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This is your periodic reminder that it's possible for multiple people to be right at the same time. It's possible for multiple people to be wrong at the same time.

It's possible for people to be right about some things and wrong about others. It's possible for people to be kind in some situations and cruel in others.

It's possible to be oppressed and an oppressor. It's possible to be abused and an abuser.

It's possible for people to have equally valid needs that fundamentally conflict. It's possible for people to have worldviews that cannot be reconciled.

It's possible to have good intentions and do harm. It's possible to have bad intentions and do good.

People are complicated, the world is complicated, and simplifying everything down to a black and white worldview where some people are Bad (and therefore incapable of being right or kind or good) and some people are Good (and therefore incapable of being wrong or cruel or bad) is only going to cause harm.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled Tumblr.

#just thoughts #discourse #activism #things to remember about discourse and activism #anyone who tries to tell you the world is black and white is lying to you #and they're lying because they want something from you

ballwizard

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

ironmyrmidon

I love when Arabic loanwords get incorporated into other languages and they keep the al- suffix. I'm studying the gebra. It's a real the batross around my neck.

monkeysky

Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

supreme-leader-stoat

wintersoldierfell

hang on i gotta google something

supreme-leader-stoat

I am so sorry.

sstrawbearri

i would trust her with my life for sure

#gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous #barbara gordon

asofteredge

hey everyone, just curious:

what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?

#person I do not want to have to talk to

skunkes

sm2k99

the for you page thinks I'm a gnome

fallingtowers

"grackle" really is a perfect name for a bird. knocked it out of the park w/ that one

dikdikpronouncedxylophone

Damn. That really is a grackle.

luna-azzurra

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

girl-blorbo-polls

If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?

I trust her, I’ll be fine

I trust her, but it’ll be a stressful 24h

It depends on what kind of day we’re having

This is gonna suck…

Other/nuance

Voting ended on2h

#it's Natasha Romanov #and she does get shot at on a regular basis so it's gonna be unpleasant #but she has a lot of practice not actually getting shot #so I'll be fine #other option is Cassandra Cain who is literally always having the worst day of her life since she was eight #she'll keep me safe but I'm gonna be really worried about her by the end of the day #other other option is Azula who would fry me to death immediately and not feel bad about it

some-pers0n

If you talk about a non-binary character in a way that might insinuate that they're a transgender person with a complex identity and weren't born non-binary they'll kill you

some-pers0n

I don't think it's misgendering a non-binary character nor slotting them into "the gender binary but wokely" if you read into a non-binary character and understand that they didn't always identify as non-binary and potentially have a history of coming around to that label and various insecurities in relation to how they grew up under a identity that was restrictive and not entirely their own. I think plugging your ears and sticking your head in the sand and calling anyone who indulges in this type of discussion exosexist on principle no matter what is Not Good actually

some-pers0n

This goes for real people too btw it's always a bit of a nightmare seeing someone talk about their experiences as being a transgender person and saying stuff like "When I was a girl/boy" or whatever and people go "Nonono you were always non-binary! You always were this way" like come on now enough with that. Being transgender is a complicated and convoluted experience that the individual is entitled to express and share their story however they please. I don't think it's correct in speaking over them whatsoever and telling them what to feel

#hm. yeah #and like #people insisting on binarifying nbs is absolutely a real problem!#but not always having been an ethereal genderless elf does not make someone stop being nb

gremlininho

looking. at you

maykitz

the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf

seeingteacupsindragons

It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.

But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.

If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.

It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.

All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.

I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.

I could go on.

But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.

#My dad got forced forced into the weird ambidexterity situation in the 80s and i dont think hes the last #Though weirdly over here all supply stores ive seen over here do have left handed scissors/pencils with indents for children #The mouses were indeed a problem to move though but they were all symetric #And all classrooms in my uni have a whole row of lefty desks usually more than enough #Props to you turkey you got a better grade in this one. Weirdly.#< prev tags #that's really interesting actually #i wonder why #/gen

hppjmxrgosg

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.