This feels like prurient interest to me. IMHO you need to stop paying so much attention to this trash and giving it so much free publicity. Twitter itself is toxic and there's a good reason why I don't look at it or subscribe to it, and hence I really don't want to get emails that bash me with the noxious dregs of social media I avoid like the plague. At this point, why say you're off social media? You're still reading it and repeating it and distributing it. Break that addiction, it's not healthy and all it does is feed the outrage machine.
Apr 20, 2022·edited Apr 20, 2022Liked by Rhyd Wildermuth
This whole thing is fucking vile: From the videos themselves, to the Libs of TikTok account for cynically and exploitatively showcasing the vidoes, and to the right-wing now using the videos for a wholesale assault on liberals and gay people in education--by labeling them as "groomers" and/or outright pedophiles. We are now just one small step away from all gay men being considered suspected pedophiles--and judging by recent and, sadly, too predictable history this is probably where this is headed. And again, becasue this is America, this will probably get innocent people hurt or killed.
You can kind of see that interplay here, between the people who make the videos that end up on "libs of TikTok", the person who runs the account, and the Washington Post reporter that did the story people are discussing. Plenty of grandiose, aggressive, and manipulative behavior to go around.
You can tell there's a certain malicious intent behind this account, or else they would contextualise and offer a bigger diversity (no pun intended) of content, especially all that racialist shit some "white" Wokes say. Stuff that would shout out "this is a left-wing page" to all those indulging rightwingers and seem more honestly concerned from a critical perspective.
Omg the uterus in a Jar is amazing tho 🤣💕 Do you even know how hard it is to get one of those taken out?? Not even for a trans person, which is probably even harder but just for freaking anyone. So many women try so hard to get doctors to agree and ahahah in what world would we have control over a little thing like our bodies. Cause NOPE. If you have say endometriosis, debilitating period pain, no desire for children, suicidal period related depression every month, endless bleeding, endless pain, a family history of a related cancer...! Good fucking luck. No doctor is going to agree. You want the whole thing out? So that say your endometriosis can stop gluing your insides together? Nope, sorry you need to live in pain until you're past childrearing age JUST in case you decide you wanted a baby after all. Meanwhile men wanting a vasectomy it's like yeah no problem ur choice dude. Uteruses do cause a lot of health problems for some people.
Anyway I've never seen a uterus and fallopian tubes, that's wild and I am kind of delighted. It's so small! Fascinating. I 100% understand wanting to see it and even keeping it as a trophy 🤣 it probably represents a major achievement over many doctors who think your main reason for existing is to have one and use it to pump out babies
(unless you're say Indigenous or visibly disabled in which case lbr they'll probably be falling over themselves to tie your tubes cause eugenics is so fun am I right 🙃😩)
This feels like prurient interest to me. IMHO you need to stop paying so much attention to this trash and giving it so much free publicity. Twitter itself is toxic and there's a good reason why I don't look at it or subscribe to it, and hence I really don't want to get emails that bash me with the noxious dregs of social media I avoid like the plague. At this point, why say you're off social media? You're still reading it and repeating it and distributing it. Break that addiction, it's not healthy and all it does is feed the outrage machine.
This whole thing is fucking vile: From the videos themselves, to the Libs of TikTok account for cynically and exploitatively showcasing the vidoes, and to the right-wing now using the videos for a wholesale assault on liberals and gay people in education--by labeling them as "groomers" and/or outright pedophiles. We are now just one small step away from all gay men being considered suspected pedophiles--and judging by recent and, sadly, too predictable history this is probably where this is headed. And again, becasue this is America, this will probably get innocent people hurt or killed.
One layer of interest in all of this is that there's a fair amount of troubling research about social media and narcissism (for example, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/digital-world-real-world/201909/narcissism-and-social-media-should-we-be-afraid). This is, of course, on top of the general trend that society has been becoming more narcissistic for the last 40-50 years (not just in the US), as tracked by psychologists.
You can kind of see that interplay here, between the people who make the videos that end up on "libs of TikTok", the person who runs the account, and the Washington Post reporter that did the story people are discussing. Plenty of grandiose, aggressive, and manipulative behavior to go around.
Regarding Libs of TikTok...this made me laugh:
https://babylonbee.com/news/leftists-worried-libs-of-tiktok-account-making-them-look-bad-by-just-sharing-their-actual-words
You can tell there's a certain malicious intent behind this account, or else they would contextualise and offer a bigger diversity (no pun intended) of content, especially all that racialist shit some "white" Wokes say. Stuff that would shout out "this is a left-wing page" to all those indulging rightwingers and seem more honestly concerned from a critical perspective.
Omg the uterus in a Jar is amazing tho 🤣💕 Do you even know how hard it is to get one of those taken out?? Not even for a trans person, which is probably even harder but just for freaking anyone. So many women try so hard to get doctors to agree and ahahah in what world would we have control over a little thing like our bodies. Cause NOPE. If you have say endometriosis, debilitating period pain, no desire for children, suicidal period related depression every month, endless bleeding, endless pain, a family history of a related cancer...! Good fucking luck. No doctor is going to agree. You want the whole thing out? So that say your endometriosis can stop gluing your insides together? Nope, sorry you need to live in pain until you're past childrearing age JUST in case you decide you wanted a baby after all. Meanwhile men wanting a vasectomy it's like yeah no problem ur choice dude. Uteruses do cause a lot of health problems for some people.
Anyway I've never seen a uterus and fallopian tubes, that's wild and I am kind of delighted. It's so small! Fascinating. I 100% understand wanting to see it and even keeping it as a trophy 🤣 it probably represents a major achievement over many doctors who think your main reason for existing is to have one and use it to pump out babies
(unless you're say Indigenous or visibly disabled in which case lbr they'll probably be falling over themselves to tie your tubes cause eugenics is so fun am I right 🙃😩)