Philandro castile was merely exercising his legal right to bear arms like a true american patriot . You’d think the NRA would take up his cause and raise hell over his killer walking free as a bird.

prochoice-or-gtfo:

They should be losing their fucking minds over it. But hey, second amendment can’t protect those it was never meant to.
-V

The NRA helped draft the Mulford act which disarmed the BPP sooooo

I’m pretty as a picture, specifically that picture of Putin riding a bear

A Defense Of Cosmetics

Someone else: Makeup is actually a turn off for me. Whether it be a guy or a girl, if I’m kissing someone’s lips/cheek I want to kiss the person. Not some thick coating of chemical paint. Same with perfumes. I don’t know if it’s ridiculous amounts of people overusing, or if perfumes in general turn me off. But I’ve stood behind a woman in a shopping queue before (while doing groceries) and I’ve found myself on a few occasions wondering if I could draw parallel’s between their stench, uncleanliness, and sniffing petrol.
Me: Personally, I am in love with the well painted face, the scent and sensation of face powder, the lush slickness of a lipsticked mouth, the dark fan of false lashes against preternaturally flawless skin interest me far more than naked, dully human flesh but to each their own. Give me chemicals for they are what all matter is made of, and I would rather have someone self made than one who allows nature’s whims decide what it is they ought to look like.

Also I Think That The Whole Sex-Pos/Sex-Neg Pendulum Effect That Happens In Feminism

thepeacockangel:

thepeacockangel:

Is partially the result of an unnuanced version of each proliferating mass culture every few years meaning that a generation of young women are raised in a fairly toxic version of one or the other and those who that doesn’t work for go on to be the group of young women who end up critiquing the way sexuality is handled by society.

When I was a kid we were in a period where second wave ideas about objectification and sexuality and beauty had a fair degree of social proliferation, and it was harsh and it fucked me up in a myriad of ways and made me feel really shitty and isolated and thus the culture of sex negativity created sex-pos as a response to growing up in these conditions and as I grew up sex positive ideas proliferated culture, and shitty unnuanced “FUCK FOR FEMINISM IT’S EMPOWERING” pop-feminism ended up harming and traumatizing a bunch of young women and so now we’re where we are now, and like I’m guessing it’s going to go back and forth this way until we develop a model that includes both society’s tendency to demand sex of women and demand women remain chaste, includes both society’s tendency to pathologize and demonize women whose sexual desires it labels deviant, and to demand those same sex acts of women, includes both the origin of many fetishes in oppressive social structures and acknowledges them as a response to those structures not necessarily an enforcement of them… that can be reduced to a neat little soundbite/fit on a t-shirt.

Though actually additionally I would say that the unnuanced way society absorbs feminist messages into itself is based upon patriarchy and it uses these unnuanced simplistic “feminist” messages as a way to continue to enforce patriarchal sexual dynamics while seeming to acknowledge and listen to criticism.

OP is all about Marxist dialectic, so much so that OP is wearing a “Marx” nameplate necklace with a hammer and sickle tattooed on their side at this very moment and like I feel like honestly, capitalism is in large part to blame for the commodified, unnuanced pop feminism that creates this problem

You’re about as believable as Donnie Osmond claiming to be “a little bit Rock n’ Roll”

Sometimes I Write BDSM Porn About Pretty Dudes Topping Big Scary Werewolves

and sometimes I write smart shit about politics

Also sometimes “choice feminist” rhetoric bothers me, because like, do your makeup, don’t do your makeup, that’s all fine and good, humans have been painting our faces since we got slightly less hairy then our predecessors, but the whole “I want to choose to stay home and be supported” thing (when done by straight women) rubs me the wrong way a bit because like A: the position of dependence that puts you in makes me uncomfortable and is actually historically aberrant (most people were subsistence farmers, both partners in a married couple were necessary for survival, whereas now the partner who works outside the home would be fine without due to technology and so on, for most of history the vast majority couples were interdependent rather than one depending upon the other) B: The fact that this is overwhelmingly something women choose and are expected to choose is suspicious as fuck C: Without the radical demand for wages for housework it enforces the idea of domestic labor as not being “real” labor D: I’m just saying the fetishization of economic dependence upon someone else (someone you’re presumably in a relationship with) makes me feel icky. E: Being economically dependent on another person creates really fucked up power dynamics that are really hard to overcome and with the gendered power dynamics on top of that it’s just like… really easy for such a situation to turn deeply unhealthy

I’m probably wrong and an asshole for feeling this way… but like stay home with your BBys/cats/whatever by all means, that’s awesome, but demand to be paid for it and shit.

Also I Think That The Whole Sex-Pos/Sex-Neg Pendulum Effect That Happens In Feminism

thepeacockangel:

Is partially the result of an unnuanced version of each proliferating mass culture every few years meaning that a generation of young women are raised in a fairly toxic version of one or the other and those who that doesn’t work for go on to be the group of young women who end up critiquing the way sexuality is handled by society.

When I was a kid we were in a period where second wave ideas about objectification and sexuality and beauty had a fair degree of social proliferation, and it was harsh and it fucked me up in a myriad of ways and made me feel really shitty and isolated and thus the culture of sex negativity created sex-pos as a response to growing up in these conditions and as I grew up sex positive ideas proliferated culture, and shitty unnuanced “FUCK FOR FEMINISM IT’S EMPOWERING” pop-feminism ended up harming and traumatizing a bunch of young women and so now we’re where we are now, and like I’m guessing it’s going to go back and forth this way until we develop a model that includes both society’s tendency to demand sex of women and demand women remain chaste, includes both society’s tendency to pathologize and demonize women whose sexual desires it labels deviant, and to demand those same sex acts of women, includes both the origin of many fetishes in oppressive social structures and acknowledges them as a response to those structures not necessarily an enforcement of them… that can be reduced to a neat little soundbite/fit on a t-shirt.

Though actually additionally I would say that the unnuanced way society absorbs feminist messages into itself is based upon patriarchy and it uses these unnuanced simplistic “feminist” messages as a way to continue to enforce patriarchal sexual dynamics while seeming to acknowledge and listen to criticism.

Also I Think That The Whole Sex-Pos/Sex-Neg Pendulum Effect That Happens In Feminism

Is partially the result of an unnuanced version of each proliferating mass culture every few years meaning that a generation of young women are raised in a fairly toxic version of one or the other and those who that doesn’t work for go on to be the group of young women who end up critiquing the way sexuality is handled by society.

When I was a kid we were in a period where second wave ideas about objectification and sexuality and beauty had a fair degree of social proliferation, and it was harsh and it fucked me up in a myriad of ways and made me feel really shitty and isolated and thus the culture of sex negativity created sex-pos as a response to growing up in these conditions and as I grew up sex positive ideas proliferated culture, and shitty unnuanced “FUCK FOR FEMINISM IT’S EMPOWERING” pop-feminism ended up harming and traumatizing a bunch of young women and so now we’re where we are now, and like I’m guessing it’s going to go back and forth this way until we develop a model that includes both society’s tendency to demand sex of women and demand women remain chaste, includes both society’s tendency to pathologize and demonize women whose sexual desires it labels deviant, and to demand those same sex acts of women, includes both the origin of many fetishes in oppressive social structures and acknowledges them as a response to those structures not necessarily an enforcement of them… that can be reduced to a neat little soundbite/fit on a t-shirt.

(TW: Discussion of Rape) I don’t doubt that standards of sexual consent are necessarily higher than those for other activities

(for example whining when your friend doesn’t want to go out to Karaoke a little bit is usually not going to result in trauma) but what I want to understand is what the mechanism of this difference is? Is it a social thing about the value/intimacy/etc of sex? Is it hardwired human nature? Is it not actually and we’re just excessively blasé about violations of consent in other areas? Why is having sex you’re not particularly into so much more harmful than going for burgers to keep the peace when you really wanted pizza?

I’m not trying to be flip. As most of you know, I’m a survivor myself, I’m just trying to understand what makes it different?