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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
oh, no, to be clear: this isnāt about the sex/sluttiness - I have no issue with that at all. in a more general sense (over the wider set of things aella), her positioning herself as a āsex researcherā but often using that to bash specific groups or put out a specific narrative, that is far more problematic
but regarding this specific thing, tho: the āforced a tattoo on meā bit specifically, and all the rationalists doing their weird quasi-intellectual arguing with everyone who asks questions. the āforcedā wording feels ā¦ intentionally bait&switch? presumably (ā¦hopefully?) thereās mutual consent here, so itās a fucking choice to go frame the event that way
Thatās very much the language my play partners use online, though? I totally post banter like āthat submissive was so blanked out that I took advantage of them by doing Xā, to which theyāll reply āimplying I didnāt evily manipulated you into doing that in the first placeā, and so on. This is so commonplace in my communities that I failed to even understand what could be the problem before you pointed it out. I mean, āI forced my famous domme to mark me as a trophy as her #100 simpā? How would you exactly force (non-kink sense) someone to tattoo you anyway, and if you did and were unwise enough to brag about it, presumably the microcelebrity in question wouldnāt like and retweet it? I took it to mean āI was so into the idea of being marked, Iām glad she agreed to my pesteringā, and I would bet money if any of my people talked in that exact wording, thatās what everyone would take it as. I mean, otherwise I would probably have been arrested for the frequency of times I say ābye everyone gonna tie someone up and do unspeakably cruel things to themā and whatnot
I think in this thread itās not āthis thing is gross because it involves sex stuffā, itās āthis sex stuff is made gross by the involvement of aella and co, who we understand to have fundamentally different and incorrect ideas about ethics both in general and specific to sexā
Basically anything Aella touches merits a sniff test.
Iām imagining the same statement from a different person, on a platform that is not Xitter, about a sex partner who is not Aella.
(thinks)
Pierre Menard, author of the Kink-ote
Gotta say, Iām not much of a JLB head, so I donāt fully understand this (would love an explainer!). At first glance I thought this was a Menards reference and super didnāt understand.
āPierre Menard, Author of the Quixoteā is a story about a man whose passion project is rewriting Don Quixote, that is, arriving at exactly the same text as Cervantes, but from his own experiences. The narrator quotes the same line from both and observes that the remark by Cervantes is empty rhetoric, while the statement by Menard alludes to a whole school of philosophy that did not exist in Cervantesā time. So, āThough they are verbally identical, Menardās is infinitely richer.ā
I wasnāt going for a deep-lore reference, just a bit of silly wordplay about the title.