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the time to be a mean dyke is now. be a killjoy feminist and take things too seriously, we’ve been too nice about girl math and girl dinner and pink jobs and the general infantilization of women and it’s gotten us nowhere. be a buzzkill now, for our future and our dignity

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I-it can't be! I've been jerking off her afterimage this whole time?? Just how fast is she??

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And for each week, 1C will increase until Japan apologises for its war crimes.

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it would kill half of this site to understand that kids start jerking off and looking at porn the moment they hit puberty and get any kind of sex drive.

w-what do you mean kids arent sexless and pure beings??? i-i thought sexual thoughts only appear when you're 18.... or, no, 21......

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See, I've seen a lot of comparisons like this. But coming from someone who has absolutely no skin in this game, from an outside perspective it's looked a lot more like a guy got in a car and all of a sudden someone ran up and started banging on his windows shouting that he shouldn't drive that car.

And the guy in the car was like "I'm just going down the street, and the car is the easiest way to do that", and the guy outside was like "um actually, if you can't enjoy the feeling of running then you shouldn't be going places, and taking joy in the freedom of movement is literally what makes us human and your soulless machine can never replace that feeling."

And the guy in the car was like "okay, but my leg is broken and I can't walk." And the guy outside was like "Nice try but I know plenty of people with broken legs who hop and crawl along the ground without having to use that gas-guzzling pollution machine, so actually YOU'RE the ableist for suggesting that you need it to move."

And the guy in the car was like "well this is actually a race car and while of course it's not the same as a marathon, driving a race car takes its own set of skills and talents that I've practiced and developed over time", and the guy outside was like "yeah right, everyone knows that driving a car doesn't take talent, just putting your foot on the gas doesn't make you a racer."

And the guy in the car was like "okay, well, I'm gonna keep driving I think", and the guy outside was like "oh my god you "drivers" are SO pathetic, you just can't stand that everyone knows that you're talentless hacks who don't understand the true meaning of racing. Why can't you just leave us real racers alone?!"

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(Making small talk) yeah I’ve been having some new and intriguing stomach issues lately

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Mods are asleep post trans ally eminem

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Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

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preserving this video at all costs to teach future generations what twitter was like

EDIT: About a billion people asked me where to get the soundtrack. I'm so glad you like my silly music. Working on an ep with bonus stuff ASAP

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Victor Clemente - (There's something in the water).

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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somatic symptoms of anxiety are so fucked. what do you mean I got so scared my body decided that it needed to add nausea and headache and dizzy to the situation. how is it helping

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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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Stop letting your heart and your pussy choose your men.

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When i was little i thought Hamtaro and Sailor Moon were the same show and sometimes there was just a hamster episode.

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northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"