hexonxonx

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always assumed this (and assumed that other people assumed this), because if you talk to homophobes they’ll eventually say something like “it’s a choice!” because it’s a choice for them. It’s not a choice for me because gay porn doesn’t turn me on – and if it did I wouldn’t care anyway because that’s how I was raised. But it DOES turns them on, AND they were raised in an environment where this is THE WORST THING EVER, so it upsets them and they get all irrational and punchy (lesson learned: DO NOT discuss this theory with a homophobe.)

  TLDR; IMHO Homophobes who think orientation is a choice are closeted gays because logic.

  It would be nice to see a better study. Interesting if one hasn’t been done in all this time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans are brainwashed to believe that there’s only one particular and specific way to protest, and beyond that all you can do is kill people.

  They haven’t yet realized that there is a huge swathe of options in between, and it requires no organization or depending on others, and no violence against anyone. You can just quietly do stuff. Probably less risky than doing anything publicly in a country with ubiquitous surveillance and the law no longer matters. Protests are great for showing the level of public support for a movement, but if the government doesn’t represent the people their effect will be minimal for producing real change.

  There currently is no cost for ventures into fascism. Make it so expensive they’ll think twice next time (if there is a next time.)