Every kink is a kink because the object of the kink holds some specific value or logic within the social context that is then relived or subverted within the kinky dynamic. If foot worshipping wasn’t, historically and symbolically, an act of submission in society, it wouldn’t be a kink at all.

It’s just to understand if you do politics or you just talk about politics.

Criticizing without strategic and contextual awareness of what you’re criticizing should stop being normalized. If you just have opinions on stuff instead of building or participating into organizations, I know for sure I can disregard your words.

How are you contributing to that?

I think it’s time for you to be introduced to the concept of “cognitive work”. We have been doing that for a few thousand years now.

I organize tech workers. The expectation that they are going to fight an uphill battle inhibits a lot of them and often it’s not the scenario they are faced with. Tech workers being skeptical of the possibility of unionizing their workplace is a mind virus that needs to be eradicated for anything to happen. If then they find hostility, there are endless means to win over their colleagues, but if you discourage them before even starting, nothing will ever change.

If people stopped repeating this stuff, it would help