thank you to those 30 sickos

my ambitions are modest. i'm aiming for ten sickos.

Death to Israel

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Sorry to make an MCU joke in 2023 but

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I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.

We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.

It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.

Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn't inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid's psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.

"Wanting to expose myself to children isn't the problem, its you being upset that I wanna expose myself to children that's the problem"

See, this is what I'm talking about. Nothing I said in this post is about *doing* anything *to* children, and the fact that you cannot imagine a scenario where a person might be unclothed that doesn't directly involving harming children isn't healthy.

This post is about breast feeding. It's about nude beaches. It's about clothing optional saunas and onsens. It's about the changing room at the gym. Settings in which some *non-sexual* nudity can and do exist.

This post isn't about "oh wow, I sure do want to be naked around kids for nefarious and predatory reasons." It's about how our culture's insistence that ALL nudity, regardless of context and setting, MUST be sexual and MUST be predatory is divorced from reality and leads to unhealthy mindsets surrounding our bodies and the bodies of others.

You literally mentioned it not being harmful to kids you fucking retarded pedo

Yes there exists settings where nudity is non-sexualized, most people understand this, however mentioning children makes it incredibly suspicious. Who the hell thinks of children in the context of nude beaches, gym changing rooms or saunas?

See, but it's not suspicious. One of the main pearl-clutching arguments about any nudity or even just less conservative clothing is the "think of the children!" fear mongering. That seeing a person breast feeding a baby in public or seeing a man in a thong is somehow inherently traumatizing. I'm literally just referencing and responding to the most common puritan argument against non-sexual nudity.

In countries that have them, children can go to saunas. Children can go to onsens. Children can use the changing room at public pools and gyms. Most nude beaches around the world don't have any kind of age requirement. Because in these places, there is an understanding that these are not sexual settings, and trying to have sex in those places would be seen as deeply, deeply inappropriate.

Again, the idea that nudity of any kind is only appropriate for adults is leaning on the assumption that nudity is somehow inherently sexual and harmful to children. (Which feeds into so many toxic and harmful mindsets. That people wearing skimpy clothing are 'asking for' sexual attention, that only people who are 'sexy' should wear the kind of clothing that shows skin.) It creates a culture of shame and secrecy about all aspects of your body, which really fucks with our sex ed and body image. It negatively affects people's willingness and ability to care for their loved ones as they age. Read through the tags on this post, and do so without the assumption that anyone who isn't a pearl clutching puritan is a fucking sex criminal.

You had me until you decided to say that having men in thongs around children is okay.

Explain to me why you think children being in the same area as someone wearing a particular style of swimsuit (one that still completely convers the genitals even) is "not ok"?

Ah, ok, by that logic, it’s okay to shove my ass in a kid’s face, because it’s “not sexual”, right?

Define "shoving your ass into their face."

Do you mean- physically touching a child's face with *their ass cheeks*? Because no, that's not ok.

Do you mean - being visible and in the same general area while wearing a swimsuit? Because then yes, that's OK. It's in fact no different than a woman wearing a bikini within the potential sight of a child. *seeing* another person, even if that person is wearing fewer clothes than you expect, is not *inherently* harmful.

"people can wear various clothes and it's not a bad thing"

Oh so i can but my bare ass directly in the face of a child?????

Dude, you're the problem. Healthy growth involves knowing what growth looks like. Being able to look at a regular human body in any state of dress and going "oh so that's what I'll look like" is very very good for development.

You're doing the equivalent of weirdos sexualizing shoulders.

You know if they don't get that out in reality where they're actually going to get it? Porn.

Up until like the 1950s kids were subjected to nudity in various locations with little to no issues. People were breastfeeding in church and kids would go to public bath houses or see their neighbors washing themselves outside. They all lived. Kids will survive a thong from across the street. You on the other hand... Jury is out.

Oh so i can but

my bare ass directly in

the face of a child?????

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I grew up with public bathhouses, and nobody ever did a single sexual thing in any of them, regardless of the ages of anybody around. They were there to get clean, often with better water pressure, better sanitation, and hotter water than they could have accessed at home even if they'd had a bathtub (most residences in Japan still don't have personal tubs, or central heat, or even full hot water [usually one or two hot taps]).

And in Europe, I went to saunas as a youngster--they even have cooler saunas than the 'normal' temperature, aimed at kids or folks whose blood pressure/health make the hotter ones dangerous. Nobody did anything sexual there, either. Because they were there to relax, to clear their lungs, to sweat out 'bad' foods and feelings.

I saw naked people of every age and body type, and nobody was leering or touching or any of the stupid shit that prudish Americans imagine. Meanwhile, when I pass older folks on the street, I see the person, not their sagging body. I don't view them sexually, so I'm not inherently repulsed by their existence as something I don't want to have sex with. And there go all the pearl-clutchers, grossed out by people who don't match their ideal simply *wearing bathing suits* or *using the locker room at the gym*.

Furthermore, 'sanitization' of public spaces can and does create openings for all kinds of trauma and abuse in kids--quite a lot of things that get tucked away from view (especially socio-political issues) are necessary life lessons that should be processed early unless you want your kid to grow up an asshole, which honestly explains the state of things in the most puritanical parts of the US. And no, walking down the beach in a thong is not the same thing as twerking in some kid's face, you fucking weirdos.

They are not just numbers that are meant to shock you when you hear the large amount of them. They are human beings with lives and they deserve to be remembered as such. Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oun.

are you scrolling [tumblr] instead of sleeping?

idiot. clown. I cast sleepy spell on you. fuck you. sweet dreams ily

This shit caught me in the one time I’m night-scrolling. I must oblige.

Joke's on you--elves and Aquarians are immune to sleep effects.

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It may be weird to encounter because it's not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as 'the only valid way to be trans', but the 'I always knew I was x' is not all-encompassing.

Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it's not the rule.

Let people define themselves.

also if you think genderfluid people are real and you're not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.

Chiming in with solidarity to OP.

I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there's so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.

I was a girl. Now I'm genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.

There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there's no point to any of this.

Ive been here long enough to see words like ftm/mtf, afab/amab, transmale/female, trans man/woman all go through the cycle of ppl telling you to “Dont use X word its out dated. Now use this Y word”. Only for a year or two pass and suddenly “Y word is outdated. Now use Z word” like yall this is exhausting. Just because a word is old doesn’t automatically make it a slur or offensive.

They're pulling high school clique bullshit out and just replacing 'uncool' with 'problematic' and pretending it's activism somehow. We're trying to get work done here not everybody is going to keep up with the ever-rotating lexicon of words.

I used to be a member of the commentariat where I learned the phrase

Which has kinda helped me be a bit better at being decent

STAR TREK: PICARD (2020-2023) “Vox” (3.09)

Happy black cat day!!

Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years