Rowan River

Watching the media portray the British politician Zack Polanski as some kind of radical, violent revolutionary is surreal when all you have to do is look through Twitter to see what those people are actually like. Polanski spends most of his days walking on eggshells.

I don’t think he has a violent bone in his body. My biggest criticism of him is that I don’t think he has the will and perseverance to throw his weight around if he came to power. Like Biden, I imagine he would spend his term complaining that no one would let him do anything.

I saw people talking about gatekeeping being goth because of girls doing onlyfans and sexualising being goth. The justification is that they say that by sexualising being goth, it’s inviting men to harass goth girls. This line of argument has also been used against mspec lesbians.

This also applies to mspec lesbians (who are lesbians who are in some way or another also attracted to men).

I saw people talking about gatekeeping being goth because of girls doing onlyfans and sexualising being goth. The justification is that they say that by sexualising being goth, it’s inviting men to harass goth girls. This line of argument has also been used against mspec lesbians.

The context of this argument was that I saw people claiming that if the goth community is not gate-kept from TikTok influencers who wore sexy goth costumes, as a result, they say that the concept of goth itself will be sexualised and therefore invite men to harass goth girls.

I saw people talking about gatekeeping being goth because of girls doing onlyfans and sexualising being goth. The justification is that they say that by sexualising being goth, it’s inviting men to harass goth girls. This line of argument has also been used against mspec lesbians.

I’m adding this to the end much later because apparently I was unclear. My argument is that women should be able to dress how they like without being harassed for it. Someone ‘sexualising themselves’ as was asserted by the people against TikTok goths, is not a justification for harassment.

I saw people talking about gatekeeping being goth because of girls doing onlyfans and sexualising being goth. The justification is that they say that by sexualising being goth, it’s inviting men to harass goth girls. This line of argument has also been used against mspec lesbians.

What a woman wears is not an invitation for harassment or assault under any circumstances. A woman sexualising herself does not justify either her or people who dress like her being harassed. A woman liking penis is not an invitation for anyone with a penis to assault or harass her.

I saw people talking about gatekeeping being goth because of girls doing onlyfans and sexualising being goth. The justification is that they say that by sexualising being goth, it’s inviting men to harass goth girls. This line of argument has also been used against mspec lesbians.

If you use the term “black and brown bodies” as a synonym for “black and brown people” you are using the term in an unironically racist way. The term was originally meant to describe the dehumanisation and objectification of black people, and now people are calling living black people “bodies.”

I have heard reports coming in that Israel has discovered a Hamas base on the moon. Therefore, Israel will be destroying it with a new nuclear weapon a trillion times as strong as a tsar bomba.

The philosophy behind 'Your Party' is a bit alienating. Democracy as a value has been put before all other considerations, including decency and left-wing values in general. The strategy seems to be -

People are now being arrested for sending non threatening emails about the genocide in Gaza to their MP’s in England. It is not safe to express your disapproval of genocide in a fundamentally genocidal country. These people will use state violence to silence you.

The UK is going in the right direction but not nearly far enough. I propose the wanking loicence. It is clear that we cannot trust people in the UK to wank responsibly, so I propose that in order to get a licence to wank, a microchip must be inserted into your brain.

The Grooming Gangs story that the right perpetuates never rang true to me. They argue that the police are so afraid of being called racist that they let that go on unabated. When have the police ever been afraid of being called racist? Now, the truth has come out, and it's far more believable.