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my friends and i can't stop referencing this post

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Notice how no one is sending anons like "who is lana del rey"

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The next time I worry about sounding stupid on here I’m going to remember that people post this kind of shit all the time

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Put a / in the year you were born, so we will have an average age

Before 1990: //////

1990:////

1991://////

1992:////////////

1993://///////////////

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1995: //////////////////////////////////////

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1999: ///////////////////

2000: //

After 2000: /

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Another wandering ramble by yours truly. leftists on twitter are revealing something i always suspected—that prison abolitionists/restorative justice advocates only view the prosecution as worthy of critique. they think only the accused suffer an injustice, but not the accusers. they believe defense attorneys in the current system are beyond critique. they don’t actually believe the entire criminal justice system is corrupt. it’s not about finding the “truth” and doling out consequences or not, nor collaborating to determine a sequence of events that is supported by evidence. the justice system as enforced and designed by the ruling class is about, like, “winning.”

lawyers have to “win” for their clients, truth be damned, and winning can and will involve lying, obfuscation, and utilizing biases such a misogyny, racism, and so on to sour the image of the other side. both prosecutors and defense attorneys engage in lying and character assassination and victim blaming and so on because the justice system doesn’t value the truth—it just values whether you can “win” or not. like, if a defense attorney knows their client is a rapist, for example, they do have the option of getting their client off if they lie, obfuscate, or victim blame efficiently enough to win. just as the prosecution can lie and victim blame to win convictions. plea deals, for example, epitomize how the current justice system doesn’t value doling out consequences based on the truth nor, like, the established events in a particular case. it’s about money and winning. if you can’t pay your defense attorney enough money to help you win, you might get offered a plea deal.

this debate all came about because a communist public defender bragged about beating the charges of a rapist who he knew should have been beaten up, in his words. some people obviously thought this was a kinda crass thing to admit lol. but the public defender thinks he shouldn’t be subject to critique for engaging in the pitfalls of the ruling class justice system that leftists claim they want to abolish/change, because leftists only see prosecutors as corrupt. setting rapists free is a necessary evil, instead of evidence as to why the whole criminal justice system is insufficient.

my take on the debate isn’t anything new. it is right to oppose the institutional violence and labor exploitation of the bourgeois justice system, including its prisons, and it is right to want to abolish this system and build something different. however, what often motivates prison abolitionists is the idea that a man facing a consequence for anything at all is an injustice. peel back the platitudes about “community care” and “rehabilitation” and it is obvious that they simply don’t want any violent man to ever be detained—this is why they can rightfully hate prosecutors but idolize defense attorneys. leftists won’t care about anything if men aren’t seen as victims. prison abolitionists have called women fascists for going to the police about sexual abusers, rather than empathizing with a victim whose only avenues for redress are all marred with some kind of corruption or safety risk. they want to abolish prisons not because they are used as a tool of the ruling class to control and discipline the masses, but because they don’t want to see men get detained for engaging in domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual abuse. they are against the very concept and the very act of detaining male abusers, even if privation and criminalization was eliminated from society.

prison abolitionists will call women “carceral” for wanting a male abuser to be detained. hell, even anti-racists can be called “carceral” for wanting a racist cop to be detained (but abolitionists are rarely ever this ideologically consistent—because the victims of racism are primarily seen as men). the movement is male supremacist first, just like every movement under the sun. i think it’s a good thing that women are seeing this out in the open, because “carceral” has unfortunately been reduced to a slur that leftists spew to paralyze sexual abuse victims, and feminists need to oppose its deployment as a misogynistic silencing tactic. they use “carceral” in the same way that they use “frigid,” “hysterical,” “puritan,” and any other word used to slur anti-rape feminists. prison abolitionism must be disentangled from male supremacy. its advocates appear to think the male supremacy is a prerequisite to the ideology, but i don’t think it needs to be!

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That tgirl is just a man 🤣

Does that tgirl have a 'butch haircut' because she's defying gender norms or because hair stylists don't respect her desire for a feminine haircut and nobody taught her how to cut her own hair?

Does that tgirl wear 'butch clothes' because she wants to dress ambiguously or is she too broke to wear anything other than the clothes her parents bought her in high school?

Does that tgirl have noticeable stubble because she's genderfuck or because she doesn't know where to start with buying and applying makeup?

Does that tgirl have hairy legs, feet, and belly because she's a hardline feminist or because electrolysis is $300~ a session?

Does that tgirl want to present masc or is she just poor and isolated?

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Being a woman is not a vibe based club anyone can join. This term is in fact steeped in material reality.

the honeybee afab transfem thing is sooo wild to me like transfemininity is not a vibes based club anyone can join ! this term is in fact steeped in material reality and describes the way that these particular women are treated by the world around them and if u do not meet the criteria of having been coercively assigned male at birth u are just not one of them ! theres no way for me to break it down easier than that sorry you are just not cool enough

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Dragon Ball Z "Counting Down"

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Holy fucking shit that twoxchromosomes post from yesterday about men switching up on their wedding day is one of the most blackpilling things ever. I already knew men do this ofc, but reading SO many personal accounts of it was harrowing. I’m so glad I’ve decided to be single and celibate.

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Imagine you’re Ethel Cain and your whole stage persona was based on being a dollar store version of Lana Del Rey, and then she publicly admits to hating you. Would be my thirteenth reason personally

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tumblr should have an option where if you get an anon you have one chance to guess their url and if u guess it right their anon is turned into a normal ask that u can answer publically

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It’s the misogyny

Notice how posts uplifting and spreading positivity to trans women get 10k-20k or more notes in the span of days, and all of the reblogs are like "Trans women are the wind beneath my wings and the sun on my brow a day without trans women is a day without light trans women make the world go round they're angels sent by god they're my beloved sisters and all of us peasants are so lucky to be blessed by their presence" and if you dare to say "this applies to X too/what about X?" you'll get publically humiliated in the reblogs and paraded through the streets as a transmisogynist for "making it about men", then met with more reblogs stating "This is why no one likes X, they just make everything about themselves we should murder all of them"

Meanwhile posts uplifting and spreading positivity to trans men get 2k notes AT ABSOLUTE BEST over the span of months to years and all the reblogs are like "This applies to trans women too! This applies to trans women too! This applies to nonbinary people too! This applies to nonbinary people too! This applies to all trans people as well not just trans men! I love ALL my siblings not just trans men!" And *you're* in the wrong if this pisses you off at all because "trans unity!!!"

Like... can anyone ever genuinely appreciate us without tying our value to our proximity to someone else who is deemed "better". Can things centering us ever actually be about us and not a group of people all of you clearly prefer more and would much rather talk about instead. All of you just tolerate us while claiming you "love" us to look like a good person, but immediately cast us out for the apparently entitled want to ever be centered in conversations that weren't even about you to begin with.

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"if your anti-racist activism doesn't make space for the experiences of white people with adhd, then your anti-racist activism is bullshit and if u pretend it's intersectional you're a fucking clown"

"if your disability rights activism doesn't make space for veganism and able-bodied single mothers, then your disability rights activism is bullshit and if u pretend it's intersectional you're a fucking clown."

Notice how nobody says this because it's obviously fucking nonsense. Only when it's about liberating women do people feel emboldened to say "hey women if you ever think about advocating for yourselves, even in your own movement that you created, you're a shitty person and you should feel guilty and selfish." As if women don't receive the message to prioritize everyone (especially men) over themselves constantly from every corner of society.

The point of feminism is the liberation of women from men and male supremacy. It is not the uplifting of every downtrodden person in the world. That requires prioritizing women btw.

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1. “Raven” was an occasionally-encountered name for a girl in the contemporary period, and “Ebony” would be at least recognizable as a name. The other elements of this name are flatly atypical.

2. During this part of the War Period, this character’s hairstyle would not be considered shocking, but it would be viewed as garish and nonconformist.

3. A contemporary music performer known for a melancholy style of music and a gothic and dramatic aesthetic. The title of the work probably comes from one of her songs. However, her aesthetic and attitude has little in common with that in this work, being much more conventional and less garish.

4. A member of the contemporary band “My Chemical Romance”, also notable for a “gothic”, melancholy, and macabre aesthetic

5. i.e. the speaker considers him to be handsome and attractive; despite the pornographic material later in this work, the word “f_______” is here used only as an expletive.

6. Vampires as romantic figures had been increasing in popularity over this period, with a trend away from malicious monsters towards seductive but more benevolent figures, romanticized by their capability of being terrible.

7. Strangely, despite the characterization of this character as a Satanist, “witch” should here be characterized as having meaning similar to “wizard” and not “idolater”, “sorceress”, “maleficar”, or other practitioner of what we today recognize as “witchcraft”. The background material to this work constantly faced accusations of being satanic by an uneducated reactionary public to whom the difference between technology, wizardry and witchcraft was not meaningful (”witch” was sometimes even considered a female equivalent to “wizard”!), which completely failed to diminish its popularity.

8. It is important to understand that “goth” as an aesthetic, counterculture or subculture had a completely different meaning in the contemporary period than it does today – what remains similar is the love of the melancholy, the macabre, the dramatic, the romantic, and contempt for conventionalism. In the mid-to-early-late War Period, “Gothic” people were associated with contempt for morality, certain types of sexual display (usually of a shocking and sometimes fetishistic type), various forms of concupiscence, and a fairly significant connection to the occult and even to outright Satanism, though the latter was all but universally an affectation (this is true of most Mid War Period satanism). See contrast on p 321, The Gothic Movement In the Catholic Church. Moreover, the “gothic” aesthetic as described by this character is a stunted and over-the-top form that has also been corrupted by the counterculture-commericalism that was universal in the Late War Period.

9. A clothing store mostly specializing in counterculture-commercialized and faddist apparel. Critics accused it of being a mercantile vulture that fed by turning more honest and vivacious countercultures into fads.

10. It was almost unheard-of for women in the Mid or Late War Period to wear corsets, but they appeared in the Gothic subculture (which itself heavily borrowed from sources such as Victorian-era clothing, including mourning dress). However, what Enoby is describing is probably not actually a true corset, but a “corset top”, which is essentially a laced bodice. Either would be worn with neither chemise nor overblouse.

11. Probably a nondraped skirt that barely passes her wrist.

12. Hose, stockings, or tights in the form of a wide-open mesh

13. Probably not actually military issue boots; these were tall, heavy black leather boots with lacing all the way up.

14. This character’s outfit would be considered inappropriate for school in the Late War Period, but not shocking to Late War Period mores except by its garishness.

15. Originally meant students at a university-preparatory school; with the extremely high percentage of students seeking to attend university in the Late War Period, this came to mean a subculture of young people who adopted a highly conventionalistic and professionalistic attitude and sought admission to the prestigious and traditionalistic universities in the Eastern United States, often without academics being their true passion. Such people were often viewed as social climbers and sometimes attracted contempt from both their less-professionally-oriented peers and from those who were true intellectuals. 

16. Also known as “giving the finger”; a very rude gesture in the War Period as it is in ours.

18. This phrase went through considerable popular memetic mutation (as did the entire tract): “It was _______ <weather> so I felt ________. A lot of _______ stared at me. I ________ them.” See extra material 34c.

17. I.E. “How are you today?”, “how are you feeling?” as a greeting.

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tbh people dont talk about how disturbing the popularity of sibling/step sibling porn is nearly enough.

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