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I'm always saying this but it should not surprise anyone that kinks centering youth, sex, and control emerge from a patriarchal society in which children are explicitly trained and groomed based on their "ideal" reproductive potential. That's a laughably predictable outcome that can only be prevented by not assigning reproductive roles to children from birth in the first place. It's a feature of the system, not a bug.

The real reason for the backlash imo is that it is easier to blame by-products of the culture (you're defective, you're a pervert etc) than to admit complicity in it. Any childcare worker can tell you, kids say "no" a lot and everybody ignores them. The words "I'm the adult and you're the child" are said every single day. Adults justify that behavior in the name of safety, but at the same time, I think we all know deep down that kids who only know how to obey are in more danger than anyone else.

Those feelings of guilt, memories of participation, emotional wounds from your own childhood, and social pressure create adults anxious to prevent abuse but unwilling to stop using methods that encourage it.

I'll tell you a story I think illustrates this point well. My mother lives in a suburban subdivision at the end of a cul-de-sac. One of the families on her street feeds stray cats, so there are often free roaming cats and kittens in the street.

On my mother's street, they have a policy of slowing when they come around the corner to watch for cats. Everyone agrees that it's awful when a cat gets run over. But, without fail, every so often a cat get squashed by a car. When that happens, my mom will say, "Why didn't they just slow down and check? They're negligent."

The thing is, you can blame the drivers all you want, but as long as they keep letting cats roam free in the street, some of them are going to get hit. Just so with children conditioned to surrender to adults. You can construct an effigy of a person evil enough to abuse a child to make yourself feel better (the "pedo"), but until you stop requiring absolute submission from children, you're contributing to the problem even if your hands are personally clean and you've never had a sexual urge in your life.

So stop coping about people's fetishes and address your role in suppressing the freedom of children in your life!!

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i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

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Diversity win: you’re a weird little thing

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also they put neil cicierega in the crystal

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degeneration theory/the concept of social degeneration was not invented and not even popularized by the nazis (and not even by max nordau as that post going around claims), and I do think it's misleading to focus on this particular use to justify why calling people degenerate is wrong. it rests on another instance of nazi exceptionalism, as if they represented the prime example of all those ideologies.

the concept of degeneration itself is indebted to evolution theories and discourses of race and origin in the eighteenth century - the construction of a racial taxonomy where each person's individual weakening meant a weakening of their entire race, and of entire populations being, biologically, weaker or predisposed to weakness. it is also tied to progressive urbanization which generated new discourses towards "urban crowds", notably along medical and hygienic lines. these ideas mostly found footing initially in 18th century france (through the works of lamarck and buffon for example) and germany. medical developments at the time - identification of the cause for syphillis, for example, or pasteur's work on vaccines, or works on fetal alcohol snydrome - are not separable from this idea of regenerating the national stock, especially in times of national crises as was experiencing france (military defeat to prussia, declining birth rates, communist activity) at the time.

even regarding nordau, the context of the french third republic is relevant to the rise of modern zionism; theodore herzl was working as a correspondent in paris during the dreyfus affair, and was receptive both to european antisemitism and to the possibilities exemplified by the european scramble for africa regarding resource extraction and settler colonialism. but nordau didn't come up with these theories himself, and many writers, politicians, or intellectuals that now enjoy a legacy of being enlightened, progressive, modern thinkers (emile zola, arthur conan doyle, jean-martin charcot, etc.) espoused similar ideas, and understood the world in those terms, though not all of them used the word degeneration specifically (not least of all due to privileging national-made concepts in a context of inter-european conflict).

degeneration theory found its first mainstream articulation in especially scientific and medical terms with benedict morel (born almost 50 years before morau), whose ideas proved itself very relevant in the framework of the french third republic regarding social hygiene policies. this is relevant because pinning eugenistic and exterminatory politics and theories onto national socialism serves to exempt liberal european democracies in which those ideas arose and cristallized. morel was a psychiatrist who developed his theories in asylums; degeneration theory cannot be separated from the rise in psychiatric power and the expanding nosology of psychiatric disorders. the mental deficiency act of 1913 in the united kingdom, the understanding of mental illness as biologically mediated and innate, alcohol prohibition in the united states, the concept of OCD itself, or modern criminology are no less linked and indebted to degeneration theory (and its associated concepts) than nazi policies. they are in fact a continuum!

as always, this is less a case of instructing people not to use the word degenerate specifically (though I don't think anyone should!) and more about familiarizing yourself with the rhetoric around a weakening of intellectual faculties, of modernity and modern technologies leading to an irrepressible decline, of an absence of willpower leading to swathes of population becoming lazy, fat, disabled, etc., a framework that expands much beyond the category of person that uses the word degenerate!

further reading:

Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1918, by Daniel Pick

Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline, by Robert A. Nye

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Life if bro lived close by

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burgers are awesome. so are pussies. so you'd think something called the "borgussy" is something very good, but according to my friend Karl Marx such is not the case.

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i need a transfem sleepover so fucking bad its literally not even funny i am fucking yearning over here

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Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

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The Lutherans should have been cave mystics. Their focus on the supremacy of the word and individualist soteriology would be perfect for caves. The Lutherans should have taken their Bibles and their printing presses and sealed themselves within the earth with several tons of canned peaches. They would've learned to eat olms and drink from underground springs and read their Bibles with their newly evolved huge eyes. I want them pious and salamandrine.

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i do not desire a labubu however i love that the current capitalism craze is a little fucking freak instead of a water bottle or a pair of shoes. i still dont respect it but its kind of endearing to me i suppose. im glad you guys are having fun with your creatures and whatnot

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*likes your personal post that i don’t fully understand or have context for just so you know i’m listening and i care about you*

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#trans

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unclear. adj. of or pertaining to an uncle