No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men
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ok so. I like the concept, it's a good way to move.

HOWEVER there is one big problem. We can't use this emotionally inflammatory rhetoric, because it's what the right thrives on. You can quote me on this later, but i guarantee you if the right sees this they will call it "sexual eugenics" or something stupid.

literally all you have to do to make this a fully marketable and unbeatable position is to treat it like econ 101. Social interaction is most often based on simple contractual obligations. Those in question here, have failed, and thus, it is no longer contractually valid.

"the market for sex is simply untenable culturally, and in terms of healthcare, completely fucked. I no longer plan on having casual sex anytime soon" and suddenly it's like 50x more reasonable and palatable than the previous statement.

and before anybody tells me "oh well it's good for attention and marketing" yeah, if you want to spread the entirely wrong message. just look at the bear vs man debacle that happened a while ago.

although you have to be careful because the right will probably just tell you that this is the point, at least the religious part of it, in which case being inflammatory isn't going to do shit anyway. Tough times we live in now, i guess.

Americans value the speed and simplicity of a message over accuracy or nuance.

Both parties used that to their advantage to post out of context clips, something that I would consider manipulative at best.

Americans value the speed and simplicity of a message over accuracy or nuance.

idiots who do not prefer the accuracy of transmission* FTFY

something that I would consider manipulative at best.

i really wish more people would do literally anything to not get got by this low level bullshit lmao. It's so silly that people care so much about problems, but so little about information sources, or accuracy, or even factual nature.

People who are in an excited emotional state just aren't going to do well thinking that stuff through.

I'm not immune to it either, I just dont have tiktok or facebook at all to avoid it.

We can’t use this emotionally inflammatory rhetoric, because it’s what the right thrives on.

The right will make up its own inflammatory fantasies if there are none, just like it makes up stories about immigrants eating pets. It happens either way. Stop letting them control your strategies, it's EXTREMELY UNWISE.

yeah but the problem here is twofold, if we do it ourselves, they will accuse us of being what they say we are. If we do not, they will make up their own, and pretend like it's happening.

It's the anti fascist problem. If you're anti fascist, you're just fascist against fascism. There is no way to combat fascism without more fascism.

There isn't a good solution here, unfortunately.

if we do it ourselves, they will accuse us of being what they say we are.

Stop being defined by fascists.