margot
@margot

idk how many ppl already know about this site, but i really love Standard Ebooks-- they're a volunteer project to take public domain books, often from project gutenberg, and make them nice, pretty, and readable on modern devices. they're pretty much my go-to for anything in the public domain, and i hope you enjoy using the site and maybe donate if you can afford to keep it going!



Firbozz
@Firbozz

It's a dang cool book. It's open access.
If you're curious about thinking through histories of queerness or just love the idea of saints being trans I strongly recommend it.


elprupneerg
@elprupneerg

i literally took a class on sexuality and gender in the medieval era last semester! thanks for posting the link here, i'm gonna email this to some people real quick



bigbigtruck
@bigbigtruck

About Mastercard/Patreon/Gumroad cracking down on FULLY LEGAL ADULT ARTWORK is: fucking nobody benefits. Mastercard loses money. Patreon loses money. Gumroad loses money. Artists lose money. No ethereal, enigmatic concept of "child" or "trafficking victim" is helped. It's fucking drawings. It's a horseshit performance of Christian Ego that serves NO ONE



tjc
@tjc

It's about the libidinal economy, babey! Which sounds like something that would go along with buying horny pictures, but in this case it's the opposite. The emotional benefit of making other people suffer is something that some people will gladly exchange money for. The choice of sex workers as designated target of suffering is not a matter of random scapegoating, but more about the demand that sex workers be eternally present while also eternally disavowed.

Someone benefits. Just not directly and financially. It would be extremely easy to simply profit from the sale of horny goods and services. The fact that that's not happening should tell you that someone benefits very, very much from the way it is.


bigbigtruck
@bigbigtruck

"The emotional benefit of making other people suffer" feels like the dark matter equivalent of a lot of detrimental human behavior


tjc
@tjc

Yup. Once this clicks, so much more stuff starts making sense. It's depressing, but in a way it's liberating, because you realize how much political discourse is a thin veneer of rationalization over unconscious desires, and it becomes less important to come up with the perfect rational argument to own somebody.


IkomaTanomori
@IkomaTanomori

It's also reinforced because whenever these restrictions are put in place, there's a part of the psyche (collective and individual both) which suspects the punishment is deserved. It's one of the reactions that makes us social animals, trying to fit in together. This is why, unless there's an organized group prepared to fight, spontaneous reactions will only hide and turn away even when the punishment is obviously completely arbitrary and wrong by the established standards.

The justifications for restricting against sex work make no sense on their face. But people don't react based on sense, just like they weren't imposed based on that sense.

The incestuous loop of banks and Congress which created sestafosta and then pointed at it as a reason to fuck with people is the bathrobe wrapped around the abuser, barely hiding the aroused state in which he approaches with belt in hand to deliver a beating.



dysphoria-things
@dysphoria-things

its getting a little funny to me how silly the opposition to transandrophobia is once you describe it based on what it is. “transandrophobia is the unique intersection between being transgender and being a man in society, which is bad because. um. yeah. its mra logic!” ok sure buddy


dysphoria-things
@dysphoria-things

its so frustrating because mra logic is basically “women have the REAL power! we’re victims to those lying bitches because they can withhold sex” or whatever role reversal bullshit. there are some mens lib activists who focus on being a man in society(the crushing expectation of being a worker, having to shut off your emotions, sa not being taken seriously) from a feminist perspective thst is kinda interesting but ive never heard of one who considers themselves an mra. but basically- i dont think its mra logic to talk about being a marginalized man through intersectional and queer liberationist lenses.

tbh yall are just trying to recreate radfem gender dynamics like “men have all the power and all women are the victims of this” but slap the word trans on there when that is just. not how it works for us. (or cis people, but that’s another rant).