liberals love contracts man. everything is contracts. like half of 50 shades of grey (gray?) per the film is just about negotiating a contract https://t.co/UpyFzelaUd

— pumpkin spice liz bruenig (@ebruenig) October 29, 2019

This is something I’ve been thinking about in relation to the liberal tendency to prudishness, fake “protection from harm” excuse-making, and algorithmic matchmaking.

My guess as to where all this is going is that in-person-originated dating will be looked at as assault or near-assault, most dates will be chaperoned, clothing norms will be much stricter, especially for women, and that all dating will be contractual. We’re creating a surveillance-based, fearful world. Why would it not go this way? What’s to stop it? I can’t see anything standing in the way.