10 joints to spliffindor 😎

millennials will be hailed as the new boomers in like 20-30 years and not just because they'll age into that demographic slot

americans do not know how to age gracefully

there's latent violence and pedophilia in the relation between men and women, and sometimes it's not quite as latent as one might like, and somebody more well-read than me could probably talk a lot about it - but my opinion is that turning child rapists into the ultimate boogeymen has the side effect of making it into the ultimate perversion. that's where the grain of truth lies in the article.

when people talk about this i am constantly reminded of this album by whitehouse where they collaborated with an open pedophile. it has a "song" on it that is just recordings of victims discussing their abuses that he got off of normal-ass news broadcasts in the 80s and 90s. the difference between that voyeurism and the voyeurism of true crime is that he's literally masturbating to it instead of just obsessing over it. you don't need to delve into the depths of the Internet to indulge in this stuff cause if you have eyes to see it, it's everywhere

bouncing to something else: there is a lot of fiction written by and targetted at women that is truly heinous, and i understand the impulse behind writing and reading it. if i write a porny story about being assaulted by a doctor or being thrown in men's prison, i am defusing that fear in myself of being repeatedly screwed over by the people that keep my people down. people are drawn to the stuff that is over the line for the exact reason that there's a line to cross.

i just worry that anti-sex measures will fuel the fires of fetishization. the purest creeps are the ones who can veil it. it disturbs me that we can draw a line and say that an 18 year old is an acceptable target for your average Leo Dicaprio and a 17 year old isn't, or that buying a girl drinks to make it easier to fuck her is normal but paying her directly isn't, or on and on - and the more i stare into it, the more i start feeling like one of those second wave ladies who say that all sex is rape, which is concerning when my takeaway is still in the end a sex-positive one

i have no point in this other than i don't know where we socially go from here, and sometimes it scares me

i read this earlier and it's cope, you might accidentally see something gross but you're not gonna get brainwashed into cranking it to child pornography unless you have a desire to do so. there is a very large sector of people out there who manage to watch a lot of porn and yet never become pedophiles and this is another british trick to repress and control what they consider socially deviant

we are all weeping and wailing and feeling so bad about this out here in the parking lot to civil society

does anyone know what elite overproduction means? i can't read because of DEI

But also maybe people feel more impetus to do it because we're getting stuck.

this is insightful. the pandemic was the "egg cracker" for a lot of trans people - lots of time alone with yourself, having to deal with being in your own skin without distractions, not having the daily pressure to keep up appearances - i think in our "atomized world" or whatever people call it, this is common. it goes for more gays in general too: if you're a prospective lesbian and you don't get instalocked by Some Guy because you got teen pregnant and you can't open a bank account by yourself, you actually have the chance to develop your own identity instead of just repressing all your life

http://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1902993602227167489.html

apropos of "nothing" i've been using the phrase "fire so-and-so out of a cannon into the sun" a lot lately

The screwed up part is that throwing us under the bus doesn't even work

if hell is the absence of god

then god is the absence of hell

from an egg to a fish to a frog

to a bridge to a branch to a bell

if hell is the absence of god

and god is the absence of hell

then a hand reaching out through the fog

is a hand sent from heaven as well

where i live we just kept throwing them in the river until the city passed a law about them

why the fuck does it have a period as part of the brand name i'm going insane

it's about 5 months until i move and i've been putting off the job search for this exact reason - i have no confidence in online job postings and my boyfriend's mom is a hiring manager that has said NEVER COLDCALL PEOPLE to us so the messaging is mixed

i don't have the sauce to lie to people is part of the issue and the job dance is all lies - i am extremely confident in my ability to learn any job that i might get my hands on but i can't tell somebody oh yah eh i have 15 years experience in the Skeet workspace

my best shot before looking it up: a deposition is a collection of your sworn testimony in like a pre trial context and an affidavit is a declaration of .. something that you confirm?

after i looked it up i see no reason why we have two words for this