It’s worth noting that it certainly wasn’t always like this. In fact, the reason why so many early comic creators were Jewish Americans is that, like the film industry before it, Jews couldn’t get jobs in traditional media fields with established gatekeepers. And, wouldn’t you know it, early superheroes fought more than just “crime” back […]

“Your grandpa was an antifascist” works for liberals and baby leftists as their rhetorical attempt to frame fascism as illegitimate, unpatriotic, etc., but it’s ultimately based on twice-faulty assumptions. The first is the idea that things being “un-American” even should be regarded as bad; ultimately, appealing to nationalism is always a dead end because the […]

Exclusionary definitions with hard boundaries (for others) require essentialist definitions of folk to function at all. In that way, sexualities that focus on preserving “purity” end up mirroring oppressive but fragile straightness; they can invert hierarchies but not dismantle them. It is not enough to memorize that homophobes are wrong or transphobes are wrong. You […]

There’s a much longer discussion to be had here on how racism (not speciesism) as it applies to dogs, how claims about “breeding” are also applied to people, and how class also plays a role. A German Shepherd owned by, say, Joe Biden that bites someone is going viewed differently than any pitbull terrier barking […]

There are people who will tell you that to be a Satanist, you have to read Anton LaVey because he invented it, that no such thing existed prior to him. We would not grant that as so. The Satanisms that predated and have rejected his are quite rich. (In our estimation, much richer.) It is […]

You also are those moments, of course. “That’s not really me,” “that’s not who I am,” or “deep down, I’m actually…” this nonsense. There is no, “But I’ve changed.” There is no “born again.” You are what you do repeatedly, and you are everything you’ve ever done; you always will be. All of the harm […]

Tumblr @literallyaflamenot to hop in on the Hottest Discourse but: age gaps aren’t inherently bad between adults, but they are incredibly suspect in instances where one party has significantly more agency and experience due to their age. a thirty year old dating a forty year old, for instance, isn’t all that big a deal. but […]

“I’m non-violent. I can’t support that form of protest.” Then how are you squaring your support for the violence of the status quo? Not just the actual violence we choose not to count in our statistics, like robbery, theft, simple and aggravated assault, sexual assault, and murder (so long as it’s being committed by agents […]

Tumblr @lilacbreastedrollerwild how like PCOS, endometriosis, vaginismus & hell, even frequent yeast infections are “mysterious” with no well known cause and little to no decent treatment, but we have tons of supposedly well researched body fat removal methods, about 20 different kinds of breast implants, laser hair removal, and 100 different dermatologist recommended anti aging […]

One of the things that’s immediately apparent about white supremacy is that it badly hurts non-white people. Perhaps less obvious is that an effective secondary purpose is to hurt almost all white people, as well. The bribe of white supremacy is not that it will improve your lot any, just that it will worsen someone […]