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The brilliance of objectification as a strategy of dominance is that it gets the woman to take the initiative in her own degradation (having less freedom is degrading). The woman herself takes one kind of responsibility absolutely and thus commits herself to her own continuing inferiority: she polices her own body; she internalizes the demands of the dominant class and, in order to be fucked, she constructs her life around meeting those demands. It is the best system of colonialization on earth: she takes on the burden, the responsibility, of her own submission, her own objectification.

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

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to everyone saying my gay gay pride flag isn’t inclusive: i hear you and im trying to do better… you’ll notice i’ve added another gay pride flag to the  first one. So now it’s even more colors :) I love you

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I know this is talking about straight couples

Yes

I wish these people were oppressed

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Big Today doesn't want to know that tomorrow is happening somewhere around the world today.

having a bad day? well, Big Today doesn’t want you to know there’s always Tomorrow

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I agree, the ethics of the experiments are questionable - they were carried out in the 50s and 60s when researchers were looking for ways to do social science experiments that would never be allowed on humans. Today, we can compare different policy jurisdictions and use better statistical modelling to find causal relationships between different factors.

I stand by my analysis though. You're correct that the environment was a 'utopia' in only 1 specific way - unlimited food and water. The rest of the environment included a variety of stressors, and this variation tested overcrowding specifically, where the physical needs were met but the social needs of the rats were under stress. I think there are many parallels with the developed world's current situation - even if the 'overcrowding' in question is partly virtual and parasocial in nature (because we're humans and not rats), it's still an extremely stressful social environment in the midst of physical abundance. I think that stress is overlooked as a possible cause of the decreasing birth rate in many countries and potentially points to a future of increasing social dysfunction. Unless this is addressed, no amount of financial incentives, coercion of women, religion or nationalistic exhortations will reverse that trend.

Behavioral sink is the term coined for social collapse due to overpopulation, based on rat experiments done in the 60s. Despite having plenty of resources, overcrowded conditions led to disruptive social behaviour that ultimately led to the extinction of the rat population run through Utopia 52. A key stressor in the experiment was that the rats were forced to eat together in groups of 60-80 as the population grew, something that rats rarely do naturally.

I'm a little amazed that despite global patriarchal panic about population decline and the 'need' for more babies, we seem to have forgotten what we already knew: overcrowded conditions can cause populations to collapse.

In addition, I think it's not only that the world is more crowded, but that our internet connectivity has made our brains more crowded. In the panopticon, we are never alone, nor are we interacting with a defined and limited social group - where we have a fairly consistent role to play in the overall group. Instead we are in continuous contact with a vast, amorphous parasocial audience.

This eternal crowd, where intimate connections are imitated but actually rendered impossible, creates a persistent loneliness that humans were never meant to endure. We are fundamentally social as a species, loneliness in a human is a form of torture. Shunning and exile are our oldest and most cruel punishments.

The behavioral changes that led directly to the extinction event in the rats are worth noting:

"Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep...Having reached a level of high population density, the mice began exhibiting a variety of abnormal, often destructive, behaviors including refusal to engage in courtship, and females abandoning their young. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction. Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate."

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Behavioral sink is the term coined for social collapse due to overpopulation, based on rat experiments done in the 60s. Despite having plenty of resources, overcrowded conditions led to disruptive social behaviour that ultimately led to the extinction of the rat population run through Utopia 52. A key stressor in the experiment was that the rats were forced to eat together in groups of 60-80 as the population grew, something that rats rarely do naturally.

I'm a little amazed that despite global patriarchal panic about population decline and the 'need' for more babies, we seem to have forgotten what we already knew: overcrowded conditions can cause populations to collapse.

In addition, I think it's not only that the world is more crowded, but that our internet connectivity has made our brains more crowded. In the panopticon, we are never alone, nor are we interacting with a defined and limited social group - where we have a fairly consistent role to play in the overall group. Instead we are in continuous contact with a vast, amorphous parasocial audience.

This eternal crowd, where intimate connections are imitated but actually rendered impossible, creates a persistent loneliness that humans were never meant to endure. We are fundamentally social as a species, loneliness in a human is a form of torture. Shunning and exile are our oldest and most cruel punishments.

The behavioral changes that led directly to the extinction event in the rats are worth noting:

"Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep...Having reached a level of high population density, the mice began exhibiting a variety of abnormal, often destructive, behaviors including refusal to engage in courtship, and females abandoning their young. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction. Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate."

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My mother had this book. I'm happy to report she eventually got a divorce anyway.

from “the case against the sexual revolution” by Louise Perry

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from “the case against the sexual revolution” by Louise Perry

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The perversion of therapy into any form of conversion is damaging because it carries the weight of adult authority, unlike the little rapey psycho in this thread. It's easy to dismiss him, but when an adult who's supposed to be 'on your side' suddenly has an agenda about how you're supposed to turn out... then therapy has been turned into brainwashing.

Fundamentally, no therapy should be trying to persuade you of anything, 'conversion' therapy is propaganda slipped into your brain at your most vulnerable moment. But 'affirmation-only' therapy is no better, no one needs a 'therapy' that plucks one string from the chord of your existence and says 'this is the real one, ignore all the others.' That's a direct assault on the integrity of your selfhood.

The goal is therapy is to free you from your false beliefs so you can see the truth of your life more clearly, and thus make better decisions for yourself. It should challenge you, but not lead you to a prescribed destination.

I take the time to mention this because I suspect that far too many therapists have unspoken, politically-shaped goals and have completely abandoned this fundamental function of therapy.

Absolutely fucking despise how the trans movement has co-opted the term conversion therapy. No, refusing to subject a child to unnecessary medicalisation is NOT the practice of homophobic psychiatric and/or sexual abuse directed at homosexuals. Every time I see it used I now have to check if they mean actual conversion therapy or “my counsellor politely asked me to do some critical self reflecting.”

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the four agreements

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This really ought to top every, “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.

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i find it really annoying when people only choose to talk about the pipeline of serial killers harming animals before they go and actually kill people but refuse to talk about how serial killers will also often watch violent porn and have kinks related to violence. the hatred of women is just as much as a link to male murderers as animal cruelty is but if we start to have that conversation means that we’d also have to finally realize that every single misogynistic man is most likely on the edge of going on a killing spree

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How dare you call me a rapist, it's not like I can get to you on the internet, unlike IRL... here are my sadistic fantasies?

Y’all don’t have enough emotional suppression, you are being baited into being the “EVIL TRANS RAPE CREATUREEEEE”.

chill.

I’m the “evil trans rape creature” no matter what I say.

Because y’know? If they were ACTUALLY scared of being raped? They wouldn’t be taunting me. They’d be more scared. It’s cuz they know their cunnies are safe and sound on the internet. Irl though? They know I could pick their cunts up by one hand and fling them across the room and watch their skulls slam into the wall and rip their cunts off with my teeth while theyre unconscious.

Cowards.

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This is just another why I don’t support prostitution as an industry. When bodies are for sale, everything is on the table. One of the women interviewed said at first she thought a man cutting a large piece of her skin off was just a fetish.

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From the moment I heard ‘my heart belongs to daddy’ sung by Ella Fitzgerald I thought huh, those lyrics are odd for a woman to sing. Yeah it’s written by Cole porter. Turns out it’s all like this, thanks for outlining how it works boudicasdaughter!

most female pop singers are a face used to market songs written and produced by men, styled and choreographed and directed by men, dressing men's thoughts up as women's thoughts and then convincing the world this is how women think and feel because men's words are coming out of a woman's mouth