None of these are actual critiques of actual social phenomena or tendencies or faults, you just have a conservative bone in your body and you're uncomfortable with it being prodded, so your reaction is "it's annoying and cringe and it's so much cooler and hotter to be more conservative akshually"

it's unreal how fucking cruel and violating this is

In addition to the fact that it's very much the power imbalance and legal responsibility to protect them that makes them children, it's also disturbing that so many people are willingly like "listen, 15 year olds are hot, and that's a fact." They are children. They look like children.

this isn’t my MOST woke opinion but it is one i’m passionate about: borders shouldn’t exist and there should be complete freedom of movement globally. fuck visas. get rid of them

No, I see what point you are trying to make but it is wrong. There are in fact many many many rapists with astronomically less power and numerous victims who still are also never arrested, are protected by people who are aware of what they do, never see real consequences. That’s rape culture.

This has happened multiple times

the word "bitch" is a slur against women and men should never ever say it.

Everyone already knew because multiple victims have come forward to tell us over the span of decades, at astronomic risk to themselves and with incredible courage. Behind nearly every new “revelation” about someone’s involvement w/ Epstein is a victim’s account that was made public 5+ years ago.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

leftists who mock youth liberation end up sounding indistinguishable from reactionaries very quickly because opposition to youth liberation *is* reactionary (see also: anarcha-feminism backlash) most people who consider ourselves on the left are just playing a team sport with no deeper principles

abolish the family, abolish fathers in particular, abolish the social category of sex, children are an oppressed class, liberation will not be achieved while the social class of cis Manhood is allowed to exist, abolish whiteness, destroy the state, destroy capital, kill god

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

k i know i said i was done posting today but i have just learned the context for "this trans woman is a threat to trans women" and the context is that she called out a cis male sex pest lmao

Women’s status is eroding rapidly and dramatically—in employment, in culture, and in the law. But that is not considered important news; what’s considered important news is men’s aggrieved feelings about how we’re not being forced back into the kitchen fast enough.

A lot of us spent an entire weekend in a vicious argument with one particular youtuber and his weaponised fans over it! None ever apologized when the evidence became incontrovertible. They still maintain we were in the wrong for being too angry too soon.

okay i'm tired of posting, i have a pounding headache, and imma watch she ra and snuggle my cats

I think people do this to absolve themselves, tbh. Many of us (us as a society) are complicit in this status quo. They "selectively" stigmatize/disbelieve/blame victims whenever convenient. Even in this case, I don't think all the people upset at it are upset for the victims.

and this is to say nothing of how concepts like "crime" and "sin" actually boil down to "disobedience to the rightful authority," and as long as the authority in question (god, the state, police, judge, priest, father etc) determines no disobedience has occurred, then no crime has occurred.

People are acting like this is a big reveal. There's not a single name I've seen that people haven't been talking about for years (or DECADES). THIS SHIT HAPPENS IN THE OPEN

i wish people would stop calling it a "big conspiracy." there is no conspiracy, it's just the ordinary mundane workings of a patriarchal society. this is what that ordinary thing looks like among wealthy men; among non-billionaires, we all know someone who's a survivor. men catcall 12yos every day.

guarded secret. It's open. Politely frowned upon. But never stopped.

I was sexually assaulted as a young child, more than once, and groomed as a teenager by a man in his 30's. And let me tell you. This happens everywhere. Grown adult men in small towns pick up teenage girls from their high schools and no one does a thing. It is not clandestine or a cleverly

For one thing, bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy. Children's rights are children's rights. Rejecting both is essential to allow men like Epstein to exist, so they reject both. It's not them being hypocritical, it's them being consistent.

Very much hating the "why would anyone want to be with a teenage girl they're so stupid and terrible" jokes. Maybe we should actually stop treating this demographic like shit. Seems like they've been through enough, huh?

In their ideal society, wealthy men can prey upon young women and children, without consequence. And less wealthy men can prey upon trans people, without consequence. It's not hypocrisy that they instantly started defending Epstein, it's consistency. Both are necessary parts of their ideal world

These people got massive paychecks, for years, floating their unprofitable outlets where they shrieked about groomers and did stochastic terrorism against trans people. And now, they're doing the "actually it's ephebophilia" bit because that is just as crucial a part of the hierarchy they uphold.

It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.

My partner and I have been behind on rent and bills almost every single month this year, mostly due to the late fees keeping us locked in a vicious cycle, and this month is going to be the exact same without help.

The New York Times deserves no defense. Trans rights forever.

when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

not to be a wet blanket but i certainly noticed how many people, cis men in particular, tried very hard to claim that the gaiman thing was a smear job, false allegations, politically motivated lies etc i appreciate the sentiment but this is rewriting reality. the rape apologia was rampant.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

Finally have confirmation that the 'liked them young' guy who was redacted is indeed Bill Clinton.

so much for the "opposing genAI 'art' is siding with disney and copyright!!" argument huh

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Always remembering that Bill Kezos quote about how interesting things happen when the object of desire and the object of resentment overlap

eyes hurting again 🥲

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

NYT: the transes are a menace. gender is hunting your children. they’re not enbies they’re fearthembies. Also NYT: how can we help cover up crimes mister epstein call us anytime

gotchu. it's "death to america"

I think people are unwilling to give the NYT and its staff the benefit of the doube because they [checks clipboard] have been able to observe and think about the NYT's behavior as an institution on virtually all issues for the last 20 years. Hope this helps

seeing a lot of of "technically it's ephebophilia" so i remind you that sexology is a pseudoscience akin to evopsych or phrenology. the "science" of "male chronophilias" from which this distinction is derived, is total nonsense. it's a pseudoscientific medicalized naturalization of *SOCIAL* violence

Looking at every -ism and abuse there’s ever been: it’s actually harder to do if you hate the thing you’re targeting, you guys. another Wallkick banger.

"I'm not a pedophile, I hate children" he tries to convince the world as if many of us weren't unfortunately all-too-aware that those two attitudes often accompany one another.

it's really awesome that the cultural response to teens being exploited and abused is to performatively shit on them and call them stupid and annoying. fucking sucks

This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

when dashwall got in trouble for thirst posting about then-14yo jennifer connelly in labyrinth, his & his shooters' defense was that the picture he chose was of 18yo jennifer connelly. anyway

(coughs so hard and pointedly I start hacking up blood)

singal has a few of this style of article, generally citing james "pr0stasia" cantor and michael "cites dutch n@mbla activists" seto