i think the terfbashing on tumblr is like the “christians, such as the Westboro Baptist Church,” I used to see online in the 2000s
like my limited experience with radfems or radfem sympathetic ppl is like. Idk. Limited. But very different from what you see in tweets people share just to get mad at. Which is what you should expect in all cases
It is 2023 and I, a millennial, am 40. How is it that every time I go somewhere somewhat hip during business hours it’s still dominated by grody Gen X slackers?
I mean yes, in consequence of overzealous 2010s cultural leftism, previously subdued cultural rightism has flared back up in the 2020s and is riding the backlash to contest terrain where liberalism was formerly hegemonic.
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Reminder that for all it’s faults TikTok has brought tons of awareness to important issues that barely got any coverage until they blew up on TikTok, and more that still barely got any mainstream coverage even after they did.
Reminder that TikTok has become the largest and easiest place for people to come together and organize, and has 150 million active users in the US.
Reminder that congress, especially conservatives, stand to gain a lot by banning it, because it means less people will hear about all the problematic (fascist) shit they’re trying to pass, such as the 300+ anti-trans bills, the bills seeking to make abortion a felony punishable by death, or how they’re trying to remove the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They also get to ‘look tough’ against China.
Reminder that claims of concerns over data privacy are bullshit, because China could literally just buy our data if they wanted it. Tech companies just like and including Facebook collect and sell our data all the time. China wouldn’t need to build an app to get it.
Reminder that banning TikTok sets a precedent that Congress could come for literally any other social media they deem 'a threat’ and ban that too. Yes, even your personal favorite one.
Reminder that we should care about this and instead of saying “Good Riddance TikTok!” we should be actively trying to stop this violation of free speech and stop handing more power to fascists just because we personally don’t like a thing or think it’s cringe. This is bigger than your personal tastes.
Please sign this letter from the ACLU to your members of Congress and urge them to listen. There’s also a hearing this Thursday on March 23rd at 10am EST in DC where the TikTok CEO will be testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing will be open to the public and will also be live streamed online.
I don’t care if you hate TikTok or think it’s “cringe.” If you all actually hate Facebook and fascists as much as you say you do, then you won’t stand for letting them win this fight to ban it.
See this is what I was talking about re: Zoomers whining not to ban TikTok completely misreading how deep in a hole they are with everyone else.
“Fooey to your geopolitical concerns, what’s important is that the kinda snot-nosed kids who go off about 'fascism’ can use social media to bend the discourse around whatever they’re on about!”
NONE OF THE GROWN-UPS IN CHARGE OF POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE AND THE DIRECTION OF THE CULTURE UNDERSTAND THAT AS A GOOD THING
If you are the type who goes for that there is a bipartisan desire for you to go away, “this measure will also limit our ability to inject social mediated youth radicalism into the culture” is understood as a BENEFIT
Matt Yglesias’ in his substack just repeatedly giving sympathetic, even defensive analyses of what he sees as errors in media-political positioning and consistently illustrating them in unmentioned passing with David Roberts tweets is my favorite troll going
The “Princess Cum” porn brand in Nubiles’ portfolio has channel-drifted from a “girl forces a creampie” formula to more freeform often stepfamily incest, but I think it’s also being polished as a premium brand with better thematic eroticism than I’ve seen in professional stuff, and I think a lot of it is really the work of behind the camera and even below the line talent
The direction is – all of this off tube site selections of course – porn aside, it’s someone who can actually shoot film, with a visual logic of shot progression and focus. Just the way that in moving through space it feels like a film and not reality TV. And the porn’s not aside! When it gets down to things that gets put in service of a well-done and really erotic progression of attention.
I sure don’t recognize any of the actresses from elsewhere so I can’t compare but you get such consistently strong performances from the famously iffy porn star talent – less line delivery than expressing a strong understanding of changing dynamics between characters – that I have to think to credit direction.
Also like I say below the line – lighting, styling, makeup, and hair is all really on point – the last three notable for how well they cope with the first without exhibiting any of the marks of San Fernando Valley porn industry style, this whole production really comes off as porn produced by non-specialist entertainment professionals. I suppose it’s also kind of a “look what we can do” brag that the multi-brand Nubiles portfolio is now strong enough to support real staff depth.
Videos are “tagged” with themes including #FreeUse (on stuff that is not really Free Use…), so you can tell they have some awareness of what’s going on out there in erotic memespace. With all the user-created stuff out there on PornHub, Reddit, OnlyFans, A03, I think we’re really in a golden age of the erotic in erotica
Anti-abortion Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert has said that her 17-year-old son will make her a grandmother in April. She also gave her thoughts on abortion rights and praised the “rural conservative communities” that “value life.”
Boebert was talking at an event hosted by conservative non-profit Moms for America, as per a video shared by Twitter account PatriotTakes. She said that one of her four sons, 17-year-old Tyler, and his girlfriend are expecting a baby boy.
“Now, any of you who have young children who are giving life, there’s some questions that pop up. There’s some fear that arises,” the 36-year-old Colorado congresswoman said.
“There’s something special about rural conservative communities,” Boebert continued. “They value life. If you look at teen pregnancy rates throughout the nation, well, they’re the same, [in] rural and urban areas. However, abortion rates are higher in urban areas. Teen moms’ rates are higher in rural conservative areas, because they understand the preciousness of a life that it’s about to be born.”
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), teen birth rates (births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 years) have been declining since 1991. However, the U.S. remains one of the countries with the highest rates in the developing world. The CDC recognizes that there are geographical differences in teen birth rates but it finds social determinants such as low education and low income levels of a teen’s family to have the greater impact on these numbers.
A 2012 study by Physical Review B (PRB) found that teen girls of lower socioeconomic status in regions of high-income inequality were more likely to get on with the pregnancy rather than seeking an abortion.
A 2019 study published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) suggested that teen birth rates in rural areas might be higher than in urban areas because teens might be vulnerable to “local conditions that limit unintended pregnancy management options.” Teens living in rural areas often face large geographical barriers to access abortion providers—a difficulty that’s been exacerbated by a proliferation of abortion bans in Republican-led states.
The CDC also reports the impact that teen pregnancies have on the girls’ lives: only 50 percent of teen mothers receive a high school diploma before the age of 22. Among women who don’t give birth in their teens, this number goes up to 90 percent.
A 2008 study mentioned by the CDC also studied the impact of teen pregnancies on the children. The offspring of teen moms are more likely to have lower school achievement or drop out of school; have more health problems; be incarcerated in their teens; and give birth as teenagers themselves.
Boebert was a teen mom herself and had to drop out of high school because of her pregnancy.
