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It’s still very much about porn because porn is the biggest and most accessible ‘community’ that will indulge their rampant misogyny. They want to export the politics of porn to their other hobbies.

commission for @genicadune.bsky.social for two chibis of kahili from pokemon! i forgot just how good her design was, she was so fun to draw!!

thank you so much!!

Yeah, part of engaging with art can be deciding it has no redeeming social importance.

How can Thomas be the one creating contact when she was in that space first and Phee ran into her? You can see Phee drive her leg forward into the center of the defender's body. I thought Phee has no right to initiate contact after she loses the ball.

It's actually Phee's non-plant leg that crashes into Thomas' thigh and makes her ankle land weirdly. Thomas had position.

I don’t think that’s true. If art is political, then those politics can be objectionable and push the Overton window to the right even if they stop short of advocating you do violence in real life. If you’d ban incel art and a lot of non con is incel art, then wouldn’t you ban a lot of that too?

No, I mean like the not tame kinks. There’s noncon art that’s made and shared by incels for incel purposes. Like, I wouldn’t argue to ban John Wick. But I wouldn’t say every video that depicts killing gets a free pass either. I don’t think eroticism inoculates art from actively advocating for harm.

No I don’t. I’d happily watch incels get banned just the same as any other right wing provocateur.

I get that the new policy is overly broad, but like. If all art is political, then why should we defend art with the same politics as incels? Especially the stuff that makes no pretense of having any redeeming social importance.

Dunt's essay is self-contradictory. He acts "as if a woman is a kind of safe, which requires the right code to access it" despite criticizing PUA's for that exact thing.

There's no satisfying left-wing answer to horny guys asking "how do i get a woman" because the question itself is objectifying.

Stryker's book gave me the impression that medical transition was denied to gay trans men/women for about between 1950 and 1980 in America. Is there context I'm missing?

I am being sincere. And I’ll sincerely ask you: Would you criticize a story that’s ostensibly about sexual harassment if it pats a rowdy bar patron on the back for getting a date with the hot, underaged waitress?

The climax of the story is Tili asking the pedophilic Papris if he's willing to stop being a fascist, but even if he said yes he'd still be a sexist creep. She'd still kill him.

No, my criticism is that the story wants to be about sexual harassment, but suffers because you are unable to acknowledge Papris' sexual misconduct.

Papris must reveal himself a committed fascist before the story is willing to punish him because his sexual misconduct doesn't actually concern you.

Like, Tili is on guard that Papris' actions may be just a front to "butter her up." He doesn't consider how she might feel because he doesn't have to, but she can see through him to the volatile mix of "rage" and "sweet" that he is.

I'm not pulling this out of thin air. It's in the story.

Yeah, that's a difference without a distinction to me. Even if you stretch the text to say they're 15 and 19, it's still weird. Him being morally average for his medieval theming or whatever still wouldn't make him a good person. Especially since it's a story about sexual harassment.

I guess my confusion is that Persephone does goad Hephestus into it but allow it to happen.

"Hephaestus seizes me with blackened hands, ... Throwing zer off would be easy, but I don’t want to."

It's been a while since I've read the book, but I think you're misremembering things.

I'm going off of Tili being 15 and the "boys [having] several years... on her" and also that Papris is described as a college drop out.

I really think the story supports Tili being underaged as compared to Papris. Am I missing something there?

I'm pretty sure he does do that stuff? He beats up molesters, but he also hangs out with them. He rescues Tili, but leverages that to try to get a date with her. He kisses the underaged Tili and presses his erection against her. He's a nice guy, but he's of the same ilk as his friend Thilso.

I don't think it's necessarily bad for a story to have a character be raped without processing it as rape. Or even for it to be left to readers to interpret.

It's okay if stories don't make the implicit explicit.

No offense, but suggesting that narrative depictions of rape should be graphic and "not pussyfoot around it" is more offensive than anything he has actually said.

Like, am I missing something or is there really not that much distance between that and "a pinch of sexual assault, for flavor?"

For example, I read your The Manners of Drakes.

It would have been better if the ending didn't pull its punch. It's a story that clearly wants to be about sexual harassment, but chooses to have Papris' comeuppance completely sidestep his sexual misconduct. It feels like a copout.

Don't be obtuse, please.
I mean that a story should be criticized for what it is and tries to do, rather than for not supporting your fanfiction variations of it.

For example, I think it's possible to discuss the quality of something even if it's not to your personal taste. That's what I mean.

But you did lead your criticism by suggesting rape would make the story more interesting. If you had better critiques you shouldn't have prioritized a shallow one that's more about your own tastes than anything else.

I know it's cringe to complain about a review, but I can't get over him criticizing the sex scenes as /uncomplicated/ when his prescription is to add rape to them. Is there anything more sophomoric than believing rape adds depth to a story?

That makes it more anti-social. It implies they put in effort to "hand-select" people who may have to travel despite knowing that it's just a joke at their expense.

If it was irresponsible of her to travel, then it was irresponsible of the show to "hand select" her. They knew it was a scam and that she would have to travel if they selected her.

If I may ask a follow up. Do you read Luke 1:34 as Mary negotiating consent with god?

The name of the teacher from this story doesn't seem to match the name of the teacher from the other. One's about a math teacher, and the other's about a social studies teacher.

I like how the "case against overtime pay" in the article is that an anti-trans group wouldn't be able to bring as many people to their hate rallies if they had to pay their workers overtime.