eugenics is a big scary word and yet people that would claim to be left-leaning can very easily be convinced to be pro-eugenics if you just never use the word. like oh you think “dumb people” shouldnt be allowed to reproduce? you think “dumb people” shouldnt be allowed to have children? its kinda scary
remember kids:
evolution is a stochastic phenomenon and that is a feature, not a bug
we cannot predict the future. we do not know what traits will be helpful or not in future scenarios for the survival of our or any other species.
Eugenics is, fundamentally, an expression of human hubris. it’s the idea that we know better, we know what we need, and we should control everyone around us to do it.
That is patently nonsense. Sure, in our current world, being blind is a disadvantage (mostly thanks to society) - but there are many animals that lost their sight because it was a benefit. And that’s the tip of the iceberg.
We cannot predict the future. We do not know what will be helpful or hurtful. We should trust in the chaotic, stochastic, random processes of evolution because they’ve worked so far - life survived a giant volcano 252 million years ago and an asteroid 66 million years ago. The process works.
Whenever humans try to control nature - not work with it, control - it goes poorly. And so many people still think that that’s a viable option. It’s madness.
Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is… drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren’t joining this site anyway, you’re not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.
Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can’t keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You’d kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.
This site is inherently horny. I mean that 100%. The amount of depraved and deviant shit I see posted on this website is immeasurable, and I don’t mean that to demean, it’s just the truth. People on this site aren’t just normal horny, they are horny in ways you can’t possibly understand.
This? The way this site is horny now? This is with a porn ban in place. It bursts from the seams and can’t be fully contained. If they revoke the porn ban and open that floodgate, it’ll be insane. Endless piles of horny freaks all returning and freely posting over and over. Freely posting porn on Tumblr after the ban would be like coke after lent.
Trans-exclusionary feminism, white feminism, girlboss feminism, … are all a useful tool of the patriarchy. It leaves behind hope for a better world and its adherents become entrenched in the current societal model. No big changes can be operated if you take away some women from the equation because you think they are too loud, because you find them “unhygienic”… They are stagnant ideologies because in seeking rights for women, if you leave some women behind, that’s not women’s rights : it’s rights to a specific social class of women. Intersectionality is primordial in women’s lib, because we are not all the same woman. And if you break one of those social classes, you end up with a mess that only benefits those in power.
If you break transgender women off, you break from their allies, then you break from those that don’t fit into your idea of womanhood, and then you are left with what society wants women to be.
If you break women of colour off, you break from their allies, then you break from those that don’t conform to white standards, and then you are left with what a white supremacist society wants to be.
If you break poor women off, … Well you just become the same as our oppressors and we know you will only be an ally to yourself, left with what capitalism wants society to be.
“It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven’t left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are. A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn’t transition well to adult life, that you’d fall right through the cracks. And look at you now, it’s happening.”
if you want to make a wine person very unhappy, say that a white wine they like “is giving me a little green bell pepper?”
RED WINE
honestly the only two questions you need to start credibly talking about red wine are “does it taste like red fruits (strawberry/cherry/raspberry) or black fruits (blackberry/plum)?” and “does it taste oaky (i.e. gently sweet and earthy in a way youd associate with coffee or chocolate or warming spices)
if its a fancy dry wine (not a dessert wine, not port, manischewitz or markovic) dont say "sweet,” say “juicy”
FIZZY WINE
if its red and fizzy its probably a lambrusco
if youre drinking champagne talk about the “minerality,” even chalk notes if youre feeling gutsy. you dont have to taste it just say it
ORANGE WINE
this is very trendy. youre gonna want to talk about its “funkiness.” if you use the term “gym socks” at the right time you will get a round of laughs or at least knowing nods. if you see shmutz in the bottom dont worry about it.
MISC
if you want a wine person to talk for a while and not ask you any questions just ask them how they feel about natural wine. theyll go on for a little and you can decide to agree or disagree based on how hot they are
