wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gĹnghĂŠ, which isâŚan abbreviation for âindustrial cooperativeâ? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning âoverly enthusiasticâ.
PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:
The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.
The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.
YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.
The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.
When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.
THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.
The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.
*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down
I canât get over how the students at Columbia screamed âGo back to Polandâ to American Jews. Not even Israelis (though that wouldnât be okay either). American fucking Jews.
Way to tell me that you donât want me in your country and think my family and I would be better off dead. Youâre such an activist, gleefully screaming for the ethnic cleansing of your countryâs own populations.
Reblog to hopefully help someone who might have POTS realize they might have POTS.
POTS is, in simple terms, characterized as the lack of response to a chemical we produce that gets blood back up to the brain and heart when it all rushes to our feet when we stand up, making people with it very dizzy when standing up and sometimes fainting.
But it also has to do with not being able to control body temperature as well. So all those times I just thought my feet and hands were FREEZING for no reason while @dragonthefnafanimatronic48's hands were hot, might of well been because of POTS.
There's also exercise intolerance, overreactive bladders, shoulder/neck pain, lack of breath even when getting enough air, â¨insomnia⨠[not being able to sleep (this is an issue)], hiccups, nausea, and malaise (unease, feeling sick constantly).
When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.
I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.
One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.
The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasnât good enough to get into heaven⌠or something?
The problem was that I had never read these books, and didnât really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think âThe rapture happened and Iâve been abandoned by God! Iâll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!â
I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.
Itâs a good thing I didnât understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.
đš Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.
đš Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.
đš There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.
đš Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.
đš Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.
đš Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.
Everything is like âQUEER historyâ and âList of QUEER young adult booksâ or âTop 10 QUEER moviesâ and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
The flip side of the post-World War II cries of âNever againâ was an unspoken âNever before.â The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.