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Still from Space Is the Place (1972). Directed by John Coney.

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You have to give a close friend a gift. The present has to be something already in your possession. What do you give them?

i am watching the stuart hall project and there is a refreshing lack

christopherschreck

“What’s the Energy of Your Energy Drink?" by Emily Segal

written version of a lecture originally presented at MoMA PS1’s Expo Exhibition last year

rematerializationchamber

Emily Segal is a member of K-HOLE and her day job is in marketing. This talk is about the “collapsonomic” aesthetics of energy drinks and it contains some amazing paragraphs, like this one:

Another exciting feature of energy drinks is that people think they’re fatal, that they’re going to kill you, that they’re dangerous and evil. Energy drink brands align themselves with a non-righteous cultural attitude, allowing their world to be really sugary and fake and superficial, and instead of trying to balance this out or hide it they take all that to the max. More than that: energy drinks take taking it to the max in itself as the song that they’re singing as a category. In an age when the majority of big companies try to align themselves with sustainability – in a manner that feels really “personal” and folksy and non-monstrous – energy drinks are about unsustainability. They’re about just maxing it out and crashing and burning. Energy drinks are un-DIY, profoundly not homemade, and often seem like humans were only barely involved in their creation.The task of branding an energy drink is about articulating the relevance and dynamics of “energy” in a consumer market — which is vertiginously similar to branding the market itself.

She never really takes the argument to the obvious next level, though — she kind of stalls after pointing out “the lunacy of our public conversation around energy” and ends up exhorting the reader to just enjoy the craziness, which seems kind of symptomatic of the 89-plus attitude in general. I think younger people see the “critical” position as futile and uncool — they just wanna enjoy the end of the world.

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I’m not anywhere near where I wanted to be in life yet but I’m sure fourteen year old me would be impressed by adult me’s cheekbones

alovesogentle

I just don’t see what hookup culture has actually done for women

citrondemiel

hit the nail on its head w/ this one ☝🏼

brownsugarnextdoor

This. The day women started fucking for free on a regular, shit went down hill. If this offended you I truly don’t care, you deserve to be offended.

ohnosbros

so many people in the notes want to just ignore the fact that despite what they think hook up cultur has given them, 1) this is literally the least important issue that women are facing right now. You know what HC hasn’t done?

•Challenge men to rethink female sexuality

•Stopped men from viewing women as sex objects

•Given all women the same respectability as the “respectable” non promiscuous female archetype no matter her sexual habits

•Make men rethink or even start a conversation about sexism

•humanize women

•end violence against women

•raise men to a higher standard as sexual or romantic partners

•make men more sexually responsible or accepting of the consequences of hookups

•ended the madonna/whore complex

•Make men not judge women based on women’s sexual habits

•end r*pe culture

•make men more consent conscious

What HC also has done for men:

•made more women sexually available to men who already view women as sex objects

•More women available to men without having to invest any time or effort into gaining the respect of women to have sex

•make women conform to the Male sexual fantasy of endless sexually available women with no strings attatched rather than having to be challenge of this image

•not being required to do the barest of minimums like taking a women out to dinner before having sex

•making it socially acceptable to further devalue women and sex

not requiring men to value valuing women as people as a prerequisite to access sex

But hey, at least at least you can fuck some guy you met 5 mins ago and no one will say anything about it so I guess yall are cool with that, right?

Men are losing absolutely nothing from hook up culture. They’re not being made to change anything about themselves. It’s not gaining social equality for us. It’s not giving us anything we could actually benefit from in the long run. Sure there are women out there who truly do like sta sex, and more power to them, but fact? the vast majority of women dont. Most women dont like feeling like they’re used for sex and nothing more. and that’s not a sign that you should detach your emotions from sex either or make it into some emotionless or mindless act. Never having anything special done for them, never going on dates, never being able to depend on the guy you let beat for shit is not something women enjoy, benefit from or are empowered by. HC has made it so that for men, the understanding that you shouldnt require, hold men to standards or expect anything from them (even tho you’re having sex with them) HAS HIT THE MAINSTREAM IN A MAJOR WAY while expectations for women ar still rigidly in place. And now theres the added expectation that women should dispense sex for absolutely no benefit because now its dirt cheap and you will either have to be superwoman to keep a man or do things you’re uncomfortable with sexually for the same reason, which creates sexual competition amongst women while men are totally untouched and unbothered because that competition will only benefit them.There are women who view sex as a spiritual connection or as something truly special. And believe me, those are not the fruit of virginity culture. Hc doesnt do anything for those women and it doesnt make it easier for them to find the connections they want. Hc has tricked some of yall into undervaluing the physical and not valuing anything that’s not physical.

Dont let porn sick men try to tell you what’s feminist and what’s not.

shinaain-deactivated20200525

We’re seeing some of the same fall-out now from Hook-up Culture as from the so-called “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960s. For years, I’ve tried to explain to people that the Sexual Revolution was never about sexual liberation; in fact, the Sexual Revolution was only ever about making more women sexually available to more men. That’s. It.

Hook-up Culture is the same game, just a different decade.

alagaisia

Yup

toxicrants

Literally, all you have to do is look at how common things like ‘Choke me, Daddy’ has become. Women are expected to go further and further sexually to be considered ‘worthy of time’ or ‘interesting’ and surprise, surprise, a lot of those sexual things are violent and include a sense of degradation for the woman doing it. You’ll get these people saying it’s ‘liberating’ but it’s funny how in the modern mainstream of sexual pleasures the woman is more often than not the submissive one getting degraded whilst the man is ‘Daddy’ or the Dom. Let’s be real, there’s a reason male submission ain’t the new sex trend du jour. There’s a reason tinder men ain’t putting ‘top me, Mommy’ in their bios or being expected to.

Hook up culture encourages the idea that violent sex is ‘normal/standard’ and gives men the out with after care that would normally be prescribed by actual BDSM communities because ‘hey it was just casual’, ‘I have no responsibility to a one night stand’, ‘I might have choked her half to death but she asked for it.’

It’s all the depraved, violent pleasure and absolutely no regard for the HUMAN you’re actually doing those things with.