yeah we all love werewolves as an unintentional trans allegory but what about fallen angels
what if you were told you were made a certain way for a specific purpose. what if you felt like you didn’t fit in. what if you refused to pretend to be something you’re not. what if you deviated from the path expected of you. what if you were cast out and told that you no longer fit into a supposedly perfect society. what if you changed until your peers no longer recognized you as one of them. what if you were still you despite everything. what if it hurt. what if it was worth the pain, because now you’re happier and more free than you had ever imagined. what if you weren’t alone. what if you realized you had free will and the power to decide for yourself, and you used it. what if you took a leap of faith – faith in yourself.
AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.
Please get this off my dashboard right now immediately
Just to make this very, very clear. Every act of referring to any form of sexuality as degenerate is nazi rhetoric. Not like “oh crypto fash dogwhistle”, no I mean actual NSDAP politics that were used to put us in concentration camps.
It doesn’t matter if you mean only kinksters or whatever. You are still using their rhetoric and to do so while claiming to advocate for us is at best severely misguided, at worst actively vile.
Do not, under any circumstance, spread the use of ideas to describe sexuality that have been coined to eradicate us.
Do not normalize the way nazis referred to us, just by picking another target. You are still empowering the people who want to put us against the wall.
To clarify this for people who just don’t get it: degenerate does not just mean “gross”. It means “showing decline from a higher civilization”. Ask yourself – really ask yourself – what the fuck that could possibly mean in the context of sexuality.
Do you really think that two people doing cringey roleplay are a part of a broader trend that is undermining Western civilization? Do you really want to associate with people who do?
More to the point, do you really want to feed into the rhetoric that the main threat we’re facing is “the decline of Western civilization” in the first place? Who else are people concerned might be “undermining the West”? Who else are you implicitly singling out as your enemy by perpetuating a narrative in which (white) “Western” influence is falling across the board, and in which that’s an existentially bad thing?
This is like Nazi rhetoric 101, guys, and you need to stop uncritically parroting it, holy shit.
