but the Democrats need to listen and appeal to them more
“calling me evil for my immutable characteristics”
almost the exact same phrase as in that “im a man who escaped the alt-right pipeline except i obviously didn’t, and it’s so hard for me to support marginalized people because leftists are so misandrist” post that this site is currently slobbering over
One of the many, many reasons I have less than zero sympathy for these men is that what they purport to want, their “birthright” – heterosexual sex with women – has literally never been easier to obtain at any point whatsoever in U.S. history (or, indeed, the history of many countries, but right now we’re talking about U.S. politics).
A straight man has more access to heterosexual sex than ever! The world is his symbolically yonic oyster!
There are abundant dating and hookup apps, bars, and other physical and virtual spaces used for finding a mate.
Laws governing sexual behavior between consenting adults are more lenient than ever (for now, no thanks to the fascists you voted for) and less constrained by social stigma than ever. Safe, effective birth control is widely available, and the risk of unintended pregnancy, while never zero, is lower than ever (again, for now, no thanks to the fascists you voted for).
Like. If your great-great-grandpa wanted to get laid, he might have had to get married. Or hire a professional. You don’t have to do any of that!
There are a multitude of horny straight women with minimal standards! You don’t have to be rich or handsome or anything! All you have to do is put yourself out there and not be actively repellent to the women you want to have sex with.
And you won’t do that! Because you don’t think you should have to meet that absolute bare minimum threshold.
The bar isn’t even on the ground; it’s helpfully buried underground so no one will trip on it! And you show up with an excavator!
You don’t actually want sex with women! If you wanted that, you could have it. But that’s not what you want.
You want a Barbie-shaped virgin who will have sex with you and only you the moment she meets you, and will be forever loyal to you, while also leaving you free to have sex with other Barbie-shaped virgins who will also be forever loyal to you, and who will never “trap” you with pregnancy, but also will willingly birth and raise your children with no expectation of any input from you, and also cook and clean for you while you play video games featuring Barbie-shaped pixelated cartoon women and throw a tantrum if one of them has pores.
That doesn’t exist. That has never existed. That will never exist. So you became a fascist about it.
I will not and will never pretend that this is in any way rooted in “valid concerns” or need for “better outreach” or those mean nasty feminists said “men suck” so now you’re a misogynist fascist.
I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i’m not even remotely kidding
Very much in line with the attitude of “this choice will marginally improve the way I move through the world and make everyone else’s experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse, but I don’t really care, based simply on the fact that I am allowed to do it and there’s nothing they can or will do to stop me” ya feel me?
It was huge, it was ambitious, it was so far beyond my skills that I couldn’t even figure out how to start.
So I took ten years, practiced every piece of craft the book required, and when I found the entrance, hoo-boy. I wrote the whole damn thing in six weeks flat.
the reason why Neil Gaiman’s news was so shocking for his fans was because it made us rethink all the men we consider safe.
and the possibility of those men not being actually safe is devastating.
I don’t know if it was really Margaret Atwood who first said ‘Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.’ but she was not wrong. Not by a long shot.
not lost on me that the conversation around white women voting for trump is “dumb bitches voting against their own rights, can’t trust them ever” while the narrative for white men is “oh no how can we get them back*? we must have hurt their feelings, we need to be nicer to them!”
*we never had them to begin with
(to be clear, neither I nor anyone reblogging this post is saying that conservative white women get a pass for letting prejudice dominate their voting priorities. it’s just that the response is WILDLY different between genders of white Trumpers)
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