when people are arguing against socialism or communism or frankly even, like, the welfare state, they're always like "well no one is entitled to the product of my labor!" and ohhh maaaan are you ever going to be mad when you learn about capitalism, then. ive got the biggest news for you about the economic model under which you currently live. you might wanna sit down
this is how 99% of TME people on this app (probably irl too) treat trans women & conversations around our infertility. but it’s actually worse because they fail to understand that infertility is the basis & justification for our oppression. i’ve talked about this more in depth on my page & wont stop because people are uniquely weird towards trans women & i’m tired of pretending they’re not.
guys….,, being friends, like actual friends, with people you have systemic privilege over is going to involve some good-natured ribbing. it’s going to involve them complaining about [insert privileged group you belong to] in front of you or even to you. that’s not a personal attack, it’s because they think you’re cool enough to hang. it’s because they think they can express their frustration to you without you attacking them. you really want to prove them wrong?
And trying to argue you don't have privilege is really uncool
this is also what i mean when i say callouts are the least effective ways to root out even genuinely bad actors (and that is assuming they're made in good faith to genuinely unmask harmful people). it universally descends into sprurious claims and appeals to a "base" morality and normalcy, and things like "this person has fabricated their history" or "this person has actually molested a child" get lost in all the "this person likes to smoke pot when having chronic pain" and "this person once made a discreet dick joke in a public server where a 16 year old might have seen it" which all get treated on the same level of severity. often very petty personal grievances from spiteful people will be thrown in too. and then as a result genuine harm victims have faced is obsfucated and it's entirely easy to dismiss the whole thing as fabrication when the ops of the callout are clearly frothing at the mouth with a bloody grin in their excitement to Drop A Bombshell
at the risk of sounding like a boomer i dont get gooning
like is it just jacking it multiple times a day or is there something im missing here
From what I understand it originally referred to a specific fetish, but it got stolen and is now just the new way to call someone something akin to "porn addict", "degenerate" or anything else to that effect.
To talk about the original fetish though, from what I understand it's a response to all the "porn addiction" hysteria. Basically, the idea that consuming this content can turn you into some sort of brain-dead pleasure drone who only wants to keep consuming. Essentially, Gooners (the fetishists themselves) are a bunch of people who think that it would be really hot if porn addiction was a real thing. I've seen it compared to hypno, except instead of another person it's the content itself that is doing the hypnosis. The whole idea of getting a bunch of monitors and having porn on all of them, or hiding away in a "goon cave" isn't actually about the porn itself. It's about the idea of it, the idea of having your brain turned to mush as you melt into being a hedonistic drone concerned only with your own pleasure, enslaved by the fake world on the other side of the screen, able only to make yourself feel good.
I remembered seeing this image floating around here a while ago because people found it amusing, but I went looking for it again because I think it's a good example of the whole phenomenon:
I myself am not a gooner. I am not a primary source on this matter, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt. But I do have respect for them, to see a whole ass moral panic and then to decide to touch your junk about it shows the unstoppable drive of humanity. That you can never keep a horny person down. It's counter cultural and subversive, a celebration of what is scorned that does not try to make itself acceptable, but instead leverages its unacceptability to push into new territory. Gooners are majestic animals and they have my respect.
It does suck that people keep ruining kink/fetish terms. It's one of my more niche takes, and one I don't talk about much, but I do kind of lowkey think that Charli XCX owes the kink community an apology for what she did to the word "Brat". That shit must be hell for all the actual Brats out there.
remember when palworld first came out and people expected us to care that nintendo's intellectual property was being disrespected for some reason
