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[comrade-meow]

[hymnsofheresy]

i don’t think most cis people realize that we already live in a society that on some level believes there is more than two genders.

[hymnsofheresy]

My gay male best friend has been told by cis people that “he isn’t a real man” but exists outside the category “man” on the basis of his gayness. Keep in mind he is cis, always been a male, but as soon as he came out, his “male-ness” was scrutinized. Socially conservative society looks at my friend and categorizes him outside of the “male” category… despite the fact that my friend is just performing another type of masculinity.

I myself have been called “not a real woman” because of my androgyny, both biological and performative. I have been “accused” of being a trans woman. To many cis people around me I exist outside of the term “woman” because of my gendered appearance.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

from @warriormythwonder in the notes: “Theyre like “being slightly feminine means you’re not a real man. No not like that. You’re still ‘he’ except when I’m trying to insult you. Please conform.”

[eve-made-the-right-choice]

the words for this phenomenon are “sexism” and “homophobia”

hope this helps

[lavendeerlesbian]

OP you are not using homophobic rhetoric that dehumanizes and demonizes gay men to claim that it is actually a morally good thing to dehumanize and other gay men just because of their homosexuality… Like, the utter homophobia reeking from your post is disgusting. If that is what the trans community honestly believes then the trans narrative is inherently homophobic and sexist, actually.

[marbleguard]

just realized Omegle was actually a really fun idea, it’s just that males ruined it for everyone. Do you realize how fun Omegle would have been with just women? Think about it. Like damn, men are quite literally the reason why 99.9% of good/nice/fun things can’t exist or function as intended. Because a moid will show up and shove his dick into it. Males are actively impeding humanity.

[bannedwebsites-archive]

sometimes i think about how at least 90% of the whole “the internet is cruel and evil and scary and not for the weak” thing is actually caused by males and their extremely antisocial violent tendencies and i get sad and wonder how different the internet would be today if men had never been on it

[comradeorangutan]

criminalise golf

[hymnsofheresy]

i don’t think most cis people realize that we already live in a society that on some level believes there is more than two genders.

[hymnsofheresy]

My gay male best friend has been told by cis people that “he isn’t a real man” but exists outside the category “man” on the basis of his gayness. Keep in mind he is cis, always been a male, but as soon as he came out, his “male-ness” was scrutinized. Socially conservative society looks at my friend and categorizes him outside of the “male” category… despite the fact that my friend is just performing another type of masculinity.

I myself have been called “not a real woman” because of my androgyny, both biological and performative. I have been “accused” of being a trans woman. To many cis people around me I exist outside of the term “woman” because of my gendered appearance.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

from @warriormythwonder in the notes: “Theyre like “being slightly feminine means you’re not a real man. No not like that. You’re still ‘he’ except when I’m trying to insult you. Please conform.”

[eve-made-the-right-choice]

the words for this phenomenon are “sexism” and “homophobia”

hope this helps

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

I don’t understand how OP can write something like this and not realise that they’re leaning in to this conservative idea, not away from it

[guzhuangheaven]

oh my general + aesthetics

[probablyasocialecologist]

The welfare state, rather than ensuring that basic needs are met within a system based on solidarity, is now a bureaucratised torture chamber, symptomatic of the state patriarch’s contempt for its ‘unproductive population’. The neglectful state prioritises punishment above redistribution. In fact, this shift in style arises from a concerted attack on the attempts to institute a redistributive state. The transformation of welfare (and of all state services) is the culmination of a long-standing campaign to discredit state-managed endeavours in general. We have been trained to regard the state as a poor manager, an inefficient distributor of resources and an inhibitor of human innovation.

Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (via probablyasocialecologist)

[natahjikio]

LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL (2022)

[highlighterbaby-deactivated2023]

The baby industry really makes out like if you "only donate eggs" so that another woman can carry and give birth, you aren't really the mother at the same time as saying if you're only the "gestational carrier" for another woman/couple's biological embryo then you aren't really the mother either.

In the eyes of the fertility industry it really just is "whoever pays is the mother" huh.

[ireneradblr]

And at the same time, they prey on women’s insecurities and fears that adoptive mothers aren’t really the mother either

[thealphapigeon]

Been working in pest control for 3 months now and i can confidently say that nobody on earth seems to understand that sometimes You Will See A Bugs and that's Normal if you live literally anywhere with oxygen

[thealphapigeon]

Unfortunately it appears you have a garden that is growing several important pollinator food sources you will be seeing wasps sometimes. You want us to spray your flowers? That'll stop the wasps but only because your flowers will be Dead

[thealphapigeon]

I just think everyone would benefit from living in the woods for a week and having their bug tolerance forcibly increased by being forced to share a showerstall with a wolf spider the size of a half dollar everyday

[61below]

(Life hack: if you consistently put out safe water sources for bees, the wasps will see you and they WILL eventually recognize you. And once you become The Bringer Of Water, they will become your own little goon squad. I used to get stung if I startled them by my compost bin, but now I have banged doors open just to realize a wasp was chilling right on the lintel, but all it does is wave its antennae at me. They see me carrying watering cans to my flowers and follow me. When I go to other places, the wasps there will also be friendly. Wasps are fucking amazing yall.)

[headspace-hotel]

I really hate how culture normalizes fear of bugs and reinforces and fuels insect phobias until they make it impossible to coexist with nature

I would never dismiss someone's phobia. I know what kind of hell on earth that shit is. And I don't mock people for being scared of wasps or bees because some people have allergies that can kill them and it's kinda dumb to be rude to someone who is afraid of something that might kill them. But it's done people such a disservice that culture tells people it's reasonable to be afraid of all bugs and that most bugs will hurt you or your house or your pets.

I see so many comments and tags on posts about nature saying things like "I would love to spend time outside but I can't handle being around bugs" as if it's normal! If you can't sit on grass or go on a hike because of your fear of bugs, that's like...clinically significant highly disabling stuff. It's locking you away from so many experiences.

Fears like this often get reinforced by witnessing other people's responses to a stimulus. We are social creatures and if you watch the people around you show disgust and fear in response to bugs, you will learn to respond that way too. If you hear on the internet and TV and elsewhere that most bugs are dangerous and want to hurt you or will give you diseases, it will be reinforced even more.

The fact is, bugs are just guys. We depend on them for almost every part of our lives. Our planet is teeming with so many wondrous life forms, and many of them are insects. They come in every color and every form of iridescence, they glow and sparkle and they are fuzzy and striped and spotted. They are not "gross" or dirty.

Insects worldwide are now dropping in number, and it could mean disaster for us and every life form on earth. Most flowering plants (80% or so) have a symbiotic partnership with insects where they are dependent on insect pollination to fertilize their flowers. Wasps, bees, flies, butterflies, and even ants and beetles are all important pollinators, and each plant's flowers are designed to be pollinated by a different group of insects. Without these insects, the majority of flowering plant species would not be able to exist. They would go extinct. That includes most of the plants we eat. No wasps, bees, flies and other pollinators= no apples, no berries, no peaches, no plums, no anything. That's a simplified summary but it expresses just how important they are.

A big reason for it is the use of insecticides that are highly toxic to a wide variety of non-target insects. For instance, carbaryl, typically known as Sevin in the US, was for a long time sold in every garden center in a powdery dust form, to put on garden plants that had holes in their leaves.

Carbaryl dust is incredibly toxic to bees and can be picked up by them in the same way as pollen, and in that way it can be carried back to the hive and kill the whole hive.

Many of these insecticides are also highly dangerous to humans, and using them in and around your home exposes you to poisonous and/or potentially cancer-causing substances. The residues of these insecticides linger basically forever inside homes. There have been studies done that found insecticides that have been banned for a long time still lingering in people's carpets and floors.

So it's not good that so many people are terrified of insects. And the best antidote is to learn. Learn about bugs and their diversity and unique beauty and intelligence. If videos are no good, look at books with pictures; if you don't want to look at pictures, books without pictures or podcasts might help. Maybe start with bugs that seem less frightening and move on to learning about others from there.

Learn about their ways and behaviors and how they are similar to animals you are more familiar with, such as birds or cats. Learn the ways in which they are similar to you—you will find that you share many important qualities, like "enjoy fruit" and "would defend friends and family." Join bug identification groups online. Learn from people who keep bugs as pets.

It is so, so rewarding and important.

[headspace-hotel]

If you can tolerate particular bugs like butterflies or bumblebees, I recommend looking at them close-up in videos and pictures to get more familiar with their shapes and movements and behaviors. Bugs are scary to a lot of people because they seem strange and unfamiliar (thorax??? legs??? many?!!) and their layout is quite different than, for example, a mammal. But once it becomes familiar, the creepiness is reduced.

A side effect of this is that you might become very upset because you want to pet bees and you can't pet the bees because your hands are too large and they are too small. :(

I was never severely scared of insects, but I did have a huge shift occur when I started seeing them as beautiful and cute. The world really opens up. It seems like such a wonderful miracle that I can get so close to these beautiful animals, many of which are fluffy and colorful and gleam like gemstones and have cute antennae and so many colors. They groom themselves like cats! There are tiny bees that make tiny buzzes when they fly. It's really a wonderful thing.

[astronofeminist]

While I can see why we instinctively hate and fear bugs, I can also see why becoming knowledgeable about which ones are good/bad is super helpful. We have science and now know which ones can hurt us, so we don’t have to rely on that innate fear to save us from something harmful; in fact, we can help ourselves in this way. For example, lots of ugly, scary bugs like spiders and pseudoscorpions, actually kill bugs that dwell in households that we really hate and avoid us.

[lion-of-babylon]

The Ishtar Gate, main gate of Babylon built during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE). Enamelled tiles, mythical animals, lions, and gods embellish the gate which was dedicated to goddess Ishtar of Babylon, Mesopotamia (Iraq). now in Berlin

[antiplondon]

all of labour is exploitative, we live under capitalism you absolute amiba. Your arguments are not arguments against sex work, they’re selective condemnation of stuff you personally find icky. Sex work is work and should be protected as such, further stigmatising only leads to more and more harm for the people you pretend to care about.

Sex is not the same kind of thing as scrubbing a toilet or flipping burgers.

The idea that having a shitty retail job is no different to being raped ten times a day is cynical nonsense.

The fight for workers' rights, historically, has never been the fight for the 'right' to 'choose' dangerous and/or degrading 'work'. Sex industry apologists show complete contempt for everything previous generations have achieved in terms of improving workers' rights and health and safety. (If you don't understand that, ask yourself why we no longer send five-year-olds up chimneys, or ten-year-olds down mines in the global north.)

Decriminalisation increases demand without lowering rates of trafficking (because not enough women actually want to do this 'work'), or improving conditions, and only really benefits the pimps, brothel keepers, and sex buyers.

Why don't you come off anon and have a real discussion you coward? (And learn to spell, it's 'amoeba'.)

[slaygentford]

You know how in the ancient world they believed a very long time ago there was the age of heroes when the world was populated by super powered descendants of the gods. Chickens have that in real life but it’s the dinosaurs

[marlynnofmany]

This fits so well with the art of chickens contacting a wise ancestor:

(Source: @catadromously​’s art)

“Tell us your wisdom, O Great One!”

“My wisdom is this: bite everything.”

[sailor-moon-rest-deactivated202]

honestly. If you just hold men to reasonable standards and call them out on their bullshit you will end up living a mostly separatist life anyways. Most of them hate being around women who know whats up

[roundo]

The idea of tumblr users living in like new york city or los angeles sounds extremely fake... all my mutuals either live in like serbia or a bumfuck town in missouri

[wallflowerpetal]

Found this article in Ob.Gyn. News Vol. 57 No. 7 September 2022 and thought it was worth sharing. Sorry if the scans are difficult to read - I can’t find the article online but this is a credible medical publication. I’m so glad to see the field of women’s health acknowledging the damage that anal sex can cause women and hope this knowledge becomes more widespread.

Some important highlights:

“‘Up to 25% of women with experience of anal sex report they have been pressured into it at least once,’ Dr. Gana and Dr. Hunt say.”

“It’s also associated with specific health concerns, Dr. Gana and Dr. Hunt point out. These include fecal incontinence and anal sphincter injury, which have been reported in women who engage in anal intercourse.”

I also found the following quote interesting because it debunks the idea that criticizing anal sex is homophobic. It explains why it is a very different act for women vs. men - why the same dangers of a man and woman having anal sex don’t apply to two men having anal sex.

“When it comes to incontinence, women are at a higher risk than men because of their different anatomy and the effects of hormones, pregnancy, and childbirth on the pelvic floor. ‘Women have less robust anal sphincters and lower anal canal pressures than men, and damage caused by anal penetration is therefore more consequential,’ Dr. Gana and Dr. Hunt point out.”

Ladies - if a man wants to have anal sex with you, he wants to hurt you

[clittromney2]

The ‘husband stitch’ should be illegal and classified as a hate crime against women

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Which not only the doctor who performs it should be charged with, but the husband as well if he didn’t take adequate steps to protect his wife.