I've always taken the volcel stuff here to be more about not letting the forum attract creepers. On reddit any time there's a girl in a pic 80% of the comment section will just be :awooga: shit, which is alienating as fuck.
ssjmarx
joined 6 years ago
Everything the sex-positive people have been saying remains correct
I think the implication here is, "would you rather be in the Great Purge or the Holocaust", and people seriously overestimate how big the Great Purge was. Not that it didn't suck for anyone who got drawn into it, but let's have some perspective: it lasted about a year and a half and at its worst there were still fewer Soviets being imprisoned than there are Americans being imprisoned today. The purge stands out because the baseline of Soviet repression was so much lower than it was during that period, while the modern prison industrial complex is something we've gotten used to for generations.
The other thing they might be getting at is the famine of 1930-33 - but that also killed fewer people than the Holocaust, far fewer people when you take into account total population. Of course, the famine killed everyone more or less equally, while the Holocaust targeted groups the Nazis didn't like - so perhaps the average redditor is making a calculated decision about which regime they would be more likely to survive after all.
Worth remembering that while Sarkeesian was one of the principal targets of Gamer Gate, it initially got started when an ~~woman~~ NB made a text adventure that got good reviews and people freaked and assumed she slept with a reviewer for them.
In this case, something like: "masturbation is fine, almost everyone does it, it's also fine if you don't do it because everyone has a different libido, just don't try to force yourself or others into a specific box."