I’ve barely ever seen any kink at pride discourse and none this year but I see more and more kink at pride discourse discourse every year
Which honestly might have to do with a Gen Z split between the ones who understand the internet as a space for fulfilling sexual expression and the ones who see it as a space of predatory sexual consumption?
And particularly how that got transplanted with the tumblr\u2013>Twitter diaspora to a culture that hadn’t coevolved with it and, where dominant figures considered themselves the unquestioned vanguard of a Boomer->X->Millennial progression
Obviously it peaks yearly but this year I think some of it might stick around, people are doing numbers and getting attention with stuff and it’s now one of the topics in the hopper, generalists need to at least show awareness of it, and you’d already seen people taking potshots at “Puriteens” ramping up for a bit
People you’d seen before, even as culture scolds, who had Twitter-honed instincts not to even try to argue them out of it or point out the weakness of their position but to mock them, and render them as a mockable outgroup (mocking then becoming an ingroup credential which gets bid up, encouraging apparent preference cascades), coding their characteristic positioning and affiliations
Which, even setting aside how they’re transferring worn-out “incel” hate to volcels, to watch the engine ramp up on like, overusing the language of consent to be a buzzkill around the place of adolescents in adult sexuality is a sign it’s really not the 2010s anymore
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