Did Orwell ever talk about what he was trying to accomplish with 1984? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] miz@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

is there some reason the brassica napus filter cannot be fixed? really makes it feel like no one's at the wheel of this bus

EDIT: what I mean is, the regex eats the character priot to the proscribed word, making it even harder to read

[-] context@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it was a recent addition to the filter because many users aren't as diligent as you are about using content warnings around graphic discussions of non-cabbage related uses of the word. it was added at the request of some of our users.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

just saying that the regex as written eats the character before it, that's what I'm referring to above

[-] context@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

oh i see, my apologies

[-] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

no, it's my fault. I should have been more clear not everybody has read my previous complaint about it and I forgot that

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

There's a cabbage related use of the r-verb that's non-offensive?

[-] context@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

it's a variety of cabbage grown for its oil-rich seeds, r-seed. there's a town in canada that bears the name because they grow a lot of cabbage there.