That society hates us is the truth, and there is NO reason beyond some mid-20th-century-Capitalism-disguised-as-puritanical-morality bullshit

The United States were FOUNDED on two things!!! 1. Selfishness 2. Puritanical self discipline to achieve your selfish goals at any cost to yourself, your family, and mankind at large

Puritans left England for religious freedom and promptly excommunicated anyone not Puritanical enough. Separation of Church and state? Christian Nationalists extol the virtuous American Revolution, claim God given exceptionalism, and then...

This country has never lost its Puritanical roots, but it has forgotten a lot of what they actually believed.

Don’t then completely dismiss my thoughts on how puritanical the rules are and how lgbtqphobic they are. DONT THEN GO ON AND SAY THE INTERNET WHOLESALE SHOULD BE 18+ thus completely eradicating almost all safe spaces for children. You complain about drama yet you hold beliefs antithetical to

That is SO fucking frustrating because our self-labeling is ACCURATE and theirs is puritanical.

Honestly, the more Niche communities like the abdl and other kinks start getting purged, it's only a matter of time until we start regressing to the puritanical Pearl clutching of the '70s.

Any kind of true crime, for example, was tossed. Prison breaks, etc, tossed. Sexual violence, murder, etc, tossed. A lot of prisons are really puritanical about their books.

💯💯💯 I think it comes specifically from the undercurrent of puritanical values in the US/western culture. There's such a big pressure to conform and not rock the boat. With non violent resistance they can "move on" or otherwise not disrupt things TOO much. But violence forces them onto a side.

I’ll be honest, I don’t really care for the term “clean” when referring to romance books without sex in them - seems a bit puritanical to me. I’m borrowing the fandom term and saying fluffy romance 💛 It’s far less judgy!