The nice & accurate prophecies of a pretty high White guy
Former Yt fundie Mennonite trying to just be a decent White guy. I get high and I know things. Sometimes I get some interesting ideas. Sometimes I write that shit down. Overeducated and underemployed. I got issues. Lot's of issues. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Mostly harmless. But it's publish or perish out here baby, so if you publish on one of my ideas w/o my name on the paper I'll be waiting in your closet some night.
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imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora
the portland state university president has promised to pause taking money from boeing before protests have even begun. do not accept the narrative that students aren't achieving anything or that the demands are stupid, small, inactionable: the demands are just, thought-out, precedented, and they will be achieved. i hope everyone who thinks otherwise corrects their judgment.
This is what people who are used to LGBTQ+ and sex being normal. Homophobia, despite its name, is rooted not in fear, but in disgust.
And that is why homophobia is so hard to change people on. We've been propagandized since babies and that disgust is so deeply ingrained it's impossible to get rid of. Or at least it doesn't go away anytime soon.
I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to see my homosexual friends show affection without that disgust blazing through my brain. It feels rooted in my soul. And that is a source of sorrow and shame.
Shame is the other issue.
There's the shame of feeling bad feelings towards people we know we ought not. And that is strong pressure to hold onto things like fundamentalist interpretations of certain scripture pages or calling things "unnatural" and making quasi scientific arguments. And to escape by getting rid of the people who reveal our shameful feelings.
And there is the shame and disgust and fear (ok, some fear in homophobia) of our own sexual feelings and the need to escape them by getting rid of the people who elicit those sexual feelings.
And there's the disgust, fear, and shame that a guy might come onto you and your disgust mixed with fear of any sexual feelings that might come with that. And so we get defensive, violent, mean, exclusionary, derisive, etc. to "protect" ourselves from it all. And we try to escape by getting rid of the people who elicit those feelings.
All of this is incredibly harmful to ourselves. But it is far, far more harmful to our queer neighbors, friends, and family (obviously). Which is a whole other source of shame and wanting to get rid of the people rather than addressing and learning to live with our internalized bullshit while we keep working through it all.
I think detaching disgust from morality is one of the keys to Chilling Out. You can find inner peace by being able to go "hm! Gross" and recognize if it's an actual problem or not. Cause if it's not an actual problem... it's not your problem 🙏 god bless
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