Using a slur once against a bully is worse than being a bully in the first place

OuroborosTheory · 2023-02-03T22:18:30+00:00

there's two classes of bully, one the "push your buttons," waits-for-you-after-class-on-the-school-property-line-with-four-other-kids-with-dented-heads type, the other triumphantly runs over saying "I told the proctor you were cussing and she says to come to her for your punishment"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlQ4H0Kdg8

OuroborosTheory · 2023-02-02T19:04:31+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lZ479wSyQ

OuroborosTheory · 2023-02-02T17:02:22+00:00

yeah, note that there's "trans 4-year-olds" a la Desmond is Amazing (of course never against their parents' will, mysteriously) but nobody's talking "gay 4-year-olds" because the gays learned to AVOID stereotypes instead of jumping into them headlong ...

part of it I think is because "gay" means something while "trans" carefully excluded actual dysphoria since 2016, because if you wanted to signal to everyone who saw you that you're quirky you had to spend some money on cat's eye glasses/hair dye/tiny hats

the people insisting on it are red flags, like how the 5'o-clock-shadow shower masturbators were the ones SO insistent on locker rooms, bathrooms, and prisons: the trans women kicked out weren't trying to pass; it'd be like someone taking advantage of the unfair firing of a Grade 8 coach for having a husband to go "yes YES I can be trussssssted with children"

OuroborosTheory · 2023-02-02T15:57:31+00:00

I think it's because there was a nontroversy over whether drag was Mandatory or whether it must be Banned Forever (like "womxn" a while back)--wicked cishomos dressed in outrageous mockeries of womanhood to make the straights laugh at them?!

then the ALT-RIGHT MAGA CHUDS appeared and they closed ranks around "a cornerstone of the LGBT experience" and forgot that there even CAN be a controversy that doesn't fit into the DeSantis-vs.-Kamala Harris paradigm

OuroborosTheory · 2023-02-02T05:34:44+00:00

I know they mean drug interactions, but it still sounds sorta funny to add, like mentioning "Biblical-level mouse swarms" as a top danger

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-30T19:14:50+00:00

what is a woman? just a miserable little pile of secrets!

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-29T23:28:10+00:00

tbf they had about as many "everyone evolves female unless the Y chromosome makes them orcs" loonies, while the other half was threatening colleagues for making fMRIs that might show a difference that wasn't "socialized"

but if your department is just you and another radfem and you throw half the students out of your 10-person class every semester, nobody's gonna come up and point out that you're just a glorified op-ed writer grabbing on to anything to justify yourself

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-29T20:30:20+00:00

that's why my tear ducts stay dry for the rads--around 2012 they really were on top of the world, they'd gotten every demand: legal exemption from rape, mixed shelters shut down, even men's centers with 1% of the budget as theirs kiboshed

and then Yaniv came warbling over the hill

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-29T20:28:43+00:00

that Iron Lotus is gonna end badly

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-26T22:32:49+00:00

"Brexit was a disaster, Scexit will make a rainbow of euros fall from the sky and bring your nan back to life!"

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-24T22:25:21+00:00

yeah, the gasket was blown when they said "you don't have to have a need to become the opposite gender (so binaristic!) or surgery (medicalism!) or dress differently (straight-passing) or do literally anything other than change their name": and they always have nice-SOUNDING motte-and-bailey arguments ("older women have lip hair! having short hair doesn't make you less female!") and it all just melted together

I think it was because of Jenner (a Republican who said you had to have dysphoria and hormones didn't magically melt away your skeleton except in terms of osteoporosis)

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-24T21:03:16+00:00

TRA nuts :handshake: TERFs

funny thing is they could just as easily 1. gatekeep and say "they're all stereotypical cishetsTM trying to 'bad-jacket' our good names" instead of 2. going to the mat and loudly insisting that every motherfucker and pederast who claims the name must be associated with the T (great tactical thinking there, kiddos, why not knock on your neighbors' doors to remind us it's CHRISTINE Chandler now?); I mean they're happy to denounce cringe shit like Velma and even spin tales of it being a right-wing stealthy parody of wokeness

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-22T04:04:28+00:00

it's been harsher in the Netherlands for a decade longer

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-21T00:29:08+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJphX1WtVSY

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-20T20:20:23+00:00

that's from studies on the role of categories in thought--some cultures "construct" sexuality as either same- vs. opposite-sex; others as top vs. bottom, and you wouldn't really be able to "think your way out" of those "natural" categories until someone told you about alternative ones (like how "bi" became popular in the 70s)

that's why people in Latin America don't like being forced into the very different US-based categories like "queer" or "trans"; it'd be like asking if Oda Nobunaga was a Democrat or a Republican

then a bunch of college sophomores half-remember all this, the hivemind makes it mandatory, and they start writing up lists of demands for the blindsided administratium

ironically post-2012 identity politics (however you want to call it) is really really insistent on the sheer OBjectivity of whatever someone insists they think, which goes against what the Frenchies were saying (hon hon hon)

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-18T22:15:57+00:00

tbf they don't think women can rape or molest, or even really commit felonies (never mind what the jury says)

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-18T22:11:42+00:00

that retrenchment/cope/narrative's been around for over a year now--basically "trans" now means "you don't have to have dysphoria, or surgery, or makeup, or dress differently" so it's a noncategory now

and "trans" is transphobic because it implies that "trans women" are somehow different from women or have ever not been women

and it all vanishes in a puff of logic

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-17T08:29:44+00:00

yes, Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Stalker, Solaris, Come and See, The Master and Margarita, all TOTALLY unwatchable and not behind the literal term "kino"

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-17T04:46:14+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phWcmwlpjQo this scene's all punching and talking, but you have a REAL contrast between a supe grappling with the unachievable ideals of an open society that doesn't live up to them, vs. a supe purely about rule with a fist so tight his victims feel grateful for it; there's something that stays behind for the 99.99999% of us who aren't earthshattering superspuds or peasants on a volcano planet 1,000 light-years away

it's why the Sith were so interesting even in the prequels because they were so bent on self-seeking they crawled their way to the throne, while in the sequels they just have big ships, blow up a village so they can find thousands of more ships, and yell Britishly; then every planet somehow overthrows them at once

that's what made WandaVision different from half the MCU, it wasn't just "okay, we filled our quota for quips": it's not "Captain Wasserface knocks Particle Man with a blast of water, then Captain I-Beam hits him so hard the ground cracks magma, and she makes a smart-aleck comment about men fighting over her" (felt dirty typing that)

I see these failures as basically FAILURES to use animation (or CGI for the MCU/Star Wars): each way of showing something to an audience (opera, splatter painting, Soviet Girl Meets Tractor painting, concrete poem) has its own rules and "grammar" determined by the substance itself: that's why you don't waste a comic strip or cartoon on having the characters just yipyap at each other (it's even called "illustrated radio"); if you have an Important Message for readers, don't make it 50 pages long, otherwise the only devotees will be weird sex-culty types enveloped by the other 1,150 pages (lookin' at you, Ayn Rand); Dr. Who was a cavalcade of terrific female characters, then they decided to "stick it to the chuds" with Thirteen and made her a giggling airhead for half a season until they went back to the cavalcade of weird shit

so bringing it back to the 2022-3 purge, even if the shows aren't actually that similar there's a sense that they were drawn the same, run by the same people or sort of people (these creators are queer 20-35yos, not a 55yo experienced in some international gay underground animation scene), same beats and poses and pacing (since it's the same boarders), same Joe Rogan jokes (those definitely won't age badly by like 2023), same Anglo-American social categories (there's no Latin travestis, nothing besides shallow undergrad politics, little European animation influence): so no matter the differences, it still feels that a lot of different versions of the same show are getting axed (only Kid Cosmic and Infinity Train looked like they didn't come from the same studio)--my reaction's more "oh, that one ... too?"

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-17T02:12:42+00:00

"CalArts/beanmouth" is so much more than a jab at identical style/posing, it's a whole worldview--everyone goes to the same college, the same rotation of jobs in Burbank-Glendale, the same soft-left politics, the same needs they're expressing when they make animation ("representation," "comfort watching"); that means the same weird way that they go about insisting that an 11yo can awaken to being "aroace" and "hemidemigenderfluid" ("that was how it was to me! I didn't like wearing pants in 4th grade!")

there's no Southern Gothic gay, no Larry David-type warped-Jewish-humor gay, no gay supervillains; even Invincible has a more complicated gay character than the stereotype (the now-cancelled shows themselves might've gone past the stereotypes, but there's no stereotype about Invincible)

it's like how people mock "capeshit" for insisting that the apex of the art is superbeings having flashy yet bloodless CGI fights, ending with the protags staring into the sunset portentiously uttering "somehow, Palpatine returned" (not saying that's true for the MCU, but that that's the stereotype: I can enjoy a Big Explosions movie, but they're remote from irl experience and have a place)

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-17T01:50:44+00:00

why do I hear Gordon Ramsey's voice bellowing "Animal Farm was literally adapted into an animated version by the fuckin' CIA and it's not as 'Animal Farm' as this shite!"

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-17T01:41:32+00:00

basically box-ticking: that's why it's a bit amusing to see the Tumblrinas/Twits suddenly realize that a show that SHOULD have everything they want--a dark-skinned character teasing lesbianism, a Black autist, the wypipo all small-dicked Nazis or Beckys--is suddenly "tokenist": it's stitched together from all of their contradictory demands, but they don't like it when they finally see it in good lighting

it's like how under the right circumstances Dead End Trailer Park would've been condemned as patronizing and showing trans people as ungrateful and impossible to satisfy; at least Q Force had enough tongue in cheek to be a little Drawn Together

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-14T23:32:52+00:00

or the Young Republicans buying French wine 2002 to pour into gutters

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-13T23:11:19+00:00

again, "queer" has taken off while the actual rates of "are you horny for the same sex?" and "is your current configuration of sex psychically painful?" remain pretty level, even accounting for the endless "yes-but" quibbling or induced dysphoria etc.

it reminds me of the 70s when the movement was "you're either bi--or you're in denial!" so that gave an escape valve to men and women who didn't want the 2.1-kids-by-21/martini-lunch-and-dinner-and-dessert-dead-by-70 lives stereotypical of their parents (or really a generation earlier); and on the other side of the aisle that meant the stinkeye from gays/lesbians at the man and woman trying to get comfortable in the bar/social space

so people attracted to both sexes always existed (as the more militant will be quick to remind you), but the category "bi" had to be named, created, contested; same story for "workplace harassment"--they had to coin a new term for "the boss has certain non-negotiable EXPECTATIONS for your 'secretarial duties' "

I think a lot of this started with "ally hate" 2012-14: sure there's gonna be glory hogs and "I am trying to help you!" cringery, but the effect was that "if you're white/cis you're automatically suspect and definitely cut out from any decisions": so 1. students scrambled for any way to flee the stigma of supposedly not being stigmatized by society (majority, "privilege," whatever you call it) and 2. students also scrambled for a leg up over the rest--"I'm not an icky straight, I'm hemidemisexual who just happens to be dating a nonbinary assigned female at birth!"

it also had the advantage of not requiring real politics--you had people getting beat over the Wi Spa disaster, but no protests against US support for the Saudi or Honduran regimes actually having dirty cops murder trans women

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-12T19:42:08+00:00

why is so much of this overwrought activism about defending the most annoying stereotypes of the group? like, with women's activism it's only the obvious frauds that turn into media circuses (Duke lacrosse, Mattress Girl, the 30 newsmagazines doubling down on Amber Heard after the unanimous verdict); and remember that Smithsonian infographic saying you couldn't expect Black people to shower, show up for work, or talk "proper" English? the "groomer" slam spent about 2 months on Twitter before the DeSantis faction picked it up and RAN

previous generations of gay men and lesbians had their James Charles or Political Rad Les types, but they were never allowed to punish everyone else in the community; but since ~2012 the LGBs of younger generations were shuffled off as "not marginalized enough" or "straight-passing" by the hivemind of 17-21-year-old fangirls that got in charge

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-12T18:52:44+00:00

did they pull the fire alarm like the radfems did before they decided to go TE?

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-12T00:05:48+00:00

fun fact, the villains in that book were based on a real occult far-right

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-09T23:24:59+00:00

ironically if anyone's going up into the proverbial clock tower it's gonna be that brother of theirs

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-03T22:49:40+00:00

the pelvic and shoulder girdles and limbs are homologous, but usually people don't have their head coming out their ass

OuroborosTheory · 2023-01-02T22:51:07+00:00

I'd say Brass Eye's becoming reality, but reality's ALWAYS secretly been Brass Eye

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-31T21:30:55+00:00

I mean the argument against tattoos is "it'll look bad when you're older," but the punks didn't literally make a positive virtue out of getting fatter

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-30T21:40:09+00:00

the separatists then blamed Jews and even told Mohawk and Cree leaders they were free to leave if they didn't like what they had planned for the new republic

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-30T21:30:09+00:00

"ambisextrous"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-30T04:35:32+00:00

which is doubly funny since every premise of NB/genderfluid explicitly undermines the idea of trans itself, but they have to square the circle since the two groups got wadded into the same OppressedTM basket

it's like baiting one of those r/atheists who're VERY VERY ANGRY about the Duggars and the trial of Pope Formosus or whatever, but also EVEN MORE ANGRY whenever someone points out Protestants and Catholics don't have much overlap

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-30T04:21:41+00:00

well, where else can I have a 19yo with a nose ring tell me that the Roman Empire or the 1st-15th centuries never existed?

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-30T04:13:28+00:00

funny thing is non-Quebec French Canadians have the same reputation as the rest of Canadians (Minnesota Nice, but even stronger): the chest-thumping is confined to one ~~province~~ NATION; it was literally so bad Quebecois had to be deployed to Afghanistan to make them realize there were more oppressed places on Earth than federally-subsidized far-east Canada (also a separatist tried to kill the PM but he or his wife stood ready with a big stone sculpture of a loon, which is the most Canadian sentence I've ever typed)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T23:38:00+00:00

Quebec's far worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise

(sorry, Québec)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T23:36:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOBTvWefCw

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T20:13:18+00:00

a little recent-historygeeking, radfems had basically ruled the roost for decades, and were responsible for what made Tumblr so Tumblr--but they were only the first

the dystopian "progressive stack" emerged during OWS 2011, which allowed for a battle royale to break out until they found a left-handed ~~deaf-mute~~ ~~non-normative~~ audiovisually radical ~~Jewish~~ Wiccan ~~transwoman~~ trans woman ~~wheelchair-bound~~ in a wheelchair

everything they hate about the TERFs is they constantly have to see in themselves--the dismissal of real politics for tiddly issues, the constant hall-monitoring and competition and purges of allies, the Cluster B drama-queening and the meltdowns and the undisguised inceldom and the Tsoukalos-level claims about every past society and the mobbing and the half-understood sophomore classes; that's all why they dump on the TERFs so hard, because they recognize their own dark reflection, because they were the First; same goes for how they loathe Zionists but accept Hoteps (dunno where Serbian nationalists stand)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T05:26:44+00:00

back in 2012-14 they really were on top of the world: mixed shelters were closed, they couldn't technically be charged for rape, campus men's centers with 1% the funding were refused unless they were supervised by them to make sure the men seeking help heard only that all their problems were their own fault

and then the Yanivs of the world came riding over the horizon on their mobility scooters ...

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T05:23:05+00:00

"this slotted death trap one-eighth the size of the US will definitely be easy to invade, it'll be over by Christmas"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T05:22:36+00:00

nah, that's still from 2014--but I find it interesting to see how Tumblr flipped so hard from "the only good penismonster is a dead one" to diving headfirst into the radfems' barmiest imaginings insisting that "that serial rapist demanding to get access to the women's wing IS a woman, SHE's Janice now and grew out her hair!!!"

(I mean it's actually skull-crackingly boring, but in a HISTORICAL sense there's something intriguing to pick over)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-29T00:22:45+00:00

https://witchwind.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/utopia-what-would-a-womens-society-look-like/

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-28T01:28:38+00:00

and things were never chummy-chummy in the OG LG community (you never hear someone surprised by cattiness and drama among the gays)--there was always an insistence on distance; bar subculture before the 70s was strictly reputation-based--some accept mixed groups, others you'll get The Stare if a bunch of surfer-dude types show up

the closest analogy to today from the 70s was the fad insisting that "everyone's either bi--or in denial!" leading to man/woman couples getting The Stare while trying to find a table in the local gay watering hole

but back then they didn't have the social media Narcissism Machine

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-26T21:33:01+00:00

so drag's bad now?

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-26T06:02:59+00:00

and boners

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-24T23:30:44+00:00

good ol' Riley "now you have to fuck me" Dennis

the activists would always pose themselves as anti-TERFs, but everyone not caught up in the actual details of what they were advocating for could recognize them as the same "PIV is rape!" headcases

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-23T23:06:41+00:00

HAIL THE WORM

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-23T04:35:33+00:00

Syndrome: "when everyone is trans--NO ONE is!"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-22T21:59:27+00:00

you can even get the same thing in mainstream feminism: one prof will say "this is all genetic" and another says "this is all socialization," and they won't even be published in the same magazines; give four undergrads four envelopes with contradictory messages that say "patriarchy is what causes harm to women," "patriarchy is what benefits men," "patriarchy is what benefits women by patronizing them as too peabrained and dependent to be responsible for their own actions," and "patriarchy is whatever harms men, since men made the systems imposing the double standards" they'd all bob their heads

it's also why people misunderstand peer review: it's not "does article X say something new in the sum total of collective knowledge of our field," it's basically "does the article passes the basic level of professional writing and avoids some of the basic mistakes when you're unintentionally (or deliberately) about to screw up in a way the field sees a lot?"--like if a geneticist announced that she'd hunted down her subjects' grandparents and great-great-grandparents until she found a felon, or if a political scientist drew conclusions about how peace happens by studying Europe 1872-1913, 1919-38, and 1946-1988 (and these are real cases)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-22T21:15:49+00:00

they always circle right back to the vilest stereotypes, like the Smithsonian "Black people can't be expected to have a good vocabulary or show up on time or bathe" poster (good Lord)

it's just like how r/Atheism always sounds more like a Chick tract than Carl Sagan, because they're just not AWARE that "Da Church imposed the death penalty for reading and the proof is nothing was written down!" isn't something even the snake-handlers believe; social hegemony, baby!

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-22T21:10:55+00:00

2023 will be the year "trans"/"AMAB" itself gets the kibosh: "are you saying these women are different in some way from all other women, especially because they had certain external characteristics? would you like to tell the mob of sophomores what DIFFERENCES you might be thinking of?!"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-21T00:22:04+00:00

it is interesting how the stereotypes build up: if you had a brain and a body with only 1% testosterone for 15-30 years, this is still the stereotype once you're swimming in the new hormone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VgG1pXnMfc

and the opposite stereotype is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHctyXPmkg note that it's the guy who still HAS all his testosterone who almost got picked up and hurled through plate glass by this Tusken Raider; all the estradiol in the world couldn't stop the impulse to bellowingly chase people down with a stanchion

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-20T20:52:10+00:00

for a community long associated with fashion and design, this is a shocking atrocity

(also the original rainbow flag had a hot-pink stripe but they dropped it because of a fabric shortage, so the backstory of the gay flag is itself extraordinarily gay)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-20T19:51:27+00:00

they put shading on the Black/Native/mestizX stripes ...

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-19T21:32:33+00:00

can't believe they have an anniversary for a Tweet from someone

(well, actually, I can https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15,_2022_Twitter_suspensions)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-19T21:21:35+00:00

they really had it all--rape victims to schlick to as "counselors," legal inability to rape, plush budgets, Amber Heard pulling in the big bucks, whole chaired college departments to house their glorified op-eds

then the warbling of a thousand Yanivs coming over the hill Bravehart-style on mobility scooters

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-18T20:07:31+00:00

almost funny how quickly things flipped for the radfems 2012-14: one day they're shutting down mixed shelters and men's campus centers with 1% the budget of the women's one and high off Tumblr fumes--nobody and I mean NOBODY was gonna stop the parthenogenic she-topia!

then a slightly different group of narcs discovers their techniques and immediately uses it against them and they're FLOORED--they were supposed to have this all to themselves!

too bad about all the men and women in actual need getting screwed over because someone at a 300-student college was upset at their dad

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-17T06:10:42+00:00

national bodies in international spaces

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-17T05:48:34+00:00

plus MMFA is living troll doll David Brock's outfit, who said Anita Hill was an insane whore and the first Jewish candidate was backed by white supremacists

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-15T21:14:53+00:00

I know the non-James Charles-type gay guys and lesbians spar-armed the NAMBLA and "political lesbian" (i.e., "kiss my lotus if you want your bachelor's degree") types in the 90s, not just because it might look bad to have them under the umbrella but because they were exactly the sort of maggoty infiltrators you didn't want anywhere near an organization

the Ls and Gs (and Ts) community then was more "basic" and older than "I'm 17 and just discovered there's a name for my horniness": by 2012 the reins were firmly in the hands of yaoi-poisoned sophomores with nose rings

the previous generation knew how to dissociate themselves, nowadays they're practically going door-to-door reminding their neighbors "Chris-Chan is a trans woman who stuck her penis into her mother and asked how she compared to her father in bed; Jessica Yaniv grubs in the trash for used tampons--and is a trans woman; can you promise me you'll spend at least half an hour a week practicing associating the category of trans women with even these twisted freaks, so you don't accidentally misgender them? remember, Basic Human Rights are not a treat to be handed out for good behavior!"

they REALLY don't understand what they're doing

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-14T23:30:38+00:00

even failed at bullying like a girl

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-11T19:03:51+00:00

and advertise the scheme as "reparations" for not having been able to use the land

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-09T23:32:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA

(but yeah this language is so mechanical and life-draining for something so good people will crawl over broken glass for it: nobody sits around on a couch blankly saying "I'm a flexhemidemisexual sapphosophiadjacent femgirl seeking an anti-kyriarchical catboywiggler with broccoli hair" in meatspace)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-09T22:54:14+00:00

just like with the "Black people can't be expected to work, show up on time, or talk with anything but the most stereotypical accent, that's white supremacy!" poster, they always beeline for extremely prejudiced stances, and they can't recognize they're falling into a trap because "well I'm not the sort of person who'd support something like that!"

so here they're tacitly saying white kids can identify with anyone who doesn't share their traits, while girls and Black kids are mysteriously missing that part of the brain that lets them understand that someone who doesn't Look Like Them is a person

(and even if they're not implicitly saying that, under their own rules of "you're not allowed to disagree with any bad-faith interpretation" that's the gospel truth now)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-09T21:23:08+00:00

yeah around the 80s it hooked up with Wicca fakelore and some of them insisted neolithic "Old Europe" was all parthenogenic until the wicked Aryan horsemen rode in 2000-1800 BC and PIVed them all with their throbbing throbbing MANhoods over and over and (heavy panting); it's like Black Hebrew Israelitism for middle-aged white English profs--a lot of similar ideas just seem to sake their way down out from some Fortean Super-Sargasso Sea and scatter across a bunch of different groups (like how the Scientologists and Nation of Islam have united over their love for Jew-baiting, spaceships that look like DC-8s, and hydrocephalic mad scientists from a trillion years ago)

even funnier, historically it was the Amazons who were Iranian and kidnapped Chechen men from their wives as war booty

forget Amber Heard, they're still stanning Brynn Omdahl

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-08T19:47:55+00:00

and a lot of the "queer" category is "oh, I don't have dysphoria, or hormones, or surgery, or dress different, or want to date someone of the same sex however it's defined--I don't OWE you any performativity!!!" it's like what bi was in the 70s or like 1990-2008, basically "we're allowed in this bar, and you can't demand that I prove I also go out with the same sex!"

interestingly most all of the complaints are about the "euphoric" MtFs are that they're still manly or even pathologically exaggerated--just look at this steer puffing and bellowing and filing lawsuits to demand people look at a cock and balls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaliJ-k2mXk

ironically just before they touched the trans woman third rail and became dubbed TERFs ~2012-14, radfems attacked trans men for this reason along with gay men (DOUBLE patriarchy!)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-03T05:07:47+00:00

it's interesting how the process operated like a star collapsing into an unobservable singularity--"straight" gays (and trans men implicitly) get thrown out for being mannish, then radfems thrown out for being transphobic; then the Black men got the boot, then white trans women, then Black people not in wheelchairs, then Black people for two-spiritsTM (until they were all outed as Pretendians), and then I forget, it's all a hot sack of rats

plus social media is narcissist catnip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-02T22:17:51+00:00

ironically the radfems went after the unflamboyant gay men first (cis-hos?) as "doubly patriarchal," and only got kicked out of Tumblr when they went after trans women--yet most gays are still picked on by the painfully woke as "straight-passing" or whatever lets them justify themsleves

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-02T22:07:51+00:00

"so ... if gender is a spectrum, then you're saying the overwhelming dysphoric need to transition to the other gender isn't real?"

(also lol at the male "half" just being the figure's shirt slowly getting wider)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-12-01T19:48:12+00:00

hey, they're like a WaPo/Vanity Fair-tier headline every week about how "the tides are finally turning and Amber Heard is finally able to speak" and it's just citing the same three perpetually-online teenyboppers

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-30T23:47:00+00:00

it's basically what we're probably seeing: and it's not "social contagion" per se

as we walk around life we classify things we see by categories we've learned: some of these are cultural--"blue" or "blue-green," "gay" or "top/bottom," but they're describing the same THING

so around 2015 you get this new category, that 1. says you don't have to have an overwhelming urge to swap sexes and 2. has been iterated to a cohort who can spend up to a decade hating the inevitable changes caused by getting older than 10 years old, treating them as an outside imposition on their bodies, as society forcing its norms onto them against all their will--no wonder a mushy, non-dysphoric attitude proves so attractive to a certain group of people aged 17-22

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-30T22:19:47+00:00

there's even a term for something like this--a brief period of megalomania

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-28T22:40:43+00:00

or the minor sending "progress pictures" of their transition to Keffals and then realizing the full implication later

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-27T23:56:08+00:00

never fails that they make a beeline for THE most pervasive negative stereotypes, simply because they've made themselves incapable of SEEING it

it's like those "helpful" antiracism posters that said you can't expect Black people to show up on time, be educated, or speak your dialect, or those "punch a Nazi" Boomer spluttering that all those funny symbols in Kherson are "Hindu good luck symbols"

"I'm one of the GOOD guys, I CAN'T be like those chuds!"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-27T21:13:53+00:00

that's when you grow up around/live with Italians but aren't technically one yourself

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-27T01:56:03+00:00

"if it weren't for double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all"

(and fun thing it applies to so many defective people)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-24T19:30:06+00:00

tbf she does make other people call her Alisyn

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-24T19:19:25+00:00

his dad was also in a pornody of Spider-Man and on Intervention (the famous "masturbates for 10 to 12 hours" one)

Mormon meth heads ...

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-24T03:30:35+00:00

CONSENT ACCIDENT with extra steps

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-24T03:26:21+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VgG1pXnMfc

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-23T19:18:48+00:00

the queens WE use would not excite you!

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-22T01:16:49+00:00

like all those snotty RoosterTeeth Tweets about how "if you don't like our sassy new approach to racism/sexism, we don't need you watching our videos" while their execs were running rampant among their animators for years

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-20T20:35:17+00:00

interestingly Brazil has many more categories that get wadded together under the US interpretation--transvestites, the equivalent of kathoeys, those who actually GET the full surgery

I mean, it's a country where a bikini bottom's used as men's beachwear

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-16T22:42:53+00:00

well yeah that's the whole nut of the matter--their complete unselfawareness

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-15T23:26:48+00:00

the funniest argument against detrans is "they're only 0.1% of the population and were probably pressured by their parents for social clout!"

I mean, c'mon man

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-14T20:04:58+00:00

ironically the radfems' second-to-last target before they got expelled from Tumblr's puckering circle of righteousness was unfabulous gay men, for being "doubly patriarchal" (1. man but also 2. didn't have any womyn around to supervise them, iirc)

THEN they pissed on the third rail and got ejected, starting an all-for-all purge where even left-handedness could be weaponized in the fight for clout

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-13T08:34:05+00:00

they mean "beach body" more in the sense of "2004 tsunami victim"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-13T08:32:47+00:00

just spin it back on them and ask why they keep insisting on putting this funny T-word in front of "woman"--almost as though they're implicitly saying they're not women after all!

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-03T22:11:54+00:00

everything looks like a Michael Bay film now, dammit!

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-03T20:30:55+00:00

it also runs squarely into another mandate of current cultural politics: you ALSO can't voice/write/be the coffee boy for a studio that produces a character unless you share your traits with them: usually what happens is that the character just ... isn't in the show any more, period

then the pendulum swings and all the criticisms that were forbidden in 2020 come out--"oh, you assume minority viewers can't understand a character unless you spoonfeed them?" "isn't this just more tokenism from rich white lady/guilty MBA antiracism?"

on edit: or when they just forced an 18yo actor to out himself as bi because the howling mob of teenyboppers accused him of "queer-baiting" them by being straight in private

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-03T02:53:31+00:00

funny how the went from hailing Alan Turing as a "gay icon" to replicating what pushed him into suicide on an industrial scale

OuroborosTheory · 2022-11-03T00:23:05+00:00

a lot of this is how language works in the brain--the same sexual configuration would be categorized as "gay" in a man in Houston, but "top" for someone in San Antonio; a "fabulous gay" would be a "marica," etc.; so it's more complicated than just social contagion+siloing (which is also a big factor--there's a reason they're all left-liberal, college undergrads in certain disciplines, dyed hair, piercings, cannabis, "spiritual but not religious": most are also NON-zealots even if they get swept up, since 1. most people aren't that obessive about any one thing and 2. that means surgery)

that's part of why they put so much emphasis on "representation" and "normalization," but instead just give you SEVERAL categories that are basically "not dysphoric, but also not cishet and male," "not dysphoric, but also not cishet and male," "not dysphoric, but also not cishet and male," so basically they haven't found any useful answer for themselves

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-29T02:15:42+00:00

oddly I just remembered a 60s physics comic:

a man standing in a blank panel: "in 1900 humanity has no idea of the universe it inhabited" "then he discovered the triangle" (panel's split up) "then in 1932 he discovered the antitriangle" (the splits are mirrored below the man in the panel) "in 1964 he discovered the rhombus, the serration, the trapezoid, etc." (man's surrounded by lots of odd new shapes) "in the future he will discover the hemidemitriangle" (man's surrounded by smaller triangles) "and by the year 2000, humanity has no idea of the universe it inhabited," surrounded by a uniform mess of tiny triangles

(and even in social sciences you have to at least show your shit; even the silliest conceptual performance art makes you ... perform art, you can't just say "I've talked to other people I know and they agree with my vibe": the "studies" are just op-ed pages with tenure)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-29T00:09:19+00:00

if someone's got Zeus's symbol as gender/sexuality--well, it's too late and you're gonna have a demigod, uterus or not!

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-28T22:20:39+00:00

and ironically the gender symbols are all very alchemical, as contrasted to the isotopic average numbers of each element (which actually do vary around the globe! science!)

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-28T21:34:14+00:00

just flip it around on them--"are you saying trans women are SEPARATE from women!?"

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-28T02:21:30+00:00

the Solomonic judgment would be to declare the perp Scottish

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-26T23:07:00+00:00

Assigned Cop At Birth

OuroborosTheory · 2022-10-24T23:52:55+00:00

I think another factor is the Millennials aging out (everyone's 30-40 now) and more able to look back on their youth, while Z/Alpha is still in the 17-22-yo wave--and the next generations aren't gonna stop, the HR and IT departments will make sure of that

but what was different was that being accused of "doing an -ism" was entirely new 2012-14, back even before the radfems lost their top position when they touched the transwoman third rail (unflamboyant gay men are still in exile when the radfems called them "doubly patriarchal" lol)

so now there's a cohort that went through all that undergrad drama and even holds similar positions, but is able to say "yeah I remember doing the same, but it was counterproductive to the cause": so Alphas will scream at the "obsolete" generation but secretly know deep down that it'll happen to them to, that they're going to become dentists

the Water Buffalo Incident's from 1993, but it didn't turn into a cycle of "yeah, but you're a Black MAN" becoming "yeah, but you're a Black CIS woman" becoming "yeah, but you're a Black trans woman attracted to MEN," etc.--not until Tumblr

it's moved on to TikTok now, but that's got such an unwieldy interface: Tumblr was such a delight by comparison, you could search pages and pages of fanart and it'd helpfully provide all their longwinded rants right next to them; TT's not as good at really conveying political messages as Tumblr even if the Race/Gender 101 and Oppression Olympics factors are the exact same, it's all on a scroll

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