Sleep is Overrated

The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

just letting ya'll know...

i can swim 😄

people who don't wear glasses don't get the added benefit of taking off your HD eyesight for a while. just. fuck it! i'm done. 240p vision time

I've seen enough.

so my tumblr app is doing this fun thing where it just shows me empty posts sometimes, because why not. and this one just really worked for me.

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"The Good War on Terror" written by Christopher Hayes.

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We’ve discussed purity culture a couple of times on this blog and I’ve just read one of the best articles I’ve ever seen on the subject.

Here’s a paragraph from it.

“The desire to exclusively engage with media and art made by “unproblematic” artists is a direct result of Americans viewing media consumption as an inherently political act because that is the supreme promise of Western prosperity and the religion of consumerism, and because it’s seemingly all that’s left.

We’ve been stripped and socialized out of any real political energy and agency. Our ability to consume is the only thing remaining that’s “ours” in late capitalism, and as a result it’s become a stand-in for (or perhaps the sole defining quality of) every aspect of being alive today — consuming is activism, it’s love, it’s thinking, , it’s sex, it’s fill in the blank.

When the act of consuming is all you have left and indeed the only thing society tells you is valuable and meaningful, the act must necessarily be a moral one, which is why people send themselves down manic spirals deciding what, who is ‘problematic’ or not, because for us the stakes are that high now.”

The only thing this article gets right is the critique of capitalism. It certainly doesn't persuasively show that "erotic thrillers" or plentiful sex scenes are valuable in and of themselves, although it unintentionally highlights that most of the sex scenes in adult dramas were mostly for het male enjoyment in this vanished supposedly-golden age.

The most we get in terms of explaining why the sex scenes of yore were so special is an explanation that Crash is good bc the male protagonist is kinda ugly by IG standards and gets to have lots of sex. (whoopdeedoo, ugly men fuck on screen REGULARLY, then and now) Bruce Willis wasn't even that buff!! There is no mention of how these scenes centered a very narrow male-centered experience, nor any intimation that some adults might find them alienating and off-putting, not because they were anti-sex but because they were often so void of emotional intimacy.

While capitalism is certainly responsible for the impoverishment of the most accessible forms of culture, the real villain here is christofascism - to which the author never alludes, despite the title's focus on puritanism.

Look, I love sex and I like sex scenes. Sex is a normal part of human life and it's important to portray it as such, in all its iterations. However, this article is written from a very narrow perspective and blithely starts with the premises that sex scenes like those in Basic Instinct (!) are of unambiguously high cultural value, which I think is debatable, to say the very least.

One thing that seems clear to me is that many people now feel empowered to insist on their right to avoid exploitative, distressing, dehumanizing scenes of sexual exploitation and domination - which describes A LOT of the sex scenes that used to be so plentiful. And I think that's a good and necessary thing. Maybe one day, society will have figured out how to film sex scenes that aren't solely for the purpose of titillating one segment of the population and that honor the dignity of all participants.

Liberals in 2020: "We'll push Biden left!!"

Liberals in 2023: "If you don't support genocide unconditionally you're a fascist."

...But you guys do know it'll still get worse if a Republican wins, right

No, Republicans and Democrats support Israel equally.

I mean, other things will get worse. Remember how Trump rounded up a bunch of people and put them in concentration camps? Remember that?

A single Republican presidency in fifteen years destroyed Roe vs Wade, gutted decades of environmental policy, worsened the treatment of immigrants and minorities across the board, worsened education, and currently what they're most itching to do is turn the whole country's treatment of all LGBT people back to the 50s, which isn't even the half of it.

Democrats are evil pieces of shit but Republicans at bare minimum are the same evil plus a thousand extra guns aimed at everyone's heads. We don't have a choice but to make sure the right gets defeated at all costs before any additional progress will ever stand a chance.

1. Democrats could have ratified roe v wade into law years ago. They didn't do it so you would have an excuse to vote for them to "protect roe v Wade". Roe v Wade was repealed under a democrat president.

2. Biden is allowing offshore drilling in the gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

3. Biden deported more immigrants than any president in history, used an executive order to build the border wall on indigenous land, has more people locked up in the border camps than BEFORE THE FUCKING PANDEMIC, and sent ICE agents on horseback to whip Haitian refugees like a fucking slavemaster.

4. Biden isn't lifting a single one of his shrivelled up fingers to protect LGBT people.

5. Biden is currently FUNDING AND SUPPORTING A GENOCIDE and didn't lift a finger to stop the complete ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Artsakh just a few months ago.

You've been doing this same old song and dance for the past century. Nothing is gonna get better for the US—much less for the 7+ billion people outside of the US who can't vote on your elections but are still affected by your government—if your idea of "political action" starts and ends at "supporting one of the two identical right wing parties".

also the absolute imbecility of Israel supporters. Their reply to "stop bombing innocent civilians" is "release the hostages!" When asked "how do you know that the hostages haven't been bombed by Israel?" they cry "They're in tunnels underground obviously!"

So you agree, then, that the bombs aren't useful on Hamas? So you agree, then, that they are just killing innocent civilians?

And then they change topics, screaming about antisemitism. They scream about 40 beheaded babies, not acknowledging the proven lie, not acknowledging their beloved Israel has killed 133 babies under the age of one. They scream about how Hamas struck first. They scream and scream and do not listen.

There is no winning against these people. They are delusional in their support and have no sense of humanity.

lmao go fuck yourself

dismantle patriarchal body expectations cool cool but when is that and is it before every trans woman with rapidly growing facial hair has to go to a job interview or a school or a street at 12 AM

Electrolysis for permanent hair removal is a required procedure for "MTF" bottom surgery. After a consult with a surgeon, you are often required to have 80% of the genital area completely and permanently free of hair before the hospitals even start scheduling you for surgery. Before the consult, you are not permitted to bill this electrolysis to your insurance, as you will not have the surgical letter dictating its medical necessity. Many health insurance companies routinely deny reimbursement claims or coverage for electrolysis sessions, even with this letter.

Electrolysis is the more painful and expensive hair removal method, but unfortunately it is the only hair removal method that results in permanent removal of every single hair forever. Hair growing in the neovagina is uncomfortable and difficult to remove post-surgery.

Anyone who looks at this and wants to make the process more difficult should just die instead

I’m so confused. Why are we pretending the screenshot is at all saying “it should be harder to get gender affirming care”??? This is like. Feminism 101 isn’t it? beauty standards (and gender expectations by proxy) are often rooted in misogyny/racism/ableism. hair removal (because hair removal for bottom surgery isn’t the only hair removal we’re talking about here of course…) being seen as gender affirming specifically for women is something we should all be critical of. The same way breast augmentation chest surgeries in general (top surgery for men and women alike!!!) should be. Why is the size of our chests indicative of our gender/desirability. Why is this controversial? “Trans women need these procedures because existing as a woman with facial hair is dangerous/difficult/uncomfortable/etc” YEAH! We’re all mad at the same thing here!!!!!! What are we fighting about ?????????

The original context of the discourse is OP was outraged at a video of a cis woman taking her 4-year-old daughter along to a laser hair removal appointment, explicitly for the purpose of enforcing a beauty standard, but contextualizing it as "self care". The argument is actually that exact basic feminist idea of "hey it's fucked up to force a beauty standard, especially forcing it onto little girls, when the hair is naturally meant to be there."

What coyotewoman has done is that classic "piss on the poor" thing this website is consistently maligned for. Furthermore, she has also reinforced the same standard which she explicitly states is harmful to all women. I think this was likely an accident, but regardless of her intention, this happened because she didn't think critically and re-read the post to make sure she understood what was being said. The same is true about anarchistserum, who's doubled down on it in her reblogs.

Neither of these women are to blame for misogyny fucking existing (as serum has accused other reblogs of saying), but they have, accidentally or on purpose, enforced it in this instance. Yes, shaving as a beauty standard has created real-life issues that all women deal with on a daily basis. The point is NOT that you're somehow to blame for that, the point is that WE AS A MODERN GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE POWER OVER SOCIETY. WE'RE REAL PEOPLE, WE GET TO CHANGE THE STANDARDS ON THE SOCIAL CONTRACT.

YOU WON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE SOCIAL STIGMA OF NOT SHAVING IF A CONCENTRATED EFFORT TO NORMALIZE UNSHAVED FEMININE BODIES IS MADE. That's the original POINT OP was making, as well as BASIC FEMINIST THEORY

op must have been HIGH to make this post: sad. reveals u for the square u are

op check your carbon monoxide detector: same as above, but also demonstrates that ur preferred method of interacting with the world is through a mask of memetic regurgitation that allows u to conceals ur own thoughts in someone else's language. they cannot protect u, and in fact the act of donning the masq says more about u than the self it obscures

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

happy decade you weeaboo shits

those who are too scared to choose a side keep recycling lines like "children are off limits" and "protect children" as if we don't all agree but

i'm here to tell you that in the span of one week, israel had murdered 700 palestinian children (this number is only expected to keep rising)

israel had cut water off every child in gaza which exceed 1000000 in number

cut electricity and fuel off hospitals that care for children and infants

it has rendered tens of thousands of children homeless

families are rationing water portions

children are writing their names on the palm of their hands so that they would be identified when the shelling happens and they're pulled from under the rubble

the situation in gaza can only be described as catastrophic

but sure go ahead and wish ~peace on both nations~ you fucking detached weirdos