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"gay men "wimmin" wannabes.
They think they're wimmin.
Well, i think this crap is reactionary, it doesnt mean if you are in love with a guy, and ur a guy, you need to be a wimmin, or you could be a wimmin.
Gender roles pschology etc. isnt for genuine revolutionaries. I think everyone should act like gender neutral and strong. Some gays really are just quite annoying"
"Thats why dads hate them, why not use be more "masculine". i mean strong.???"
PSYCHOLOGY:
About psychology I already explained we need a Maoist psychology because of teen suicide if only for that reason but also because of all the other fucked up damage that imperialism inflicts on people; but all we have is a piece of shit bourgeois spychology that's worse than useless justifying the worst forms of repression.
SEX:
The Comrade who wrote in is bewailing the split of gender and sex; it's important to understand that split so we can look at things scientifically. Who you fuck and how you fuck are two different things. Who you fuck and what you wear are two different things. How you fuck and what you wear may or may not be the same.
We Maoists know that gender occurs on a spectrum. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution a gender neutral "look" became the norm; all people had short hair and wore the same style of clothing. This is probably the healthiest of worlds -- we know it was the healthiest in every other way. But just like there are people who are completely unhappy with imperialism and it's gender roles there will be people unhappy with the disappearance of gender roles. Such reactionary throwbacks, the people who are "normal" today should be tolerated in the new society for the "gender benders" who are sometimes tolerated under imperialism will be tolerated too in the new society. Basically the comrade writing in needs to be more tolerant of others.
On the role of gender and sex and fashion we will really not be able to do much more than look at and emulate the Maoist practice during the GPCR because our society is definitely not at all at that level of progress. Instead our society features a gender aristocracy which has appropriated anything potentially progressive about feminism.
The comrade above correctly points to the sexual convergence which is the future and which we saw briefly during revolutionary China. At the same time, the comrade wrongly is intolerant about others with different tastes in gender and sex than s/he.
Tolerance is of course part of liberalism; we will not at all tolerate Nazi costuming, for example and will actively repress that part of BDSM. We will also try to direct sexual energy away from BDSM and toward "vanilla" sex because, duh, BDSM Is the recreation of the eroticization of bourgeois power. Sure, it's possible to imagine BDSM and roleplaying communism and Red Army costuming but that's not what is happening under imperialism and it's dubious whether such could be achieved since the eroticization of destructive coercive power is the Enemy ideology. Even if there were some way to roleplay the proletarian dominating the captured fascist it would still likely play into fascism. And of course, these are questions about the use of surplus energy, they are luxury questions. However they are relevant to understanding the whole Queer Bashing dynamic why some people beat down others and how homoeroticism and violence mash together (and who is doing the mashing, duh, fascists). So even though the questions of costuming and BDSM are really distasteful not just in the eww sense but also in the sense of omfg this society is soooo decadent -- whilst people are starving and dying for oil! It deserved to be addressed especially since we really have so very little to go on in terms of thinking about what the New Society will look like.
In terms of clothing and gender roles it will be closest to the Mao / GPCR era though possibly somewhat more tolerant of the remnants of the dying bourgeois culture -- though not at all tolerant of the murdersome aspects of bourgeois culture!
The take home message is:
Who you fuck and how you fuck and what you and they look like are basically unrelated to each other. Some people will fuck in ways that you don't want to -- after all there are 6 billion other people out there. That becomes a concern when it manifests in ways that are unhealthy for society. People gender bending isn't unhealthy for society especially because we have positive population growth globally. People having kinky sex at home may - or may not - be unhealthy. Of course, deception generally is unhealthy and so too is the need for a sense of privacy. Ideally we would all be able to live with glass walls and feel safe exactly because other people are watching out for us. We don't live there yet. So the bourgeois "consenting adults in private rule" will likely remain in place after the revolution even though we know full well consent is an illusion under imperialism.
For the revolutionary the question is what fucking leads to more killing and what fucking leads to less killing and secondarily who does the killing and who does the dying. If all the imperialists got together for a mutual necrophilia wargasm bloodfeast leaving the rest of us standing that would be progress. It won't happen because they just have to drag the rest of us into it. When Hitler and Churchill were killing each other's labor aristocracy that was progressive, a double win for the proletariat and a loss for humanity but a necessary and inevitable one, Stalin made the very best of a very ugly situation imposed on him by the imperialists.
A lot of people questioned the "whores not wars" line because of course the patriarchy wants whores too. Well, it's not so much that we WANT whores, but guess what we have whores anyway whether we like that or not. And guess what else the rest of the world hates prostitutes even though in their own hypocritical ways they are ALL prostitutes unless they are johns. So yeah, we want whores in fact, in the sense that we don't think the word "diseased" and the word "slut" go together. We actually give a damn about people who are the most downtrodden.
SO then it's a question of how do we get rid of the wars since a major source of demand for whores is in fact war. Even if all wars stopped tomorrow and we had a giant fuckfest instead there would STILL be prostitution because people have to eat but once they are no longer starving they like to fuck too. However the WNW line is that if we had a giant fuckfest a lot of people would have less reasons to want to go off and try to kill each other. It really is orgy versus genocide and of course the enemy line wants to have a nice necrophiliac genocidal orgy. To which we say: Nein Danke.
It might be nice if MIM made clarification of the designations of terms like whore, prostitute and slut since the only term they have defined so far is 'ho and bitch. So I have a nice term for designating the enemy and another term for designating people that might be on our side, people who we give the benefit of the god damned doubt to. However I would prefer to be able to be more scientific when talking about prostitutes, sluts and whores. Until then I shall hereafter use prostitute and whore synonymously for people who are overtly paid cash for sex, slut for persons who like sex with lots of different people regardless whether they are paid cash overtly.
They think they're wimmin.
Well, i think this crap is reactionary, it doesnt mean if you are in love with a guy, and ur a guy, you need to be a wimmin, or you could be a wimmin.
Gender roles pschology etc. isnt for genuine revolutionaries. I think everyone should act like gender neutral and strong. Some gays really are just quite annoying"
"Thats why dads hate them, why not use be more "masculine". i mean strong.???"
PSYCHOLOGY:
About psychology I already explained we need a Maoist psychology because of teen suicide if only for that reason but also because of all the other fucked up damage that imperialism inflicts on people; but all we have is a piece of shit bourgeois spychology that's worse than useless justifying the worst forms of repression.
SEX:
The Comrade who wrote in is bewailing the split of gender and sex; it's important to understand that split so we can look at things scientifically. Who you fuck and how you fuck are two different things. Who you fuck and what you wear are two different things. How you fuck and what you wear may or may not be the same.
We Maoists know that gender occurs on a spectrum. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution a gender neutral "look" became the norm; all people had short hair and wore the same style of clothing. This is probably the healthiest of worlds -- we know it was the healthiest in every other way. But just like there are people who are completely unhappy with imperialism and it's gender roles there will be people unhappy with the disappearance of gender roles. Such reactionary throwbacks, the people who are "normal" today should be tolerated in the new society for the "gender benders" who are sometimes tolerated under imperialism will be tolerated too in the new society. Basically the comrade writing in needs to be more tolerant of others.
On the role of gender and sex and fashion we will really not be able to do much more than look at and emulate the Maoist practice during the GPCR because our society is definitely not at all at that level of progress. Instead our society features a gender aristocracy which has appropriated anything potentially progressive about feminism.
The comrade above correctly points to the sexual convergence which is the future and which we saw briefly during revolutionary China. At the same time, the comrade wrongly is intolerant about others with different tastes in gender and sex than s/he.
Tolerance is of course part of liberalism; we will not at all tolerate Nazi costuming, for example and will actively repress that part of BDSM. We will also try to direct sexual energy away from BDSM and toward "vanilla" sex because, duh, BDSM Is the recreation of the eroticization of bourgeois power. Sure, it's possible to imagine BDSM and roleplaying communism and Red Army costuming but that's not what is happening under imperialism and it's dubious whether such could be achieved since the eroticization of destructive coercive power is the Enemy ideology. Even if there were some way to roleplay the proletarian dominating the captured fascist it would still likely play into fascism. And of course, these are questions about the use of surplus energy, they are luxury questions. However they are relevant to understanding the whole Queer Bashing dynamic why some people beat down others and how homoeroticism and violence mash together (and who is doing the mashing, duh, fascists). So even though the questions of costuming and BDSM are really distasteful not just in the eww sense but also in the sense of omfg this society is soooo decadent -- whilst people are starving and dying for oil! It deserved to be addressed especially since we really have so very little to go on in terms of thinking about what the New Society will look like.
In terms of clothing and gender roles it will be closest to the Mao / GPCR era though possibly somewhat more tolerant of the remnants of the dying bourgeois culture -- though not at all tolerant of the murdersome aspects of bourgeois culture!
The take home message is:
Who you fuck and how you fuck and what you and they look like are basically unrelated to each other. Some people will fuck in ways that you don't want to -- after all there are 6 billion other people out there. That becomes a concern when it manifests in ways that are unhealthy for society. People gender bending isn't unhealthy for society especially because we have positive population growth globally. People having kinky sex at home may - or may not - be unhealthy. Of course, deception generally is unhealthy and so too is the need for a sense of privacy. Ideally we would all be able to live with glass walls and feel safe exactly because other people are watching out for us. We don't live there yet. So the bourgeois "consenting adults in private rule" will likely remain in place after the revolution even though we know full well consent is an illusion under imperialism.
For the revolutionary the question is what fucking leads to more killing and what fucking leads to less killing and secondarily who does the killing and who does the dying. If all the imperialists got together for a mutual necrophilia wargasm bloodfeast leaving the rest of us standing that would be progress. It won't happen because they just have to drag the rest of us into it. When Hitler and Churchill were killing each other's labor aristocracy that was progressive, a double win for the proletariat and a loss for humanity but a necessary and inevitable one, Stalin made the very best of a very ugly situation imposed on him by the imperialists.
A lot of people questioned the "whores not wars" line because of course the patriarchy wants whores too. Well, it's not so much that we WANT whores, but guess what we have whores anyway whether we like that or not. And guess what else the rest of the world hates prostitutes even though in their own hypocritical ways they are ALL prostitutes unless they are johns. So yeah, we want whores in fact, in the sense that we don't think the word "diseased" and the word "slut" go together. We actually give a damn about people who are the most downtrodden.
SO then it's a question of how do we get rid of the wars since a major source of demand for whores is in fact war. Even if all wars stopped tomorrow and we had a giant fuckfest instead there would STILL be prostitution because people have to eat but once they are no longer starving they like to fuck too. However the WNW line is that if we had a giant fuckfest a lot of people would have less reasons to want to go off and try to kill each other. It really is orgy versus genocide and of course the enemy line wants to have a nice necrophiliac genocidal orgy. To which we say: Nein Danke.
It might be nice if MIM made clarification of the designations of terms like whore, prostitute and slut since the only term they have defined so far is 'ho and bitch. So I have a nice term for designating the enemy and another term for designating people that might be on our side, people who we give the benefit of the god damned doubt to. However I would prefer to be able to be more scientific when talking about prostitutes, sluts and whores. Until then I shall hereafter use prostitute and whore synonymously for people who are overtly paid cash for sex, slut for persons who like sex with lots of different people regardless whether they are paid cash overtly.
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