I can see the logic of “stop random adults from chatting up kids they like the looks of” and of “but of course allow communication between two mutuals”.

But given what I know of the influencer attention economy and general adult/youth segregation since 80s helicopter parent exurbanism, it strikes me that “the only adult voices children will be exposed to are the particular petty celebrity charismatics who have succeeded at charming them into their retinue on a numbers game basis” is also not ideal and suggests failure modes

Even beyond sex stuff. Like, we have a whole folk legend about the Pied Piper, remember?

quoms:

Management traditionally had two major ways of thinking about antagonism: social conflict within business and competition in the market. Internal tension with subordinates, external competition with rivals. With the eruption of an activism targeting multinationals, a third case, strange and unexpected, was now presenting itself: an external social conflict, against which traditional tactics proved inadequate. Firms which had first thought they could treat this new challenge in the same way as labour disputes eventually realized that ‘these new stakeholders also do not want to be managed within the corporate defined operational parameters’. If those external forces over which they no longer had any hold were to be fought off, they had to adapt, by developing a completely different repertoire of countermeasures.

“a third case”

This is what the Powell Memo was about, gosh

kontextmaschine:

pinball is for unicorns

black-and-pale-and-hectic-red:

nothing against monogamous people but do you really think it’s best for the kid for them to only have two parents ://///

a few years ago I was like “well on the downside we’re going through the 70s again, on the upside we get to go through the 70s again”

remember how Drew Barrymore was the scion of the century-old Drew and Barrymore acting dynasties?

memecucker:

this has “kylie jenner pepsi commercial” energy

yesterdaysprint:

The Alexander City Outlook, Alabama, November 7, 1940

todaysdocument:

“Wishing You A Happier New Year!…”

Untitled, 1/1/1952
Series: Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, 1928 - 1963. Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015

Every time I try to get grumpy about the city changing I remember “being pissed off about unworthy yuppies living overdomesticated lives in Portland condos” was quite literally the premise of Fight Club and “lament for the Portland neighborhood dive bar” was like, several episodes of the Simpsons

an underappreciated thing is the distinction between “non-racism” and “anti-racism” is exactly what the term “affirmative action” was coined to signify

stumpyjoepete:

kontextmaschine:

The mid-1980s were a weird time in rock politics when buff, angry, punchy sons of the DC imperial-industrial complex represented the leftist rearguard against a reactionary wave of California weirdos singing love ballads in heavy makeup, teased hair, and prom dresses.

Once upon a time (like 8 years ago) that “gripping food with force” twitter would’ve been a “single-serving” tumblr called like, @fuck-yeah-gripping-food-with-force

argumate:

one last thing i’d like to add! i originally said that Amharic is also considered to be a holy language for rastafarians. please disregard that point, as I have since learned that many rastafarians romanticize a man (Haile Selassie) who maintained a policy of genocide against the Oromo people of Ethiopia. i deeply apologize for my ignorance and for contributing to that romanticization

this just in: rastafarianism has been cancelled

You know what kind of person rejects the sovereignty of Haile Selassie? Fascists.

argumate:

radmona:

tokimaeki-moved:

god works hard but occult twitter works harder

hey this “occult” language people are using is an African language called Amharic which people have used as a generic “curse” language for a while, it’s really disrespectful and portrays African cultures and languages as demonic.

wait till you hear about how people use Latin!

“How did the author of Harry Potter become an avatar of conservative cause?” like

“how did VICE give rise to the Proud Boys”, “how did celebreality competition TV give us a president”, “why is 4chan still Like That but now geopolitically”, “why is Billy Corgan conservative now”, “why was Dan Savage’s Seattle Stranger the cradle for Jesse Singal’s clique”, “why is Matt Yglesias at least anti-bluepilled now”

“Cultural conservatism” has updated its golden-age referent from The Fifties to The Nineties (in both cases it showed up late and bled into the next decade). The people who rose to the top of The 90s Culture will defend it as fundamentally legitimate, which is now coded as archconservative

Meditate on the way the Reaganite 80s (lasting into the Clinton era, remember school uniforms and prayer as issues lol) were taken as an unstoppable onslaught of 50s revival but in the 90s it was obvious that people who kept the spirit of the 60s alive had won

(And how in fact performatively dirtbag VICE was really part of 2000s 70s-revivalism, same as American Apparel)

valtsv:

valtsv:

nobody who’s ever drawn or been a fan of a “tumblr sexyman” will ever be on the level of some 19th century artists with satan

satan, the original sexyman

kontextmaschine:

temperance-adjacent, maybe. old maid spinster Boston shit

I mean though, older women have always resented men going for younger women, maybe just now they think they can make a hegemony about it

The “looming childcare crisis”, by creating sharp incentive gradients both away from dual-income households to stay-at-home parenting AND from high-scrupulously, high-investment “helicopter parenting” to blithe low-investment “latchkey parenting”, almost feels like a targeted intervention to bring back Gen X childhood

(All while the popular intellectuals are like “see we need to get past the nuclear family centered on a monogamous dyad” and get back the disturbing response “you’re right, incest is hot”)

I will say that as someone whose dad told him about being deployed to Newark ‘67 and was around to notice LA '92, the idea that camo-uniformed federal forces would be ordered out to pacify racially-inspired unrest doesn’t actually strike me as a departure from regular order