Some nerds were doing that thing where 40k fans are like "OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!" when it's pretty definitively not and is basically one of the only things in 40k that isn't heretical (as long as you're not doing evil slannesh shit) and it got me thinking about repression of sex under "in bad country regimes".

And a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole fucking thing in 1984 was how liberating and humanizing it was that the author's grungy middle aged self-insert was boning a 19 year old member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and, like... America has several thousand different Junior Anti-Sex League and I'm not sure if the USSR ever had any? Like, yeah, maybe they did, but under capitalism Americans have literally convinced themselves they'll go to hell if they see a tiddy and the English famously just hate joy. So what the fuck was Orwell trying to critique with his "Junior Anti-Sex League" in spoooooky Stalinist England?

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[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

'Defying an authoritarian regime' so hard that he helped the British Empire in fighting against his supposedly-fellow anarchists and against racial minority rights advocates and activists.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Oh definitely, I fucking hate Orwell, but it's 100% how he saw himself lmao