Yep. I’m 35 and old enough to remember life before the internet blew up and how much promise for a better world it held.
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It’s been less than two years since a gunman shot 48 people dead at a nightclub in Orlando, and already that’s been…
I love the idea of that time and what happened, rather than the reality.
Guinea Pig on a cart relates to nothing in my life, but it is somehow magically precisely the thing I needed at the moment I saw it. Thank you.
It’s changed from “having a library” in your home to having the “grossest bathroom stall from a sketchy gas station along I-95" in your home.
This is precisely why I hate Facebook.
Classic troll behavior. They’re so miserable that they think making others online feel miserable will somehow make them feel better about themselves. It doesn’t work.
Ugh. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to reference the Marquis. The point here is *mainstreaming* of sexual violence. And the increase in availability is hardly “slight”. In the 1700's, this shit was practically unheard of in everyday life and certainly socially verboten. Fast-forward to 2017 and my…
Why? Because they can. Because people like this are so utterly forgettable and powerless in their own lives that they resort to these tactics. They can literally sit and watch the shares and retweets and ongoing commentary explode. All because the perpetrator made a couple of clicks and typed up a few sentences.
I’m not sure it’s so much about cultural fictions as it is about basic human tribal instincts. One of the most disturbing things about the rise of Trump and his horrible buddies is that they have taken our most basic human social norms, and used them against us, as the citizens.
In case you weren’t aware, the British Library has a fantastic Flickr account. Weirdly, though, all the images are…
The relationship between porn and the sexual behavior of porn-consumers is complicated and not clearly understood by anyone. Arguing that there’s no evidence for a link between the rising pervasiveness of rough-to-violent porn and a rise in aggressive behavior within standard “consensual” sex is, itself, specious. And…
We spent generations, centuries even, learning the idea that because something was in print, it was generally reliable. Because it cost the printer money to print it, and there were consequences to both author and printer if it was not accurate.
Fuck, this is why I’m really hating the internet. Years ago we thought the internet was going to make the world a better place because everyone was going to be more informed on different cultures and ideas.
Why do people perpetrate online hoaxes? Why do people shoot from a 32 story building? Why do people vote for Trump? Why do people throw a kitten out of a moving car (my foster cat)? Why do people abuse loved ones? Why do people drive PT Cruisers? I just don’t know anymore. People are crazy, that’s all I got.
Because some people are assholes?
Young men are growing up thinking that rough anal sex is what chicks really want. I’d include more sources if I had loads of time, but here’s one:
I was naive and I had hope it was more of a case of her possibly exposing some fraud he committed, and him killing her when he realized she was on to him. But no, it’s another case of man killing a woman all so he can get his rocks off.
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