour doing research before casting my ballot each election and I feel like I’m reasonably informed. This shit matters, and skipping out on voting doesn’t make you “cool” it makes you negligent.
I think this tidbit should be more famous than his exploding cars. It's all I'll ever need to know. A real human man tried and failed to barter with a flight attendant for third base by offering to buy her a horse (that's what girls like, right?)
