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CHAR - 26 - NB - (18+ for nonsexual nudity) Trying to transform toxic masculinity into tender masculinity. A double agent for feminism. Preparing the world for postcapitalist society.

[would-you-b-so-k-ind-deactivate]

Can we please stop the White Feminist™ idea that naked = empowered?

Because I had to watch the Muslim girl in my history class lucture the class on Islam’s treatment of women and why she wears her hijab to feel closer to god, because some new girl in our class tried to coerce her into taking it off, and then proceeded to try to take it off her.

I made sure she was alright after class and she told me she’s used to it. I. Got. Pissed. Because this sweet girl is used to other people trying to rip her hijab off. I’m not Muslim, but from what I understand, that’s like being used to people trying to rip your shirt off of you.

Also, this idea doesn’t just threaten and offend Muslim women and girls. Because a lot of women and afab people don’t like being naked. It’s not empowering to them, it’s demeaning. For example, I don’t like being naked, because I just don’t feel comfortable with it. But still, my family still forces me to wear bikinis to the beach and thinks I’m self conscious just because I don’t want to wear the least amount of clothes possible.

So, in summary:

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

Destroy the White Feminist™ idea that Naked = Empowered

[brainfuzz]

Female empowerment is the ability to chose to behave or dress as you wish.  Hard stop. If you, personally, feel empowered by walking around in public topless, more power to you.  However, if someone else is choosing to be covered from head to toe because that makes them feel empowered, then back the fuck off.  

The power is in the choice, not in the result.

[would-you-b-so-k-ind-deactivate]

I know I’m the OP but I wanted to reblog for this excellent addition.

[soaimagines]

The power is in the choice.

[respectfulmemes]

Me: *Catches myself being judgmental* Me to Me: I did not raise u this way

[theweirdwideweb]

[constructiveanarchy]

WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY

[maingorlblog-deactivated2025052]

My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.

[thehollowkidvg]

Shout out to all garbage collectors, janitors and housekeepers!

[finrays]

This is the humanities version of that spoof about scientists reminding the world that clean energy is ready to go whenever.

[queerinterruptions]

Some thoughts on ‘queer time’...

It is said that queer people experience time differently. The world seems to function on “straight time”—the life paths and cultural milestones of adolescence, marriage, reproduction, retirement and death. But queer people often stray from that path, being excluded from marriage and child-rearing or experiencing these rituals in a haphazard, disordered way. So “queer time” is marked by a sense of this disorder: a sense of delay and a stumbling through self-discovery; a rebirth and a resetting of oneself; and a feeling of being out-of-sync with the life trajectories reserved for the more “valuable”, productive (hetero) members of society.

Queer time also collapses the past, present and future into one fluid, living entity. As Goltz et al argue, ‘the past is never past, but sits with us, beckons to us, bleeds through the canvas, and speaks through the spaces in between’ (2015, p. 11). Queer history is marked by pain and tragedy, and it is this pain that persists the present—in our own queer stories; memories of seeing characters like ourselves discarded again and again; and the homophobia that persists despite the calls for pride and defiant marches down city streets. The pains and losses of queer history are ever-present, and lead us to imagine futures where queer love is not only possible, but plentiful. We are not only lingering in the past, but dreaming of queer futures of potentiality, boundless and open. 

For me, queer time is best defined by Heather Love as she describes the contemporary queer experience as 'the odd situation of “looking forward” while we are “feeling backward”’ (2007, p. 27). It is not only a warping of past-present-future, but also a feeling of dislocation, disorder, and of being out-of-sync. It is a sense of being untethered, and at the same time, being irrevocably drawn towards a something, and a somewhere.  

[hexxit-deactivated20180526]

does anyone else with intrusive thoughts do that weird dismissive head shake when they get them to kinda like.. reverse/reject the thought or is that just me

[meow-n-save]

Gotta shake your brain like an etch-n-sketch and start over

[quick-nip]

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

words to remember

[powerfulwizard]

“Oh! If you’re protesting capitalism than why are you doing it on a phone made by capitalism?”

Well, Martin Luther protested the church by putting his Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of the All Saint’s Church.

[powerfulwizard]

[aspergersissues]

I read this earlier today on Facebook. Someone I like shared it.

[butterflyinthewell]

Boost the hell out of this whether you’re disabled or not.

[anfem-cripplepunk-blog]

Ableism is everywhere and so ingrained in every aspect of society and daily life. That CAN change.

[depressionresource]

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

[cleromancy]

ime it also helps to be like “you dont have to stay the whole time, you just have to go” bc most of the time once youre there it’s fine. a lot of things are like that, like… you dont have to finish the dishes, just start them. a lot of the time once you start a task it’s easier to finish than to stop, especially if you can trick yourself like “after five more minutes if i still feel bad i’ll go home” or “after washing two more dishes i can stop for today”

even if you don’t finish the task, you started it, and by completing part of it you lessened your future workload and ALSO taught your brain that things may not be as daunting as they seem

[robotplant]

This is wisdom! Peace!

[athenadark]

you know what years of therapy taught me - Redefine success

so what if no one else gets how the things you define as successes are victories because you have to

so you got to work - success

you used public transport - success

you went to the supermarket instead of ordering online and didn’t just buy things you dind’t want because you got scared - MASSIVE success

Redefine success, your body moved the goal posts, there is no shame in acknwoledging that

[fierceawakening]

This may not help other people the way it helps me, so take it or leave it as needed, but: A lot of the time, Big Epic Awesome Things are built up out of little tiny just showing up, too.

[bitterblackbitch]

The potato has been genetically modified ever since scientists realized they could fight back blight that caused the Irish potato famine

ALL citrus fruits are GMO hybrids of the pomelo, mandarin, and citron- the only 3 original citrus. 

Most people have no idea what they’re talking about when they say they’re against GMO’s. No idea. 

We need to get around to realizing that genetic modification isnt contamination, or carcinogenic chemicals, or sludge, or evil godless mutations. They aren’t horrifying and they’re grown natural just like everything else. 

[vivaciousvarlot-deactivated2017]

“i don’t buy anything with gmos,” said the woman walking her purebred pug

[34896723906720394687-deactivate]

look don’t be against GMOs be against PATENTING GENES and PURPOSELY DESIGNING CROPS TO BE STERILE SO FARMERS HAVE TO KEEP BUYING SEEDS.

[space-faring-kissboy]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

[wise-emperor]

[X]

[witchgrindergeneral]

They’re casting a spell

[treeeeeeegirl-deactivated202302]

Their the 3 witches that spoke to Macbeth

[platypusinplaid]

Fixed it! Christmas 2017 is the year Rudolph finally shuts down Santa for his ruthless opportunism

[closet-keys]

[nostalgicfuturity]

I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)

this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.

(via quantumcorean)

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

At least Bill Gates chilled out and gave away some money when he neared $100 billion, Jeff Bezos is just out here raking in cash and donating nothing

[derohole-deactivated20240509]

100 BILLION

WHAT THE FUCK

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

Jeff Bezos has $105 billion now lol

[yeezy-nation]

literally was does one do with all that money literally nobody can even spend that much money in a lifetime

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

If Jeff Bezos spent ten million dollars every single day it would take him 27 years to get down to his last million

[tzikeh]

Yeah no, this is a perfect example of what they don’t teach in schools about the wealthy and the “capital” part of capitalism. (Or compound interest but ehhh I’ll simplify)

Let’s start with the most ridiculously conservative version of where Jeff Bezos keeps his money. (Also let’s lose a quick $5b and say he has $100b rather than $105b, for simplicity.) Now, let’s say he keeps $100b in a savings account that earns 1% interest, compounded annually. 

(Let me make it clear that both the rate and the percentage are ridiculously low and nobody would do this ever, especially with one hundred billion dollars. This is for educational purposes only.)

So, that means, at the end of the year, he’ll have “earned” a billion dollars just for having this much money in this particular savings account. 

I put quote marks around “earned” because he didn’t work for it. He got money for having money. HE GOT A BILLION DOLLARS FOR HAVING A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. (And again I remind you that this is the absolutely ridiculous lowest version for explanation’s sake.)

So in this example, if he spends $10m a day for a year, that’s $3b650m he spends in one year. BUT HE “EARNS” BACK A BILLION DOLLARS JUST FOR HAVING MONEY. So he actually only spent $2b650m. (Again, these are not the real numbers; I’m simplifying.) So your span of time has to be much, much longer than 27 years. It’s not that straightforward.

BUT! Jeff Bezos doesn’t keep his $105b in a 1%/yr savings account. He has a diverse portfolio, high-yield interest investments, most likely offshore accounts (I can’t remember if he was in the Panama Papers or not), etc. So if the lowest possible example has him “earning” a billion dollars a year just because he has money, imagine what he’s “earning” just because he has money in a diversified portfolio where he’s getting way, way more than 1% back annually. 

He could spend, as the above comment says, ten million dollars every single day, and literally make it all back plus a whole lot more. He would never run out of money.

Try to understand the evils of capitalism here.

A person with $100 billion could spend $10 million a day, every day, for his whole life, and that person would die with more money than they had when they began spending $10 million a day.

Extra credit: find out how much the people who work in the Amazon shipping centers are making. Let those figures sit in your brain for a few days. You get 5 extra credit points if your head doesn’t explode.

[aleshakills]

It takes a special kind of privileged asshole to complain about homeless people using public restrooms

[aleshakills]

Also the very concept of “restrooms are for paying customers” is classist bullshit that needs to be abolished! You shouldn’t have to pay money to be allowed to shit indoors!

[scummgirl]