Youth socialism.

[reddragdiva]

I have a theory (which is mine) of what drives youth socialism. It's not just clueless youthful enthusiasm, it's hormones as well. A hotbed of hot beds. Leadership is inherently sexy. Even John Howard has groupies. (Which shows there's not much lower than a political groupie.) Dynamic phrases in a small group with a sense of purpose gets the chicks. Doesn't matter what the purpose is. Younger leaders and followers are also unhindered by cluefulness or experience. I once started reading this history of Australian communism: The Reds by Stuart Macintyre. It completely failed to go into the real cause of all the splinter groups splintering and reforming: the history of your hundreds of People's Fronts of Judaea is someone sleeping with someone that someone else thought they shouldn't have and declaring a schism. Notice how well ideological lines match with a who-bonked-who chart. And the big draw is: where else are you going to find that many intelligent young women with shaven heads, overalls, Doc Marten boots and all their original body hair, who are nevertheless mostly heterosexual? COMMUNISM IS CAUSED BY DYKE FETISHISM. "Thesis!" "Antithesis!" "Thesis!" "Antithesis!" "THESIS!" "ANTHITHESSSISSSSSSSS ..." (together) "... Syyynnnthessissss." Thank you.

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[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You got me investigating private sex change surgery options right now.

[reddragdiva]

Plenty of them are gay-as, of course. Don't despair! You really don't want a penis. Well, you really don't want testicles. They make you stupid.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

No, I do. I want a penis and testicles and no orifices whatsoever except ones that nobody ever wants to know about. I want to have something disturbing that I can say to people in return when they tell me all about their sex lives and make me stop sleeping for a week. I want my default state in the minds of everybody else to be human, thinking, not consenting to sex, not expected to smile at everybody all the time. I want so much to not be a woman anymore.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

I want to have something disturbing that I can say to people in return when they tell me all about their sex lives and make me stop sleeping for a week.

suggestion:

hey, have i ever told you about that time with my brother and the rat?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

They'd still want to know. They always still want to know. They only ever don't if there is a penis involved and the penis is mine.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

you could always just *say* you had a penis. and no anus, and a colostomy bag. then you could invent a story about your brother, the rat, your penis, and the colostomy bag. they might still want to know, but you could probably make them regret asking....

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I think you are a lot better at improvising in front of a crowd than me. My answer is just to stop talking to them.

[reddragdiva]

I understand it's technically illegal to taser people in pubs, though unfortunate at times.

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

The American West is very sensible in this regard.

Colorado's "Make My Day" law, for example.

Suggest it to Ken next time you run into him.

[vatine]

You could always answer "I used to have a cock, but it started being distracting, so I cut it off, with a blunt spoon!" If they're still looking as if they want to hear more, move away very quickly.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Many of the gay trot student leadership are now entirely hetrosexual (and conservative).

Some of the bastards switched as soon as they left university..

I never managed to pick up hot young leadership studs - I guess once they've recruited you, what's the point?

[gths.livejournal.com]

The same most likely applies to Young Liberal and Labor as well, I should think.

[reddragdiva]

"Doesn't matter what the purpose is."

[vatine]

Werrrll... There's always synth parties. though they're usually more populated with feminine, body-hair-depleted young men, dressed in dyke-fetishism clothes (or uniforms of either a decidedly "Red army" or "Gestapo" design).

I guess there might be some elements who are members of both sets, though.

[markeris.livejournal.com]

This is all true. During my brief political career, my campaign team came back with SO many peoples phone numbers, and in some cases, graphical descriptions of what the person whose number it was wished to do with me.

In my foolhardiness, not having someone like you around to explain it all to me, I failed to realise that this was in fact *the whole point*, and binned them all.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

The incredible stupidity of capitalism does have something to do with it.

[reddragdiva]

IME that's almost an excuse. I spent far too much time being acerbic at these people's disregard for the alleged point until I realised the actual one.

Really fits what I saw of Mark Rudd at Columbia

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

I went to a leftist meeting before he and his friends went underground -- and it was like watching the Alpha Male being groomed by the females. It wasn't like watching the Alpha Male being groomed by the females; it was the Alpha Male being groomed by the females.

Of course, the Progressive Labor Party had to split off from that.

Re: Really fits what I saw of Mark Rudd at Columbia

[reddragdiva]

To summarise the summary of the summary, people are a problem.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

I forget who it was but it's quite a well-known quote, that pretty much everyone who went on the Aldermaston peace marches did so to get laid.