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a lot of rpf can be explained by the fact that actors are all like that with each other constantly but i never want to say that on here because it feels like telling a 7-year-old santa isn’t real
actors hanging off of each other constantly isn’t a sign that they’re fucking it’s a sign that they were once in a BFA program and never relearned normal boundaries. when actors are fucking and it’s complicated they won’t even stand in the same room with each other.
I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.
"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.
"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.
Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.
merging interracial cuck porn theory of everything and everyone is twelve now theory into you know what maybe i don't want to finish this post
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally
what mutual is prev
my liege lord
my loyal knight
my wise wizard
my evil advisor
my brother in arms
my lady muse
my wild mermaid friend
my fellow alchemist
my dashing rapscallion
my monstrous foe
Decriminalizing sex work isn't a fix-all. It's not intended to be. What decrim does is protect sex workers from the harms of criminalization specifically. Poverty and violent clients won't disappear because of decrim, and their continued existence doesn't mean decrim fails.
When you tell me there are still young teens getting into sex work in countries like New Zealand that have full decriminalization, that's not an argument that decriminalization is bad! Those teens would be selling sex under the Nordic Model too!
What teens in these circumstances need is typically money, because poverty is the major driving force behind prostitution among youth. In other cases they need information about where to report abuse from their schooling. No legal model around sex work will put an end to poverty or targeted sexual abuse for profit, because this is a much larger issue.
What full decriminalization can do is reduce harm against sex workers whilst we work on ending poverty and patriarchy.
listen. I’m all for “writers deserving of having their boundaries respected” but this is so funny to me and like the funniest part is that I don’t think it’s even grounded in reality. like, how are you going to require proof that your readers are in your specific age range? why does it matter to you how old your readers are??? they are???? strangers???? why do you care? how does it affect you? 😭
but to be fair, this is some shit I did when I was 12 and thought I was edgy too. so I get it.
What are the ratings on these fics? I could see a teen writing sex scenes between teens and being uncomfortable with the idea of adults getting off to it. Just putting an age range is not a great way of communicating thst though if that is the case
There are 3 fics with this "warning", all by the same author, all rated E.
The warning is a joke though
It's pretty funny in the context of OP's comments, tbh
'no one radically changes their personality worldview and politics just because of a brain injury' okay well i can see how it would be comforting to think that but unfortunately thats simply not true. that type of shit happens all the time
reading kinsey definitely made me a worse person in several measureable ways
i now believe the relationship between the biology of human sexuality and the social construct of human sexuality is indelibly fractured, so thoroughly that nearly any policy attempt to make marginal improvements in most measurable directions would be both wildly unpopular with the majority of adults, and would likely result in worse outcomes on many other metrics in the short term, especially so without the simultaneous implementation of other, probably even more unpopular reforms.
it's a great boon that we mostly stopped convincing ourselves that masturbation was either a mental disorder or spiritual illness, considering that nearly everyone does it. it's also great you can say the word "condom" in a school health class now. but the fact that these small victories were so hard-fought seems to have somehow convinced people that we've now solved the problem of sexual liberation.
It's still so incredibly twisted how if a woman doesn't wear makeup or has "masculine" interests (which is a stupid concept on its own) people not only attack her and assume she only does that to appeal to men* but also act like they're being feminist for doing so.
If anyone at all should be getting called a pickme I could at least understand if it was misogynistic tradwives or something, not just women who don't fit in with gender conformists.
*A lot of men seem to actually prefer it when women wear makeup and act "feminine" actually. That's the gender role that gets enforced.
The level of gender essentialism you have to be on to jump to the conclusion that women who like things like sports or video games are just lying for the sake of attracting men and can't simply prefer that stuff to makeup and celebrity gossip is disgusting.
I think we need to start recognizing that this whole sentiment is straightforwardly sexist.
Women who have "masculine" interests don't have all internalized misogyny. They don't need to be herded back into the "feminine" cage and start enjoying shit like astrology instead of video games.
straight line from this stuff to the tradwife movement imo
In a shocking, completely unpredictable twist it was the tradwives who were performing for the sake of appealing to men. Always have been.
Why are the girls gaming with their bros the ones getting hit with this label when the tradwive influencers are out there saying not having children by 30 is a sin and acting like this?
Buying you time
if you understand that Mormons are members of a cynical and control-hungry religious cult which exercises every conceivably available tool at its disposal to control, restrict, and extract wealth/labor/social prestige from its members to the benefit of the patriarchs in control, and that women, children, and those not willing or able to conform sufficiently are abused into compliance with a brutality and a regularity that should stagger the conscience of every feeling human being, BUT you think Amish people are cute and quaint and it's funny that their produce stands sell weed now, you have fallen hard for a PR scam
if you don't rely on cutesy semi-candid photographs and you spend any time in the northeast especially in spitting distance of pennsylvania, you will eventually see a woman less than 22 with 4+ children walking behind a man with her eyes downcast like she shouldn't look her betters in the eye and the energy of a whipped dog and if that doesn't inspire a couple questions in you and you're too busy buying rhubarb from her bearded husband, i hate you
isn't it so charming how they prohibit modern technologies like electricity. and also feminism
exactly. like. i know they're a regional thing even within the USA but if your exposure isn't through media and you just see them sometimes growing up, the thing is that you can kinda fucking tell
So back in 2020, an investigative journalist named Sarah McClure wrote a long-form article called "The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They’re Hiding a Horrifying Secret."
(cw: rape, sexual assault, CSA, incest, domestic abuse, religious abuse, etc.)
The article, as you might have gathered from that list of content warnings, is about the widespread sexual and physical abuse in Amish communities and the way that their patriarchal and insular practices make that abuse almost impossible to prosecute.
I read that article when it came out, and that's why I went to a screening of McClure's new documentary, Keep Quiet and Forgive, at the Philadelphia Film Festival last month. We were also lucky enough to have a Q&A with Sarah McClure and it was really eye-opening.
(For those who want to watch it, I believe she said the doc will air on PBS next year.)
One thing I was really struck by when watching the documentary was the way that almost all of these women (and yes, a few men who'd been sexually abused by other men) had left the community. It makes sense; would someone still in the community ever talk to an investigative journalist? It's not likely.
Almost all of them had lost their entire support system when they'd spoken out about their abuse. Their families and friends shunned them. They got hate mail regularly from their former neighbors. Whenever they went to court dates, they had to face not only their abusers but their entire former community, who would turn up to support the accused in court.
The few who were still in the community were either going to meetings secretly or were largely being shunned. One of them, a woman who still identified as Amish but whose entirely community had turned on her when she'd testified against her wildly abusive husband, ended up leaving the community entirely by the end of the documentary. She looked so much happier.
Where I'm going with this, though, is that these people often lose their friends, family, and community when they leave. So they've started creating community of their own. The documentary showed a lot of meetings between former Amish women who would band together to support other Amish women through the process of leaving and testifying against their abusers. There were group therapy sessions where women would finally get to talk about what had been done to them. Conferences where they discussed future steps. Meetings with activists to create change. Podcasts by victims of abuse who wanted to reach out to others like them.
Groups like The Amish Rescue Mission are working to provide support to victims of abuse in Amish Country, including providing Pennsylvania Dutch interpretation services when necessary. There are lots of small survivor support groups on Facebook, too.
I don't generally add to posts, but I did want to spread this information, reporting, and list of resources to anyone who might benefit from them. I am no expert, but I wanted to link to some people who are.
Help is available, but it is often inaccessible to people who, let's be real, are not generally going to be super online. So I think it's important to spread information however we can in the hopes that it can carry as far as possible by word of mouth.
This is available on YouTube now
https://youtu.be/kfaHO5T0-zk?si=7uRdbCAQd_J7QrE0
it’s actually not misogynistic to say astrology is bogus, and it is indeed way way more misogynistic to believe that things that can’t be proven rationally through science are More Female.
it's easy to make fun of marxists for being like "we have a special way of understanding society called Thinking About Things That Are Real" but to be fair if you ask the average person what their ideas about society are based on they will start listing some of the Least Real things to ever not exist
Kars4Kids being in the news again has reminded me that Oorah is one of those research rabbit holes that will drive you insane because it's impossible to describe without sounding at least a little anti-Semitic.
"ok so you know those really annoying Kars4Kids ads? You know the ones that are like '1-877-KARS-4-KIDS' yeah those? Ok so all of the money from that charity goes to this organization called Oorah which is this non-profit dedicated to supporting the Haredi Jewish community in New York and New Jersey. Yes they advertise nationwide, no they do not mention their religious affiliation in the ads. What are Haredi Jews? They're like the Duggar family of Jews we don't have time to get into it. What kind of services does Oorah provide? Mostly free trips to Israel for teenagers where they can listen to settler propaganda and hook up with IDF soldiers. Do they do anything else? They invest in real estate, they run some upstate New York summer camps that are famous in the area for labor and safety violations and they also do adult matchmaking. Why would a charity need to run a matchmaking service? Because the Haredim do arranged marriages look I told you we can't get into this right now. Oh also they run an annual 'charity auction' that is probably an illegal raffle and their mascot is an anthropomorphic $5 bill named Fiveish. No I'm not kidding bro I fucking WISH I was kidding rn"
Now you might be saying "hey Minerva I recognize that mascot, isn't that Yapdollar???" Yes and no. When he's promoting Oorah he's Fiveish and when he's narrating over bad Chinese lifehack videos he's Yapdollar it's sort of a Jeckyll and Hyde situation.
it is quite something how anti-sex work people have to strawman and misrepresent the sex workers who are pro-SW / pro-decrim.
like the woman who coined the term sex work got into activism after being raped while working. if you go onto the global network for sex work projects site, you can see videos taken by sex workers from across the world, often those who live in poverty, talking about their desire to see sex work treated as a normal job and for sex workers to be respected and not stigmatized for their work. there was a mixed quantitative/qualitative study of nearly 300 overall sex workers in SF, largely street workers and full service workers with 53% being homeless, that found the majority supported a mix of legalization and decriminalization. and the ones that supported criminalization, did so for reasons like "i don't want to be regulated by the government" and "it would flood the market" and "it makes it easier to not get arrested for substance use." like just look:
& this is not to say "all sex workers actually believe xyz!!!" because they aren't a monolith. but that's the point isn't it! people have to insist that pro-sex work activism is just for "empowered cam girls," the stereotype of a ditzy middle-class OnlyFans who is completely disassociated from the experiences of the REAL sex workers, creating a binary where all the real victims agree with you and anyone who disagrees with you isn't a real victim. because if it were true that some sex workers, who do sex work to survive, who are in poverty, who have even experienced rape and trafficking, who even identify as feminists, fundamentally disagree with the "prostitution is always slavery and evil" model, then it exposes how much of the model is based on emotional reasoning.
because why wouldn't you want to hear their perspective? why would you so entirely dismiss their voices, and their statuses as survivors of violence? i can absolutely understand why someone who has done survival sex work and/or experienced sex trafficking would disagree with decrim, so why do y'all have to strawman pro-decrim/pro-SW sex workers and deny their experiences in order to disagree with them?
i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME
