Genderdeer. The meat was paid for, but the bones were stolen.
end the carceral state etc., but sometimes I fantasize about sentencing people to 100 hours of mandatory sauna. or nude beaches. just... go somewhere you can look at naked grandmas and grandpas and bare-assed kids until you can be fucking normal about it, thanks.
fuck prisons, vengeance is not justice, all that, but this honestly makes a lot more sense than other proposed empathy-builders we've seen. because it's not even about empathy just about showing how little sense any of this makes.
The taboo is a clumsy mishmash of hyperconservative religious dogma, classic "Why were they tempting the good preacher with their sinful bodies" victim blaming, and generally an attempt to shift attention about abuse away from the probable perpetrators (91% of the time it's immediate family or trusted family friends) and onto some nebulous hypothetical (likely minority coded) danger-stranger to stir up more of the "fear for the safety of white women and children" that fascism uses to convince its victims to be hypervigilant outward instead of confronting their oppressors.
Also with a dash of "but how will we encourage conspicuous consumption if people aren't wearing sweatshop made textiles" for spice.
from a cybernetic perspective, the complex of ideas protects itself; it doesn't matter whether the humans who embody it understand the full picture, intend any of that, or what. it's only by consciously dismantling it that we can move past this nonsense.
Yeah, most of it--at least for late Gen-X and younger, was learned purely on a "as a young child you learned a lot of social mores simply from observing the reactions of adults around you" level. Which unfortunately makes it even harder to get people to interrogate those preconceptions as they seem more to be an intrinsic part of a "normal" worldview than as something you were told at an age when you were learning mainly from statements adults make linguistically
oh my god seriously. so bored of watching people re-derive the MPAA's exact standards of what parts of the body are inherently evil
And it gets steadily more restrictive with each new loop around the cycle. In the 90s "haha, look a straight white guy's ass, isn't it funny?" was uncontroversial in PG movies, but as the culture war had to shift more and more from anti-black to anti-gay to keep up with the hate-zeitgeist...
