Lol I just think of wreck-it ralph, that movie contains the best ever use of that song. And what do you know, it *is* about racing in that context.

Why do we become so used to our own absence that we don't even realize we're missing from the narrative until it's pointed out to us? Why does no one except me consider this a problem? Why are we the only ones we can trust to remember us?

Yours for the Taking was one of my favorite books read this year so far. I found its climate dystopia terrifyingly prescient and its critiques of girlboss feminism refreshing. Shutouts said a lot about political cults that I needed to hear after narrowly escaping one this year. So I'm disappointed.

Like at this point it's not even about ace history, it's just plain about history and her refusal to acknowledge it

Why is she so obsessed with claiming ideological descent from these women and these women specifically— who were COMPLETELY IDEOLOGICALLY OPPOSED TO HER— while intentionally misrepresenting what their actual ideologies were?

And another thing: assuming Linder DID do her research, and assuming she DOES know about the social purity movement—

Why is she so threatened by it that she feels the need to not just erase it, but PAINT OVER IT with this extremely contemporary ethical-slut sexy girlboss schtick?

And while I feel very strongly that the social purity movement is not *good* proto-asexual activism by any means, it's also some of the only proto-asexual activism we have records of.

Ugh, I'm not being coherent. I'm mad about the erasure of the Spinsters as women who were defending their right *not* to have sex, AND I'm mad about the erasure of their more problematic aspects.

Because you can tell that this author DID NOT do their research, like, even a little

She just connected "spinster" with "independent woman" in her mind... and specifically, today's definition of "independent woman" as "woman who has sex a lot"

No one who knows history would call their book that

And like. Are the Spinsters GOOD ace history? No

They in fact embodied a lot of the worst aspects of their time, just like the Suffragettes (and honestly, white feminism as a whole), and you can't really talk about them unless you acknowledge that

Which tbh just makes this more insulting

Like buddy I don't know if you just consciously do not research the archetypes you're invoking but the Spinster movement was very much not about "empowerment means fucking a lot of people". Some queer history scholars consider them part of ace history

www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/201...

Also obligatory I don't know who this guy is and I'm sorry if he's a fascist or something. If that's the case maybe you should make fun of his actual misdeeds and not a weird harmless thing he did that you think is annoying

Obligatory I don't know what the data™ says about this and also don't really care, the worst thing using big words around your six month old will do to them is nothing.

Like yeah there's every chance this guy's lying but also I need everyone to understand that talking to your very young children in full sentences Does help with language acquisition and you aren't abusing your baby by talking to them instead of babbling at them

Fuck man I'm poor as shit if they say I have to buy a cybertruck to remain a US citizen I am GOING to get deported 💀💀💀