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remember that like social worker/therapist lady who made that post that was like "X is a mental health issue" where "X" was a bunch of stuff like housing inequality, police brutality, healthcare, systemic oppression

and one of the things was like "Food insecurity is a mental health issue. I can't help a client who isn't taking their meds because the meds say 'take with food' and they have nothing to eat."

and then some right-wing idiots came onto that post and accused her of just like making up the concept of meds that have to be taken with food

because i do

every time I take my meds.

am i writing this because i'm salty over the misumi poledancing fiasco yes yes i am

i was just thinking about why people talk a lot more about oversexualization (which is good! it's an important thing to talk about!!) than desexualization and I think it boils down to representation politics/sex negativity in the SJsphere fandom world

okay, so, oversexualization. in a representation-pol centered SJsphere, the solution to this is the contrary narrative- have characters with typically oversexualized attributes be depicted as nonsexual

but then, with desexualization, if we go with what would be the representation-pol solution- depict these characters as sexual beings, then we run into the second problem, which is that the solution to a rep problem being more sex is anathema in our current sex-negative fandom sphere, which presents sex as never a solution, only a problem

i mean i could just be talking out of my ass here, but...