lumberjack (u/lumberjack)

lumberjack commented on Autism and Invention Are Connected wsj.com/articles/how-auti... · Posted by u/jkuria

username90 · 5 years ago

I wonder how much this is autism and how much it is people with low trait agreeableness being diagnosed with autism for being "bad with people". Refusing to do rituals without a good explanation makes people think you are autistic, but it could just as well be that they are disagreeable by nature and don't do things just because people tell them to. And refusing to do things the way everyone else does them obviously helps you find new ways to do things.

lumberjack · 5 years ago

Autism diagnosis does not really focus on social interactions. Difficulties in social interaction are a side effect but it is not how they diagnose the condition.

lumberjack commented on Autism and Invention Are Connected wsj.com/articles/how-auti... · Posted by u/jkuria

ksm1717 · 5 years ago

The first sentence rubs me the wrong way. The claim that you wouldn’t expect autism to be coupled with invention because it is a disability only makes sense because of the semantics of labeling autism necessarily a disability. Not to mention the slight to disabilities as a whole

lumberjack · 5 years ago

Most (like 90% or more) autistic people are low functioning. But they are completely invisible to people like you. When you hear the word you think of the border line cases that fall under the label "high functioning autism". But the author is not limiting himself to just these borderline cases.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

watwut · 5 years ago

I think that the argument is that male tech workers consume porn as much as other men and therefore solving issues of porn industry could be solving issues they have too. E.g. selfishness of tech males should lead them to care about porn.

Your contra argument implicitly assumes that tech makes are special kind of males that don't use porn.

lumberjack · 5 years ago

The argument holds no water and it is pretty disgusting of this uber-for-porn pimp to pretend he is doing good. Porn is like weed. If you want to consume it ethically you need to verify your sources. These cam sites have their own serious exploitation issues that are completely being ignored.

If you go on reddit you can find many threads discussing cam girls who are suspected to either be underage or be literal sex slaves.

There are actual ethical porn producers of various flavours (also featured on HN quite a few times). Onlyfans is not one of them.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

spaceribs · 5 years ago

Lets break down your "pimping" attributes:

- Recruiting young girls: Good infantilization here, you mean young women over the age of consent that can decide for themselves what they can do with their bodies? Those women? And how are they being recruited? By demonstrating the value of their service and being an attractive alternative to McDonald's minimum wage burger flipping? Is McDonalds in the burger-work pimping business?

- Connecting them with clients: So basically any communication network is a pimping network?

- Taking a cut of the profit: They are a popular platform like any other, a place where users know to go to find sex-workers, and they are using that platform as a business. Film festivals also act as middle-men in this regard, but does anyone say film festivals are in the "film pimping" business?

- While keeping control of the whole business: I think I need a source on this, are they shutting down OnlyFan creators because they are linking to an external website? I couldn't find anything in their terms: https://onlyfans.com/terms/user-content

lumberjack · 5 years ago

Yes in some ideal environment a sex worker and a pimp could have a mutually beneficial relationship. But that is not why pimping is looked down upon. And you made no honest attempt to address the issues that exist in practice.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

fullshark · 5 years ago

This guy seems to be operating on the assumption that MEN are to blame for pornography's status as a social pariah. As if mothers everywhere would be proud of their daughters producing pornography on Onlyfans if only their husbands weren't in their ear shaming them.

lumberjack · 5 years ago

The author is trying to hijack contemporary moral outrage against legitimate cases of sexism to try to legitimize a pimp business.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

spaceribs · 5 years ago

Couldn't you say this comment is virtually pimping an idea? What a culturally inflammatory term you've chosen for any service that does anything to help facilitate sex work.

lumberjack · 5 years ago

They are literal pimps doing literal pimp work: recruiting young girls, connecting them with clients, and taking a cut of the profit, while keeping control of the whole business.

It is not my fault you are offended.

I would have no problem if these sex workers setup their own site and did their own business directly with their clients. No pimp would be involved then. There would be no recruiting, which is also where I see a big problem. And nobody would be taking a cut.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

neartheplain · 5 years ago

Porn isn't going anywhere. The oldest known depiction of a human figure is pornographic [0]. Since porn will always exist, better that it be produced and consumed in the open, legally speaking. Sex workers deserve the same safety and labor protections as the rest of us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels

lumberjack · 5 years ago

The article is not about sex workers but about virtual pimps and it is not advocating for sex workers but for the pimp's business. Big difference.

lumberjack commented on The Internet Is for Porn themargins.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/tosh

lumberjack · 5 years ago

Looks like the porn industry is bankrolling a PR campaign to legitimize their business. It is particularly amusing to see them pretend they are feminists when in truth practically all feminists hate porn.

And I also find amusing the implication that onlyfans is a win for sex workers. Yeah, maybe for the typical porn star it is a better deal, but on the other hand they are also corrupting a lot of young girls that would otherwise have never gone into porn.

lumberjack commented on Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one nytimes.com/2020/12/13/wo... · Posted by u/IfOnlyYouKnew

Hnrobert42 · 5 years ago

What can I do as an individual to see less of this stuff happen?

lumberjack · 5 years ago

Don't buy drugs off the street or promote their use.