that doesn't even remotely look like latex gear, it's not shiny, it's not stretchy, it doesn't make me think of squeaky sounds and slippery textures and muted tactile sensations, but why do i expect that people who resort to kinkshaming understand these things in the first place?

Sorry, i can't take anybody using idpol as a buzzword seriously. I just can't. That's silly reactionary nonsense that muddles the waters between performative liberal pseudo-allyship and actually useful approaches like intersectional marxism.

Erin is usually the most thorough source for the US, i hope somebody can name a comparable British outlet as well given that it's on the forefront of fighting against trans rights in the imperial core and has some of the most openly transphobic journalists even outside of conservative sites.

This goes doubly because trans communities can be fairly well organized. I often see a very strong trans presence in queer spaces simply because we need to make up lack in numbers with determination and because we feel a stronger pressure to defend ourselves.

unbelievable levels of cringe

This is what pinkwashed capitalism gets us. I wonder if he's aware that the same advertisers will drop cis gay gossip outlets playing into respectability politics as well once transphobia has been used as a door opener to roll back the incredibly recent, still incomplete denormalization of homophobia, or if he's just the average corporate ghoul who can't think past the next three month's KPIs.

If he wouldn't just dress like any western business dork but somehow worse, you could at least call it the drip cube. As it is, it's just a dollar store version of Magneto's plastic prison from that old X-Men movie.

Nepo and the Nutritional Supplementers with their album "Songs about Restraining Orders, Vol. III"

I get it and i'm sorry if i've come across as looking to start a fight. I just feel this stuff needs to be pointed out when there's an Evangelion thread.

dude get in the fucking robot the world is ending

He's a child suffering from PTBS and depression. He barely has the spoons to do anything but lie flat on the floor, yet he is supposed to save the fucking world. ofc he struggles under that weight, that's the normal and expectable reaction in that context and it's honestly surprising that given the enormity of what is asked of him, he somehow manages to pull through. Which he does. He just (very realistically) suffers like a dog while doing it instead of being some dumbass superhero fantasy who always keeps his toothpaste smile in spite of seeing everything he knows being flattened under an apocalyptic onslaught.

The show is a callout of a toxic culture that demands duty and functionality at all times, no matter if the person in question is even remotely capable of it. I don't know if somebody without a history of depression, ADHD or other issues that can actively destroy your ability to perform even the most trivial everyday tasks is capable of understanding this, but it's actually ableist af to expect a boy like him to get reliably retraumatized over and over again without ever complaining about hand-to-hand combat against giant cosmic horrors that need to be drawn with a dwarved aircraft carrier group next to them to demonstrate their mind-rending scale . Shinji acts heroically because he almost always does what is needed, but he doesn't perform the aesthetics of what we think heroism is supposed to look like, he is visibly vulnerable and struggling instead of bottling up his pain and hanging in there for the job and because the show dares to take the needed time to appropriately portray that fight with himself, this has led to several generations of reactionary incels getting mad at him.

Not calling you a reactionary incel, mind you. I understand how you arrive at your impression, i had the same when i watched the show for the first time when i saw it on nighttime TV back in the late 90s and had only the faintest glimpse of what severe executive dysfunction looks like. But that this view is so widespread is a sign of the ableism and toxic masculinity we've all internalized to some degree.

We're ten years further away from the founding of Nirvana in 1987 than Nirvana's founding was from that of the Beatles in 1960.

This argument really depends on if we define classic rock as "older stuff" along a rolling timeline, like classic cars, or if it describes a distinct era in cultural history, like classicism.

Yeah, he's immediately dropped all of his patients the moment he started getting fanmail from transphobes. Nothing motivates this hog more than fame and having his own cult of personality.

i mean i guess i could write a bio for my profile, but i don't really see the point, this isn't twitter (thank god this isn't twitter)

I check like half of these, still have no bingo and can't even blame that on lesbophobia.

That's only because the trans flag smiley fits too well.

Once it's established enough, they will then proceed trying to remove NSFW content entirely

In that case, you can substitute ketchup.

If you store the cream cheese within viewing distance of salt and pepper, it basically counts as guacamole.

Never went to Ozora, but pre covid, i went to psytrance events in Europe on a regular basis. There was always a strong presence of Israeli DJs and promoters because psytrance is fairly huge there, but never any overt propaganda like this. What was there in regard to bad vibes where conspiracy types that often were straight-up sovereign citizens and esoteric fascists, and funnily enough these guys who where often well-connected in a community full of fans of Israeli artists where usually not too subtle about their antisemitism, either. They didn't have to be subtle, that crowd is just full of idealist and brainwormed takes, and nobody understands any racist dogwhistles. It doesn't surprise me at all that this shift to open apartheid propaganda is taking place now.