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there can be no dialogue with fascists

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[asterosian]

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces?” I hate the phrasing of that question entirely. It’s secretly multiple questions disguised as one while using a vague term that serves no purpose other than to lead someone to a specific conclusion.

So let’s rephrase it.

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces clinics that offer services meant for those with vaginas, uteruses, etc?” If they have the relevant anatomy that needs care, then obviously yes. I’m sorry, do you want trans men to get cancer and die because it went undetected too long? Because that’s how you get trans men to get cancer and die because it went undetected too long. Also, why is that space considered a women’s space to begin with and why should we let it stay that way?

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces feminist advocacy groups fighting for abortion rights?” Yes because leaving trans men out means the people writing the law can simply forget trans men exist and write it in such a way where some asshole familiar with the law can use the exact wording to justify denying necessary care to a trans man because he is a trans man. If the law says “no woman should be denied access to abortion care…” and the trans man is legally a man, he will find himself in the same situation as the trans man who gets that phone call from his insurance saying “hey, sorry, but since you’re a man, we’re not covering that pap smear and you will be charged the full amount.” Not just in terms of paying either. “If you were a real man, you wouldn’t need an abortion. Come back after you fix your documents so they indicate you’re a female, but like, maybe motherhood would fix you so. Idk not my problem anymore. Goodbye!”

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces lesbian book clubs or whatever?” They’re probably already there anyway and they’re not causing any problems just by being men in what is traditionally a women’s only thing. Plus, chances are they’ve been there since before coming out as trans so you’d just be kicking him out for coming out. I don’t have to explain to anyone why that’s kind of messed up, right?

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces Should we kick people out of our arbitrarily female-only group if they come out as trans?” I guess I have to explain after all. It’s not gender validating for us to be suddenly ejected from every space we’ve found friends in before. You’re punishing someone for being trans. That’s all they did, was be trans.

[lianedegrenade]

people really do have such short memories about lots of things but specifically gay sex was a crime in much of the usa less than 25 years ago like i remember it and gay marriage wasn’t legalized until 11 years ago and i was a grown woman waiting to get my hair cut when i found out. on a beautiful june day!!!

[tboyreject]

a lot of conversations surrounding trans men having male privilege made me realize just how Eurocentric and white most people's view of trans people is, because it doesn't take into account so many countries where women are prohibited from pursuing education, refused independency or forced into child marriages.

male privilege does not save transmasculine people from violent misogyny, it is not a get out of jail card, and so the rights of transmasculine bodies are tied to women's rights. and if to gain access to male privilege you first have to be allowed bodily autonomy and then be legally and socially recognized as a man is it really a privilege at all?

[goblinparty]

happy pride, don't fucking out people without their consent (even if they are very openly out of the closet)

[witchblade]

the scary world of new technology (guy with ten year old printer voice)

[capacity2]

There’s no way….

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[helenekuragina]

#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith

[fairycosmos]

i love when parents used to say you’ll understand when you’re an adult and then you become an adult and you’re like ohhh i do understand. i understand that you were a weird fucking cunt. i know this because now i am a weird fucking cunt too. and i still don’t treat kids that way

[scoliosiswizard]

(Eric Satie, as quoted in John Cage's "Silence")

[stillnaomi]

it's no doubt been said many times, but global warming is a class issue. not only because how the economy runs and how much environmental harm it produces is almost exclusively controlled by the capitalist class in most countries, but because that class, and its lackeys, move between air conditioned homes, air conditioned cars, air conditioned offices, and air conditioned recreational spaces, while many people in lower classes globally suffer inescapable heat due to the way they're forced to live. the suffering and deaths caused by hot summer days is a class issue

[1dietcokeinacan]

Me when I’m a genius entrepreneur and my various business ventures are all doing super well

[gageblackwood]

Recently Tesla had to recall all of the $70k cybertrucks they sold. Yup, all... 173 of them?

link

[natalieironside]

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled.

One hundred and seventy three

[fallout-lou-begas]

do you have any advice on character design?

watch The Sopranos

[fallout-lou-begas]

i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design

[roganaut]

Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors

[fallout-lou-begas]

Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.

[sartorialadventure]

(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)

[spiderfreedom]

not to be a downer but when people post those "omg humans haven't changed lol" memes about like ancient roman graffiti that says 'i fucked your mom', it makes me sad because like misogyny also hasn't changed. misogynistic memes are shockingly similar across societies

if humans 'don't change' and we're 'the same', is misogyny part of that baggage? will our descendants 1000 years in the future keep making 'i fucked your mom' jokes?

that some cultures are less misogynistic than others gives me hope (e.g. women in some native american cultures have relatively few children and relatively late implies they had the option to choose when to have kids) but i don't want to settle for comparatively less misogyny. there should be NONE

i hope humans can change, and if they can't, then i hope our conditions change and our culture changes. and if that doesn't work, fucking gene edit the misogyny out of us idk man

[femclasscirce]

This, honestly. Studying ancient Greece & Rome has really hammered home how little has changed re: misogyny. Men still have very similar attitudes towards women and girls, it's so depressing

[spiderfreedom]

it's actually creepy how similar misogyny can be across cultures. like much of chinese and japanese history has very similar misogynistic tropes to ancient rome/greece of "women shouldn't speak", "women should be virgins", "women should have delicate pale skin", "women are too delicate to do any serious work", "women are not intellectually capable enough to do art", "women should be decorative objects that stay at home and do domestic work"...

it seems to have something to do with the structure of the society (bureaucratized agriculture empire?) because misogyny in many native american cultures lacks many of those tropes. like "women shouldn't speak" isn't a thing in haudenosaunee culture as far as I can tell. misogyny in many northeastern american cultures seems more based on menstrual stigma and "separate but equal" (women allowed to have power and hold positions of power, but the highest honor is not accessible to women)

unfortunately highly misogynistic societies seem capable and interested in conquering other societies and spreading both their structure and their misogyny to other people, spreading new-to-them misogynistic memes and slowly erasing evidence that there were ever serious alternatives to bureacratized empires with patriliny

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

[feminist-furby-freak]

It’s actually wild to me how many women in healthcare complain about not being able to have acrylic nails. “We’re wearing gloves anyway” girl first of all it’s an infection risk second you want ur pointy acrylic to pierce ur glove and get body fluids under ur plastic claw or worse hurt your patient? It’s not even like “oh I’d rather have this look” it’s like they feel… naked without them? Even women not in healthcare idc what you say there’s no way those long nails don’t restrict what you can do with your hands.

Also is it just me or did these come out of nowhere? Obviously some women have always had acrylics and yeah I think being manicured was somewhat of an “expectation” like makeup is but this new long acrylic thing is new in the last 5+ years I swear.

[feminist-furby-freak]

There’s something so symbolic also about taking the most utility part of our body – everything we do is with our hands it’s how we interact with the world – and creating a beauty standard that limits our ability to use them. Like damn we rly just are decorative objects huh

[lierdumoa]

Furiosa isn’t the female action hero we’re used to. Furiosa doesn’t have a dad who taught her boxing or five brothers who taught her how to fix cars. Furiosa wasn’t a tomboy growing up, who preferred to play with the boys. Furiosa isn’t avenging the murder of her husband/brother/father or hunting down a rapist.

Furiosa comes from a community of women. She was raised by women. She works her way up through enemy ranks until she’s in a position to  rescue women. Furiosa is here for women, she is here with women, and she is here because of women. Her rage, her ruthlessness, her courage – these are all things she learned from women, and from being a woman.

[unrespectability]

personally i find conversations about whether Global Majority Female Separatism is possible quite misguided and self-defeating. my big beautiful pipe dream is not even Global Majority Female Separatism, it's like... 15% of women worldwide having access to a womyn's land, an intentional community, a single-sex housing association and/or an explicitly feminist mutual aid network. and if we're shooting for the stars? i'd love to see a 30%. there are places i could go to find Russian diaspora in multiple countries in the world; why cannot women as a class and a politically conscious group have vocal, defined, physical presence in our own countries or even freaking continents?

those spaces are not going to spring from conversations in which we give up before we ever even start; they won't come from us tiptoeing around it and leading with the disclaimers. when we describe those spaces and networks, we need to sound SECURE. those ideas need to sound APPEALING. our rhetoric needs to be PROVOKING. we need to inspire bold political imagination in women around us if we want them to try and create - or participate in - something viable

single-sex changing rooms, bathrooms, shelters, hospital wards - all these spaces are incredibly important, but they are also liminal and transitional. we need something stable, grounded, continuous. without it, i truly believe we are missing out on a huge resource of female connection, consciousness, solidarity, resilience, re-skilling and organizing power; and we are missing out on a sense of strong, secure identity. we deserve better than what we have right now, and we do ourselves no favours by coming up with reasons why we cannot have it all. and if we cannot have it all? fine. let's talk about the incredible possible benefits of having a fraction of it, rather than all the countless drawbacks and obstacles we can think of