built_on_hope [she/her]

I tried one time, got 50 pages in and gave up. Would it have killed him to use like. Slightly less convoluted sentence structure

This is so moronic. The way they call it “blue skies” as if it was done for aesthetic / PR reasons. Five seconds ago they were moaning about the smog and how china’s killing the planet

Thank you for listening

Of course beauty standards can be incredibly damaging, but you or a subset of men or society saying “I prefer a different/less makeup based standard” isn’t helping to dissolve the damage, it just reinforces the existence of standards. It can also shame people, including unintentionally, for wearing makeup in the first place. It’s a lose/lose situation for us. We get told to look a certain way and then told “I prefer it actually when you look a different way”.

The better way to dissolve the power of the standards set by our capitalist society and cosmetic industry is to reorient the conversation about beauty away from standards of any kind and towards personal expression.

Have you considered that people wear makeup because they want to / enjoy it, and not just to align with what others might see as attractive? When I wear makeup I like to experiment with different looks and take my time because it’s an act of self care and expression.

Kind of disappointed in the number of comrades ITT who have the patriarchal “natural beauty is better” brainworms tbh

Debatebro culture has a lot to answer for. And twitter, for that matter. Before that at least most political arguments online were somewhat long-form in my experience. (I grew up on the Gaiaonline “Extended Discussion” boards lmao.) Now it’s all about trying to shut it down as definitively as possible within an arbitrarily small character limit. Hexbear is genuinely the only place I see anyone engaging in lengthy discussion nowadays

I’m pretty convinced that most of the worst internet behaviour is linked to poor dopamine regulation. They just want that sweet hit of satisfaction from the “gotcha” moment, the feeling of “winning” without having to expend any effort. When it’s called out they have nowhere to go other than trying to “win” again with a more extreme/absurd “gotcha”.

Why do these people always have the same insufferable tone of “I refuse to engage with your arguments, not because I don’t understand them or don’t have anything meaningful to respond with, but because I am at a higher level of evolution than you simpletons. Having no opinions is the ultimate proof of intellectual rigour” grhshahhshd

I just read some of the comments in the first thread you linked and whew. It’s just thoughtless lib regurgitation countered by pages of material analysis which elicit no response or the most milquetoast “interesting!” from people who will clearly never click a single resource linked

All I can say is, infinite flowers for the comrades posting on the frontlines of the war on brainworms

Honestly I know it’s minimal but I kind of feel heartened that libs did even this. The people joining this will get some experience of being part of something, maybe they’ll go on to join more movements/orgs. I know we like shitting on libs but these people have taken some baby steps

I should not have read that while eating breakfast.

May want to add some content warnings?