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This is my theory on how pedophilia is going to be normalized by deepfakes.

Step 1: (which has already occurred) Indoctrinate generations of women into accepting, enabling, and even encouraging a porn culture in which it is considered abnormal for a man to not watch porn. Create a pattern of escalating behaviour, in which men begin by watching fairly “normal” sex scenes, and then gradually seek out more taboo and violent scenes as their sensitivity to images of sex drops, and they require more stimulation to feel anything.

Step 2: (also already happened) While actual child porn seems to be the current moral and legal cutoff point at which people will say, “No more,” simulated child porn, using young-looking actresses one day past 18, or illustrations/animations is considered a morally acceptable substitute. Have “teen porn,” “daddy/daughter” and “incest” become some of the most popular genres on earth.

Step 3: (in the process of happening right now) Take simulated child porn to the next level by creating pseudo-real porn. For example, create deepfake videos of real child celebrities’ faces digitally edited onto the bodies of technically legal porn. Give men the tools they need to create these porn videos themselves, so that they can use photos of children they know personally to make videos for themselves, without needing strong computer skills. Men will share these videos online, and inevitably, some will become popular and widely circulated.

Step 4: Somewhere in the world, a man will be arrested for watching real child porn, and his legal defense will be that he thought it was fake. He may or may not be found guilty, but the case will make the news, and talking heads will start asking: Is pseudo-real child porn using images of real children wrong? Is it a man’s fault if he actually watches real child porn when he was trying to find fake child porn? Are these men considered pedophiles? Men everywhere, who watch these videos in private, will panic when they realize that it easily could have been them on trial, because they don’t know whether any of the videos they watched are fake.

Step 5: The left-wing “progressives” will take up the cause of protecting the “civil liberties” of a temporarily increasing number of men accused of watching/collecting child porn who claim it was an accident. They will claim it has begun a matter of right-wing anti-sex Christians trying to crack down on all porn, and therefore on sexuality as a whole. Left vs. right debates continue in the way they usually do, on cable news and in the newspaper, with both sides misrepresenting the others’ arguments and accusing the other of bigotry and hatred. The right-wing argument will be that deepfakes are “too far,” and people should watch porn that depicts adult-looking women. The left will argue that their civil liberties are being attacked, that their sexuality is being judged, and that “right-wingers” want to kinkshame them. No one on either side will argue on behalf of the actual children, who are unknowingly having their likeness raped on film, and how it will change the ways the men who watch these deepfakes interact with them in real life. 

Step 5 and a half: Absolutely no media coverage will be given to the small group of radical feminists who oppose porn for feminist reasons. Hollywood and academia will portray the only anti-pseudo child porn arguments as coming from the traditional, patriarchal religious right wing. Neither left nor right wing conventional political journalists or bloggers will address the matter of escalating behaviour in sexual deviants, or that men who watch something in porn want to act it out in real life. Absolutely no one except de-platformed radical feminists will address the recruitment and treatment of the 18 and 19-year-old actresses who are actually involved in the production of the original porn videos.

Step 5 and ¾: Some fake feminists who are enthusiastically pro-porn will say that actresses are especially happy to perform in scenes that are tailor-made by the burgeoning deepfake industry for the purpose of digitally creating pseudo-child porn. They will argue that this is the very easiest type of porn to act in, because the women don’t even become recognizable as their faces are edited to look like someone else. None of these liberal feel-good feminists will ask themselves why porn is the only industry in which workers do not want to be recognized for their work.

Step 6: Eventually, the neoliberal, anything-goes “left wing” will win the deepfakes debate decisively, as they always do. People will blame the porn hosting websites, or the internet service providers or the “dark web” for allowing real child porn to surface, but men will be thoroughly reassured that it is not their responsibility to check if the pseudo-child porn they are watching is actually real, because how could they? And when a man is horny, how dare you make him wait while he verifies that the porn he’s watching isn’t actual footage of child rape?

Step 7: Almost all men are now watching deepfake child porn, except for the men who prefer some other violent fetish. Because it is so normalized, people will start making jokes when they see a very attractive or compliant child that probably, there is porn of that child’s face on the internet. Preteen girls will be groomed online into providing photos of their faces that are especially clear and easy to edit into these videos, and then humiliated once they deliver. Boys will watch the deepfake videos of their female classmates online, and show them to each other. Children, but mostly girls, will start finding out about the deepfake videos of them that are getting popular, and they will be bullied at school. Parents of these kids will try to demand these videos be taken down, but they will be told there’s nothing anyone can do, because it was their fault for putting innocent pictures of their childrens’ faces on Facebook. Girls in these videos will commit suicide, and everyone will blame “bullying,” a gender-neutral phenomenon that obviously pre-dates the existence of deepfakes. Anyone who connects the normalization of pseudo-child porn to the despair felt by little girls who get pornified against their will will be accused of being a right-wing Christian bigot who hates gays.

Step 7 and a half: Preteen and teen girls will dress even sexier and wear make-up meant that makes them look older. This will be an attempt to avoid looking childish enough to be targeted for deepfakes, but instead this behaviour will only further reinforce adult mens’ perceptions of them as acceptable objects of sexual consumption. This self-perpetuating cycle of grooming, and backlash to sexual grooming via further grooming will set the stage for the next two steps. Some more extreme left wingers will try to push for legalization of actual adult-child sexual activity (i.e. child rape), but will be told “not yet” by more centrist members of their movement.

Step 8: The perception that “all men” are attracted to kids anyways, that pedophiles are just normal people, that pedophilia isn’t even a sexual orientation but an innocent kink, will set in. Women who fight back will be told that they just don’t understand men’s libidos, that they’re vanilla, or they just hate the sexualization of children because they’re old and jealous.

Step 9: The left wing decides that it’s now the right moment to make their big push for legalizing sexual relationships between adults and children. Maybe it will take a few years of cable news anchors yelling at each other and indignant internet blog posts, but they will win, as they always do, as sexual libertarians always do, as men always do. Child rapists might even become a protected group, like gay people or transgender people. Everyone celebrates. The little children celebrate because their liberal parents tell them to, but they don’t really understand what has just happened, because they’re children.

me: this is why we need to fight back against a trend that ends in child sexual abuse

a male who sees himself as space cowboy: it hurts my feelings that you acknowledged that 98% of child sexual abuse is committed by men, and really, that’s what’s important here

all men are not attacted to kids; why would the left wing be responsible for this change in culture? your vision of the future has definite problems; i suspect you are a right wing zealot; i am also against the use of younger models in porn to indicate they are pyounger teens.

Oh my god… you literally… just proved some of her post…

“I suspect you are a right-wing zealot.”

LITERALLY WHAT DID I JUST FUCKING SAY?

WHAT DID I J U S T SAY?

Shout-out to all radfems trying to patiently explain biological sex to genderites who are pretending not to know what “female” means.

Here’s a hint for gender-believers: if you can draw a distinction between cis women and trans women, AFAB and AMAB, or TME and TMA, you already know which humans are which sex.

They probably "shut up instantly" because they're trying to stop themselves from socking you in the jaw

this is sending me over the fucking edge fkjdhdhdldhs

Honestly, troon stuff rarely makes me chuckle anymore but I just can’t keep a straight face for “system” people.

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do you ever see some Very Nice trans-inclusive posts from a blog and go check out their page and then after an intensive analysis going back Several Months and checking a few of the blogs that they follow for exclusionary rhetoric before you move right on over to your Shinigami Eyes extension and click the lil “mark t-friendly” button, or is it just me?

Can you imagine being this insane? Can you imagine living such a paranoid life style that you see a post designed specifically to validate your movement and then combing through months of that person’s posts to make sure there’s no wrong think posts.

Absolute lunacy. Get a life.

And stop using an application made by a pedophile rapist.

Imagine writing this and thinking that it makes you sound like a normal, well-adjusted, friendly person who is part of a valuable and important social movement instead of a psycho cult member.

Did TRAs read 1984 as an instruction manual, or am I missing something? Surveillance culture hurts everyone (yes, trans people included).

oops

I wish it was about people liking me. I’m cool with people not liking me. It’s more about staying quiet because if I don’t I’ll never be allowed a career. 

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It’s not about losing friends anymore—I can make new friends. It’s about my career and money and being able to be financially independent. I wouldn’t mind losing a few friends to this if it didn’t mean never being able to make a living.

NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY BUT QUEER AS IN - Michael Gray Bulla

[image description: a poem text that reads,

“NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY BUT QUEER AS IN

bared teeth. As in celebration. As in carving the body out of the carcass. Not gay as in rainbow cop car for a policed pride parade, thin cis men washing the walls white – not gay as in NO FATS, NO FEMMES – but trans as in -cendence. Queer as in scribbling sharpie over the shadow of the she I was never going to be. Fag as in piercing my ears with my lover’s Mars earrings. Tranny as in tracing the chest’s twin lines, the ricochet of the real name, the loving someone else even when you don’t love yourself – Transfag as in T-dick. Shot & chaser. Building bodies out of boats untethered to the banks of bend yourself until you break so I won’t be made uncomfortable. Transfag as in fuck your “female erasure.” Transfag as in stomping your boots to the beat of I am here, real, alive. Not gay as in gunshot, left to bleed on the concrete, save only yourself, sneering. But queertransfag as in echoing in every hallway. Scratched out of the history books. Pushed to the back of every line. Making our own lines anyways. Writing our books. Building hallways. Queertransfag as in wrapping the wound. Celebrating the scar.”

/end id]

This is the young woman who calls gay men “fags” and says “fuck your female erasure” and talks about like, stomping her boots and how she’s not “gay as in gunshot, left to bleed on the concrete,” like I’m sorry that you weren’t the target of anti-gay hate crimes that were vicious and violent and left actual gay people physically bleeding on the street, but this is homophobic and ignorant as fuck, not to mention female-hating. “Fuck your female erasure,” like way to align yourself with Ancient Greek philosophers and every doctor who decided to conduct a genital exam on unconscious women without consent. This shit is cringey and pathetic and childish, and I’m tired of it. Grow up, learn gay history and women’s history and get over your damn self. No one cares that you pierced your own ears or drew on a washroom stall in Sharpie, Jesus.

Wishing terfs, “male exclusionist” “trans exclusionist” “ace exclusionist” or whatever fuck else exclusionist a very Get a Brick Thrown At Their Face By A Trans Black Woman and they die instantly 🥰🥰🥰 happy Pride!

added to receipts!

why do yall talk abt black transwomen as if theyre tokens.

This is like actual transphobia and actual racism—hoping that a token Favourite Minority Action Figure commits first degree murder. Like, imagine saying that you hope a Jewish person with cystic fibrosis or an Indonesian person with chronic migraines would commit a specific crime. You do realize that black people are real people with like, unique and individual personalities and not some kind of gotcha card for use in online discussions, right @savvysass ?

patriarchally de-reversing

I’ve been thinking about patriarchal reversal lately, and I believe it might be the key to the whole feminist project. For entry-level feminists, people only beginning to consider what patriarchy is and what it does, the very language we use to describe the world handicaps our ability to name female oppression. Words are coded under patriarchy; the very way we describe things is so influenced by patriarchy that even in attempting to criticize male domination, we can succumb to it. For example, if you asked a roomful of people—any people, either feminist or not—to describe some traits stereotypically applied to either men or women, you might end up with something like this:

Men: strong, rational, unemotional, genius, serious, interested in the arts, involved in politics

Women: weak, irrational, emotional, modest, frivolous, interested in crafts/decoration, involved in gossip

I think most feminists, including radical feminists, would agree that under patriarch, men are expected to be strong. I disagree. Let’s try an experiment. Let’s try some patriarchal de-reversal. 

Under patriarchy, men are expected to be weak. Weak enough to faint at the mention of female bodily functions, too weak to even witness their children’s births, too weak to resist the temptation to rape or to cheat on their wives, too weak to challenge other men who abuse women.

Under patriarchy, women are expected to be strong. Strong enough to give birth without painkillers and without complaint, strong enough to maintain a large household with multiple children and a husband who contributes almost nothing, strong enough to endure assault and violation without any emotional reaction.

Under patriarchy, men are expected to be irrational. Irrational enough to voluntarily choose to join the military and risk their death or permanent dismemberment, irrational enough to fear women’s limited capacity to hurt them, irrational enough to believe that a magical sky being has ordained their place in the universe, irrational enough to risk getting murdered in a barfight over a comment that hurt their feelings.

Under patriarchy, women are expected to be rational. Rational enough to complete a cost-benefit analysis on possible sexual risks and rewards before getting dressed for the evening, rational enough to decide which degradations to submit to so that they might avoid worse degradation, rational enough to co-ordinate the schedules of themselves, their husbands, children and elderly parents, rational enough to time household tasks in such a way that dinner is always hot and on the table right when their husband gets home.

You get the picture. I’m thinking about considering the very ways we interpret the ways we live under patriarchy, and the ways male behaviour and experiences are always framed in the best possible light. Even when men are exposed as rapists, abusers, even murderers, there’s always some man or some handmaiden to crawl out of the woodwork and say, “Oh, but his mother mistreated him when he was little,” or “But he was just deeply insecure.” Why don’t we consider some patriarchal de-reversal instead, and frame women’s minor transgressions in a more positive light? For example, maybe a woman who leaves her baby at a convent did so because she knew the baby would be safer away from her abusive partner. Maybe women who cheated on her husband did so after he cheated on her first. 

Is there anything you think I left out? Is it fair to say that the ways we describe stereotypical masculine and feminine traits are biased against women?

I cannot put in words how brilliant this is. I love this post so much 😭❤️

Thank you, @she-volution! I really appreciate the lovely comments you and so many women have been leaving on a post I made probably 3 years ago!

the rise of ‘aesthetics’ as a common way to describe literally every facet of yourself is like the most destructive thing I’ve seen on social media this shit is crazy. it is the most beauty obsessed thing in such a subtle and evil way.... it goes down to the books you read the chicness of your clutter the music you listen to how you decorate your water bottle like literally every single thing you do is scrutinized and defined into egirl or cottagecore or dark academia or vapor wave or baddie or whatever and it just forces you to quantify yourself and criticize every thing you do without break ..... am I sitting down in an effortlessly cute way? Is the mess on my bedside table whimsical? Is my shampoo luxurious and glamorous? And it’s all just a way to sell shit and profit off of your insecurity!!!!!! You watch yourself from an outside perspective, making sure you’re not just beautiful but you fit exactly into whatever box you strive to belong to, and it leaves no room for mistakes!!!! You can’t be embarrassing or cringey or gross or ugly unless it’s in an ironic way that fulfills a meta identity that is also quantifiable. Everybody has a uniform now that they’re trying to fit into. If you take care of plants you’re cottagecore if you play video games and like pastels you’re an e girl if you like sweaters and reading (classic white people books only!!!) then you’re dark academia you’re tailoring every single aspect of yourself and isn’t it tiring????? Isn’t procuring yourself tiring????? I’m going to rip a phone book in half

I’m not convinced that this is anything new or a symptom of much more than teenage identity seeking plus insecurity. I know that social media has exacerbated many of these tendencies, but preps, nerds, jocks, cheerleaders, etc. were all basic versions of these aesthetic groupings that go back generations. When you get older, I P R O M I S E that the bizarre need to match literally everything in your life to a social media aesthetic really will die out.

Adult life is really hard and not necessarily in an I’m-going-to-kill-myself way, just in a get-home-from-work-and-collapse way. You really WILL lose your teenage narcissistic identity complexes, I assure you.

“…I started wearing my mom’s underwear when nobody else was home. I would stuff her bras, and wear her panties for hours, until I knew someone was coming home.”

the color pink, panties, lesbians. he didn’t start showering and brushing his teeth regularly until he decided to become a woman. what the fuck kind of agp bingo is this.

THEY TOLD HIM TO CUT OUT ALL THE CLOTHES STUFF “so she can’t pick it apart” SO SHE WON’T KNOW NOW

I’ve fixed the letter for him:

Dear Mom and Amanda,

I am writing to let you know that I am checking myself into an inpatient treatment centre for mental health. I’ve made this decision because I realize that some of my unacceptable behaviours have hurt not only myself, but other people. I have sexually harassed women and violated their privacy. I have neglected to care for myself and my basic needs in a way that forces other people, mainly women, to take on the burden of caring for me and tolerating my stench. I have long lived in a fantasy enabled by internet, pornography and video games, and this fantasy has encouraged me to inflict misogynistic abuse on the women and girls around me.

As part of my accountability process, I am owning up to something I did when I was in high school. I stole intimate lingerie items from both of you, and I wore them for my own titillation. This was a form of sexual harassment and violation of your privacy and the safety of your homes. Even though I was not an adult, I was old enough to know that theft is wrong and underwear is private. I now recognize that my behaviours reflected a sense of entitlement that I will work with my therapists to unlearn.

I also offer to pay for any therapy treatment that you might need as a result of my victimizing you. Further, I understand that you may choose to temporarily or permanently cut contact with me as a consequence of my actions, and I accept those consequences. I will not contact you further unless contact is requested.

Please accept my sincerest apology, and my commitment to make amends through concrete actions (undergoing inpatient treatment and financial reparation.) If there is anything else you feel I need to do to help repair the harm I committed as sexual harrasser/voyeur, please let me know.