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there need to be more abortions in omegaverse stories. individuals and couples who decide to not have children, or even just put it off for a while instead of going with the flow for every oops!baby. let's all take birth control and use contraceptives, together! evidently a bunch of people are into omegaverse for babies and mpreg, but not me! gimme......   2 reply

something, something under patriarchy the only real kind of sex is penetrative, which indicates dominance and the penetrator asserting their agency over the person being penetrated -> sexual contact and aggression must involve a penis to be valid, so men (the only ones assumed to have and use penises) can dominate women, but a woman can never do th......   2 reply

you can't always stop yourself from worrying about how other people perceive you, especially when it's relevant to your general well-being and safety, but you can refocus your thoughts and energy. self-actualize! who do you want to be in the world, and how do you get there? you know who you are better than the people who make assumptions (and if yo......   1 reply

because tops are the Ultimate Men and to be the Men of all men, they must be Impenetrable. they don't get their buttholes drawn so nobody gets any ideas...   reply

it really depends. people love to trot out the "fiction doesn't affect reality" line, but it's really more complicated than saying "no real humans were harmed, so everything goes in fiction". once you're past childhood, it's not a straightforward monkey-see-monkey-do effect where people blindly repeat or mimic what they see in media. but that does......   reply

I'm surprised those teams are operating under that model because I thought that charging for translation was the one big no-no for fan-translations. for years, I'd see all those disclaimers on the credit pages of manga or tucked in somewhere in anime saying "if you paid for this, you've been ripped off". aside from how a person feels as a potential......   reply

more like there aren't many physiological differences between supposed "male" and "female" brains to begin with. I think OP means well, but trying to claim anything biologically one way or another is flawed from the start. to begin with, humans aren't very sexually dimorphic (consider the difference between male and female anglerfish, for example),......   2 reply

for my own sanity, I believe some of that is trolling, or edge for edginess' sake (doesn't make it that much better but i can't for the life of me understand being sincere about that kind of thing) . but yeah that's been a thing bubbling under the surface for quite some time now. some people blame 4chan/reddit emigrés, but it wouldn't surprise me ......   reply

depends on context, like pretty much all language. generalizations serve a cognitive and rhetorical function because you can't think or talk about everything on a case by case basis and efficiently function in life or conversation. it's good that you're able to recognize the difference in power dynamics in the instance you mentioned, because that's......   reply

once you're past childhood, it's not a straightforward monkey-see-monkey-do effect where people blindly repeat or mimic what they see in media, especially fiction. people love to trot out the "fiction doesn't affect reality" line, but it's really more complicated than saying "no real humans were harmed, so everything goes in fiction". fiction is an......   reply

the work is fiction, but the ideas, themes, and messages are real. many people go through life with their minds firmly shut to any critical thought so that they never have to face or question their own complicity or capacity for harm.   reply

it's abuse. you can't meaningfully say yes to something (a relationship) you can't meaningfully say no to. regardless of gender, whether it's parent-child, between siblings, extended family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc.), and even if there is no blood/biological relation, it's harmful. power dynamics (financial, emotional, physical, the list goes on),......   1 reply

from each according to their ability, to each according to their need! pineapple might be the only acceptable fruit to put on pizza, aside from tomatoes. EDIT: to be clear, it is acceptable for pineapple to be on pizza in the context of Hawaiian pizza, since the flavor of the pineapple is supposed to complement the flavor of the meat (ham/bacon). t......   4 reply

start by getting informed. is there an issue that you care about? you can start by investigating that. what's going on around you, and how did things get that way? build up your knowledge of history (you can start local!), economic systems, and from there you might get into political theory. it's challenging because all these things are intertwined......   1 reply

let's be real bold and say we need more omegaverse abortions :D   2 reply

whether you focus on the local or look more broadly, you can find connections between the various crises and struggles happening now. pick a place to start investigating and you can develop your understanding of the systems at play. everyone needs to develop class consciousness, posthaste! organize to seize the means of production! think globally, ......   1 reply

COSIGNED!!! hoping the creator of "an unsettling scent" practices more with coloring darker skin tones because the couple of very dark skinned characters there were looking real lifeless and inhumanly grayish. the coloring for that series is generally cool-toned and desaturated, but it could still look better even in that style. the characters the......   1 reply

sorry that you're getting hostile engagement on this, but I think it's a worthwhile drum to keep beating. it could be simple fun/titillation to present a cis character with a different set of genitals for horny purposes, but oftentimes it so glaringly has a transphobic dimension because those depictions are blatantly an excuse to avoid engaging wit......   2 reply

ultimately, fiction is where people explore, interpret, and reinterpret the things they're experiencing and observing in real life, so there's always going to be an element of reflecting and engaging with some aspect of reality and society consciously/intentionally or not, no matter how mundane or fantastical the story. BL as a genre/category is a......   reply

anything with art skill that the writing/story development woefully doesn't match up to. anything that would benefit from the author having more social awareness. every bl that uses sexual assault and/or rape to kickstart romantic and sexual development between the endgame couple. I've got a bone to pick with kim daecheon because their art and sm......   reply