The Culture War Thread

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1617673342059941888

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/jspanda8/status/1617332367076790275

[HaughtyFrank]

People seriously freaking out over MS making the eco mode the standard option. (And you can still switch back)

https://twitter.com/Samsaysbai/status/1617671642699935745

The console also boots up in about 5 seconds so the instant on mode honestly feels pointless

[benjipwns]

The Commission recognizes that [defense] assets commemorating the Confederacy or an individual who voluntarily served with the Confederacy will continue to be identified after the submission of the Commission plan. The Commission recommends the base rename, remove, or modify any such assets identified in the future [emphasis added].

The ramifications of the above remain to be seen, but already the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is undergoing a (shameful) transformation: its “Reconciliation Plaza” has begun to be dismantled and will soon be altered beyond recognition. The plaza, consisting of stone “markers” arranged on the academy’s grounds, was presented by the West Point Class of 1961 on the occasion of their fortieth reunion in 2001. Exactly a century prior to the 1961 members of the Long Gray Line, the school graduated two classes in 1861 – one in May, the other in June. Graduates served in both the Northern and Southern armies.

The precise purpose of Reconciliation Plaza was to “commemorate the reconciliation between North and South and dedicate this memorial to our classmates who died in service to our nation”

...

The markers, duly noted by the Commission, depicted “acts and events between 1861 and 1913 to serve as examples of reconciliation.”

...

At least two markers or exhibits described by the Commission deserve particular attention. They depicted the following acts or events:

“Marker 4 portrays a Confederate soldier providing water to a U.S. Soldier wounded by Confederate guns”; and,

“Marker 6 commemorates Confederate [Major General] Stephen Ramseur and two U.S. Army classmates from West Point who comforted him as he lay dying after a surprise attack by Ramseur’s army failed.”

Stephen Dodson Ramseur, who had sustained multiple wounds in battle prior to the October 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek – and, at 27, was the youngest West Point graduate to be promoted to major general – had just had his second horse shot from under him when he was hit in the lungs, a mortal wounding. Learning of his condition and subsequent capture by Union forces, several of Ramseur’s friends from West Point “came to his side,” among them his close friend, George Armstrong Custer. Ramseur, whose first wedding anniversary was days away, had just learned of the birth of his daughter. 

Astoundingly, the Commission found the depiction of these acts to be within its remit and unacceptable to remain in place.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1618068373950332930

 

[Himu]

Power button is communism I guess

Conservatives are ridiculous sometimes

[Potato]

Fox News: "They're trying to save you money on your electricity bill!!!!!!"

Idiot Republican: "Fucking communists! I'm going to run all of my electrical shit endlessly to spite them!"

Also idiot Republican: "Why is my power bill so high?"

[Himu]

The normie gays deserve our empathy.

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1548812576594837505

[Himu]

lmfao

https://www.insider.com/ct-woman-coffee-shop-woke-complaints-2023-1

A Connecticut business owner named her new breakfast spot 'Woke' as a pun. But then some conservative residents mistook the name and complained

[james]

Conservatives are such easy marks

https://twitter.com/awrestaurants/status/1617975902004019231

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/Nnedi/status/1618090515773423617

There's truly such an obsession with having someone being the first they simply erase the real firsts

[Potato]

Nnedi Okorafor would have done a lot better job than whatever it was they shit out for BP2

[HaughtyFrank]

I guess this is a whole trend

https://twitter.com/TheJoeySwoll/status/1618431647757766656

The weird thing is, I don't really doubt that attractive women get harassed at the gym, but some dude asking a question is not it.

[Nintex]

 "Thanks guys, I've eaten healthy these past 2 weeks. I don't think I'm suicidal anymore. I'm heading to the gym now for the first time, wish me luck" 



"Sorry, is this machine taken?"

"EEEEEEEeeeekk!! he LOOKED at ME! Without signing up for my OnlyFans!"

"Why are you talking to me. GO AWAY WEIRDO I'm trying to get a good shot of my ass"

"Yeah run you creepy incel you're not welcome here. You'll never get a hot bod like this, why don't you kill yourself"

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1618658301750689792

[BIONIC]

That literally reads like a shitpost. Wtf

[Uncle]

I also try to avoid referring to the French

[Pissy F Benny]

Sacre bleu!

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1618658301750689792

 

I am generally against using "the" labels as well, but not for the same reasons as stated in this tweet.

I believe journalists and anyone communicating professionally should be aiming for more precise language rather than just these generalised descriptions.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1618658301750689792

It's crucial if we want to tackle the stigma of frenchness

[Uncle]

has anyone replied to them with the austin powers michael caine clip yet

[james]

Thats not really a new thing.

Try saying "the blacks" or "the distinguished mentally-challenged fellows" and see how that works out for you.

[Nintex]

If we can't call the Russian army the r-word, cuz they are seriously r-word, than what even is the use of the English language?

[Uncle]

Thats not really a new thing.

Try saying "the blacks" or "the distinguished mentally-challenged fellows" and see how that works out for you.

the blacks

[BIONIC]

[benjipwns]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature
Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology
Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory
Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals
Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here
Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place
Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans
Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?
Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals
Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans
Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism
Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

Reclaiming Leisure
Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development
The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered
Critical Thoughts on Leisure
The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture
Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates

This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that grasps the need to unite the disparate movements for human, animal, and earth liberation. In the book, Best outlines a way forward despite challenges.

The Animal Standpoint
The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Liberation
The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action
Rethinking Revolution: Veganism, Animal Liberation, Ecology, and the Left
Minding the Animals: Cognitive Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism
Moral Progress and the Struggle for Human Evolution
Conclusion: Reflections on Activism and Hope in a Dying World and Suicidal Culture

This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings. It also demonstrates the potential for dance/movement therapy in prevention and wellness in clinical and community settings. The use of improvisational and creative dance is presented throughout the book as a tremendously clear, strong and powerful inroad to healing in every setting. The chapters in this book do not directly address social justice in dance/movement therapy, but rather provide provoking social justice related positions. This call for a provoking re-examination of the definition of dance/movement therapy is fitting as we—as a community—challenge our identity as dance/movement therapists, educators, supervisors and as human beings who have internalized oppression in various forms through our many identifiers and the unique intersections of those identifiers. The editors and authors posit that social justice cannot be fully addressed by focusing solely on the social issues. Rather, we must be aware of where and how the social issues come into the individual(s), the setting, and the therapy process itself.

Grace and Grit: A Meditation on Dance Movement Therapy’s Locations and Aspirations
Breaking Free: One Adolescent Woman’s Recovery from Dating Violence Through Creative Dance
Empowerment-Focused Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Recovery
Past, Present, Future: A Program Development Project Exploring Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) Using Experiential Education and Dance/Movement Therapy Informed Approaches
Applying Critical Consciousness to Dance/Movement Therapy Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body
Dance/Movement Therapy in Cross-Cultural Practice: Fostering Assertiveness with Torture Survivors
(Re‑) Defining Dance/Movement Therapy Fifty Years Hence
Moving Towards Wellness in Long-Term Care: Considerations for Dementia-Associated Aggression
Ghosts in the Bedroom: Embodiment Wishes in Couple Sexuality: Qualitative Research and Practical Application
The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body‑Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills

A watershed moment in transgender theory. The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.

Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology’.

Reflecting on the relations between gender and labour, these essays reveal the structure of antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, Marxist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalysis and workplace ethnography, the authors conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished.

1. Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context - Noah Zazanis (reproductive health research assistant, New York)
2. Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom - Michelle O'Brien (New York University)
3. Judith Butler's Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism - Rosa Lee (editor at Viewpoint Magazine)
4. How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson
5. A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction - Nat Raha (University of Sussex)
6. Notes from Brazil - Virginia Guitzel (philosophy student, Federal University of ABC)
7. Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation - Kate Doyle Griffiths (lecturer, Brooklyn College and editor of Spectre Journal)
8. The Bridge between Gender and Organizing - Farah Thompson (Black, bisexual trans woman who does tech while living in San Diego)
9. Encounters in Lancaster - JN Hoad (DIY transsexual in the North West of the UK)
10. Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the Imaginary - Zoe Belinsky (independent scholar)
11. A Dialogue on Deleuze and Gender Difference - The Conspiratorial Association for the Advancement of Cultural Degeneracy (Cultural Degeneracy and Sacrilege - a pseudonymous dialogue between friends)
12. Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology - Nathaniel Dickson (PhD candidate, University at Bufflalo)
13. 'Why Are We Like This?' The Primacy of Transsexuality - Xandra Metcalfe (psychoanalytic communist and noise artist based in Melbourne)
14. Cosmos Against Nature in the Class Struggle of Proletarian Trans Women - Anja Heisler Weiser Flower (artist living in San Francisco)
Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia

[Potato]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

A watershed moment in transgender theory. The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.

Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology’.

Reflecting on the relations between gender and labour, these essays reveal the structure of antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, Marxist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalysis and workplace ethnography, the authors conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished.

1. Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context - Noah Zazanis (reproductive health research assistant, New York)
2. Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom - Michelle O'Brien (New York University)
3. Judith Butler's Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism - Rosa Lee (editor at Viewpoint Magazine)
4. How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson
5. A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction - Nat Raha (University of Sussex)
6. Notes from Brazil - Virginia Guitzel (philosophy student, Federal University of ABC)
7. Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation - Kate Doyle Griffiths (lecturer, Brooklyn College and editor of Spectre Journal)
8. The Bridge between Gender and Organizing - Farah Thompson (Black, bisexual trans woman who does tech while living in San Diego)
9. Encounters in Lancaster - JN Hoad (DIY transsexual in the North West of the UK)
10. Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the Imaginary - Zoe Belinsky (independent scholar)
11. A Dialogue on Deleuze and Gender Difference - The Conspiratorial Association for the Advancement of Cultural Degeneracy (Cultural Degeneracy and Sacrilege - a pseudonymous dialogue between friends)
12. Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology - Nathaniel Dickson (PhD candidate, University at Bufflalo)
13. 'Why Are We Like This?' The Primacy of Transsexuality - Xandra Metcalfe (psychoanalytic communist and noise artist based in Melbourne)
14. Cosmos Against Nature in the Class Struggle of Proletarian Trans Women - Anja Heisler Weiser Flower (artist living in San Francisco)
Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia

I am genuinely interested in what these idiots think transgenderism would look like under a Marxist government. Not enough to bother reading that babble, but if someone were to give me a succinct summary, I would read it.

Has any (nominally) Marxist government ever done anything but persecute minorities?

[HaughtyFrank]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature
Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology
Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory
Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals
Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here
Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place
Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans
Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?
Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals
Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans
Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism
Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

I wasn't sure where this was going when it started off with Handmaids Tale but I honestly should have seen the zoophilia coming

Edit: The cover



 

[benjipwns]

I am genuinely interested in what these idiots think transgenderism would look like under a Marxist government. Not enough to bother reading that babble, but if someone were to give me a succinct summary, I would read it.

That's not really the point of these kinds of books. They're all premised on a very simple concept: Marxism is not capitalism, all problems are the result of capitalism (as Marxism shows), therefore Marxism has no problems. They absolutely do not have to educate you about what anything would look like under Marxism because all utopias are perfect and Marxism mandates utopia after capitalism.

They aren't written to convince anybody who doesn't already believe.

[Uncle]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature
Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology
Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory
Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals
Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here
Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place
Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans
Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?
Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals
Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans
Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism
Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

I wasn't sure where this was going when it started off with Handmaids Tale but I honestly should have seen the zoophilia coming

Edit: The cover

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[HaughtyFrank]

"Time to stop posting and come back to bed"

[benjipwns]

I have to admit that of those five, the gender and sexuality of animals one is the only one I actually sorta want to read some of the things in it just to gawk.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

They aren't written to convince anybody who doesn't already believe.

I assumed like most 'soft science' academic papers they're not even being written to be read; they're being written because gotta write something to fulfill tenure requirements

[Nintex]

Prrrrr

I consent

Prrrrr

I consent

Meow?! (I don't)

Mrreeowwww hiss hiss (the fuck is wrong with you human)

Woof (I consent)

Meoowwoooww (oh fuck no)

[Potato]

They aren't written to convince anybody who doesn't already believe.

I assumed like most 'soft science' academic papers they're not even being written to be read; they're being written because gotta write something to fulfill tenure requirements

Publish or perish is the expression I think

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/DelusionPosting/status/1617220580683698180

So apparently this trash bag has issued an apology to the guy whose life she tried to ruin.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1618886123136192513

Good. No one should use the F-word.

[BIONIC]

A comedy of errors.

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/Robert_Graboyes/status/1618930729374867457

[Pissy F Benny]

what about if you're talking about the French football or olympic relay team

[Pissy F Benny]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature
Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology
Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory
Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals
Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here
Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place
Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans
Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?
Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals
Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans
Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism
Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

I wasn't sure where this was going when it started off with Handmaids Tale but I honestly should have seen the zoophilia coming

Edit: The cover

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(Image removed from quote.)

I'd love to hear what an old school gay dude who spent decades fighting the idea that homosexuality was the same as paedophillia and other sick shit thinks about the new school kinda proving the ye olde bigots right.

Same with what old school civil rights people think about certain loonies now thinking/coming round to the idea segregation is actually progressive.

I think their reactions would be along the lines of

[james]

https://twitter.com/MeatCheeseMeat/status/1618989903882387460

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/MeatCheeseMeat/status/1618989903882387460

[Potato]

This shit is going to get worse before it gets better, right?

Maybe I just need to get used to not using the internet...

[Cauliflower Of Love]

This shit is going to get worse before it gets better, right?

Maybe I just need to get used to not using the internet...

I'd be sad about this.

[james]

This shit is going to get worse before it gets better, right?

Maybe I just need to get used to not using the internet...

https://twitter.com/MeatCheeseMeat/status/1619056306756911105

[Potato]

 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1608329358871244804

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/BUSSCRO/status/1618604117366276098

Many of the replies:

[benjipwns]

Definitely don't check the replies of this one either, especially not any of the selfies of people agreeing with her:
https://twitter.com/LayahHeilpern/status/1618981676847345667

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/JebraFaushay/status/1618968585321480192

[Potato]

https://mobile.twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1608329358871244804

 

As a professional communicator, I've been a little concerned about AI and it's potential effects on my career, then I read this tweet and realise that the only people this shit will put out off work are the terminally online outage merchants who just generate this sort of unreadable clickbait bullshit.

[Uncle]

"Please compose an appropriate reply post in the style of the user Potato from thebore.com"

 

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1619206549754507264

[Tasty]

If anybody is looking for a little light reading this weekend, here's a few books you might consider:

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within and beyond the academy. The scholar-activists featured in this collection investigate injustice in news stories, literature, and other media that shape human perceptions and treatment toward nonhumans. Each chapter confronts problematic social constructions of gender, physiological sex, or sexuality by applying literary theory, cultural studies, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to promote justice and equity for nonhuman animals.

Part I: Challenging Speciesism, Patriarchy, and Heterosexism in Literature
Chapter 1: Animals and the Absent Referent in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter 2: “the animals and birds were left in peace”: Katharine Burdekin’s Queer Utopian Ecology
Part II: Liberating Nonhumans in the Classroom and Laboratory
Chapter 3: Queering Our Relations with Nonhuman Animals: Multispecies Sexuality Beyond the Laboratory
Chapter 4: Teaching to Become Intersectional Allies: Engaged Activism, Ecofeminism, Anarchism, and Building Resistance in the Classroom
Part III: Disrupting the Gendered and Sexual Violence Against Nonhuman Animals
Chapter 5: The “Unnatural,” “Immoral” Hyena and the Implications for Conservation Strategy
Chapter 6: Humanity and Honeybees: The Inhumane Treatment of Honey Bees and Where We Go From Here
Chapter 7: Of Rats and Women: A Cross-Species Read of Space and Place
Part IV: Biological and Reproductive Justice for Nonhumans
Chapter 8: Reproduction or the Lack Thereof: A Mode of Oppression, a Means to Liberation?
Chapter 9: Intersex Inclusion: Indeterminant Sex and Gender Acceptance for Nonhuman Animals
Part V: Decoding the Sexual Subjectivity of Nonhumans
Chapter 10: Can the Animal Consent? Zoophilia and the Limits of Logocentrism
Chapter 11: The Zoo Closet: On Whether Bestiality is a Queer Liberation Ethic

Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

Reclaiming Leisure
Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development
The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered
Critical Thoughts on Leisure
The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture
Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates

This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that grasps the need to unite the disparate movements for human, animal, and earth liberation. In the book, Best outlines a way forward despite challenges.

The Animal Standpoint
The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Liberation
The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action
Rethinking Revolution: Veganism, Animal Liberation, Ecology, and the Left
Minding the Animals: Cognitive Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism
Moral Progress and the Struggle for Human Evolution
Conclusion: Reflections on Activism and Hope in a Dying World and Suicidal Culture

This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings. It also demonstrates the potential for dance/movement therapy in prevention and wellness in clinical and community settings. The use of improvisational and creative dance is presented throughout the book as a tremendously clear, strong and powerful inroad to healing in every setting. The chapters in this book do not directly address social justice in dance/movement therapy, but rather provide provoking social justice related positions. This call for a provoking re-examination of the definition of dance/movement therapy is fitting as we—as a community—challenge our identity as dance/movement therapists, educators, supervisors and as human beings who have internalized oppression in various forms through our many identifiers and the unique intersections of those identifiers. The editors and authors posit that social justice cannot be fully addressed by focusing solely on the social issues. Rather, we must be aware of where and how the social issues come into the individual(s), the setting, and the therapy process itself.

Grace and Grit: A Meditation on Dance Movement Therapy’s Locations and Aspirations
Breaking Free: One Adolescent Woman’s Recovery from Dating Violence Through Creative Dance
Empowerment-Focused Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Recovery
Past, Present, Future: A Program Development Project Exploring Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) Using Experiential Education and Dance/Movement Therapy Informed Approaches
Applying Critical Consciousness to Dance/Movement Therapy Pedagogy and the Politics of the Body
Dance/Movement Therapy in Cross-Cultural Practice: Fostering Assertiveness with Torture Survivors
(Re‑) Defining Dance/Movement Therapy Fifty Years Hence
Moving Towards Wellness in Long-Term Care: Considerations for Dementia-Associated Aggression
Ghosts in the Bedroom: Embodiment Wishes in Couple Sexuality: Qualitative Research and Practical Application
The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body‑Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills

A watershed moment in transgender theory. The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.

Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology’.

Reflecting on the relations between gender and labour, these essays reveal the structure of antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, Marxist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalysis and workplace ethnography, the authors conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished.

1. Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context - Noah Zazanis (reproductive health research assistant, New York)
2. Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom - Michelle O'Brien (New York University)
3. Judith Butler's Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism - Rosa Lee (editor at Viewpoint Magazine)
4. How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson
5. A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction - Nat Raha (University of Sussex)
6. Notes from Brazil - Virginia Guitzel (philosophy student, Federal University of ABC)
7. Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation - Kate Doyle Griffiths (lecturer, Brooklyn College and editor of Spectre Journal)
8. The Bridge between Gender and Organizing - Farah Thompson (Black, bisexual trans woman who does tech while living in San Diego)
9. Encounters in Lancaster - JN Hoad (DIY transsexual in the North West of the UK)
10. Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the Imaginary - Zoe Belinsky (independent scholar)
11. A Dialogue on Deleuze and Gender Difference - The Conspiratorial Association for the Advancement of Cultural Degeneracy (Cultural Degeneracy and Sacrilege - a pseudonymous dialogue between friends)
12. Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology - Nathaniel Dickson (PhD candidate, University at Bufflalo)
13. 'Why Are We Like This?' The Primacy of Transsexuality - Xandra Metcalfe (psychoanalytic communist and noise artist based in Melbourne)
14. Cosmos Against Nature in the Class Struggle of Proletarian Trans Women - Anja Heisler Weiser Flower (artist living in San Francisco)
Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia

[benjipwns]

Scholarship.

[Nintex]

Let's ask Trans people how they are doing in communist, authoritarian and marxist societies.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/kulmahuoneesta/status/1618722475713646592

Why

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/kulmahuoneesta/status/1618722475713646592

Why

My boss is an international figure skating judge. I'll ask her at work tomorrow.

[benjipwns]

Skates better than me!