Subjunctive posted:

Does the whole unit stand up and applaud?

Byzantine posted:

No soldier's died to protect America since 1945 anyway

The Snoo posted:

Look, I don't like kids, but I don't want them to be mistreated and I don't want them to suffer through preventable things. What the hell is wrong with adults who act like this?

The Snoo posted:

'I didn't have AC growing up, kids these days!!!!!'

John Big Booty posted:

I think you mean 1983, pal.

Coucho Marx posted:

Mind you, these adults have conveniently forgotten the details of the days they spent in 100F+ classrooms, where they no doubt learned nothing and were a huge waste of everyone's time.

It's like those people that rage against seat belts (and other safety features in cars), because they were fine, I never had a problem without them! Road toll figures of the time (if they could be found, and if they could be related to seat belt use, as data collection was so poor) suggest otherwise.

The Snoo posted:

My county's school system enacted a new weather policy, which allows them to close schools without air conditioning when it's above 90 degrees. The heat and humidity combo can be oppressive.

There are a lot of pissy adults on a local news facebook who are making fun of children because 'I didn't have AC growing up, kids these days!!!!!' and acting like children deserve to suffer in the heat because... they had to?

The only downside to them closing the schools is that the kids are stuck with adults who think like this.



Someone specifically mentioned that they work with special ed kids and one of them has seizures that can be triggered by excessive heat. And the school system is weird because they make classes start earlier and earlier, when it's still ridiculously hot. Kids are more susceptible to heat, as well.

Look, I don't like kids, but I don't want them to be mistreated and I don't want them to suffer through preventable things. What the hell is wrong with adults who act like this?

Tiny Lowtax posted:

Walking barefoot is natural and better on grass and dirt

Otisburg posted:

Glad I got a twee goth acquaintance to tell me what vampires are REALLY like.

TotalLossBrain posted:

Died for are freedoms which we are then shamed for if ever used.

Otisburg posted:

Glad I got a twee goth acquaintance to tell me what vampires are REALLY like.

Otisburg posted:

Glad I got a twee goth acquaintance to tell me what vampires are REALLY like.

Otisburg posted:

Glad I got a twee goth acquaintance to tell me what vampires are REALLY like.

ghost emoji posted:

74k likes

Ytlaya posted:

Even then it's annoying because you would have to wash your feet off after every single time you go out.

apatheticman posted:

Like Specifically?

ghost emoji posted:

74k likes

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

Please ignore me exploiting my son's death

Ularg posted:

Yea, but...

Eponine posted:

A hot girl can get 600 likes in a minute. How many for are emos?

FlyinPingu posted:

remember when vibram got sued cuz their claims that their shoes were good for you were bunk and that people were experiencing BONE LOSS from wearing them

ha ha

Bertrand Hustle posted:

I'm about as far from a soldier-worshiping "are troops" Republican as you can get, but that has to be satire. It just ticks all the boxes too perfectly. Nobody honestly believes that mean kids at school* are worse than being shot at and blown up. Plus mommy and daddy not paying attention to you because they're at work?

ghost emoji posted:

Jonas Albrecht posted:

You would be surprised at the poo poo people buy into regarding their subculture. See "Christians are the most persecuted group in the US" for a more broad example. For a local one, I work in a building where one of the employees believes that motorcycle enthusiasts are "the only group you can legally commit a hate crime(?) against or legally(?) victim blame."

Dr. Josef Mengele posted:

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I see a lot of posts going around talking about the need to be critical of fanfic, and how we gotta watch out for the messages we’re sending

Well, here’s one thing I’m gonna need us to be critical about :

Every statistic I’ve ever seen says fanfic authors are heavily female (or nb)

And Tumblr, which is a fairly US-centric cross-section of fandom, is filled with this discourse about fanfic writers who create pornography

It is a niche genre primarily written by women, for women, for free

And it is a place where many of us do find power in exploring our own sexuality (or asexuality)

Even when that exploration takes us to gritty, horrifying (or cathartic) places

I’m going to need us to think long and hard about why we’re prioritizing fictional characters over the needs of real women

And I’m going to need it to stop

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Fandom purity wank is absolutely about control over women and women’s sexuality. There’s nothing ambiguous about it.

Just think about the hot-button issues in the fannish community, the topics that consistently and reliably get people worked up into a lather, the themes that provoke the nastiest conflicts and inspire the most dedicated resistance movements. Think about the fights that are most likely to spill out over their cyber boundaries and start affecting people in the real world - in public harassment at cons, in doxxing and ‘outing’ to family and employers, in malicious legal allegations.

It’s about sex. It’s always about sex.

From the constant tantrums over ‘problematic’ shipping to the righteous doxxing of ‘pedophiles’ (which in current tumblr parlance means anyone who draws or writes canonically underage characters in romantic or erotic scenarios), fandom’s big efforts at moral reform always seem to revolve around restricting and controlling the sexual expression of the majority-women community. You won’t meet many people who stay up past their bedtime to scream at strangers on the internet about unethical portrayals of non-sexual violence - unless, of course, they suspect the women involved in its creation are getting off on it. You’ll struggle to find an anti blog dedicated to the insidious social ills of torture whump fic, or goopy hurt-comfort where all manner of human suffering is put on display for the viewer’s enjoyment. The purity crew dress up their agenda as a desire for collective self-improvement and raised moral standards, but they don’t seem too worried about aspects of public morality that don’t somehow tie back into sex. What they’re upset about is the same thing conservative minds have been upset about since basically the dawn of time - there are women out there in the world doing icky sex things without the permission of their communities.

And these people, these moral guardians, they’ve gotten really good at couching their fundamentalist views in progressive language. They don’t say ‘you’re to blame if you provoke men to rape’ - they say ‘your fic normalises sexual violence and contributes to rape culture’. They don’t say ‘women ought to be chaste’ - they say ‘your fantasies are socially harmful and you owe it to the world to be more self-critical’. The messages are the same and the desired outcomes are literally identical.

The core assumption underlying all of it - an assumption that I’m sure our puritan forebears would find deeply comforting - is that women’s sexual expression is a matter of public concern, and that women are directly responsible for upholding the moral standards of their communities by restricting themselves to a narrow repertoire of publicly controlled, socially condoned sexual outlets. Anything beyond that repertoire is a grave moral breach.

To anyone who’s reading this - and there’s always a few - thinking, “this is just deflection! [X hot-button topic] is really bad and harmful!’, I’d like to encourage you to sit back for just a moment and think about why it is, exactly, that you feel the best and most important place to wage your war against moral corruption is in one of the only pockets of popular media that women unequivocally control. Of all the spaces in the world where you could be fighting for your view of a better society, you’ve chosen a place where women come together to share the fantasies that mainstream culture refuses to let them indulge. Why?

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‘pedophiles’ (which in current tumblr parlance means anyone who draws or writes canonically underage characters in romantic or erotic scenarios),