Paw and Booper

i'm just here to chill

[basicwitchectomy]

if you are here after seeing a bunch of notifications saying I liked your posts, hello! Yes i like scrolling someone’s blog for hours, thank you for curating good content.

[deepfloyd]

The Day,Single Figure, c.1899, Revised 1917 Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss,1853-1918) Oil on canvas, 88.4 x 63.7 cm

[torstherapy]

[cartoonofmilk]

yknow, as counterintuitive as it may seem, helping a suicidal friend isn't a matter of stopping them from dying. it's about helping to make their world one that's worth living in.

it's important to make that distinction, lest we make people's quality of life worse in the name of "protecting" them.

[escuerzoresucitado]

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[stephenroot]

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

[svartibaldur]

good morning

[haveuevermetme]

sometimes politicians in order to prove a point do experiments like work as a waiter for a day, use a wheelchair to navigate around the city or survive a month on minimal salary. i think every politician who believes sex work is work, who is actively pro sex work and pro porn, who protects pimps and doesn't give a damn about trafficking should do an experiment and become a sex worker at the brothel for a day. they should show people how it's totally normal to be raped multiple times a day, get ptsd, get infections, get cut of more than 40% of their paycheck, not being able to say no to people they don't like and don't want to have sex with, not being able to say no to humiliating sexual practices they don't want to do, not being able to get back to a normal job if anyone finds out about the past, and so much more. let them show how nice sex work is, let men lead the way they so desperately want.

they don't want to be a sex worker? but why not? after all it's no different than working in mcdonalds.

[todaysbat]

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer

Image source: photograph by op

[luci-notactuallyshortforlucifer]

how it feels having the deep seated belief that you're inherently unlovable and insufferable so every friendship you make is just a matter of time until they get tired of you and leave

[redlipstickresurrected]

Bebhinn Eilish (Irish, based Wicklow, Ireland) - Púca, 2024, Paintings: Watercolor, Ink

[rabidracoons]

About this post

When you read Andrea Dworkin say she’s never been more afraid then when she was speaking to a group of lesbians that were pissed that she called herself one despite not being one that’s her literally admitting she’s lesbophobic. She wasn’t more afraid of speaking out against the men that rape, mutilate, murder, pimp, sex traffic, molest, or beat women and girls? Nope. It’s lesbians holding her accountable for her appropriation of an oppressed community that made her shake in her boots.

When you read bell hooks say that lesbian erotica shouldn’t be sexist against the penis because we all need to celebrate and cherish it she’s proving her lesbophobia.

I’m reading Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology right now and less than 30 pages in she says she doesn’t believe in homosexuality, that when she uses Lesbian with a capital L it’s about women identified women (the ‘correct’ usage) and when she uses it with a lower case l she’s talking about the “male-distorted version… women who relate genitally to women”. That’s worse than Dworkin comparing us nazis.

Why should I ‘separate the art from the artist’ when it comes to “older” or “published” or “brilliant” radical feminist women?  Why should I consider the fact that the foundation of the second wave was the silencing of lesbians and the theft of our culture a ‘disagreement’ and not a deal breaker?

Why should I not recognize that for all the great writing they’ve made they were the foremothers of the anti-lesbian identity politics bullshit we’re currently drowning in?

And when you hear about how there were REAL lesbians who had major issues with these women why is it that you can’t find any names? Any writings? Why were the most lesbophobic and appropriative radical feminists the most successful radical feminists? Why are successful radical feminist lesbians almost nonexistent? Doesn’t it seem odd to you when you consider that the movement was built and maintained by genuine lesbians?

Any lesbian that decides not to read works by women that hate, fear, silence, and deny her very existence isn’t ageist, she’s sparing herself the suffering that comes as a side effect of being part of a distinct oppressed class of women.

And here’s a thought. Why can’t older women learn from us? Maybe even admit they were wrong? They can give up Lesbian and take fucking wlw.

[heterophobicdyke-deactivated202]

If anyone can find names and works of lesbians who called out these homophobes PLEASE send them to me or tag me in posts about them because radical feminists act like polilez was accepted by all and even real lesbians just didn’t mind too much. I knew in my heart that wasn’t true.

[mithliya]

also if someone could pls share the quotes and sources op is referring to

[sybilspretexts]

andrea dworkin in letters from a war zone — where she compares lesbian separatism to nazism and the holocaust

bell hooks in penis passions

mary daly in gyn/ecology

[kitchenalia]

if i heard that a woman aborted a fetus because prenatal screening had revealed a disability that i shared, i would simply not shame her

[kitchenalia]

RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different

[kitchenalia]

i’ve been getting a lot of comments/questions about this post. some is good, some is bad. i’ve decided not to respond individually and instead say:

i said what i said. i wasn’t confused about saying it.

if i found out a woman had aborted a fetus because she found out that fetus had a disability that i have—disabilities that i have firsthand knowledge of being painful, difficult to live with, and often resource-intensive—i would not be angry with her. i would not feel like she doesn’t think people like me should not be alive (unless she actually said so).

fetuses are not little potential “you”s. projecting your own anxieties onto a woman’s abortion (”i wouldn’t have wanted to be aborted” is common reasoning in plenty of pro-life circles; it’s not better here) is invasive and nonsensical.

bodily autonomy isn’t conditional. you don’t know a woman’s exact reason for abortion and you don’t need to. women’s rights to abortion need to be protected, even if you feel icky about some potential reasoning behind an abortion, which you aren’t even fully privy to in the first place.

disabled people should always be in the care of people who have the resources and desire to take care of them. insisting that disabled children be born simply to ease your own moral qualms with abortion is frankly unethical in my opinion, resources are often very slim for disabled people. not to mention our quality of life is often just lower in general. you can argue all you want in the notes about “mild” disabilities but you aren’t the arbiter of what constitutes a mild enough disability to make an abortion terrible and immoral and shame-worthy. 

women aren’t vessels. regardless of how morally pure you feel your crusade is, they simply aren’t.

speaking as a disabled person, energy is literally always better spent on changing society—by increasing resources for caretakers and disabled people alike, speaking frankly about quality of life, correcting notions about what disabled people’s lives are like, punishing mistreatment of actual disabled people [not potential ones], and putting research into easing the pain/suffering of people as much as possible—than it is on getting mad about women getting abortions. and it isn’t just better spent that way, it’s just immoral to do the latter.

in conclusion: RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different.

[badassdemonsword]

[museum-of-artifacts]

A Roman marble sculpture of four puppies, all curled up asleep together. Unearthed from the ruins of the House of the Faun in Pompeii, 1st century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[mechanicalrot]

*meeeting a friend for coffee* friend: how's work been?

me: oh you know *mimes putting a gun in my mouth but i moan a little and start sucking the barrel and pushing it deeper