Lib fem mag before lib fem existed COSMOPOLITAN says, "Yes, There's a Safe Way to Have a Cannibalism Fetish..."

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[–]copenseethe 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Just a thought re: "kinkshaming"- maybe society would benefit from a little more shame.

[–]BEB[S] 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It seems to me that "kink" is very often anti-woman. Not that I know much about kink. In fact, I'm happy not to.

[–]worried19 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Be grateful you don't. The younger generations have had their minds and sexualities poisoned by it.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am incredibly grateful. I knew a lot of women when I was young who had healthy sexual appetites. But it was on their own terms, mostly. And the sex was not degrading - or if it was, they didn't admit it.

[–]diapason 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like they've really tried to make it akin to slut-shaming, but it's just not cause most of the people worthy of "kink-shaming" are men

[–]BEB[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Even when I was young, and there was no such thing as 3rd Wave feminism, COSMOPOLITAN magazine (Mommy, what's a magazine?) gave me the heeby-jeebys.

Looking back, it would seem to me that COSMO was Lib Fem before Lib Fem existed, and perhaps was the first sneaky countering of 2nd Wave feminism. By pretending to be feminists while advocating for promiscuity, high heels, etc., COSMO was sabotaging actual feminism.

And COSMO is still at it, but instead of telling women that they can be a CEO in the boardroom and a hooker in the sheets, it's now telling women it's OK to fantasize about cannibalism.

Yeah, because that's what women do in between diapering, attending Zoom meetings, and watching grandma - we fantasize about eating people.

This is all deliberate. The question is when are people going to wake up?

[–]VioletRemi 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

At first Teen Vogue promoting "you should enjoy rape porn and bdsm" and "how to enjoy anal sex as a teen" for 11-15 years old girls, and now Cosmopolitain says that Chikatilo and Armin Meiwes were just lovely men with innocent kink of cannibalism!

Both writers are "heavily practicing BDSM" - why they are writing for kids and women at all?

How do such articles are even going through redactorship?

[–]Houseplant 12 insightful - 10 fun12 insightful - 9 fun13 insightful - 10 fun -  (0 children)

~Ten reasons to let very nice guy Ed gein turn your nipples into a belt!~

[–]BEB[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These magazines are attempting to gaslight women and girls (and everyone else) by making it seem that we are the freaks for not being interested in cannibalism. It does seem to be a deliberate effort on the part of the elites to create so much chaos in our normal lives that we will never be able to organize and fight for our rights.

[–]Thatstealthygal 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I was both scared by and drawn by Cosmo because the issues I saw were all 70s ones and it was all about having loads of casual sex and getting men to think you were good in bed, OR being alert to men who might be into sex when you weren't (apparently hair along the little finger is a SUREFIRE SIGN for "watch him - he's keen on sex", and wearing very long fingernails and low-cut wrap dresses that showed your very bony clavicle which looked nothing like my body. There wasn't any romance in Cosmo! But it was about SEX which was of course fascinating.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, even at the height of 2nd Wave feminism the media was still attempting to brainwash women that all that matters is our sex appeal.

Although at least you had all the folk singers, punks, athletes, etc., that didn't flaunt their bodies, the way even very talented young female musicians and athletes these days feel they have to.

[–]Thatstealthygal 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, I think the earlier 70s were quite unique because women were for the first time taking charge of their sexuality and for a while "acting like men" with hookups and office jobs, plus all the coke. It's interesting to me that the look for woman at that time was at once hyperfeminine - a ton of hair, nails, glossy lips and lashes - and also kind of anti-sexual with the very thin body type that was exhalted.

[–]BEB[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People were naturally much thinner then because of the food and the exercise. Kids rode their bikes or walked. People were outdoors more often.

Look at old footage from the 1970s in the US - it's like a different world. Everyone looks much healthier (beyond some weird styles) and much thinner.

There was the hyper-feminine look, but there was also the natural look. My whole school group went for the natural look, but even the cheerleaders with big hair and way too much mascara often wore flannels and jeans.

I miss that time. The music was much better and people just seemed to have more fun. We hung out and talked on the phone a little, but mostly hung out. Now these kids spend all their time on their phones comparing genders. The internet has, in some ways, been absolutely disastrous.

[–]Thatstealthygal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I don't disagree that people were thinner in general. But Cosmo models were extremely skinny and the goal was to be as thin as possible. Living on a lettuce leaf, black coffee and cigarettes was lauded.

It always makes me laugh when magazines and newspapers shriek about heroin chic or the waif look because frankly the models are no thinner than they were in 1975.

[–]diapason 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is just beyond parody. 5 years ago this would've been an Onion headline!

[–]VioletRemi 11 insightful - 6 fun11 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Ha-ha, satiric sites already joking about it, that with this current situation - they can't be sarcastic anymore, as reality is even worse than anything they can came up with!

https://babylonbee.com/news/reality-criticized-for-not-more-clearly-distinguishing-itself-from-satire

https://babylonbee.com/news/unable-to-compete-with-reality-babylon-bee-founder-starts-real-news-site

[–]SillyMoneyGoose 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

‘Nooo don’t worry, you totally don’t need to get your brain checked if you are aroused by the thought of eating another human being’s flesh’ 🤦🏻‍♀️

[–]Thatstealthygal 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How I wish a magazine would say "no there's no safe way to have X fetish - just don't do it."

[–]SillyMoneyGoose 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep and:”if you’re dating someone who has this fetish take it as a red flag and maybe leave asap”