Happy New Year, From GAZA 🌨️ ❄️

I don't understand the obsession with sex and all things physical in terms of showing attraction.

It's one of those mentalities that let porn take such presidence in our society- that sex is fundamentally, something everyone shows to prove they're "attracted" to something. And that later leads to the degradation we see later on in r*pe fantasies and exploitation that have been, in fact, popularised by pornography.

Sex in modern society is just a way to present control; over women, over other people, and as we saw earlier, over minority groups people see as "needing to be fixed". Sex has fundamentally become the ultimate show of power, and a lot of things aren't helping it.

Sex as empowerment needs to be followed up with the reminder that it's just *sex*. Love and appreciation don't have to be physical to be truly meaningful. And it gets lost in so many of the muddled discussions between the hard-core "Abstinence"-ers, the perversion, and the objectification that often ensues in a discussion regarding sex and how we perceive it.

Ultimately, stigmas regarding sex *need* to be broken down. Sex education, sex workers, all of it needs to be discussed and examined because if we keep this all under wraps, we're not letting the right people have the discussion. We ultimately tear ourselves apart using either hushed tones or bigotry against topics regarding sex and sexual attraction.

that's just my two cents, anyway

"If Kai were to come to terms with the fact she's a heterosexual female she would be more likely to realize her boyfriend is just using her for sex. She would not be busied with showing off how Totally Gay her relationship is or focused on trying to prove how she's so definitely not like all those "cis bitches". The need to constantly validate these lies to herself are clouding her judgement."

"We make fun of her for being an idiot homophobe and a Not Like Other Girls girlie. None of us want her to stay with the moid."

"This is not victim blaming any more than saying "it's easier for people who think seatbelts are pointless to be killed in a car crash". "

You're putting all the blame on Kai potentially being abused all on him rather than acknowledge that the dude took advantage of him.

if you weren't victim blaming, these would be condemning a man who's manipulating a younger person, rather than calling the victim an idiot for not knowing something.

also, I wouldn't call a victim an idiot.

I'll leave it at that.

We ever gonna talk about how incredibly creepy Rusty portrays Kai and his boyfriend. Like, I'm about to have my head on a platter for this one:

Kai and his relationship with his boyfriend reeks of heavy revenge fantasy.

Like... The entire point and "joke" of Kai's relationship is that his boyfriend doesn't actually support his identity as a transgender man, and is faking doing so for what I'm guessing is solely the purpose of getting in his pants considering that's all Rusty seems to think that men are, made even creepier with their heavy age difference of 21 and 29. Considering Rusty and her TERF goons view Kai as nothing more than a "yaoi addicted woman who's a victim of patriarchy but we still hate her because its also simultaneously her fault", this smells so strongly of a revenge fantasy. It gives the heavy vibes of how so many shows and stories will have an evil or antagonistic female character, and it essentially plays out as:

"This evil/abrasive/bratty/antagonistic female character deserves to be punished! But what should be her punishment...? Ah, perfect! She deserves to be assaulted!"

I think what's honestly sad is that I wouldn't even put it past Rusty and her TERF goons to write one of the gendie characters to be assaulted as revenge for being a gendie, especially Kai. Would she probably ever do it? Probably not. Would I be even remotely shocked if she did? No. Not at all.

being silly

i love it when canon trinity gets screentime

Parniya deserves better

We've been seeing almost zero of her independent to Shez lately. Give parniya her chances too.

She's nothing more than Shez's girlfriend lately. Give a girl some character damn!!!

and sorry its bugging me, but blaire is very much clearly not written to be a strawman. shes written to be sympathetic and have depth even if shes wrong. its one of the things many leasebound commentors have really liked because it adds tension to the story and is far more accurate to real life and gives more credence to the authors arguments since shes not shadow boxing a cardboard cut out of an oponent

no, she is

That's her intention, but I'll give it to rusty that she's actually a good girlfriend at times.

Which is weird considering we're supposed to be rooting for her and Riley to break up.

screen tone prac tice

so true gendie

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Teenage boys and grown men have equal capacity to be abusive. In fact, it's grown men who are known abusers, especially- say it with me now- those who date 18-year- olds at 40.

As a teenage girl, I think this is disgusting. You're entitled to any fics you want, but romanticising **this** in particular and the arguments you present for it is very, very harmful.

Did I disturb you by pointing out that youre engaging in a grooming fantasy that does, in fact, affect the young girls that will potentially read your novel? If you really want an age gap, why not have the character be a fucking ADULT (Not in legal terms, because being called "legal" is fucking gross) instead of some waif.

This is harmful to young girls, and I suggest you seriously evaluate what happened to you at 17-18. It's *not* okay for a grown ass man to be interested in a TEENAGER.

I'm sorry I, a *teenager*, would point out that 40 year old men cannot be in relationships with teenagers. I'm so sorry I told you to not perpetuate a harmful storytelling trope.

Side note: You looked all fancy throwing out those big literary names at my friend, but you conviniently forgot Nabokov. Perhaps you felt discomfort at mentioning his name in this pursuit....?

Gabrinette.

Christine Taylor deserves the world.

I love her just as much as Jacob does

Tina <33

GOALEEEEEEE

Felt like doing some edits of our beautiful girl Bagi, in all her glory. She's slaying too hard for Rusty's liking, I understand where the envy comes from.

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