Botond173
1d ago
I think it's pretty much well-established fact at this point that normies mostly don't read past the headlines. So I think most of them just assume that 7 brutes lured away, then held down and brutally raped some clueless maiden.
Botond173
1d ago
Even unattractive women have uteruses and are thus not expendable by society.
Botond173
1d ago
Botond173
3d ago
I'm guessing the expression is mainly used in the context of video games nowadays.
Botond173
3d ago
refusing for many years to allow her novels to be translated into Hebrew
Refusing to have her novels merely translated into Hebrew or refusing to have them published in Israel in Hebrew?
Botond173
3d ago
Back in the Stalinist era the local Hungarian puppet ruler was someone who was captured earlier as an underground Soviet agent and spent 15 years in a capitalist prison (which rather ironically spared him from the 1937 purge that'd have surely taken him as well otherwise). In a biography of another politician written by an author who's otherwise sympathetic to Communist ideology he (the author) made the offhand observation about this man (the prisoner) that is essentially similar, namely that men who've been imprisoned for a lengthy period, even if we assume that they were victims of unjust political persecution and the conditions weren't that bad, should not fill high political positions. The long-term trauma can never be undone and will always cloud his judgment.
Botond173
3d ago
But decades since the term was coined, it's become corrupted from "the ostensibly objective and disinterested (but implicitly male and heterosexual) camera perspective used in Western movies and TV shows" to "something about the way men look at women, which is bad".
I'm pretty sure there was a mainstream journo somewhere who is responsible for first popularizing the dumbed-down interpretation.
Botond173
3d ago
The same Evangelion (original, not rebuild!) has Asuka, who is essentially a prideful narcissist driven by unresolved mommy issues and still considered one of the protagonists.
Are you implying that Asuka in the Rebuild films is somehow flawless in your view?
Botond173
5d ago
I'd argue that such organizations fulfill a role in current society that is at least not insignificant for the powers that be.
Any ruling regime that has hegemonic control over public discourse has an evident interest in controlling and limiting the public dissemination of information because their control over society and its consensus depends on it. Its opponents and dissidents, on the other hand, are evidently interested in the opposite, and the simple social reality is that spreading and disseminating subversive and heretical information is always easier than suppressing and eradicating it. Hence the emergence of the centrist liberal narrative about the grave danger posed by 'fake news' and the corresponding need to enact 'fact-checking'. It also makes sense for the simple reason that mainstream liberal media has nothing to fear from 'fact-checkers' even if those were dissidents and heretics; after all, this media does not function by spreading lies and fabrications but by simply not reporting uncomfortable facts and by spinning information that is factually true according to their hegemonic ideology. In other words, there are no facts to check there.
The ultimate aim of 'fact-checking' is of course to eventually justify the cancellation, censorship and suppression of platforms accused of spreading 'fake news'.
Botond173
5d ago
The two sides are, in a very crucial way, talking past each other.
...on purpose, that is then.
Botond173
5d ago
Maybe I'm an ignoramus but I assumed 'transing' in this context means the concrete medical process of transing - getting the puberty blockers prescribed and taking them, doing the paperwork, the surgery itself etc.
Botond173
6d ago
In plain English I think "to actively search for situations where they can get laid" in this context means that you as a father and husband are supposed to socialize with other couples of your age and social status with children that are of the same age and of the opposite sex as yours. Isn't that just a part of normal family life?
Botond173
6d ago
Regarding furries I'm guessing the pipeline is not anime -> furry but maybe anime cosplayer -> furry specifically maybe?
Botond173
6d ago
A lot of transgender people are introverts and tend to stay inside.
They are also usually reluctant to socialize with normies, this feeling also being mutual, I think.
Botond173
6d ago
There has been a Dirtbag Left meme for more than a decade at this point that dissident right-wing - and, of course, 'transphobic' - online chuds and trolls usually select anime avatars, usually female ones. I think the reason given was that they see anime as counter-cultural or at least not mainstream in present-day liberal America. I don't think there's a deeper reason for any of this other than the intent to signal membership in a counterculture.
Botond173
6d ago
The only thing I could think of is the saga of Tanya the Evil which has a genderbent protagonist but its core idea is 'wouldn't it be cool if there was a dubiously sane evil loli flying ace fighting for not-Germany in not-WW2?' and deliberately desexualizes Tanya
For the sake of visitors who have no knowledge of the show I'd add that the protagonist is 'genderbent' only in the sense that a dickhead atheist salaryman dies in a traffic accident in present-day Japan and then God decides to resurrect his spirit in the body of a female infant born in an orphanage at wartime in a monarchy that is basically a stand-in for Imperial Germany but in a parallel universe (I suppose) in the past, the purpose being to teach him a lesson on fate, divinity, morals etc. We see Tanya grow up to be a child who is discovered to have magical powers that are useful in combat and is thus recruited to the imperial armed forces. It's more correct to say that she isn't sexualized in the first place (nor is any other character for that matter) because, well, she's a pre-pubescent girl. So bringing it up as an example of gender-bending is a bit of a stretch.
Botond173
6d ago
There was a strong push from the gaming press against the popularity of souls-like games because their difficulty and the git-good attitude it fostered in their audience was exclusionary
Exclusionary towards women and generally anyone who isn't a young toxic white male game nerd, I presume?
Botond173
6d ago
'unlike males'? What real roles do adolescent males have today to slot into?
Botond173
6d ago
I'd say the looksmaxxing and e-thotting phenomena are consequences of unrestricted female hypergamy fueling the mating market apocalypse; it's plausible that more and more GenZ-ers are engaging in this among the minority of them that are more exhibitionist and/or psychopathic than average but a much larger part of them is effectively checking out. In China there are actually different names applied to them: rat people, lying flat.
Botond173
6d ago
I'd argue that for an average young Western man today to find work at a general store in the country is not exactly to drop out of the rat race but to find a livelihood that is actually not even bad on balance when compared to his other options for employment.
Botond173
6d ago
As far as I can tell, most cases of MtF transition happen among young adult males basically driven by the longing to escape the life of a sexually invisible and unwanted organism whereas FtM transition is usually done by children (young girls) due to overall frustration with being biological females, and this decision is usually supported and influenced by their mothers, usually single women who basically grew to hate being women.
It appears that Bush demoralized moderate rightists whereas Obama did the same to moderate leftists.
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