chumbalumber @ chumbalumber @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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If you think so; my reading (given they seemed embarrassed about their misspelling in the reply above) was that their comment was self-deprecatory. It's certainly a style of joke I've made before.

That's actually them making that comment (calling themselves a prick as a joke). I don't normally read usernames so thought I'd clarify it for you.

Yeah, this seems very well thought through. For what it's worth, I'm UK based so will be talking from that perspective. I'm in agreement that sex education is absolutely dire -- I can't see any objection to a dispassionate education in both the cultural and scientific aspects of sex. I don't even see it as an 'oh well, if we have to', since sex forms such an integral part of our cultural identities (of course, including when people fall outside the societal sexual norms).

More broadly on society's difficulty with dealing with sex (and even the criminal aspects) I've read some interesting books on anti-carceral feminism recently that helped give me a different perspective on how I think about sexual crimes and its perpetrators beyond the simple instinctual judgements.

There's loads of hiking/camping shops here. Mountain Warehouse, Go Outdoors, Black's... OP has plenty of options if they want to pick up a stove.

Reminds me of a lot of the debates around kink at pride/ddlg kink stuff. The latter is really not my thing and makes me uncomfortable, but I recognise that that's a personal thing between me and my partners that I can't, and shouldn't, police among others.

There's also ethical debates to be had on porn in places like Lemmy/pornhub/etc. -- we can't know that the person has consented to being posted, or that they have recourse to get it taken down and stop it being spreaded if they do not.

Then there's the realpolitik of, regardless of ethics, whether it's better to have porn of this type in visible, well moderated communities, or whether it's better to try to close off ethically dubious posting.

It's one I don't really have squared off in my head quite yet. Similarly with kink at pride; I've read about the historic importance of kinksters and recognise that, but at the same time I want there to be a space where queer kids can be involved with pride without being exposed to kink. Is that just prudish social norms talking? Idk; I'm still working it through.

Nice

You may be interested in c/linkiscute

Hot.

This image is lodged in my head from when it got posted to 196 one time

Except the text was slightly different; something about doing it as a surprise for their boyfriend

... amogus_pee_stain.jpg

Holy hell

Think based off the text she is probably questioning whether veganism makes her masculine (turning her into a redditor) when she would rather be feminine.

God those are some usernames huh

I think it's fine to have sexual preferences, but it's a bit weird to post about it, especially in a space heavily occupied by trans people. It would be like a white person going into a space, made for and occupied by black people, and talking about how they'd never want to have sex with a black person.

While the base point is fine, it raises the hackles because of the manner in which it's put forward and the context.

So block this instance? I'm not sure why you feel the need to post about it.

Also I have a bone to pick about the 'telling people how to think is wrong. We have a word for the latter and it's not pretty'. Firstly that's pretty polemic for no good reason. Assuming you're dancing round the word fascist, it seems pretty unpleasant and unnecessary to allude to the group that committed genocide of queer people and deliberately destroyed research into trans issues to set it back decades.

Now onto the substance of the claim -- that telling people how to think is fascist. This is completely absurd, the key difference being that fascists don't just 'tell people how to think'; they brutally enforce it with violence.

This post and the trans women making it are not about to use the full force of the state to prevent people thinking about transphobia. What they are doing is posting that, to take part in the community that they are investing money to host, you must unambiguously support trans rights.

The comparison you have implied is completely and utterly absurd, and the dramatic language and comparisons you have used to make it is cringe.

I love Solas -- their version of a miner's life is pretty good

Something something white sticky fluid something something

It's the lyrics to the song 'Losing My Religion'. Goes something like this:

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight, losing my religion

And then later there's the lyrics

Oh no I said too much

I haven't said enough

Not if you're a woman. Or if the boobs/pussy belong to a dude

Titty