Berrakh
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- Jun 13, 2018
Not to make the previous conversational thread more autistic but I think a good rule of thumb is that sexual expressiveness is fine if it has a pro-social element attached (like courting or romantic connotations) rather than a dull, inward and crudely transactional nature. Which seems to mean, in practice, banning smut from being out in the open so that it’s restricted to indoors or PDA with a partner. It needs these individuating factors or else it creeps into the public space and the public’s collective psychology. If it is going to be in the public space then it would need to be tempered by a far-sighted prerogative. Like, say, siring children (effectively dismissing homo content).
Because human selfishness is actually useful and moral if it’s far-sighted and rooted in stakes of some kind. Which is why bad people always argue for the “collective good” when it’s time to repossess other people’s gains but not when it’s time to reign in vulgar short-termism (hence the current regime’s love of criminals and perverts).
And I think people are not giving @Local Fed due credit: It’s good that people are recognizing that the manosphere’s slut-shaming is hypocritical, open-ended, and obviously just a way of degrading women for the crime of having dated in a market where sex is an expected perk. But shaming male sexuality is just the other sort of rubber law that can only be enforced arbitrarily.
Because human selfishness is actually useful and moral if it’s far-sighted and rooted in stakes of some kind. Which is why bad people always argue for the “collective good” when it’s time to repossess other people’s gains but not when it’s time to reign in vulgar short-termism (hence the current regime’s love of criminals and perverts).
And I think people are not giving @Local Fed due credit: It’s good that people are recognizing that the manosphere’s slut-shaming is hypocritical, open-ended, and obviously just a way of degrading women for the crime of having dated in a market where sex is an expected perk. But shaming male sexuality is just the other sort of rubber law that can only be enforced arbitrarily.
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