only just remembered the conversation I had with the person who said they couldn’t read anything written by a lesbian because they were a bisexual and it would be seen as infiltrating a space that wasn’t intended for them and wasting resources that weren’t theirs to use and they were terrified of getting in Trouble.
“tomboys are such pick me’s, why can’t they get over their internalized misogyny and just wear makeup and start shaving” probably hits so hard if you’re stupid
Let me just say people who want to be smart, people who want to think critically, people who want to be knowledgeable will always find a way. someone using chat gpt to write an essay they didn't care about in the first place, isn't eroding their critical thinking because that's not a skill they were ever interested in improving.
Everytime a new form of media or tool gets presented, everyone has this idea that we've "fallen" from the previous intellectually "pure" era, I had teachers that would complain about our access to Google because we should all go to the library. The culprit always shifts tv made people dumb, google,video games, YouTube, tiktok, chat gpt etc. Every few years someone is like *this* is the moment intellect died and *this* is the tool/media to blame.
You guys give people too much credit. A lot of this discourse assumes there are tons of people who engaged critically with every task, and then chatgpt ate their brain 😔 The truth is most people are just trying to get the task out of the way and move on to watching tiktok or a livestream for 5 hours. BE FUCKING FOR REAL for just a millisecond.
My dad was the only one who on his street that went to the library when he was growing up, his mates would listen to the radio enjoying the shade under a mango tree. Did the shade and radio give them a lobotomy that stopped them from wanting to read books? I'm confused.
Here's something that's true always no matter what : The average human will choose McDonald's for the mind over putting in real effort. People choose ease, people choose comfort. Do couches destroy muscle, do cushions destroy physical fitness. Should I blame memory foam for the fact that you haven't jogged since highschool PE or are those just your personal choices....
Blaming tools and "ease" for the lack of people's interest in learning is tired as fuck like. The doors have never been more open JSTOR is right there, we are drowning in free pdfs, there are documentaries everywhere. You can get free courses and resources from the top universities in the world, there are full university level courses on youtube for free.
There's no crisis of intellect here, I think a lot of you are just shocked at how many people never gave a fuck. I saw a grown man with a beard reading the hunger games in public, it's been hell out here for a long time.
As Solanas once wrote, men will:
"swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him."
Yes, and male-attracted women are no better. She will:
risk cervical cancer, STIs, and STDs,
mess up her hormones with pills, insert copper in her uterus,
go through excruciating torture like abortions, pregnancy, and childbirth,
put up with abuse and sexual harassment from her spouse, spend the best years of her life pampering a man child, shortening her own lifespan to lengthen his,
litter the world with walking time bombs, spawn criminals and rapists at worst and covert misogynists at best onto earth and creating a world where herself, her sisters, and her daughters live in fear,
pollute the world with so many needless males so as to render human life disposable to oligarchs, making all of us easily exploitable because they know the male-attracted female will just keep churning out more cannon fodder,
submit to males and endlessly toil away to maintain the status quo of male power structures, dragging other women down with her, so on and so forth......
When David Foster Wallace said “there’s a lot of narcissism in self hatred” he was absolutely right.
Those most addicted to this physicality obsessed reality are panicking. They know that this world can only operate the way it does, a hedonistic free for all, when there’s a nonstop production of new bodies. Ask these people why they really love life, and the answer has nothing to do with family. It’s just a stand in to get their personal needs met, and release built up emotional tension. Otherwise, children would be revered. We all know that isn’t true, AT ALL.
Anti-child is what the vast majority of families are. They mistakenly believe hoarding bodies is what makes a family just as holding another person captive is “true love.” Once again, how are children typically treated by their parents, and communities? Why has every woman had uncomfortable encounters while underage, if there’s allegedly so many family oriented people around? I don’t know a single family who has actually excommunicated an abuser, and the community usually steps in to offer more support for the predator.
Freedom to do what you want, is code for no longer contributing to the world’s selfish schemes. It upsets the masses because humans are each other’s favorite resource, and more people are waking up to this fact. They need new vulnerable and moldable people to extract from. Look how agitated they’ve become because consumption at an excessive rate is no longer as accessible. They don’t really hate corporations, only the fact that they’re pricing their products too high. Just like their frustration that more people, especially women, are placing a higher value on themselves.
I adore children, and believe they can be raised in an actual loving environment. That will never be true for the family system, which is an extension of the heterosexual “relationship” dynamic, built upon submission and domination. Those most eager to have children can’t wait to begin projecting gendered expectations, and continuing cycles. Fresh out of the womb and they’re slapping gigantic bows onto their daughter’s heads, and claiming their sons are “ladies men.” Throw in the dysfunction at home due to mom and dad’s maladjusted marriage, and you end up with the average citizen. No self esteem to speak up, preoccupied with physicality, and eager to ravage others.
Women who protect dangerous men are almost as dangerous as the men they protect. There are women who know their husbands/brothers/fathers have committed sex crimes against women, and stay silent in the presence of other women. They don’t warn other women of their male relatives’ predatory behavior, allowing their pervy male relatives to get close to women who don’t know any better.