Rebuttal is cheap. Renaissance is on sale.
Hahahaha OK you guys in between hour upon hour of fruitless Overwatch grinding and interminable minimum wage earning, I had time to distract myself from the crippling insecurity of being creatively bankrupt by impulsively checking several websites I have no vested interest in beyond a nagging sense of lacking and the perception that maybe, somehow, the short term Unknown can sate my desire for meaning and direction. Then later I got drunk and cackled maniacally as I owned a round of Quickplay as Roadhog. Sartre would have a field day.
Anyway, in the midst of all that existentialism, I came upon this article, bellyaching about those dang gum Millenials and how they are ruining yet another thing, in this case, sex:
http://quillette.com/2017/04/18/laura-kipnis-rape-culture-disappearance-sex/
I don't know what the author's "deal" is, but the Twitter account linking it got "chills" reading it, which makes me think they must have been disinterestedly thumbing around on their smartphone in one of those ice bars like they have in Scandinavia. In summary: "young people are having less sex, and it's because young men are afraid of being (falsely) accused of rape (and railroaded.)
Here is the choice quote, as the writer recounts recounting this thesis to a Reuters (note: European; loose sexual mores, compared to Americans) film crew:
"From the reactions of the crew, I could tell right away that I was telling them something they didn’t want to hear. They all looked at each other anxiously and the producer continuously tried to steer me away from the perspective I was sharing of my clients’ experiences and onto some vague narrative about technology, video games, and porn. But unfortunately, the lived experiences of my clients don’t necessarily easily match up with forced narratives created in some media news room."
Obvi there are ample alternate explanations that nimbly evade the narrative dialectic mouse mazes that both the author and Reuters are programmed to generate; real quick 1.) STD awareness has improved over the past few generations [plus the 80's AIDS epidemic; one Pope declares horse sacrifices to be pagan a thousand years ago and TO THIS DAY westerners get squeamish at the thought of horse sushi- point being, one event can profoundly effect culture for years to come]) 2.) Millenials have no money, no sense of purpose, and no hope, therefore the potential consequences of sex (pregnancy, sickness) are too materially costly to warrant risking 3.) Millenials are directionless and bereft of meaning or a solid sense of worthwhile identity, and therefore eschew sex as a pastime better left to people with self esteem.
Also, sure, sometimes non-rapey guys might have Mean World Syndrome.
The article is right that a lot of society wants to blame porn and Overwatch (not mutually exclusive concepts) and The Last Psychiatrist has already gone into great detail explaining why this explanation is both facile and wrongheaded. (See: point no. 3, above.) I guess it's worth enumerating some of the rebuttals to either line of logic, if for no other reason than it might behoove someone's developing sense of skepticism some day. Here you go, you're welcome, learn it well just look how much it's paying off for me. Also take a moment to revel in the irony that generations of pearl clutching busybodies have been supplanted by clickbait authors who fret that young people aren't sexually promiscuous enough. Honk honk.
But the big bad question looming over the background in a muddy rear projection is this: what difference does it make why (if indeed it is true) young people ain't fucking? Do we have a labor shortage? Are we suddenly concerned that younger generations are missing out on the wonders of physical intimacy and meaningful bonding? What changed all of a sudden? Is there another zinc shortage in Africa threatening the world Xbox supply?
All of it smoke and mirrors, my friend, all of it smoke and mirrors. Ignore the guerilla keywords- "rape", "millenials," "PC", et cetera. All are deployed as chaff to confound and disable your thoughts and your soul's own dialectic. No matter what your kneejerk response, it is in service of something and that something isn't you, and it isn't something you benefits from. It's a hard pill to swallow but take a moment, refer back to the old adage: "Their vision is based on movement."
Rebuttal is cheap. Renaissance is on sale.
Anyway, in the midst of all that existentialism, I came upon this article, bellyaching about those dang gum Millenials and how they are ruining yet another thing, in this case, sex:
http://quillette.com/2017/04/18/laura-kipnis-rape-culture-disappearance-sex/
I don't know what the author's "deal" is, but the Twitter account linking it got "chills" reading it, which makes me think they must have been disinterestedly thumbing around on their smartphone in one of those ice bars like they have in Scandinavia. In summary: "young people are having less sex, and it's because young men are afraid of being (falsely) accused of rape (and railroaded.)
Here is the choice quote, as the writer recounts recounting this thesis to a Reuters (note: European; loose sexual mores, compared to Americans) film crew:
"From the reactions of the crew, I could tell right away that I was telling them something they didn’t want to hear. They all looked at each other anxiously and the producer continuously tried to steer me away from the perspective I was sharing of my clients’ experiences and onto some vague narrative about technology, video games, and porn. But unfortunately, the lived experiences of my clients don’t necessarily easily match up with forced narratives created in some media news room."
Obvi there are ample alternate explanations that nimbly evade the narrative dialectic mouse mazes that both the author and Reuters are programmed to generate; real quick 1.) STD awareness has improved over the past few generations [plus the 80's AIDS epidemic; one Pope declares horse sacrifices to be pagan a thousand years ago and TO THIS DAY westerners get squeamish at the thought of horse sushi- point being, one event can profoundly effect culture for years to come]) 2.) Millenials have no money, no sense of purpose, and no hope, therefore the potential consequences of sex (pregnancy, sickness) are too materially costly to warrant risking 3.) Millenials are directionless and bereft of meaning or a solid sense of worthwhile identity, and therefore eschew sex as a pastime better left to people with self esteem.
Also, sure, sometimes non-rapey guys might have Mean World Syndrome.
The article is right that a lot of society wants to blame porn and Overwatch (not mutually exclusive concepts) and The Last Psychiatrist has already gone into great detail explaining why this explanation is both facile and wrongheaded. (See: point no. 3, above.) I guess it's worth enumerating some of the rebuttals to either line of logic, if for no other reason than it might behoove someone's developing sense of skepticism some day. Here you go, you're welcome, learn it well just look how much it's paying off for me. Also take a moment to revel in the irony that generations of pearl clutching busybodies have been supplanted by clickbait authors who fret that young people aren't sexually promiscuous enough. Honk honk.
But the big bad question looming over the background in a muddy rear projection is this: what difference does it make why (if indeed it is true) young people ain't fucking? Do we have a labor shortage? Are we suddenly concerned that younger generations are missing out on the wonders of physical intimacy and meaningful bonding? What changed all of a sudden? Is there another zinc shortage in Africa threatening the world Xbox supply?
All of it smoke and mirrors, my friend, all of it smoke and mirrors. Ignore the guerilla keywords- "rape", "millenials," "PC", et cetera. All are deployed as chaff to confound and disable your thoughts and your soul's own dialectic. No matter what your kneejerk response, it is in service of something and that something isn't you, and it isn't something you benefits from. It's a hard pill to swallow but take a moment, refer back to the old adage: "Their vision is based on movement."
Rebuttal is cheap. Renaissance is on sale.
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