mekka okereke Nov 6

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this?

Embarrassing.

Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins."

Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

Show threadCharlie StrossNov 6
@mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg Good grief. There's NO SUCH THING as "conservative feminism"! All you've got when you drill down is I've-got-mine Mammonism and patriarchy—Aunt Lydia in a nutshell.
Show threadFear and Tooting in Las VegasNov 6
@cstross @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg @mhoye There was a recent spate of "tradwives" articles floating around out there as well, I just assumed from the headline that this was just a variation on a theme.
Show threadmhoyeNov 6
@steevmi1 @cstross @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg I've always assumed that the tradwife thing was a dom/sub roleplay fetish that escaped containment when somebody who got off on it decided they had enough of a pulpit to start talking about their kinks like they should be a public policy issue, and this nonsense is just in the water now half a mile downriver.
Show threadLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸

@mhoye @steevmi1 @cstross @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg

Oh, good. I thought I was the only one who finds tradwives to look and act like a kink.

Conservatives are always telling on themselves.

Nov 6 at 4:01pmWeb
Show threadCharlie StrossNov 6
@realtegan @mhoye @steevmi1 @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg Looking at their behaviour I think authoritarian conservatives are in fact a kink community—but a 100%-closeted one, kept in line by guilt and shame. Basically a no-fun-house mirror image of what a healthy kink community should look like.
Show threadLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Nov 6

@cstross @mhoye @steevmi1 @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg

That's the only reason "homophobia" and "transphobia" make sense as labels. They aren't afraid OF them, they are afraid they ARE them.

It feels like ninety percent of the hate is jealousy that they can't enjoy being themselves.

Show threadCharlie StrossNov 6

@realtegan @mhoye @steevmi1 @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg

Remember those surveys OKCupid and Pornhub used to release, showing how their US user base was mostly in the Deep South and concentrated heavily in evangelical areas? (And you've got to have noticed the "sex abuser/pastor-or-republican" overlap in the news.)

Show threadLaura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Nov 6

@cstross @mhoye @steevmi1 @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg
I was raised very conservative Christian, and I *know* the guilt and self-hatred involved in all this.

The difference between me and them is that I don't blame other people for my hang-ups, and I love it when other people are happy.

Plus, I freed myself of much of the guilt (although that stuff is soaked in deep, it's taking awhile to remove it), so I'm happy with myself now, too.

Show threadMisuse CaseNov 6
@cstross @realtegan @mhoye @steevmi1 @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg This is how I see them too. They have some sex issues and unlike normal people they have to make their issues everyone else’s problem.