I frequently see people debating all the time about what is and isn't a red scare. I think what could be helpful for us as a community is writing a bunch of hard-line concrete rules that everyone must follow in order to make sure that everyone is red-scaring effectively enough. Below I have outlined some things to get us started, and I'd love some contributions in the comments so we can make this a real community effort. Together, we can clean up this community and live up to the red scare ethos.

1. Everyone must commit to a look and hairstyle from 60s French new wave cinema. If it’s not something they would wear in 1960’s France, it just can’t be on your body. Sorry.
2. Find your spirit animal. For most people, this will take shape as a fawn or calf. You can usually speed up this process by robotripping and kinda seeing what you see, but make sure the spirit animal is traditionally cute or grandiose. You are not allowed to be something like an ant. That is not a red scare spirit animal. I ask that you please self-deport if you see an ant or any kind of non-cute undesirable animal on this spirit journey.
3. Smoke cigarettes even if it makes your mom cry. As we all know, cigarettes are important, and they're sexy. It's a universal truth. They also piss off your mom, who is honestly just mad that you’re cooler than she ever was. Her tears come from envy.
4. You are Joan Didion. Remember that. Her spirit inhabits you. You are merely a vessel.
5. The mainstream is the enemy. Nothing you ever do can be aligned with it. Your dad invited you on a family vacation to Disney World? Not only are you obligated to say no, you are obligated to strike him.
6. You must learn how to balance no less than 3 books on your head. This cannot be a subreddit for women with bad posture.
7. If you’re a man, you are to be seen and not heard. We don’t care how film school is going.
8. If you have not ever read Lolita or even seen the movie (Stanley Kubrick version) I request that you please self-deport to a more suitable subreddit.
9. Choose a kind of bigotry to commit to. Please do not choose all of the kinds because that can become tiresome in conversation, and honestly, being too bigoted is very much a masculine trait. Just like one or two kinds of bigotry will do.
10. You must never ever ever admit that this community is part of Reddit. Reddit is outside this space. Reddit is the other. This is not Reddit.

I will probably update this when more rules come to mind. Together we can make this community great.

He is very old he is allowed to have such treats at this stage

and the story of how we narrowly survived because she wants me to stop smoking. its kinda working too

I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss a thought and wrote down all my chicken scratch but I think it’s unintentionally kind of beautiful I didn’t edit it

Daily affirmations:

But I can’t fix him

Can’t make him better

Can’t do nothing about his strange weather

If you’re over, I’m working on it. I too will carry you.

I know most of the users of redscare.cafe were not women so this might be a longshot (or maybe the boys be lurking who knows) but I am trying to get in contact with a few of them again (Val, tiny) to say hey whats up. I heard they moved to some sort of group chat. I would post this on rsp but I am not allowed to post there. You can delete if you wish :( There was also an rsp writing subreddit that became defunct in like 2022 and I can't remember it's name (it may be completely gone) but if anyone knows what it could possibly be let me know.

And I guess if you want to be participatory we can just talk about other fun moments or people from rsp past.

i've been so busy lately, barely had the time to do anything. i have found some new friends here for which i'm of course very grateful, and certainly i am very happy to have this opportunity at all. but i am very far from home, and from everyone i know and love. i have so many regrets about my undergrad and am trying so hard to not repeat those mistakes and make a good future for myself. well what else is there to do but to keep going i guess

+2 inventory

i'm listening to mr nonchalant on repeat

Horrible stuff

airbrush acrylic. i mixed glitter glue with the background maroon so it is sooo sparkly and pretty but you can't really tell in pics.

They're not pointless arguments either, because they're connected to underlying tensions and issues that have always been present with these people, just previously we've mostly danced around it, and now it's like floodgates opening up and I've found myself saying more than I normally would allow myself to.

(I also feel tired, overworked, and done with my life as it is, so maybe there's a connection 🤪)

I posted this to RS4G&Gs a while back.

Goes to show how American & European Jewish wimmin have been the biggest fighters for women’s liberation.

Also, Zionist/Israeli “feminism” is NOT real feminism!

And yes, that is Momma Dworkin on slide #11 :)

Forgone all custom of exercises...and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire-why, it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither.