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- Dec 25, 2015
I think the attitude is that it’s science’s responsibility to sort out all those STDs and no-one should be shamed for getting one. It wouldn’t surprise me if getting an STD is regarded positively in some circles now, as some sort of proof you’re doing promiscuity (sorry, ‘polyamory’) properly. That and dumb pooners trying to get AIDS because that’s what all real gay men have (or something).Pooner v Troon: I started off with the opinion that MtF were vile sex pest and FtM were sad abused girls. A few years on here has changed this. I now think that MtF are demonic dangerous sex pests and FtM are delusional whiny porn addled groomers. Troons remain more dangerous simply because they’re men, and men are bigger, stronger and more aggressive. The Troon crashes in directly. He will rape, he will harass, he will go to any length to satisfy his urges. The pooner must exert her damage via more stealthy means, like grooming, , wriggling her way into committees (like the one who works for FEMA and insists alphabet people should have priority in disaster relief…) but both are repulsive affronts to humanity.
Very, very occasionally I see a pre-pointer who has clearly been horribly abused and is simply falling for a way out, but these days my sympathy for them as a group has evaporated.
When I was in my teen years AIDS was a massive thing and we had those tombstone ads everywhere telling us unprotected sex was DEATH. Do they not tell teens about STDs? Or is it that shaming being promiscuous is verboten now? Random hookups are damgerous. At best you’re getting exposed to a smorgasbord of STDs and at worst you could end up dead. It’s such a terribly risky thing to do yet it seems completely normalised to this generation.
There was something to be said for the language around disability focusing only on the negatives being overly depressing, but this newspeak-esque stuff has gone way too far with it all. Now everything anyone with even a cut finger does is somehow never to be challenged (people are difficult when they’re in pain, you bully!), and every “disability” is a badge to be flaunted.
It’s simply a case of rebelling against the previous generation/parents, but I don’t think any of us of the older generations expected it to be quite so fucking stupid. To the point where people are mauling and killing themselves, just to be somehow “different” (just like everyone else is).
There’s a sociology paper in there somewhere, I’m sure of it.