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A big thing in so-called progressive spaces is criticizing women for being suspicious of random men, and insisting that there must be a racist/ableist/classist/anti-homeless bias at play, while conveniently forgetting that the woman in question (any woman) is a marginalised person doing what they can to avoid being hate-crimed (assaulted, raped or murdered) by a member of an oppressor class.
Happy pride month to all radfem lesbian women here, love y'all!!
Seriously protect this woman at all costs.
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so hard to be sex positive in a "women and even men should be able to healthily masturbate and enjoy physical pleasure" kinda way while also being very very anti sex industry is hard sometimes.
Ahh but porn has always existed!! Look at cave paintings! Okay. Masturbate to cave paintings. I really want you to masturbate to cave paintings. If it's the same thing, you should have no issues masturbating to cave paintings. I'm dead serious when I say I have no issues with anybody masturbating to cave paintings, or even written smut or anything that doesn't rely on the rape of real people and profiting off of it. I'd be fine with hentai if so much of it didn't try to up the shock factor as much as possible to get people hooked on various fetishes.
People have masturbated forever, and they didn't need HD violent videos to do so. You can do it with your mind, or a nice lil story, I promise. Make your own horny cave painting, idgaf
This is exactly the distinction that gets lost in the "discourse." Being anti-industry isn't about being anti-pleasure or anti-human nature; it’s about being anti-commodity.
The "it’s always existed" argument is such a lazy reach. There is a massive structural chasm between a cave painting and a multi-billion dollar tech industry that uses predatory algorithms to keep people scrolling through increasingly extreme content. One is a human expression; the other is a profit-driven machine that relies on the financial desperation of real people.
You can be 100% in favor of people having healthy, liberated sex lives while still recognizing that a massive, unregulated industry built on the extraction of labor from vulnerable populations is a net negative for society.
Promoting imagination or ethical, non-human-based media isn't "puritanical" it's just asking for a world where someone's survival isn't tied to being recorded for a stranger's subscription fee.
we must hold the line against anorexia in these trying times…
just read up on baeddelism
you could't pry queerness as a subculture from my cold dead hands but people be saying nonsense like "sex based opression isn't real" bruh at this point we might have to throw out the whole commuinity idk
Identity Traps and Social Reasoning
Stumbled across this:
@ZubyMusic: Politics can rot people's brains to the point that they'll oppose good ideas if they come from the 'wrong people' and support bad ideas if they come from the 'right people'
Tumblrino: I heard someone say the other day that most people's brains don't separate information into "true" and "false" but rather "us" and "them": will the people of my tribe approve of this? Then it's true. Will the people of my tribe disapprove and cast me out for expressing it? Then it's false.
This grabbed my attention because they're definitely referring to Dan M. Kahan's research on "Identity-Protective Cognition."
This paper supplies a compact synthesis of the empirical literature on misconceptions of and misinformation about decision-relevant science.
Most people think they update their beliefs based on evidence, but Kahan's research suggests otherwise and it's fascinating.
Identity-Protective Cognition is the tendency to selectively credit or dismiss evidence based on what your group believes, not what the evidence actually shows.
Among the ideas in this paper:
Being wrong is often the rational choice
If you change your mind on a "tribal" issue (climate change, gun control, vaccines, etc.) you risk social ostracism, family conflict, loss of status.
(Does that sound familiar?)
Being correct about a global scientific fact, meanwhile, has essentially zero effect on your personal life or the global outcome.
So your brain runs this calculation...and chooses the tribe.
Smart people are worse, not better
Kahan found that higher scientific literacy and reasoning ability actually increase polarization.
Smarter people, he says, are better at cherry-picking evidence and finding flaws in the other side's data. Their intelligence becomes a weapon for motivated reasoning, not a cure for it.
We don't just ignore inconvenient facts, we actively embrace misinformation that flatters us
Identity-affirming misinformation (stuff that makes your tribe look good) gets a free pass. Identity-threatening facts (stuff that makes your tribe look bad) get fought tooth and nail.
Kahan's proposed fix is information decoupling.
He says we need to separate the fact from the identity signal it carries.
Presenting correct information alone is useless and often counterproductive.
Kahan says you have to make the truth feel safe for someone's existing identity without implying they need to defect to the other side to believe it.
But...how?!
What Kahan is really describing is that humans are social animals before they are rational ones.
We evolved to survive in groups, not to optimize for abstract truth (to varying degrees.)
So our brains aren't broken, they're just running software thousands of years old in a world they didn't evolve to cope with.
None of this means minds can't change - they change constantly - but Kahan's research suggests the mechanism of change isn't argument or evidence. It's identity shift.
People change their minds when they find a new tribe, a new role model, or a way of seeing themselves that makes the truth feel like theirs.
And that insight might explain why identity politics tend to backfire
If you organize persuasion around group identity, you deepen the very grooves that make minds hard to change. You grow only rigid ideologues engaged in purity tests who are good at chanting on rhythm. They won't be created, nuanced, pragmatic, diplomatic, or effective communicators.
Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap makes this case from a different angle.
When well-intentioned people make identity "the all-encompassing dividing line of American life," they aren't dissolving tribal thinking, they're institutionalizing it.
The result, Mounk argues, is an ideology that denies that members of different groups can truly understand each other. It squashes liberal pluralism.
That's precisely the condition that makes Kahan's trap inescapable.
The alternative Mounk points toward is very much like Kahan's: universalism.
Mounk says we need identities large enough to contain disagreement without triggering tribal self-defense.
His argument is that universal values, not group solidarity, offer the surest path to justice, fairness, and enduring social peace.
The model he holds up as effective is the civil rights movement. It wasn't an appeal to Black identity alone, but to a shared American identity, shared moral values, and a vision of humanity big enough that even those outside the group could feel called to it, not accused by it.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn't tell white Americans they were the enemy. He told them (and showed them) that they were falling short of their own ideals.
That's what a large identity looks like in practice. It isn't the erasure of difference, just a framework (built on words like citizen, neighbor, and human) where we aren't defined solely by the groups we were born into, but by what we can build together.
How Minds Change is a whole book about this, for anyone interested in learning more. 
i've always wanted to be kind and open but life makes it so hard. The world has made me so angry. Reading so many dumbass opinions on this site is not helping.
need to expel the hate from my heart
i've always wanted to be kind and open but life makes it so hard. The world has made me so angry. Reading so many dumbass opinions on this site is not helping.
I'm sorry if this makes me a bad prison abolitionist but I do think that rapists and kid touchers should have their lives ruined, especially with this Epstein shit. Like I thought we agreed sexual violence was the one crime that is totally inexcusable. y'all act like sex offenders especially the white, upper middle class ones arent some of the most protected people in the world. They more often than not barely actually serve out a sentence thats if they even get sentenced at all.
not for nothing but "chastity until marriage" and "lifelong strict monogamy" is every bit as much kink as piss or free use or knotting is. we just don't call it that because those weirdly specific and highly fetishized sexual practices are institutionalized and considered normative.
what are traditional catholic values if not just an overly elaborate and widely accepted version of a breeding kink
"chastity until marriage" and "lifelong strict monogamy" aren't a kink thing. they're a way to control women's reproduction. to ensure the bloodline for male heirs. to ensure power and wealth is handed down and men get to continue their "legacy". imagine being so oblivious to opressive social structures you think people just made the rules up randomly one day to decide what's normal and what isn't lmao. "what are traditional catholic values-" a way to fucking control people, dumbo. especially women. same as every other religion.
porn addicts looking at misogynist violence and oppression: i'm getting real kink vibes from this
The reason women never move as one big united group the way incel men do is because women constantly divide each other into categories instead of focusing on the common issue they claim to care about. Men will overlook differences in marriage status, sexuality, lifestyle, or whatever else as long as they share the same resentment toward women.
Meanwhile, women’s spaces are always busy excluding other women for being married, straight, mothers, feminine, male centered, or whatever category they decide is unacceptable that week. Then people wonder why women centered movements constantly collapse into infighting instead of functioning as a united group.