Am I the only one who’s kinda uncomfortable

When other sex workers make fun of working class dudes while praising bougie dudes?

Like take his money, by all means, and like focus your energies on what gets you paid and don’t let anyone demand unpaid labor from you (a dude who expects as much emotional labor as a client who doesn’t pay like a client, nuh-uh, no way) but don’t be a snob, you’re a member of the working class too.  I’m not saying ‘date poor dudes’ or whatever, like I said, get paid, get the lifestyle you want, but just… don’t say mean shit about people because they’re poor, it’s a shitty thing to do.

And also like it makes me sad when I see sex workers acting like they oughta be grateful to this dude for paying for their labor… even if he’s paying you real well, you’re still doing a job, it’s a paycheck, not charity.  You shouldn’t have to get all ring kissy over that crap.  

You Know The More I Read Histories Of Failed Leftist Regeimns

The more I think that generally people weren’t bad, just operating on bad or incomplete information and reacting to cries for more democracy with fear because they felt like they couldn’t keep a handle on things.

Elliott Liu’s book Maoism and

Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction is pretty good about getting this point across (Elliot is like a libertarian socialist of some sort).

Like from his stuff, Mao was trying, but perverse incentives were set up and bad shit happened.  I think this and other stuff is probably shit we can learn from.  You know?

Having good information systems will be crucial no matter what we do.

a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic’s cell

Malcolm X on Zoot Suits (he was a very stylish man, also zoot suits during the war were a rebellion against social norms and to an extent cloth rationing) 

Holy shit, so apparently (according to this book) it’s likely that Dionysus was originally a god of the Minoans, a people the Greeks conquered, who became a colonized working class. Their gender norms were different (and cooler) and basically Dionysus is a liberator god for that reason.

Also the Minoans were probably Matrilineal.

I’m working on a thing about how glam metal is working class as fuck and connected to Liber (the roman god of the working class) and basically anti-authoritarian communist tendencies require transgression against masculinity and authoritarian tendencies are macho as fuck

The Red God Of Wine: Dionysian Ecstasy, Gender Transgression and Proletarian Revolution