I read this just after I read another substack featuring queer theory's connections to paedophilia. I think I have to start following someone who writes about, say, growing rose bushes, or training terriers as an interlude. Good God, that was hard to read about, kudos that you managed to watch it in order to provide an analysis.
I'm surprised you didn't make the connection to physical harm being visited on people as part of the other social justice trainwreck. They are both on the same continuum of harming people as a form of purported liberation. At least eating doesn't require surgery.
We are currently living out the grand social experiment of abolishment of shame as a middle-ground form of behavioural control. Once liberalism established the principle that "people are free what to do as long as they don't harm someone else" social norms kept most people in line from doing stupid or voluntary-but-harmful things. The post-freedom revolution is attempting to erase the gray area between what is allowed legally forbidden, that which was previously limited by social dynamics like shame. I have to admit that I believed this would be a good thing in my naive and idealistic undergrad years. Shame and conformity are there for a reason - although as in your gay rights example they have often been abused.
Just skimming through this made me sick, so I couldn’t read all of it! The pictures of the two uűberfat women are so disgusting as to make anyone vomit! ..while other people are starving they consume in a day what some consume in a month or more. Aside from the sexual perversion, these are as immoral as it gets! Of course, these women won’t live too long, so there’s some justice !
I read this just after I read another substack featuring queer theory's connections to paedophilia. I think I have to start following someone who writes about, say, growing rose bushes, or training terriers as an interlude. Good God, that was hard to read about, kudos that you managed to watch it in order to provide an analysis.
Don’t think I could have watched such stuff so many thanks, Edie. Will post on X.
I'm surprised you didn't make the connection to physical harm being visited on people as part of the other social justice trainwreck. They are both on the same continuum of harming people as a form of purported liberation. At least eating doesn't require surgery.
We are currently living out the grand social experiment of abolishment of shame as a middle-ground form of behavioural control. Once liberalism established the principle that "people are free what to do as long as they don't harm someone else" social norms kept most people in line from doing stupid or voluntary-but-harmful things. The post-freedom revolution is attempting to erase the gray area between what is allowed legally forbidden, that which was previously limited by social dynamics like shame. I have to admit that I believed this would be a good thing in my naive and idealistic undergrad years. Shame and conformity are there for a reason - although as in your gay rights example they have often been abused.
Just skimming through this made me sick, so I couldn’t read all of it! The pictures of the two uűberfat women are so disgusting as to make anyone vomit! ..while other people are starving they consume in a day what some consume in a month or more. Aside from the sexual perversion, these are as immoral as it gets! Of course, these women won’t live too long, so there’s some justice !