@ex0ph1a Straight men are sexually attracted to anything that looks like it could get pregnant (Very feminine looking men, 15-17 y/o girls, pixels on a screen arranged to look like a woman) . However, being romantically interested in the same gender is what's very rare.
Young people are entering a world with almost no aura left anywhere
There used to be aura everywhere: the New York Times, Harvard University, the Catholic Church, the Hollywood studio lot, Goldman Sachs, billionaires, the Pentagon, the United States Senate, the Peace Corps, the British Royal family, the trading floor. Places where you were a "made man" if you were on the inside and even on the outside made you feel a little special just to be in proximity to...
And even ignoring these big institutions, aura didn't need Latin mottos and mahogany desks and cufflinks, you could build aura by doing very normal things like being a teacher or accountant or a restaurant owner and living respectably in your neighborhood for 50 years and raising a family. You could have a local mythology. "She taught half this town how to read."
Now everybody's seen too much, nobody admires anyone anything, everything is "cringe," and the only way to have aura is to be hot on Instagram or become an astronaut
I feel bad for the youth
The message of a protest is "we don't like this".
The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".
People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.
They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.
If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.
And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.
Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.
Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.
(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)
When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.
And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.
This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".
They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.
This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.
A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.
A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.
The small genitalia is to represent a control over one’s appetites..
To somewhat remove man from being animalistic..
There’s something vulgar and brash about large genitalia and it’s not something that should be admired in art