"Consent" is such a loaded term that it can immediately reframe "discomfort" into "harm"; in a time when trans women get pedojacketed over the stupidest shit & any person of color can be dehumanized over being labeled "degenerates" and "perverts". We need people to Get a grip - ThreadSky

littlestpersimmon.bsky.social • 8 days ago

"Consent" is such a loaded term that it can immediately reframe "discomfort" into "harm"; in a time when trans women get pedojacketed over the stupidest shit & any person of color can be dehumanized over being labeled "degenerates" and "perverts". We need people to Get a grip

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shockpine.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Never seen someone make this point and you put it very very well. I’ve encountered this kind of correlation firsthand with discomfort treated as experiencing a direct act of harm and its ughhhhh.

littlestpersimmon.bsky.social•8 days ago

"I didn't consent to seeing that" is pointless. It's not harm. You need to learn to address being uncomfortable without trying to arrange random people online to an HOA meeting because you saw something you didn't like

littlestpersimmon.bsky.social•8 days ago

I just saw a long terf post talk about how so many trans women singers were only singing highly sexual songs (insinuating it was disparaging of women, that trans women can only view womanhood as a caricature) .. look at my "leftist" parasites dawggg we're going to hell

littlestpersimmon.bsky.social•8 days ago

What conservatism does to a mf

ghoulish-rosemary.bsky.social•7 hours ago

LMAO and yet i’ve had to listen to sabrina carpenter every time i’ve left the house….for the last year…like this is just the era for ladies right now, its sexual exploration discussion honesty and desire time…….obvi trans ladies are going to be part of the same era !! ppl r so dumb hateful n puritan

goatsarah.org•8 days ago

TIL: Madonna is trans

amalvavisco.bsky.social•8 days ago

"I didn't consent to seeing that" could be easily reframed to refer to a gay couple kissing I feel like some people who dress progressive are one step away from that

The amount of "seeing people kissing in public makes me uncomfy" discourse I've seem scares me because any amount of that is TOO MUCH

nitrowolfe.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The sad and frustrating part is that this ALREADY happens. Over and over again, especially during Pride festivities, and particularly aimed at those wearing "risqué" outfits (i.e., literally anything remotely revealing) and then often framed as "oh but what if a child sees"

bluebullpen.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Absolutely insane that the left adopted the uber-conservative "think of the children" and even expanded it to "it hurts the adults too".

clefafterdark.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I think there's a link between how content algorithms have eroded people's ability to curate their own experience online and this pattern of "helpless puratinism." A site presents folks with a thing they don't like, but they refuse to change their behavior or take control of their own experience.

clefafterdark.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The justification chain being:

They can't be at fault, because they're a good person, and good people aren't "assaulted" like this.

The algorithm can't be at fault because the algorithm is (supposedly) objective and tailored to them

Therefore, the content creator must be the one at fault, and grr

hollowhuldra.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I don't know why ppl don't just do this like i do and move on

hollowhuldra.bsky.social•50 minutes ago

Idk if the gif loads but

penemuesquill.bsky.social•8 days ago

There is a pendulum effect in society whenever paradigms are moved. The right of consent is a fairly new concept, and in the process of finding out exactly how and when it should be used, it is misapplied and abused. Sometimes deliberately to discourage change.

gaycannibalism.bsky.social•3 hours ago

With fiction withdrawing consent is closing the book or closing the app

modestyjorts.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I recently found out the concept of "right to comfort" that describes white supremacy culture's need to prioritize white people's feelings over others' wellbeing. It helped put a lot into perspective for me that we are taught to value feelings over survival, even to equate discomfort to violence

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