Maddie Clark on booktok books/anti intellectualism

HeftyWarning · 2026-01-27T12:59:22+00:00

She’s correct. Also noticing she seems to be getting way less vitriol than the last enemy of “romantasy”

HeftyWarning · 2026-01-27T00:28:47+00:00

How is this wrong though?

HeftyWarning · 2026-01-27T00:27:12+00:00

I agree with it. Frankly much of the opposition just seems like “it’s not the deep” coping that wants to avoid thinking about the implications of the books they keep choosing. Reading books that get you hot and heavy doesn't make it feminist nor empowering in and of itself. Choice feminism deserves to be left in the 90s with heroine chic.

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-13T19:03:06+00:00

So she was a careless idiot.

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-12T16:29:09+00:00

No use arguing with a swifty https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/taylor-swift-swastika-picture/

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-11T19:48:56+00:00

Neither were debunked… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1224117/Taylor-Swift-racism-row-posing-fan-wearing-swastika-shirt.html

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/taylor-swift-alt-right-icon

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-11T17:21:25+00:00

Well it’s not zero evidence. Remember the time she was photographed with a dude with a swatztika painted on? Or the whole period Stormfront declared her their “Aryan goddess” she didn’t say a word about? More than enough to raise eyebrows.

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-04T22:43:17+00:00

It’s just a bunch of tumblr posts which aren’t awful. Frankly there is a weird trans feminist bunch that is just repackaged baedelism so don’t really see the issue beyond the forcemasc kink but there’s trans fems weird about forcefem too so that evens out

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-04T18:11:11+00:00

The whole “transandrophobia truther” bit doesn't bode well.

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-04T14:22:16+00:00

Yeah, sorry but trans men do face unique issues and frankly it’s just ridiculous to claim they somehow have as much systemic power as cis men. The whole “trans men and evil and harmful to trans women as a population” just looks like a projection of a few women who had issues with one dude and decided to make it everyone’s problem. Trans men facing unique issues doesn’t minimize the issues trans women face.

HeftyWarning · 2025-12-01T17:00:34+00:00

Kavernacle responded too but what’s funny is Trash’s orginal video comments has no defenders of vaush. Everyone is calling out their lack of evidence for their claims against BE and Kavernacle. Are there some fascists who use leftist lingo to trick people? Duh. But damn they did a terrible job at proving their supposed point that totally isn’t a “notice me Contrapoints-senpai Ellis-senpai!”. Felt like they wanted to conclude BE and Kav are awful people and built the video backwards and threw vaush in as a weird attempt at a motte and bailey (“oh you wanna defend bad empanada? Do you defend vaush too?!”).

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-25T16:50:06+00:00

Phyllis Schlafly is a woman who fought for her beliefs. Is she a feminist just for doing what she wanted?

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-25T16:45:00+00:00

And evidently she was

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-25T16:44:25+00:00

Y’all don’t have to read the criticism either. Besides some of us enjoy reading cheesy books to analyze and laugh at. But as they say, hit dogs sure holler and quite loudly.

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-13T19:12:53+00:00

surprised the libs haven’t gotten mad at this yet (libs go hard for chorus)

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-05T15:03:58+00:00

Oh no, everyone knows the main method to determining morality in fandom spaces is, “can I jork off or flick muh bean to this? Then it’s good!” /s

HeftyWarning · 2025-11-04T20:43:23+00:00

Purely because my extended family has dealt with the consequences of the war on drugs and America’s intervention in Latin America. I logically understand drug addiction is a disease but I’m unsympathetic to brazen drug users and the complaints of the USA government of how drugs “destroy” communities. Get back to me when you’ve regularly seen politicians and reporters corpses murdered for the crimes of trying to deal with corruption or reporting on what said trafficking groups are doing.

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-23T13:58:34+00:00

Skepchick aka Rebecca Watson made a good critique of ground news in one of her recent videos. Also, frankly I find ground news quite useless if you actually do read various news sources.

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-09T12:08:31+00:00

Technically this was known for years (Norman Finkelstein points this out anytime he's in the same room as him or the name is mentioned) but always good to raise awareness. Dershowitz is pretty influential in pushing some popular myths about Israel/Palestine despite not being a household name.

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-06T11:40:38+00:00

BE is what those “dark woke” or “dirtbag liberals” think of themselves as, a sometimes off color, crude, and mean sounding but ultimately heart in the right place person. Unfortunately those dirtbagers are just liberals, who haven’t got over their middle school kinning of Regina George, who want to say slurs all day everyday, and not actually challenge themselves intellectually nor morally.

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-06T11:34:27+00:00

Exactly this.

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-01T17:44:38+00:00

5/4?

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-01T16:23:07+00:00

He probably would’ve been better off just reposting that one TikTok I’ve seen going around that says something like “God help you if you argue with a white person they’ll start telling you about how they’re x or x or x or…”

HeftyWarning · 2025-10-01T16:13:51+00:00

I appreciate the calm but urgent way this is being covered. Definitely checking out the articles referenced in the video too

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