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Whenever a player safewords, this is an occasion for mutual support. We understand that nobody safewords from a happy place, and that all of our egos feel frail and kind of runty when we need to back out of a scene. It is completely unethical to respond with scorn or ridicule to a person who has safeworded: S/M is not a competition, we are not playing against each other.
As tops, we have noticed that if we are having a good time and our bottom safewords, our initial feelings may not be happy. Whaddaya mean you don't like that? I do all this work and you don't appreciate it? I'm hot for being in control and you want me to stop? We have felt real anger and felt challenged in our top role... and, on a deeper level, we have felt put down, hurt and rejected. It is okay to have these feelings. It is not okay to act on them. Take three deep breaths and everybody start taking care of each other.
Sometimes bottoms get so deeply engaged in a scene that they fail to safeword, or forget, or so profoundly believe in the fantasy that it doesn't occur to them: many of the techniques we play with, like interrogation, function in the real world to undermine volition. Dossie remembers a scene in which a top offered her a choice of something or other: "I felt very confused. Some distant part of me vaguely remembered having made choices, but the response from my state of consciousness at that time was, Choose? I am not a thing that chooses." So then what is the top's responsibility?
If a bottom does not safeword and you don't pick up on what's going on, and this will happen if you play long enough and well enough, there is no blame. However, it is still your responsibility to monitor for physical safety as best you can. As ethical tops we make a commitment to never knowingly harm our bottoms. To this end we check in regularly to make sure that things are going the way we think they are, and we constantly monitor the physical and emotional safety of our bottoms. If a bottom is beyond safewording, and you as the top feel unsure about how far you should go, it is your responsibility to slow down or stop the scene and get into communication with the bottom to make sure you have informed consent. If you have to bring the bottom back into reality to do this, please remember that you helped get them into that altered state in the first place, so presumably you can help get them back there again as soon as you are sure of what's going on.
And just because someone safeworded doesn't mean that the scene has to be over. There may be times when the problem that brought either of you to safeword is so overwhelming that carrying on doesn't feel like the right thing right now - but most often we find that after we've dealt with whatever the difficulty is, we're still terrifically turned on, with the added bonus of a shared intimacy.
from The New Topping Book (2003) by Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy
(note: the authors use ‘top’ & ‘bottom’ in the historical S/M sense, meaning ‘person performing the act’ & ‘person receiving the act’; the act in question is not necessarily penetration.)
#i am largely posting this to refer back to / expand on later but still totally okay to reblog if you want#kink education#the new topping book#quotes#mac’s bookshelf#why not take me now as i am?#impurity culture#tomorrow sexting will be good again
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every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant
#‘political lesbians’ were and are predominantly STRAIGHT WOMEN#and a good chunk are bi#what don’t you understand about these women thinking lesbianism is a CHOICE? that it’s only used by women as a reaction to the patriarchy?#like lesbians can’t possibly like women and not men for any reason that isn’t some deep-seated hatred for men?#they all think lesbianism is dirty and impure and here you people are saying that this is PROGRESSIVE#and that they actually think that lesbianism is some golden standard for its purity???? you guys are so fucking stupid oh my god#you go on and on about learning your queer history until it comes to lesbians and then you’re perfectly happy rewriting our culture#and narrative#wtf is wrong with you people#and y’all braindead mfs use this to act like men are actually oppressed by the meanie dykes#i hate y’all#but none of y’all actually give a shit about lesbians so i guess im yelling into a void#lesbophobia#top posts#neon talks#LOL at the fucking idiot who reblogged this and tagged it ‘misandry’ not sure how you got that from my post but i hope your day sucks <3
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So I read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson and I
#spoilers#THR FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE ORIFINAL SALT WAS IMPURE????#GFHRHRRGRGGEGEGEGEGRHRHEHHRHRHRHHRRHHEGEEHRH#ALSO THIS JS WAY BETTER AND MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE WAY POP CULTURE HAS INTERPRETED IT I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE#WHENB JEKYLL WOKE UP AS HYDE TOWARDS THE END I OUT LOUD WENT “oooh...” YES I LIVE FOR THE BODY HORROR OUTSIDE OF GORE#dude i dint even get to post much about my last fixation#ill probably post the art of my ocs and then im going to hydepost everywhere#jekyll and hyde#henry jekyll#edward hyde#gothic horror#book#books#photopost#lucifers wrath#lucifers gluttony#you will be hear much much more about this though...#...mark my words#:)#j&h#lucifers inferno
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oppenheimer criticisms I haven't seen but think would be fair:
-choice to have 90% of florence pugh's screentime being "hysterical topless woman"
-movie does not pass bechdel test at all; otoh it is a historical biopic representing the life of a man to whose field of study very few women had access at the time and the movie makes a point to show those women gaining access. like. it's not a movie about women at all, and I doubt I will see nolan make such a movie ever, but beyond florence pugh's character there are some good and nuanced moments in there especially with emily blunt but also with minor characters
-early sequences of tortured baby oppenheimer dreaming the beauty of physics are very overwrought
-choice to not shoot on location in germany (look this one is just for me I have been to all the places oppenheimer studied (I am not a theoretical physics fangirl but I know several) and the only place they chose not to actually film in person is göttingen which I take personal offense at)
-they cast matthias schweighöfer in a hollywood movie. no excuses for that one tbh.
oppenheimer criticisms I have seen and think are unfair
-"nolan can't make a good war movie" bc he will not make an intersectional war movie. potentially accurate in re dunkirk, which I didn't see bc I don't like war movies, but in this case he did not make a war movie, he made a historical biopic. the war is relevant, obviously, but the movie is not at all about the battlefield or the front, it is about the life of a physicist, and yes, it's not very intersectional.
-the effects of the a-bomb on the people of japan are not given due diligence. I understand people disagreeing about this but I have also seen several posts of people going "I won't watch this but I bet it doesn't" and uh. I think it does. I think every moment in this movie after the trinity test is entirely about oppenheimer realizing the impact of his research and it is shown several times, excruciatingly, how aware he is of what the effects of the a-bomb were. we do not see the bomb, nor do we see japan, because again, it is a historical biopic about this one dude and he wasn't there. this is also the first time I have seen a mainstream hollywood movie make repeat and pointed note of the fact that in a military sense the use of a-bombs in japan was not necessary.
-movie is pro-war/glorifies the a-bomb/glorifies oppenheimer. I think the strongest case you can make is that it glorifies the a-bomb because movie splosions are cool. but I also think the movie's biggest strength is its ambiguity. whose fault is it there was an a-bomb? is it oppenheimer's? he sure thinks so! is it einstein's? he sure thinks so at least indirectly! is it the american government's? they sure think so and they're proud of it (all of these according to the various chracters of this movie). is it a good thing they developed the a-bomb? several characters have several differing opinions on this! oppenheimer himself seems very divided and unsure by the end of the movie and cannot make a judgment call. in the end (much like with cillian murphy's other iconic character who wears a hat cough cough) if people walk out of this movie as fans of the character or his actions imo that's on them and not on the authorship of the movie
#oppenheimer#I think it was a very good movie that's all#the cultural impact remains to be seen#and there are grounds for concern there#but the morality policing I will not watch the impure movie tumblr posts#really grind my gears
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"We tend to read fma with a Western lens, so critiquing its use of the military and genocide ignores the Japanese perspective," sorry but you can't cultural relativism your way out of imperialism, genocide, and pro-military nationalism.
Newsflash: Japan was an imperialist power! Japanese nationalism is a thing! Numerous genocides have been committed and excused/denied by Japan! Japan having suffered imperialism from the USA does not mean that people are now magically immune to pro-imperialism propaganda and historical revisionism, and it isn't absent from Japanese pop media. In fact, much like American mass media it is often highly prevalent in both overt and insidious/seemingly innocuous ways.
Be honest about the imperialist themes of the stories you like or stfu!
#extremely obvious and flimsy attempt to protect your imperialist media#because you can't grapple with liking something that isn't politically perfect#''western lens'' and i bet most of you excuse western imperialism too (especially if it's the western country you inhabit)#enjoy fma but have a fucking spine about it without sucking boots#03 is much better about this and even it's not immune to pro-military prop!#you are not ethically impure for liking impure stories ffs#also japan being held up as a ~mystical unknowable land/people/culture~ is fucking racist#cultural nuance is important but so many people use it merely as a shield from criticism instead#anyway i needed to vent#fma#fmab#fma 03#mine#meta#vent
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#animalistic#sketch#marker sketch#copic art#copic markers#forcemasc#f0rce m4sk#t4t#purity culture#pure#impure#hell is a teenage girl#fuck purity culture#lana del ray aesthetic#girl hysteria#female hysteria#feminine hysteria#female rage#feminine rage#dog#pup#brat pup#teen rage
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
#Friedrich Nietzsche#purity#life quotes#lifequotes#light#quote#quote of the day#quoteoftheday#quotes#wisdom#seas#water#pollution#defilement#filth#streams#corruption#impurity#knowledge#culture#depth#range
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Jacqueline looked confused. Then she laughed till tears streamed down her cheeks. “Honey,” she’d start, but she was laughing too hard to continue. “Honey. You can’t learn to fuck from reading Popular Mechanics. That isn’t what makes a butch a good lover.”
This was exactly what I needed to know! “Well, what does make a butch a good lover?” I asked, trying to sound like the answer didn’t mean all that much to me.
Her face softened. “That’s kinda hard to explain. I guess being a good lover means respecting a femme. It means listening to her body. And even if the sex gets a little rough, or whatever, that it’s what she wants too, and inside you’re still coming from a gentle place. Does that make sense?”
It did not. It was less information than I wanted. It turned out, however, to be the information I needed. It just took thinking about it for the rest of my life.
Jacqueline took the rubber cock from my hands. Had I been holding it all this time? She placed it carefully on my thigh. My body temperature rose. She began to touch it gently, like it was something really beautiful.
“You know, you could make a woman feel real good with this thing. Maybe better than she ever felt in her life.” She stopped stroking the dildo. “Or you could really hurt her, and remind her of all the ways she’s ever been hurt in her life. You got to think about that every time you strap this on. Then you’ll be a good lover.”
I waited, hoping there was more. There was not. Jackie got up and puttered around the kitchen. I went to bed. I tried to memorize every word that had been said to me before I fell asleep.
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (pg 28-29)
#the high femme reverence for it…..#i get it. i’m fucking weeping.#quotes#stone butch blues#leslie feinberg#butch/femme#butch#femme#stone butch#stone femme#high femme#mac’s bookshelf#impurity culture#but what gets it for me is high femme#οἱ λίθοι κράξουσιν#what i did. what i was. what i do. what i am.#tomorrow sexting will be good again
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i. get the vibe that the more mainstream zelda fans are allergic to the idea of liking characters who like. do bad things
#the groups and works i avoid are ones that make characters who do generally questionable things into morally good/perfect people#idk. whenever people get nasty or w/s it seems to be when people ask reasonable questions abt the series’ morality#recent example in mind but like. idk. with more personal/petty examples i feel like people will just sand a character down to being nicer#or more decent to fit some mold and maybe while its still similar to canon its a lot less interesting#idk this is just a mini rant ill delete it later. god forbid we enjoy characters who make bad choices and are mean#idk i dont usually leave my little hole but it feels like the worst zelda fans are deep in purity culture regarding characters#and don’t analyze the text beyond what youre told and never going any deeper bc it would require thought and discomfort#idk ig with [character] (cuz i know thisll get picked ul by tag stuff) i just. dont like how he just gets turned into a decent guy?#like hes an asshole but thats it hes more pleasant than anything? its not not canon but its not interesting. its neuters him#yknow? like hes down for robbing people at the bare minimum shut uo about tax fraud he’s a thief literally in the text#im going off the rails. bht i feel like people lash out at characters who are unignorably grating or morally impure#and sand down the ones whose flaws can be ignored. ofc i feel like the main 3 esp with these last few games get the worst of it#and i can get why considering the issues baked into how this series work but it just makes a lot of things boring
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ok but fad diet paleo sam tho
#he gets into obsessive phases depending on how unclean / impure he's feeling. and channels those feelings into controlling his eating#he eats meat. all the time. but when he's in paleo mode it's gotta be Good Lean Meats Only.#cw diet culture#cw disordered eating mention#(in the tags)#vic.txt
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Opening the comment section on an intercultural wedding and thinking what fucking year did i stumble into
#''i prefer to keep my blood pure'' ?!?!?!?! IS THIS THE 19TH FUCKING CENTURY????????????#anyway. i for one think weddings where the two spouses-to-be combine their cultural traditions and/or couples who have two weddings for#their respective cultures are reallllllyyyyy cute and if i were to marry someone who's from a different culture#than mine i would hope that we would incorporate as much of eachother's souls into our wedding#like what is this.... and 10/10 on the comments all making stereotypes on the BRIDE btw. bc right.#''confused children'' and ''mutts'' and ''impure blood'' none of you are sane all of you should be locked up what is that
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This but also: even people with reprehensible traits usually also have good traits- creativity, artistic talent, intelligence, social awareness on certain topics, humour, situational kindness, etc- and acknowledging that you like certain things about someone while also condemning them overall is a healthy thing to do. Refusing to acknowledge the good in a bad person perpetuates the “this person can’t be a [murderer/rapist/racist/abuser/etc], I’ve always known them as a great guy!” attitude.
Everybody is a mixed bag and we have to be able to recognise that for genuine accountability to come easier.
to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator
#this ‘if a person has ever been publicly proven impure then we must assume they’re rotten to the core’ mentality is killing me#pls pls use critical thinking#ur not a bad person for liking a book written by a pos#ur not a bad person for thinking someone who’s generally an ass is charming in one interview#good god we have layers#I will say for this millionth time:#there’s a difference between accountability culture and cancel culture
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Lmao what the fuck
#reddit#that's something you can get banned for???#that's insane#what kind of next level purity culture bullshit even is this#thou foul cur be gone from our hallowed subreddit for thine spirit has been sullied with impure thoughts
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wait do people know that certain influential ~1980s lesbian separatisms really pushed “mutual” sex as a requirement to be a good feminist? like “oh we aren’t like those dirty stone butch / high fems, we practice equality because we both touch each other’s junk.” i feel like i didn’t know that for several years & it would’ve made a big difference in understanding the roots of the rhetoric around me
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"When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that's not very nice. Is that how you think about people who've had surgery for other things? It's a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don't have to entertain it and I'm not going to. It's a waste of everybody's time, it's knee-jerk, it's not grounded in reality, and it's not useful. And it's a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn't matter."
Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
#queer stuff#queer rights#trans rights#disabled rights#intersex rights#fat rights#bodily autonomy#hot take: people saying trigger when what they mean is they think something is gross/icky and/or morally impure#and i am very wary of trigger-as-used-for-leftist-purity-culture because it's such a hot button emotive word#and obscuring the actual specific meaning and use of the word at the same time as effectively branding whatever is gross/evil/impure#intersex stuff
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One bad thing about living in a Muslim household is that you know exactly when your parents just had sex 💀💀💀
#Yeah I live with my parents still guys it's both cheaper and the cultural norm#but anywho#The correlation here is that religiously we believe that after sex both parties need to perform ghusl - the major ablution#Because those *ahem* specific bodily fluids count as a major impurity#In performing ghusl a person must wash their hair#So extended silence in the living room + locked bedroom door + mom with wet hair = don't say anything just smile and wave boys
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