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The Great Normalization

The period of time in which foot fetishes were normalized and became a mainstream part of sexuality.
After The Great Normalization, I’m so happy to be sucking and busting on toes!!
by DXMUser January 20, 2026
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The grand, systemic synthesis of the Constructed Norm and Constructed Normal. It is the analysis of how entire lifeways—complete with their associated emotions, identities, and economic structures—are manufactured and sustained as the default, unremarkable backdrop of reality. It asks how capitalism, for instance, constructs not just markets, but a "normal" life of wage labor, consumer desire, and specific gender roles that feel like the only possible reality.
Theory of Constructed Normality *Example: The Constructed Normality of the 21st-century "always-on" digital life, where constant connectivity, performance of self on social media, and gig economy precarity are accepted as standard, was built by tech platforms, venture capital, and shifting workplace culture. It's a total lived environment that feels inevitable, but was architected.*
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026
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