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just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular
“i’m fluid” - you’re bi
“i’m pansexual” - you’re bi
“my sexuality fluctuates” - you’re bi
“i like the label queer because it’s unlimited” - you’re bi
“idk I just like people regardless of their gender” - you’re bi
98% of internet discourse is just miserable people intellectualizing their envy
Just say yall don't think women have actual autonomy and move it
I've met rad fems who believe this and say having a boyfriend is misogynistic. :|
How fast smut has inflitrated books, mostly bestsellers aimed at young girls and young adults is very concerning. Back in the day it was mostly just to be found in fanfics and doujinshis and stuff like that and frowned upon by the public.
Now the consens has shifted to being completely fine with hardcore stuff put in fantasy books and the like with no warning whatsoever on the covers. This is absolutely irresponsible from the publishers.
I don't wanna name names, but it's definitely the fault of booktok and how smut has infiltrated any form of mainstream media.
Booktok was a mistake.
Where is the fucking lie. That shit was just starting to appear in YA books when I was that age, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it is now. And yes I will fucking clutch my pearls over this, we’re in the middle of a fucking porn addiction epidemic.
Like, have we learned nothing from the great social experiment of hooking our boys on pornography from the time they’re old enough to see the top of the magazine shelf? Do we really want to fuck up the next generation of women’s understanding of sex and relationships too??
Look, to any teenage girl or young woman reading my blog: ditch pornography and erotica. I’m truly not trying to shame you here, it’s not your fault you’re addicted to it because they’ve basically shoved it down all our throats. But that shit is fucking dangerous to your mental health and your relationships. Quit cold turkey as soon as possible, even if it means reaching out and getting help. Your future self will thank you.
I think there’s a case to be made for having a sex scene if (and only if)
1. it’s actually necessary for the plot
2. it contains the level of detail necessary for said plot point, not a gratuitous graphic description for readers to mentally ogle
3. the book is clearly, unmistakably marketed to adults who can (theoretically) understand that the scene is there because it’s integral to the story and not for them to mentally ogle
I have encountered a grand total of one (1) such scene in my entire life and it was in a fanfiction from the mid-2010s. The truth is that erotica is just not romantic. I’m not old enough to know much of the history of this sort of thing, but I frankly don’t see that it matters how long pornographic material has been a part of written storytelling; it’s bad for us and I can’t wait for the day when that’s no longer a hot take.
I hear endless excuses from my friends about how fictional romance doesn’t need to be healthy, it just needs to be entertaining. What’s the difference? Who wants to read graphic descriptions of a woman being assaulted by almost every male character who interacts with her (ACOTAR)? If you do, have you considered that you find this fascinating because our violent and hyper-sexualized culture has dealt you some psychological damage? But it isn’t your fault.
Erotica, like any form of pornography, isn’t harmless fun. It’s addictive, but that’s not even the worst part. It trains your brain to think of people as playthings, so that the more of it you consume, the more difficult it is for you to establish an actual connection with another human being. This doesn’t just affect your romantic relationships, either, by the way—the attitude that sex is a game and human bodies are a commodity will bleed over into every relationship you have. It will tell you that you yourself are just a toy for someone else to play with (or worse: it will tell you that you’re not even pretty enough to be a toy for someone else to play with) and mess up your self-esteem.
But it isn’t your fault. I notice a tendency among people who could be helpful adults keeping kids from walking into this kind of trap unawares just . . . dodging the issue by talking about porn like it’s just something that needs to be kept secret: acknowledging that it’s dirty, but making its consumption sound like an inevitability, like something you’re gonna get stuck doing but which will be ok if you just keep it on the down-low. It isn’t your fault if you got this message and thought the logical conclusion is that it’s harmless fun and should be destigmatized. I’m sorry that no one told you it would reshape your inner workings and prevent you from loving and being loved naturally.
It isn’t your fault. There are who-knows-how-many people who get rich from selling this stuff, from getting people addicted to it. I firmly believe that’s a big motivation behind the rampant YA erotica that pops up everywhere I turn these days. It’s unusual if I pull a random book off the YA fantasy shelf at Barnes & Noble and it doesn’t have porn in it. They’re out on shelves where anybody at all can pick them up and there’s nothing on the outside to raise red flags. Even if one knows the danger, it’s ridiculously hard to figure out whether a certain book is safe or not (harder still if you’re in the trenches of addiction and can’t be the one to vet a book yourself). It isn’t your fault. They’re targeting a younger audience (with the excuse that teenagers already know what sex is, not that that’s got anything to do with consuming pornographic material) because that’s who’s least likely to know about the harmful effects of porn and therefore most vulnerable to addiction. It isn’t your fault.
It isn’t your fault that you have money and getting you addicted is a reliable way to for someone else to siphon that money into their own hands. It isn’t your fault, and it isn’t fair that you’ve got to be the one to do the dirty work of undoing the damage.
I’m so sorry. It isn’t your fault. But we’ve got to stop acting like there’s no problem here.
Hey uh I was wondering what you thought about the fact that Jesus literally wanted everyone to be chill and love one another bc you’re super homophobic which is not what he’d want
Jesus was murdered. Whenever someone presents a watered down version of Jesus like you’re doing here, I really wonder if that fact is completely ignored. People who weren’t His followers were outraged by His ministry and set the events of His death in motion. And that wasn’t because He said what everyone wanted to hear and said “sin all you want, I don’t care.” He actively pointed out sin. He called people to repent for their sins. He told the woman caught in adultery who He saved from stoning, “Go and sin no more”. And that’s what He says to each and every one of us.
He wasn’t scourged to the point that his bones muscles were exposed and he literally became unrecognizable, then nailed to a cross because people thought he was “chill”.
Jesus is God in the flesh and God has wrath against sin of every type. But His love made a way for us to be forgiven and have eternal life with Him. He made a way for us to be spared of that wrath. He took the punishment that is rightfully ours upon Himself. But Him making a way for us to escape that punishment doesn’t mean He is suddenly okay with sin and accepts us engaging in sin.
““Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”
-Matthew 10: 32-39
(Here’s Matthew 10)
But anyways this is just one example out of many where Christ speaks strongly, in this case about sacrificing everything for Him. This is the true love of Christ, y’all. This isn’t the love you have made up in your minds to think what Christ was about.
i don’t think there’s anything funnier than saying “god forbid women do anything” in response to women doing the most objectively horrifying actions possible.
the original tweet got deleted but i promise you this was really funny
i found it
Thankfully it’s been clarified it was a divorce.
you're a stupid fucking anti-sjw lol. This blog is stupid. I hate you crackers white people SUCK go suck a dick.
looks like I triggered more sjws. Keep sending these asks they only fuel my logic.
Never forget the guy who didn’t remember to hit anon before sending himself hate mail
Love that we’re still dragging the poor fuckers corpse around years later so no one ever forgets their shameful mistake lol
I always find this funny, because people who take this line of argument never think about the fact that the majority of the country doesn't pay someone to do their dishes or clean their house or mow their lawn. We do these jobs ourselves, so you crying about having to do manual labor instead of sliding some poor immigrant $5 under the table to keep your hands from getting dirty is not a compelling argument.
It's a shocking indictment of how normalised and commonplace extreme antisemitism has become that a very famous and popular music artist, one with twice as many followers on one social media platform as there are Jews on the PLANET, can release a song PRAISING HITLER and using blatant Nazi imagery and it elicits barely more than a ripple of outrage from the mainstream, with shrugs and excuses like "yeah, but it's a banger though." I don't know how we come back from this.
