OUROBOROS

[abysswyrm]

GOD SOBS.

[genderrat]

oh my god I just found out why the entire "minority men aren't oppressed for being men theyre oppressed for [insert other minority]" bothers me. It sets men as the default, again. It frames men as a default and allows people to skip over and perpetrate bigoted ideals with little backlash while dorectly going against intersectionality. Racism against a black man is " just racism", youre not allowed to talk about it outside of that. Marking something as "just" racism, "just" transphobia, "just" abelsim ect lessens the idea of it. Its JUST the default, after all.

Intersectionality states that all facets of someones identity and situation leads to the type of oppression they face, you cannot seperate one thing from another. Race, sex, gender identity, wealth, where you live, sexuality, health. None of these can be seperated when talking about challeneges and bigotry an indiviual faces. Setting bigotry against minority men as a default perpetuates and upholds patriarchal bigotry and makes room for microagressions and macroagressions to be diminished and overlooked as we've seen time and time again. This idea that "man" excludes someone from facing targeted bigotry somehow is wrong, men of color are opressed on the axis of being MEN of color, same woth disabled men and trans men and intersex men. You can't just dismiss bigotry on the basis of gender or sex.

If you dont want men set as the default, stop setting them as the default.

[idiotduckbox]

"I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity.

...

"Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

"I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you."

-Audre Lorde, in "There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions," ~1980s

[lakevida]

already gay but i get so gregarious off that tequila

[segamascott]

[wrenchswango]

I love chain lightening what a classic spell. fuck you and you and you and you and you and

[charl0ttan]

i went to cloudflare island and

[aggot]

half my problems are financially existential and the other half is just that everyone is in my way all the fucking time. MOVE.

[met-armsarmor]

Halberd, Arms and Armor

Medium: Steel, wood

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26672

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

[hundredthdejavu]

any attempt to solve the "gender issue" in sports that isn't just making it co-ed is stupid man

[hundredthdejavu]

everyone is grown as hell operating at the level of "you play like a girl"

[3000s]

straight women will try to reassure you about their homophobic boyfriends the same way dog owners are always going "oh he's friendly" with their visibly agitated dog

[segamascott]

i am mystified by you gay guy

[brostateexam]

On Reagan's deathaversary I just want to say:

It rules when homophobes die

It rules when conservative icons drop dead

It Will Happen

[machinot]

when u look at 2017 and think “oh that’s only like 3 years ago” and it’s actually 12,000 years ago and everything is gone and everyone you know has been reduced to ash and the world is completely different

[anglaised]

a fascist will call u a negroid and if you tell them they deserve to be stoned to death a liberal will start crying at you about the power of kindness and how ur ruining the world with Cruelty

[anglaised]

this isnt even just a online issue either like constantly atleast once a week i see a vid of a white person yelling the n word at a black person and as soon as the black person retaliates suddenly everyone thinks knocking the racist out is worse than the slur as if the slur isn’t violence like i see it all the time constantly, its in the news almost every day, and ur just supposed to agree as if allowing ppl to exist within our society who fully believe that other human beings are nonhuman monkeys deserving of death just for existing as brown isnt violent as fuck already