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im normal

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crona the devilsword!

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There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.

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btw i do believe plastic surgery can never be feminist or empowering i don’t care how many narrative hoops you jump thru to justify your nose job it’s not an act of feminism it’s an act of caving to insecurity and social standards. if you’re offended by people criticizing plastic surgery because you got it “for yourself” btw idc. spend your money better. stop using tiktok filters. idk what to tell you

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okay i'm sorry but a lot of you put on a big front about how you're doing serious marxism and informed critique of fascism but i don't think you actually know much about either ideology. i think it's literally just memes

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I think that as a society we've become really restricted in our criticisms of religion. *I* certainly don't want to come off as a simple, narrow-minded bigot, ignorant and afraid of some other person's belief system. And it's largely this application of a personal defense against a systemic critique that's been really successful at holding us back. The emergence of the Amazing Atheist style movement on Reddit in the early aughts also brought with it some shocking amounts of Islamaphobia from the most prominent thought leaders at the time. In addition, it provided religious types ample opportunities to cut their rhetorical teeth on newly liberated atheists.

But now, we're knee-deep in corpses from a genocide committed by "God's chosen people" and on the eve of war with another country because our religious politicians believe that protecting this country is part of a doomsday prophecy that they're helping to manifest. Meanwhile Christians domestically are removing abortion rights, attempting to legislate away transgender women, and are hunting down immigrants with dogs.

It's not just enough to point out when members of the clergy commit abuses, we must also stress that the fundamental tenets of organized religion, the in-group out-group mindset they foster, the system of divine rewards and punishments, the clever trick of tying a 'moral' framework to a spiritual one, and the overall cult mentality is in itself harmful. Organized religion has no place in modern society.

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Do you have any underrated recommendations for feminist texts? Books, articles, even blog posts and the like

very broad category and I’m not sure what counts as underrated so just have an assortment of things I have found interesting over the years, these are all fairly easy to search for and/or SciHub though I'll try to add links when I can.

Ellen Willis, “Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism.” This is the perspective of a radical feminist (one of the founders of Redstockings alongside Firestone), reflecting on the movement’s shape as of ‘84, in which she identifies and criticizes its ‘cultural feminist’ pivot, as well as the problems within the radical feminist political movement that made that pivot possible, if not inevitable. Hits pretty hard these days, kind of my go-to in terms of articulating why a “radical feminism (TM)" sans transphobia isn’t worth fighting for.

Iris Marion Young, "Throwing Like a Girl." Really transcendent work of feminist phenomenology exploring how women's bodily comportment is governed by certain socially constructed imperatives, with an interesting critique/corrective of Beauvoir.

Lydia Sargent (editor), Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the “Unhappy Marriage.” This is a collection of essays by prominent scholars about the relationship of patriarchy and capitalism or of feminism and Marxism/socialism, including Lise Vogel and Iris Young, starting with a Hartmann paper that is considered foundational to this question. A good supplemental or alternative would be the first two chapters of Cinzia Arruzza, Dangerous Liaisons.

Heather Berg, "Reproductivism and Refusal." A critique of the veneration of "feminized" and "reproductive" work and how this operates under the rule of capital.

Kirstin Munro, "Unproductive Workers and State Repression." Discussion of how certain forms of "unproductive" and feminized work, especially those employed by the state or state-backed institutions (nurses, social workers, teachers), participate in the reproduction of the capitalist totality.

Katie Cruz, “The Work of Sex Work.” One of the more robust treatments of this issue, and does a good job of avoiding the Scylla of libertarian contractarianism and the Charybdis of MacKinnonite liberalism.

Margot Canaday, The Straight State. History of the development of the American administrative state's treatment of homosexuality and how this became a major object of statecraft in the twentieth century.

Perhaps you already are familiar, it’s very beloved in some spheres, but Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein” is deeply moving.

I have also generally enjoyed the bodies of work of Kathi Weeks (anti-work feminism), Dorothy Roberts (racecraft and its relationship with misogyny), Sara Ahmed (affect theory and feminist ethics/phenomenology), Talia Mae Bettcher and Sally Haslanger (both social ontology of gender), and Florence Ashley (transfeminist legal analysis).

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Faye Wong - 寒武紀 (The Cambrian Age) (寓言, 2000)

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God bless america

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Subsonic Eye - Aku cemas (Singapore Dreaming, 2025)

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ginger root -- no problems