I keep seeing people getting mad about 'Puriteens' and I'm still not certain what that even fucking means. Why are we getting mad at the younger generation for wanting to be less overtly sexual. Maybe I'm just defensive about it because I'm asexual and we're pretty universally ignored

@Serecen honestly a lot of it seems to me like a reaction to them trying to "sanitize" environments
Demanding that others "clean up their act", rather than just doing their own thing.
"Over sexualized" "porn sick" "porn addicted"

Ace people rule. Trying to humiliate others for being into horny stuff does not.

@Loosf @Serecen it also has a lot to do with assimilationist rhetoric, "no kink at pride", etc

and it intersects with the phenomenon of a lot of younger queer folk not being knowledgeable, and seemingly not very willing to learn, about queer history

idk its prickly

@typhlosion @Serecen

Yeah...
And that aspect

So much of that going with "no kink at pride" also feels so much like that are dealing with identity and presentation as if it was feuding fandom camps

"Only good rep", got to be the right kind of queer

(And how many of those really really dislike the term "queer" itself)
It feels at times like, just trying to prevent any kind of solidarity

@Loosf @typhlosion but is this a generational thing? Because there are plenty of older people who do these things too. If there's some younger people that are Puritan, that doesn't make the entire generation more Puritan. I guess I'm also pissy about us doing the whole "millennials are entitled" thing but this time it's us saying that younger people are all prudes.
It might also be that social media is a terrible place for this kinda nuance, lol

@Serecen @typhlosion oh it definitely is terrible

Doesn't seem to me like a general generational thing, rather than SOME younger people trying to assert control over spaces they've barely been allowed into

Like, with furries it happens, minors trying to make every furry space minor friendly, butting into places they shouldn't be
Lol

But it's also a thing, a lot of youth online spaces, fandoms and such seem to prime then for exclusionary mindsets, and establishing strict acceptability parameters

It's messy

@Serecen @typhlosion i personally think that is not that all are
But that there are some very loud ones who do want to sanitize everything. Who actually believe in acceptability politics.

"You make the LGBTQ community look bad" says the 16 year old to the rubber or latex kinksters

@Serecen @typhlosion a lot of it, i think, is hypervigilance because in so many aspects they feel they have to self police. Conform, be acceptable to their social standards. Personal lives, their fandom spaces, everything.

Got to be "the right kind" "clean" "acceptable"
Teens accusing random people not in their spaces of being "proshippers" as if that meant *anything* out of their spaces.

Trying to make everyone else conform to THEIR little rules.

That's an issue.
I hope they learn and grow out of it

@Loosf @typhlosion they might grow out of it, they might not, I mean look at how many of our generation or how many boomers still try to police spaces. I think there's waaaay more millennials out there still trying to police spaces than there are teens, I run into those millennials every day. They never grew out of that narcissism- but everyone has a chance to grow. I want to encourage that growth in younger people by being open and informative, not by mocking them or accusing them of things we're also guilty of doing.