Criticism of Satanism and Satanists tends to fall into one of only two types. The first and most common generally is just right-wing reactionary paranoia; it’s typical antisemitic tropes dressed up in horns, a tail, and handed a pitchfork to be able to be shouted openly with only people in-the-know understanding the implicit Judenhass. But […]

This goes back to “perspective” in fiction (and history), and why it is structurally impossible to tell an anti-war film from the perspective of a soldier who is blowing things up in battle; why it’s not really a subversion or critique to have an antihero who does horrible things be a protagonist; why you cannot […]

One of the things you notice about white evangelical Christians in particular is that they truly and sincerely believe themselves to always be martyrs and under siege, no matter how much power they actually wield in society. These Christians are also extraordinarily fond of appropriating Jewishness and its status as an actual persecuted minority religion […]

Are you visiting your family and aren’t sure how to talk to them about what’s going on in your life? You’re in luck. Now you can come out to your parents as a queer satanic antifascist and help us keep paying our lawyers. All at once. Everyone wins! (Except the fascists,)

The problem isn’t intelligence; the problem isn’t even ignorance or education. Ben Shapiro knows about vaccines. He knows how they work and that they’re effective. But, whether his current Covid-19 stance is pure grift or partially sincere irrelevant. His politics have led him to a place where he has to oppose people “being forced” to […]

We’re only sharing this so you can check for yourself that it’s a real tweet. For the right wing, it really doesn’t matter what hypocrisy you point out, what you parody, what you criticize. They are immune because their reality is already absurd enough and they do not care: they care about power. Jordan Peterson […]

Plastic straws were invented to fill a need: a way for disabled people to be able to actually fucking eat and drink safely. The adoption of an accessibility device by ableds does not mean that it should be banned due to usage by those ableds. It is unforgivable that we have told disabled people their […]

The Texas abortion ban is a fucking atrocity, and while there are certainly already legal challenges underway, there are several regional abortion funds that can use the support much more urgently. Several of them can be found here: “So what do we do now?” A better question is, “What you are prepared to do?” Because […]

“Dehumanization” is a word that gets tossed around a lot without people stopping to think about what it means. The problem isn’t actually that murderous white men get thought of as whole people who are more than their worst moments, even unthinkably awful moments like murdering their own children as part of a paranoid fantasy. […]

You don’t have to pick one, and neither do they. This probably deserves its own post in detail, but the idea that “no gods, no masters” means people can’t continue to experience religion seems as ridiculous as claiming it means no one could seek out an expert to apprentice themselves to (or a dominatrix to […]