kontextmaschine:

birlinterrupted:

my mom recently compared covid to ‘a VD’ and its like … wow thatssome retro terminology

a social disease

Oh I got a few likes from this so let’s explain, “sexually transmitted disease”, “venereal disease” and “social disease” all meant the same thing

So in “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story, “social disease” is invoked ironically, the whole song is the juvenile delinquent boys mocking how the cops are falling subject to a farcical sociological “root causes” discourse

argumate:

funny thing where people collect swords and it spawns this “cutting community” where people have fun chopping stuff in half, typically plastic bottles full of water as they’re cheap and it’s a fun challenge to chop through the bottle cleanly in one slice without knocking it over, but then that leads to swords that are weighted towards the tip like sharpened baseball bats for big swings even though in an actual sword fight you might want one weighted towards the hilt for more dexterous control, but who the heck is getting into sword fights in this day and age? so the very notion of “sword” is contextual and depends on its intended use, same as it ever was.

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

So in How We Date Today news, I’ve for the second time in recent months come across a guy who found his girlfriend by hiring her as a prostitute off Snapchat until she started taking the initiative to set up sessions

I’ve the impression this was also something of a dynamic in the postindustrial, pre-Cool Brittania UK, I remember a Jeff Noon anthology where one of the entries was written as rules for a three-way asymmetric game of copper/hooker/punter and the win condition for the punter was getting the hooker to fall in love with him and do it for free

Hell, I guess Pretty Woman and like a third of Madonna’s 80s aesthetic were setting this dynamic in postindustrial, pre-Clinton America

come on man, hooker with a heart of gold who falls for the non-creepy john who makes an honest woman of her is like the world’s second oldest narrative.

Oh huh, I guess “hooker with a heart of gold” is a famously long-standing trope that I had been overlooking

(In my mind “Heart of Gold” referred first to the Force & Styles song that is like the happy hardcore track, second to the Hitchhikers’ Guide ship)

kontextmaschine:

Continuing to realize there was a good deal of bi M stuff under my nose in MLW erotic culture all along

Like all the “let’s show each other our chick porn and talk about what we’re jerking off to” stuff (or even “looking for a guy to tell how hot it is that my wife takes creampies from black dudes”) stuff I had been like “GAAAAAAAYY” and now I’m like “oh!”

oh Jesus, the whole “jocks are really gay, look at how they’re obsessed with the male form & slap each other’s ass” AND the “frats are really gay, all the dudes living together and their group sex w/women is really about each other”

Jocks & frats were bisexual all along!

Oh also something I see a lot in the new sexual media fantasies is gang leaders and royalty used as stand-ins for power, both for plot reasons, like “who would even have the possibility of owning you as a personal pet” or to make you or them special, or to transgress against - “I’m the princess but I’m trapped outside the castle gates on the night of the kingdom’s annual Free Use Festival!”

I guess that’s just same as it ever was, what all the pirate captains and sheikhs were in romance novels, why there are Disney princesses

30something bluecheck who came out of 2000s feminist blogs: ha, now that Lana Del Rey admits her elegies to uncontested male dominion ARENT ironic subversions of heteropatriarchy, people will see how out of touch she is!

me (same age) who has noticed as the smartphone generation starts foregrounding female erotic fantasies: uhhhh

drethelin:

goodzillo:

skyrim is really like “do you want to side with the rotting and corrupt empire or the ethnonationalists”

Just like real life 

der-unverantwortliche:

antoine-roquentin:

Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. But it was also the nation’s “necropolis,” with yellow fever routinely killing about 8 percent of its population. With little epidemiological understanding of mosquito-borne viruses—and meager public health infrastructure—a person’s only protection against the scourge was to “get acclimated”: fall sick with, and survive, yellow fever. About half of all people died in the acclimating process. Repeated epidemics generated a hierarchy of immunocapital whereby “acclimated citizens” (survivors) leveraged their immunity for social, economic, and political power and “unacclimated strangers” (poor recent immigrants) languished in social and professional purgatory. For whites, acclimation was the quintessential demonstration of calculated risk-taking: that people had paid their biological dues, were worthy of investment, and could now justifiably pursue economic advancement in slave racial capitalism. For black slaves, who were embodied capital, immunity enhanced the value and safety of that capital for their white owners, strengthening the set of racialized assumptions about the black body bolstering racial slavery. By fusing health with capitalism, this article presents a new model—beyond the toxic fusion of white supremacy with the flows of global capitalism—for how power operated in nineteenth-century Atlantic society.

thetyrannosaur:

yesterdaysprint:

Blah, Blah, Blah..

The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, December 30, 1899

The Saint Paul Globe, Minnesota, March 2, 1905

The Tribune, Seymour, Indiana, July 13, 1909

The Atlanta Constitution, Georgia, May 13, 1912

The Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, June 11, 1913

Woodson County Advocate, Yates Center, Kansas, August 6, 1915

The Guntersville Democrat, Alabama, June 22, 1921

Daily News, New York, New York, February 13, 1925

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 22, 1950

St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune, Franklin, Louisiana, August 27, 1971

yesterdaysprint snapped

cop-disliker69:

Consensual non-consent: chains and whips; kinky; shitty ill-fitting leather bustier from Amazon

Nonconsensual consent: The Social Contract

I’m mostly interested in CNC being deployed here as a rerun of the early ‘90s BDSM vogue. That has potential.

fatpinocchio:

I think of this classic cartoon every time there’s any kind of international trade dispute.

me: haha how did they not notice all those visine commercials were (disclaimably) targeted at stoners?

also me: haha how did you not notice all those gum and breathmint commercials were (disclaimably) targeted at drunks and smokers?

property-is-theft:

porko-rosso:

zoobus:

Its all a flat circle

marsapartment:

I was thinking about the movie adaptation of Interview with the Vampire and was about to make a “Here’s my review: not gay enough” meme about it, and I’m having a fucking stroke because I guess I’d never seen an unedited version of the meme but it turns out its origin was actually some guy talking about Interview with the Vampire

class-struggle-anarchism:

Charles Fourier was what you call an ‘’ideas man’

quoms:

I did reblog that post yesterday saying liberal pundits support the Bolivian coup Even Though they have spent the last few years gnashing their teeth about “foreign interference” in America’s political process

And obviously I think that’s a fair enough criticism or I wouldn’t have reblogged it

But at the same time I will remind everyone that just three short years ago “if the military ejected Trump, that would be totally chill” was not really a wildly deviant position among the bluecheck crowd, and the main reason that talk’s gone away is they all realised it’s not going to happen

If I’m going to look at “middle-class” Bolivian Twitter users respond to a video of literally armed troops rolling down city streets in an army truck (because you know, it’s a fucking coup) with word garbage like “mi Bolivia unida!” and “mi Bolivia libre!” then I think it’s only fair that one of my takeaways from that should be to remember that, as much as there are South Americans who are capable of seeing that spectacle and thinking “libre”, there are also, like, staff writers for NYT and WaPo who are capable of the exact same thing

The upper middle/professional class really is just like that! It’s not some weird phenomenon that’s unique to countries where they actually have coups

Was in a bar the other day and overheard someone like “you see all the Iron Front arrows on [local boulevard] , that’s ours now, we should tell sex workers we can protect them here”

And friend

This is how it goes

“Oh, our militant brotherhood claimed this territory? Let’s use it to operate prostitutes!”

“We protect us”, La Cosa Nostra can credibly claim to have started as an underdog defense force, the Bloods were founded to protect from Crips.

Y'all ACAB fuckers know the police started and legitimate themselves as community defense.

This Sean Kealiher death raises my hairs. “Someone ran this guy down outside our gang clubhouse! And then people shot at the car and drove him to the hospital and won’t talk to cops! But oh it’s not political JUST SHUT UP about it!”

and uhhhhhhhh