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Martin Shkreli: emphatically not a short king. Banned from the short kingdom.

I look like gay, light-side Martin Shkrelki

If I were the CIA, I would simply let the man nobody likes speak at length at every single activist meeting, making it impossible for them to plan anything, and accusing them of being ableist if they don't allow him in

I used to go to Occupy shit and it was a similar deal. They'd let some asshole disrupt every single meeting and say they had to let it happen, in order to be inclusive. Ok. Mm hm. Very weird how that makes the group less effectual and drives people away, or how this person is widely known by the activist community to be an asshole yet you still let him in.

I used to know a trans woman who advocated for "drop the T". She was an awful person in some other ways as well, but the groups I went to wouldn't do anything because they wanted to be inclusive. It was the paradox of tolerance being played out in realtime, at the cost of anyone who didn't conform to her ideas about sexuality or gender presentation.

Actually, it's pronounced "jif" (Spanish j)

People in the 60s didn't seem particularly freaked by grown men expressing desire for teens...even though they did have a lot of anxiety over teenage sexuality, female sexuality, and premarital sex.

So singing about a vibrator was considered much more taboo than singing about being interested in a young teenager.

Most people nowadays would take sex and drug references in a pop song as completely banal, but then Donovan says he's just mad about a fourteen year old, and you really realize how much values have changed.

This guy in 1966 can be straight-up singing about being into a kid, but he has to be cagey when mentioning a vibrator, and the general public figured he was secretly trying to tell them to smoke banana peels.

Even if you're very sexually naive, smoking bananas sounds like a euphemism for sucking dick, tho.

"Mellow Yellow," on the other hand, mentions sex toys in such an casual manner that everyone thought the song's real, hidden meaning was about drugs