yeah, like, you're right that exploitative pornography sucks, that it exists at the intersection of capital and misogyny and exacerbates both. But the first two things you listed were, as far as I know, normal cultural practices for millions of people for thousands of years. I find the appeal to nature stuff real sus because it's pretty much unfalsifyable, and typically deployed against queer people. Like, "people must Naturally find this disgusting due to its misogynistic nature" is something that's frequently argued against against my existence as a trans woman. I don't think for a second that's what you believe + and you're basically right about algorithmically driven mass market porn, just think that it's better to make the materialist argument against it, rather than the reactionary one
They were normal cultural practices, but also incredibly painful and damaging to the people they were enacted on. If there is any basic human nature, it's tied to our ability to work together and take care of each other in a community, and the evil things we do run counter to that. It takes a lot.of programming to get people on board with these things, which is why I think it is against our nature to a certain extent.
yeah, like, you're right that exploitative pornography sucks, that it exists at the intersection of capital and misogyny and exacerbates both. But the first two things you listed were, as far as I know, normal cultural practices for millions of people for thousands of years. I find the appeal to nature stuff real sus because it's pretty much unfalsifyable, and typically deployed against queer people. Like, "people must Naturally find this disgusting due to its misogynistic nature" is something that's frequently argued against against my existence as a trans woman. I don't think for a second that's what you believe + and you're basically right about algorithmically driven mass market porn, just think that it's better to make the materialist argument against it, rather than the reactionary one
They were normal cultural practices, but also incredibly painful and damaging to the people they were enacted on. If there is any basic human nature, it's tied to our ability to work together and take care of each other in a community, and the evil things we do run counter to that. It takes a lot.of programming to get people on board with these things, which is why I think it is against our nature to a certain extent.