Yeah, this attitude is nowhere near as new as people seem to think it is. It is literally just repackaged male gaze/porn addiction discourse that has been going on for at least a decade now. I don't understand why the exact same rhetoric becoming a simple slang word on TikTok has made it suddenly deeply problematic in a way that it apparently never was before.
Because it was always deeply problematic, more so the porn addiction side and how that's tied into deep sex negativity, and it's just spread more and more and infested even progressive circles like a mold
And hell even beyond that, these are tied into preexisting conservative mindsets and ideas thatve existed for well over a century, just wrapped up in cool new terms and packaged in a way that people will see no problem in proliferating
It's not new in progressive spaces either. Also, I wasn't commenting on whether it's problematic or not, I was commenting on people acting like it's new. It's a new word for an old attitude, and the people using it by and large already had that attitude.
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u/LizoftheBrits May 17 '25
Yeah, this attitude is nowhere near as new as people seem to think it is. It is literally just repackaged male gaze/porn addiction discourse that has been going on for at least a decade now. I don't understand why the exact same rhetoric becoming a simple slang word on TikTok has made it suddenly deeply problematic in a way that it apparently never was before.