yes good

I love this post so much, it explains not just the amount of transphobic nonsense in left leaning media but why they keep getting so much shit other shit wrong. They really don't listen to anyone but themselves.

"The Twitter cliche that the user with an anime avatar harraging your mentions is as likely to be a nazi as communist is an easy go-to example of how fans of the same or similar works might be—obviously “fans of…” don’t universally share the same politics, identities, and beliefs."

it's worth interrogating the racial implications of interpreting people with "anime avatars" to be a homogeneous group, in the context of dismissing people for participating in the cultural output of an international subculture. not strictly related to the article but something i've been thinking about lately

"I think of some of the disturbingly hateful reactions I’ve seen over the past few years to the work of queer women who are exploring difficult, messy, incomplete feelings, as if they had done real harm by not being sufficiently perfect in their processing, depicting situations that didn’t slot neatly into the positive and self-loving way we demand that women embody."

i think that its important to be kind in interpreting and criticising works that arent out of the mouth of corporations but at the same time "messy feelings" might genuinely be troublesome and in some cases reactionary or even sort of evil, especially when dealing with the messy feelings that arise from forming your sexual/gender/Queer identity on the internet as a teenager like most of us did.

i also think that the majority of these reactions to "the work of queer women who are exploring difficult, messy, incomplete feelings" come from other "queer" people, often who probably dont run in the san francisco/portland/new york/gdc social circles and who dont have large followings like these "creators" that the op is obliquely referring to often do. social media is almost inherently designed so that the reactions to these works will be seen by the creator. i dont think its unfair to categorise these reactions of queer people interpreting creations depicting "difficult, messy, incomplete feelings" as being difficult, messy, and incomplete themselves.

This is the good shit. None of these problems will be solved without platform changes.

i wonder what her life will be like in a year

Why have I never heard of freebase nicotine before? Sounds like the real culprit here.

i really wanted to read this but my nicotine cravings just got way too strong lol

the concept of a teen wilfully saying “juuling is really what’s up" tickles me to no end. anyway these companies have gentrified cigarettes and sold them to children for profit and their executives should be drowned in the san francisco bay

i guess snus is passé now?

I am so out of touch

Honestly this article is, like, so good.

the thing with Contra is she makes good points but I really don't like her style or humour at all and it really put me off watching her videos

yea it's real good

This article goes over a books worth of stuff so yea there's a ton of things left out. I still like it tho.

this is a good article. the section talking about the declining birth rate fails to mention climate change, which is (at least among me and my 20/30something friends) the #1 reason why nobody wants to procreate. i kinda wish they'd at least mentioned it.

tbh i had no trouble with lotr as a preteen but would probably find it unreadable now.

books i hate those nerds read them

This is a book reader: 🤓

I thought it was pretty good clickbait

I understand what this list is trying to do but I just find it kinda basic lmao.

<3

lol it's good <3

i predictably like several of these >.> like fuck my dude if i and millions of other nerds had no trouble reading LOTR as preteens and you find it unreadable maybe the problem is not the book dearest editors of gq

like i mean god of course a bunch of them are problematic or written by dickheads but like idk you can read and enjoy them and acknowledge that

sorry i'm old and i grumble :p fckn performative thinkpiece bs

I like the part making fun of books

i thought you dind't read books?

Did the author insert an Overwatch Play of the Game in the middle of his article?

I mean, clearly he did, I guess I just don't understand why I live in this universe.