ik this is like by design bc we live in a capitalist society that emphasizes individualism so as to isolate us from one another, but it would be so much easier to analyze and critique societal phenomena if every statement made about the potential harm of certain actions/behaviors/cultures didn’t get taken so personally by the people who engage in them.
we can’t talk about how makeup culture stems from and enforces misogyny or the violent institution that is gender because women who love makeup will scream that no, actually, they LOVE wearing makeup, it’s an art and a hobby and who are we to tell them they have to stop (which nobody ever actually says)
we can’t talk about how bdsm going more mainstream often results in people (usually men) who are sexually gratified by physically hurting others (usually women) having much easier access and opportunity to enact said physical harm, often with people who feel pressured into accepting it who wouldn’t otherwise – let alone discussing why so many men get off on beating women – because self-identified submissives will say “stop telling me what i can and can’t do in the bedroom!”
but frankly i think if someone says “analyze and examine your behaviors because they might be harmful” and you hear “stop doing this because it’s harmful” that tells me that you know what you’re doing might be harmful, whether to you personally, to someone else, or just in terms of promoting harmful phenomena in society, and you’re afraid to examine it because you’re afraid that you won’t be able to justify the consequences of your behavior
i’m having a fucking breakdown over this stupid LARP program i found where you can spend $600 to pretend to be in “the Bohemian underground culture of New York City in the 1960s. Protest the Vietnam War, fight alongside the Civil Rights movement, write beat poetry and create bohemian art, and have impassioned political debates”
you dumb motherfuckers are spending $600 to roleplay protesting against injustice and war and write poetry???? there are ACTUAL THINGS you can protest NOW! and you can write your shitty poetry ANYWHERE!!! i despise you SO FUCKING MUCH!!
hey i’m officially opening up my 90s LARP weekend. give me $600 and i’ll frost your tips and you can talk about the Backstreet Boys vs NSYNC while drinking Surge. fuck you
no one wants to admit they shop at hot topic but we all do
I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
Procrastination Station 