I am like if they made a turbo-fujoshi but for incest instead of yaoi.

It feels like in the last 10 years of so people shifted their perception of science, technology, and even “nerds” as a category towards seeing them as right-wing but when I was growing up it was the exact opposite.

The atheist skeptic types who knew about science and critical thinking were considered the progressive archetype standing in opposition to religious fundamentalists, anti-vaxxers, and bigots in general.

And this change in perception is, in my opinion, not remotely justified and seems based more on antipathy to a couple of overly popular celebrities and the specter of “fedora reddit atheists” rather than anything concrete. Atheists are consistently one of the most progressive demographics still, and education also has a protective effect against right-wing demagoguery.

Cultures evolving and changing is morally neutral and a normal consequence of just existing at all in a world with shifting conditions and values. This isn’t inherently bad in the first place. You can probably even think about at least 3 aspects of your culture that you’d like to change.

For example, I would like it if the role of paterfamilias died out for real. There’s still a lot of fathers out there who treat their wife and children like their property.

I would also like it if society was a little bit less sexist but whenever I say that someone shows up talking about how their emotional support sexism is actually super valuable and must be maintained. This has happened more than once.

This is reminding me of a blatantly untrue myth people on this site used to share when trying to describe the popularity and appeal of yaoi, which is that it allows women to get more progressive romance stories because in a gay relationship there’s no sexist power dynamics.

But that raises questions like “Why not yuri then? Why is that not nearly as popular?” or “But haven’t you noticed that a lot of yaoi goes out of its way to have toxic power dynamics regardless? Like with the whole omegaverse thing?”

Just seemed like an excuse to avoid admitting the simpler explanation even though it’s completely fine: They just find the men hot.

It would be nice to reclaim transfeminism from the people who are fixated on how throwing slurs at nonbinary people is supposedly liberating.

In practice believing in things like karma, magical thinking, and the universe being fundamentally “fair” can result in some of the most extreme victim blaming imaginable.

I saw this firsthand in my parents, who were both into this kind of bullshit.

For example, believing that anyone in the world could become rich if they actually wanted to. Therefore, if someone is not rich that’s their own fault for not wanting it badly enough.

And then there’s the general idea that, if the world is fair, if something terrible happens to someone then the victim is to blame somehow, even if just by having bad thoughts (which they thought could attract misfortune).

My father even used to say that if someone was ever depressed it was always their own fault and a sign of being stupid. When the stress of his abuse started causing me physical symptoms he used this reasoning to displace the blame onto me as well (and when my mother also started getting sick - also due to stress - he blamed that on me too).

Just the other day I learned that trans 4channers have been inventing terms like “soulpassing” to describe how much they fit gender stereotypes, which they treat like it’s aspirational.

e.g. “I don’t soulpass because I like playing Halo more than applying makeup. It’s over.”

I don’t even know what to say to that. Just being trans on its own really isn’t enough for people to leave the cage, I guess. I already knew that, though.