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Thinking about that post that says people who haven’t lived through war crimes make light of war crimes but not sexual assault, because sexual assault might actually happen to them.

The Arknights fandom jokes a lot about its cast of thieves, terrorists, bank robbers, arms dealers, mafiosos, government enforcers, and general malcontents. But with the way Arturia’s powers work, it’s plausible she would cause someone to commit rape, right? She’s all about making people do things they want to do but haven’t done, and that’s confirmed to include murder and suicide. And I don’t think I’ve seen the fandom so much as discuss the rapey potential there, let alone joke about

A lot of people would think the Pure are contradictory. They're very Christian, but also very Rationalist. They're superstitious, but they pay lip service to studying and finding things out for yourself. To me, they represent something specific.

Someone on social media said that wearing COVID masks made children forget how to smile. People asked her where she was getting this from, and she said she looked and saw it. It was bizarre, but it was her observation, and she wouldn't be dissuaded.

The Pure are the ultimate triumph of her way of looking at the world. The Pure are the treatment of one's subjective view as the true objective, rational view, with no room to doubt or reconsider. Whatever you know must be true, that's what you perceive, and because you perceive it, you know it must be true. Anything outside what you can imagine simply doesn't exist, and if it persists, you make it not exist. Any person who isn't part of your social order will be killed and forgotten, and it will be like they were never there.

When people use a cherry-picked study to argue that gay men are proven to be bad fathers, that's the Pure. When someone said trans women rape cis women all the time, but the mainstream media covers it up, that's the Pure. Hell, that RWBY fan who said it's morally bad to ship Yang and Blake, because it's obvious two people traumatized by the same abuser will inevitably retraumatize each other? They're small-scale, but they're still the Pure. The Pure are in every conspiracy theory, and every attempt to make the world "make sense" that pretends the world has an obligation to make sense to you.

People say whether you have a dick or not determines what colors you like, what hobbies you have, whether or not you want to take care of children, whether or not you’re a rapist (!), whether or not you can clean your own bathroom, and this is supposed to be simpler?

“i was going to reblog this but realised that's the rapist with a muslim fetish who wears hijab”

You know damn well the part that matters there is “rapist.” “The lettuce on this hamburger is wilted, and also someone took a dump on it.”