Ep135: Social Issues Sensual and Systemic
This time I run through points of interest about social issues big and small. The first half covers abortion, sex work, the safety of gay bars, how romance usually starts with friendship, and aro-aces as queer. In the 2nd half I cover pieces about elite use of toxic positivism in the neoliberal order; the basis of that tread with meritocracy; and how social values change quickly when the masses (that’s us) move, finishing with a piece about abolishing museums(as we know them of course).
Music Used:Revolution Radio by Green Day; Going Underground, by The Jam; Tubtumbing, by Cumbawumba; Sure Fire Winners, by Adam Lanbert; Vicious Cycle, by AiKAi
Sources
Pro Life Activist Switches positions
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/13/former-pro-life-activist-my-body-shouldnt-be-up-for-public-debate-2/
Sex Work during Covid Crisis: social values unclear in law cut people off
https://www.bustle.com/wellness/how-sex-workers-are-coping-during-the-pandemic-without-government-assistance-22874716
Debunking of Sex/porn addiction, social values matter
https://www.insider.com/porn-addiction
Gay bars are safer, something about queerness is safer
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/14/daniel-craig-says-he-goes-to-gay-bars-to-avoid-fights-at-straight-venues
Survey of 2K finds most romances start as friends
https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/new-study-finds-that-two-thirds-of-romantic-couples-start-out-as-friends/
Aros and Ace count as queer
https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-07-06/why-aromantic-and-asexual-people-belong-lgbtqia-community
Neoliberals provide cope in the horror show of the economy
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2019/07/how-mindfulness-privatised-social-problem
Pointing out how the coordinator class has changed: offers deprofessionalizing as a reform
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/
Revolutions and pace of social change; not so gradual
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/07/22/changes-in-consciousness-and-belief-systems-dont-need-decades-much-less-centuries-to-change-by-pete-dolack/
A call to transform museums. Much like everything else.
https://hyperallergic.com/649011/we-should-abolish-museums-now/