Picked up a few books on leather (because of course) and I've skimming through them for a couple minutes. I'm not getting the best of impressions. They read like bad tumblr posts, as if you're expected to read them and take every word uncritically. The only exception so far has been Larry Townsend's Leatherman's Handbook, but I think that's because I've already skimmed his book before. I'll have to give it a more in-depth read. Might be back with book reviews if I actually go through reading them and I don't let them sit on the shelves. So far the newer ones come across more like the hyper woke public leather pageant shit that's more for trannies, "queers," and eunuchophiles. It's always the "educate yourself on queer history" TRAs advertising books that barely even educate the reader about "queer history" and just parrot contemporary TRA slop instead with the same bluesky retweet slop published in a book, with it being in a book the only credential for being considered "academic." I don't know how to put it other than it feels like a forced meme, or I guess it's just literal propaganda. One of these books includes a literal grooming guide (it calls itself a grooming guide. I thought it was for hygiene at first) for progressive politics, espousing "empathy" (in the woke intersectional therapy-speak sense) a requirement for all leather mentees. I think it's rather disturbing, but these types have always been drawn to us, haven't they? Chasing a childish fantasy of a hedonistic life, like a grown adult trantifa supersoldier sitting at the computer eating pizza rolls all day while practicing xer keyboard warrior skills because "SCREW YOU CHRISTOFASCISTS!!", all that. Miserable people.
