Jennifer
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Jennifer
@shulamithfires
22, Writer https://t.co/TeTSVOv0Y7
Chicago Katılım Nisan 2022
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@Ichbins8 @Sturgeons_Law I don't think the left is going to reject gay marriage soon. But you already see top democrat consultants saying we need to abandon trans people, reject feminism, and go even further right on anti-immigrant rhetoric. And new trump admin def wants to ignore "state rights."
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It's really a mix of two things. First, many liberals didn't like this stuff or soured on it and were looking for an excuse to get off the train, which Trump's election gives them. Second, businesses are scared of losing money or being punished by governments that oppose this.
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@Sturgeons_Law @Ichbins8 I know what you mean. I think I'm just less confident that we "won't go back to that." The most popular media now is podcasters, streamers and pornography. And for one example, the most popular podcasters are pretty right wing. Some do openly hate trans people.
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@Ichbins8 @shulamithfires The virulent bigotry of today is partly a reaction to a decade of losing on these issues. I don't mean to downplay current bigotry when I say that the mid-2000s were worse for trans people. That was the era when The Daily Show was openly mocking them. We're not going back to that
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@Ichbins8 @Sturgeons_Law I was very young. I'm not trying to make some qualitative judgement that things are definitely worse now. More to say I don't think things are definitely better now, especially given that Trump has not even reentered office yet. We don't really know what's to come yet.
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@shulamithfires @Sturgeons_Law I suspect you weren't around for the early 2000s or 90s.
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@Sturgeons_Law I don't agree. Virulent misogyny, transphobia and racism are becoming more and more visible again, along with a general cruelty; all with an incoming aspiring theocratic authoritarian government ready to politically enforce these bigotries. It feels like the dam is about to burst
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Worth noting that their retreat is mostly to a view that's still more "progressive" than the pre-2010s one, bc of how much the needle has moved since then. Focus on kids is partly due to many right-wingers resigning themselves to accepting trans adults, like they did w gay people
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@Sturgeons_Law If only modern fanfic was anywhere close to the quality of Paradise Lost lol
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A lot of people like stretching the definition of fanfiction to pretend enemies-to-lovers erotica about children's videogame characters is the same kind of thing as Paradise Lost.
lizi :3@lizeok
a lot of people don’t seem to realize how much published literature was a fanficition first
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One of the main reasons for trump's success is that he understands voters are idiots and speaks to them on their level. It's all Id.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
The implicit message of a lot the recent Discourse among Democrats is "How can we get these idiots to vote for us?" and the answer may be that the first step is to understand that they're not idiots.
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We're gonna lose so bad. All people know how to do now is turn everything into a meme and empty aesthetic, and a way to perform a commodified, disembodied sexuality. Amusing ourselves to death for real.
Sana Saeed@SanaSaeed
yeah, we have not yet even begun to process what we’re in the midst of
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@TheLincoln I think the "show not tell" advice is another common reason for this. It makes writers think they can't just "tell" readers what the character thinks through an interior monologue but instead have to always "show" it via describing/depicting actions.
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Was just working on an essay about the disappearing interiority in fiction and fiction that seems to trying to describe TV scenes...
My 2 cents is that it's almost always best to lean into a medium's strengths instead of its weaknesses.
Peter Raleigh@PetreRaleigh
Sincerely not trying to be unkind: an unintuitive but genuine piece of writing advice I have is that if you approach narrative prose as a means to describe a picture or "video" from your mind it is probably going to end up pretty bad
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@lemonlikelady It's the naiveite and bigotry of it that frustrates me. A lot of people hold this romantic view of white "working class" coded men in particular and seem ready to team up with these people to form their own red-brown anti-establishment fascist alliance😭
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@lemonlikelady Yes it's expected. But some leftists love to confuse every instance of anti-establishment, kill the rich, sentiment with people being on the "left" or sympathetic to the "left." But honestly I think the majority of these people in the US are more early fascists than lefties rn.
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You people will treat your cats and dogs with more dignity than your loved ones who are faced with a slow painful death and no hope of their terminal illness improving.
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Gotta be honest, this response is so horrifying to me. Yeah the “Not My President” messages in 2016 were stupid but I’m not gonna “this is fine” a guy running on the biggest mass deportation in American history
kang@jaycaspiankang
Just anecdotally, the libs in my life who range from maxi Berkeley lib to irony poisoned media lib all seem pretty accepting of the election and not super panicked. Some exceptions but nothing even in the same galaxy as 2016.
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This is definitely a real phenomenon, but another truth many would prefer not to acknowledge is that many white women were happy to benefit from the feminist victories that suited them, but their views on gender roles never shifted all that meaningfully
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