Without Consent

Another Twitter rant, lovingly preserved for your delectation.  This one was inspired by partisans taking exception to my being disgusted when other partisans compared a tyrannical, pro-police-state politician to women fighting for rights under Islamic theocracies on the grounds that said politician has a vagina.  The rant seemed to confuse a lot of doofuses who don’t follow me, but must have seen it in retweets; the idea that the behavior of cops and politicians might be rooted in psychosexual drives was apparently so deeply disturbing to them that many of them felt compelled to hurl insults at me, most of which can be paraphrased as “lol girls are dumb”.  But without further ado:

NEW POLICY: Defend a politician in a reply to me, be instantly muted without appeal.  Politicians are all sociopaths who want to control others non-consensually.  I don’t give a fuck what party they belong to or how much they’ve dazzled you with their bullshit; I’m not interested in it.  And I have no stomach for watching you grovel to them in my timeline.  Look, y’all, I totally get that dominating other people is a huge turn-on; it certainly is for me. BUT I ONLY DO IT TO THOSE WHO CONSENT.  Politicians & cops want to do it to those who do NOT consent; in fact, most of the thrill for them seems to be inflicting their will on non-consenting participants.  That is evil & wrong.  We have a word for using other people to get a sexual charge without those  people’s permission; it’s called “rape”.  And I won’t engage with those who try to defend it in real-life, non-fantasy scenarios.  Furthermore, as a switch I also fully understand that being controlled by someone else can be a huge turn-on.  But once again, with consent.  I’m not turned on by random assholes trying to top me without negotiating my consent, using threats & violence to wring compliance out of me.  If you want to grovel to random assholes, call them the equivalent of “master”, lick their boots & let them beat & exploit you, that is your affair; may you get all you’re looking for out of that relationship.  But I don’t want to watch, and I’m not going to indulge you in your exhibitionist submissive fetish by watching you grovel to cops & politicians in front of me.  You want me to participate in your perverted public humiliation scene?  I’m willing to do that for my normal posted rate.  But try to force my participation without negotiating my boundaries & conditions first, and I’ll mute you so fast you won’t know it happened.

And no, I’m not interested in debating “social contracts” with you.  I signed no contract, nor do I implicitly agree to one by participating in the lie of “elections”.  Nobody has authority over me unless I choose to give it to them; anything else is just cooperation gained by force or the threat of violence.  I reserve my BDSM games for the bedroom; those who want to act it out full-time, lifestyle, in public, with the possibility of permanent damage or other permanent negative consequences, are far more perverted than I’ll ever be.