I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.
No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.
However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.
It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.
I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.
great job keeping your priorities straight, bro
I feel like "trump wants to throw away literal dinosaur fossils" would really turn heads if we actually had a functional opposition party in this country to get messages out, but I guess I'll just have to get a paint pen and write it on my car. fine, I'll do it.
“girls aren’t allowed to participate in no shave november!1!!! it’s gross!!!!”
i’ve been participating in no shave november, december, january, february, march, april, may, june, july, august, september and october and if you have a problem you can lick my fucking panda legs
The question: what are the consequences of continued exposure to pornography on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes towards women?
The experiment:
Part One:
80 male and 80 female participants are divided into four subgroups
Massive Exposure Group: saw 36 short, non-violent porn films (about 5 hours of film) over six weeks.
Intermediate Exposure Group: saw 18 short, non-violent porn films and 18 regular films over six weeks.
No Exposure Group: saw 36 regular films.
Control Group: saw no films, not brought in till the second phase.
Part Two:
Participants read about a rape case and were asked to recommend a the length of the prison sentence for the rapist.
They were also asked to indicate their support for the women’s rights movement on a 0 to 100 scale.
Finally, they were asked to estimate the popularity of various sexual acts among the general population.
Results:
In recommending a prison term for a rapist, folks in the Massive Exposure Group chose, on average, prison terms that were half as long as terms recommended by the people in the No Exposure Group. (A five-year sentence versus a ten-year sentence)
When asked to rate their support for women’s rights, men and women in the Massive Exposure Group indicated about half as much support as participants in the No Exposure Group. (38% versus 76%)
Finally, men and women in the Massive Exposure Group rated anal sex, group sex, and bestiality at least twice as common as did the No Exposure Group. (For example, the Massive Exposure Group estimated that 30% of Americans had group sex, while the No Exposure Group estimated only 11% did. The Massive Exposure Group also estimated that 12% of Americans were having sex with animals.)
Conclusion: Zillmann and Bryant conclude that massive exposure to pornography made rape appear a more trivial offense, which seemed also to parallel a drop in support for women’s rights. Also, intensive porn-viewing led to beliefs that unusual sexual acts are far more common than they really are.
The whole "if we don't fuck males they're gonna Handmaid's Tale us" argument directly contradicts "men didn't give us our rights, we fought for them". You either have the power and strength to resist males and fight for your liberation or you don't. Stop depending on the government or the arbitrary mercy of males to give you the kiddie rails you apparently need to be a free woman in society.
TIL feminists in Sweden used to throw Molotov cocktails at porn advertisement cars💀
Absolutely baffling suggested post from horsedotcom
some of yall need to understand that "my body, my choice" also applies to:
addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting
phys disabled people who deny medical treatment
neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)
trans people who want or don't want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)
and if you can't understand that, then you don't get to use the phrase
why did god make men last really short during sex while making women last really long during sex? the answer is easy sillies… man on man and woman on woman relationships were ALWAYS meant to be… man jerks off another man and they’re like this is it, it’s enough of an adventurous “sex” for AT LEAST a month…. us lads, we GET each other in EVERY way… while lesbians are out there beating each other’s meat for half an hour and they go to round 2 ten seconds later… they’re strong legends, that’s what they are… long story short, miss nature knows what’s up… so what’s up? mlm and wlw is the NATURAL way of living while a man/woman relationship is just a FORMAL communal way to help procreate gay legends