But we must always focus on our goal of minimizing suffering. The path to evil comes when we focus more on us vs them and hurting the enemy than we are on building a better world. Fetishization of violence is a dangerous path.
I lament that I believe that violence and public executions are necessary, but I do. But I also don’t believe it’s sufficient. We must also build a better world.
I have, but they were a motly mix of lesbians and bi men. Also trans people of all varieties. And now that I’m thinking about it, probably some gay men too.
That’s contested. Some prefer the term bio queen/king, but others just call it drag
That tracks with the people I know who aggressively pursue liberty. Those of us with tits average about 1 out.
Shit now I kinda want to put up a statue of a French anarchist…
Yeah but if you take a bunch of Uranus and the right jokers it’s a reliable option
Lesbian here, meh I’ll accept the antibiotics if need be.
Like, they’re a good idea, but imo sex is for passion, not wisdom
Ok but other days it’s just pretty hot and a breeze against my tits would be nice, and sometimes I’ve indulged that desire. In the same place. It’s legal so why not. And yeah mostly people are doing that at left wing summer festivals, but that’s ok, it worked to normalize it within those groups.
It’s a spectrum even on an individual level
I’ve gotten my tits out in front of a cop in a red state in fhe US. Yeah people think things and it does correlate with counterculture, but fucking hell sometimes it’s too hot for a shirt
That’s not where my boobs tend to be sweaty. I’d put the window under them for that
And that makes a huge difference imo. Both are designed to be hot and gazed at, but Bayonetta is at least given watsonian agency. The character is in this way believable, because yeah the people in real life who dress super skimpy in a fashionable way are typically doing so on purpose.
The realistic version of the “hot chick who just happens to be dressing skimpy” would probably be just dressing plainly for hot weather. But it would be a distinct and interesting character design choice to have a major character in a video game just wearing cutoff shorts, a tank top, and practical sandals. That character design feels much more aimed at female players than male ones, and like if in a genre with lots of skimpy outfits would be an intentional rejection of the trope.
Yeah I think there’s this huge gap between the image on the left and say the way the parents acted in Malcolm in the Middle. The former is sexually suggestive in a sterile way. It’s like if your accountant was working in their underwear. The latter is sexual without being sexy. It’s a married couple who has a major character trait of trying to fit some boinking into any gap in the schedule they can. It doesn’t try to titilate the viewer, but instead just depicts sex as a normal part of adult life.
I’m not saying one shouldn’t have sexy characters, but when it’s emphasized the sexy should always serve the character. None of this “she breathes through her skin” nonsense. No you want a superhero in a blatantly sexual outfit, then tell us about how they’re insecure and showing skin to deal with it, or that they’re using sexuality to cope with the stress and difficulties of their job, or even just that they really like feeling hot. Have them acknowledge the sex behind the sexual choices the designers made.
I love the piercings still so I’m keeping them
It’s a little that I’m getting older and they aren’t as perky as they once were, but the main reason I wear a bra everywhere is that I’m far less comfortable with people seeing my nipple piercings through my shirt than I was with them just seeing the nipples
I’m an engineer in a factory. They hired me to double check that the factory workers use my pronouns
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Sure why not. It’ll get rid of Idaho at least
Yeah it’s a bad time to be a professional
Sorry, I used punishment in the meaning it takes when discussing abuse. Kinky punishment is consensual, including the ability to stop it at any time and to go back to just acting as equals. Kink as a whole is a form of play. Punishment in the abusive context is something either party can do, and in this specific context is referring to anything to make the other party less likely to say no the next time.
It can be something like self harming, or a long drawn out negotiation of the boundaries you tried to set or enforce. The woman who abused me routinely would talk about her history of suicidality and mental health crises, and also whenever I tried to get her to not pursue me she explicitly said she was unwilling to do so. And for the fear of being a bad sub an example might be the sub saying that anal is off limits for them, then the dom may respond with something like “I thought you were submissive, what kind of sub doesn’t even do anal”. With enough challenges to boundaries such as that they may stop voicing them or preemptively weakening them.
There isn’t suppressed anger because you set up what you’re ok with and what you want in advance. It’s ultimately play where either party can stop it at any time. Do I necessarily want to do each thing my domme says? No, but I do want to do whatever she says, and I trust her to take my needs into account and to listen when I voice issues. A D/s dynamic with suppressed anger in it is not a healthy one.
Oh yeah it’s definitely worth a try. Horrible stuff, but Chicagoans do build up a tolerance to it
Welcome to the uncomfortable morality of international relations, where you may be able to stop some evil people, but the costs may involve extreme human suffering and you may not be able to stop them.
Attacking nazi Germany is one end of the spectrum, in retrospect it was an easy choice. The Iraq war is on the other end, it went quite poorly and the internal motivations were tainted. The US war in Afghanistan is up there with it. And there’s a lot of gray areas, like theoretically attacking Myanmar today or the bombing campaign that contributed to the fall of Ghaddafi.