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Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

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someone commented on a post of mine accusing me of having an insecure attachment style and they had a funny username so i clicked on their blog and their most recent post is a nigh incomprehensible lesbian fanfic about turning in to a smart car and falling in love with a woman who turned in to an suv. i don't think i learned anything from this and i hope you didn't either.

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I love how people will act like its a gotcha if you use human sexual features on fursonas or other anthro animals which don't have those kind of features, like titties on my shark girls and stuff.

Like, ohhh damn, you're right, my fantasy snake person with a humanoid body, who can talk and form words with a tongue and lips and has arms and hands, is totally less realistic with a single, human-like dick and/or bobbling breasts, damn, that one feature really added to or subtracted from the realism. Oh but in nature, in nature it wouldn't evolve it won't, blah blah blah, we don't know. Weird secondary sexual characteristics evolve all the time, we can't fake like scientifically an insect person would have predictable secondary or primary sexual characteristics on the way from being a six inch long little guy to a pirate queen in the 42nd century.

I'm not saying everyone has to slap mountainous mellons onto their frogsona, you can do what you want forever, but I want people to be aware what a groundless statement it is to ascribe realism or lack thereof to talking cartoon animals' bodies. You can still think it, and say it, and feel it, but it's not something supportable ya know?

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You gotta feel for the guy that made his egg college style (in the microwave) and posted it on fb but didn’t realize you could see the reflection of his sausage and beans. If that happened to me I would simply pass away. I could take a picture of the sky and triple check it just to make sure my tits aren’t somehow in the shot before I post it online. It is a real fear. The guys follow up remains one of my all time favorites though.

Like I am so sorry that happened to him but he truly could not have addressed it in a funnier way

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The BDS movement has added Microsoft as a whole to their priority boycott target list. This is because of their direct involvement with the occupation’s oppression and genocide of Palestinians.

Don’t get rid of any Microsoft products you already own, just cancel any subscriptions to them that you have and don’t buy any products from them (unless it is secondhand of course, in which you don’t give any money to them).

Yes, this includes popular franchises such as Minecraft, Halo, and so on.

If you need a brand new computer, get an operating system that isn’t Windows. If you don’t like Mac, it’s about time to start listening to those Linux nerds you rolled your eyes at.

Boycotting is one of the most effective things you as an individual can do. BDS works, this has been proven time and time again.

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“The medieval taste for bright colors is well known. It was a ‘barbarous’ taste, which favored big jewels inserted into the boards of book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches and of the houses of the powerful, and the colored magic of stained glass. The almost colorless middle ages which we admire today are the work of the destruction wrought by time and of the anachronistic taste of our contemporaries. However, behind this colored phantasmagoria lay the fear of darkness and the quest for light which was salvation.”

—

Jacques Le Goff,

Medieval Civilization

(‘64)

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I hate how the criticism of the girl boss trend morphed into “Maybe the real female empowerment was about admitting the “natural feminine fragility” of the female gender and becoming completely financially dependent on a man all along 😌” like hello? Is anyone here? Its getting dark and im scared

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the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts

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Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989

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@so-i-did-this-thing

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Dworkin’s fight against pornography, though thoroughly misguided in many aspects, did contain a kernel of truth in its analysis. She was correct that the currently existing heterosexual porn industry isn’t a benign expression of natural and immutable sexual urges but a reinforcement of harmful attitudes towards women, which in turn bolster those attitudes in the viewer. She opposed the criminalization of porn in large part because it would harm the women involved in it who depended on pornography for their livelihood. Instead, Dworkin’s (and MacKinnon’s) movement focused on civil ordinances which would, somewhat complicatedly, allow women who had been “harmed” by the porn industry—whether as an actress or a partner to a porn-addicted man—to sue porn companies in civil court. But this was an ill-fated maneuver. Among other missteps, Dworkin famously allied with the political right, who were fighting to eradicate reproductive rights and reinstate patriarchal familial control over women. It’s easy to rehabilitate a dead controversial figure, as many have done in recent years. We don’t know what Dworkin’s position would be today, so it’s appealing for some to believe that her politics would have developed over time—become sex-worker inclusive, trans-inclusive, and anti-capitalist. But Dworkin’s contemporary and comrade MacKinnon, who is alive, has voiced some troubling ideas about porn and sex work, most recently in a New York Times article about OnlyFans. It is thus disappointing to see that MacKinnon is written of in the same sympathetic vein as Dworkin in Srinivasan’s book. MacKinnon and her cohort consistently conflate support for sex workers with support for the OnlyFans model, but, of course, MacKinnon takes issue with the notion of “sex work” in and of itself: “One measure of this success is the media’s increasing insistence on referring to people used in prostitution and pornography as ‘sex workers.’ What is being done to them is neither sex, in the sense of intimacy and mutuality, nor work, in the sense of productivity and dignity.” This framing is revealing. It’s really a matter of personal preference whether sex has to be “intimate”; there are many kinds of pleasurable sex that couldn’t be classified that way. But, more importantly, it is MacKinnon’s framing of “work” that betrays her analysis and the kinds of feminism she espouses. Sex work cannot be work because work is inherently “productive and dignified,” and of course, nothing a stripper, prostitute, or porn actress does could ever be described that way. Ironically, this is a feminism that privileges well-off white women.Most women around the world do not have the luxury to prioritize the dignity of their labor; usually, work is only “productive and dignified” for bosses. And her decision to cast OnlyFans as the “pimp” and the exploiter of women elides the other factors and agents that make sex work necessary for many. If OnlyFans is a pimp, what about the landlord who demands exorbitant rent, the employer who cuts your hours, or the state which deems you an “illegal alien”? MacKinnon does not argue for canceling rent, or for continuing federal cash payments, all measures that would mitigate women’s dependence on the exploitation of OnlyFans in the midst of a pandemic. In fact, her essay arrived as nationwide eviction moratoriums came to an end and rents were rapidly rising in many cities. Perhaps she thinks there is more “productivity and dignity” in peeing into a bottle at an Amazon warehouse.

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the biohazard symbol really was a winner. that thing looks scary

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nine inch nails: i have a boner!!!! i hate myself!!!! fuck the government!!!! [7 minutes of industrial sound effects mixed with trent reznor moaning like a girl]

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nonfurries putting a weird amount of thought into if they count as furries or not are fighting a whole different type of bisexuality demon