Not Mean, Just Lesbian

Black tme dyke

[strawberry-crocodile]

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

[strawberry-crocodile]

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

[bitchautism]

it does actually bother me whenever it's like... a bunch of guys and 1 girl. like the smurfs. that's weird. the minions are also weird for it being all guys. stop doing this

[bitchautism]

and yes I am saying your fictional characters can only ever be women now. and you have to be normal about it . no misogynistic jokes

[suziewoosy]

hey have u considered how men might feel about that? u have to include men. men can't be excluded. hey it hurts men when ur mean to them did u know that. what u said was rly hurtful to men, can u prostrate urself before everyone i know and apologize? with tears. okay i know u apologized but u were still mean to men so we're gonna beat the fuck out of u.

[junglejim4322]

Literally of course I believe everybody can be reformed however the willingness of white queers to laugh about having a Nazi phase and the prevalence of 4chan to the point of claiming it’s some sort of universal experience and right of passage is insane like you laughing about how youre a reformed former nazi really doesnt do much to make me think youre reformed

[junglejim4322]

I legitimately think a lot of people who make light of this sincerely miss being around fascists and are just mad that they won’t accept them now that theyre queer

[santijpg-gone-deactivated202303]

americans are like i was gifted child but also i didnt learn other countries existed until i was 35 years old

[santijpg-gone-deactivated202303]

making this post ruined my life

[diabloii]

one thing about "lesbians can date men" and "lesbians can be men (especially if they have vaginas) (it connects them to Womynhood) (if you disagree youre a terf even though this is really straightforward terf rhetoric)" is that its all about the (now pretty common) theatre of seeming like some sort of boundary-pushing LGBT activist without ever actually having to fight against anything at all. you can talk to the run of the mill Puritan Conservatives everyone on here strawmans and theyll be pretty happy to hear that you also think lesbians can date men; you can check terf blogs on here and see that They Too think trans men have a "special connection" to womanhood and being a lesbian (called 'Being Female') and that actually the transmasc(? whatever they call themselves) terf circle is actually growing in recent times. but fighting against societal misogyny and the leering rapey lesbophobia that is fucking everywhere is too uncomfortable, its a lot easier to just say "fuck labels do what you want forever!" and cite some nameless gay person from the 90s saying "im gay faggot and lesbian and man and woman" or some shit as an appeal to tradition & expect everybody to throw their hands up and say fuck it. they dont want to fight the oppressive common ideas upheld by society, theyd rather make the "battle" their own mental gymnastics to tell the victims of these lines of thinking about how its actually super woke and smart, and if youre victim to it maybe its actually because youre just not woke enough, because otherwise youd just let it happen to you like a Good Woman i mean person

[gokusclit]

“Why do straight men act so gay with each other haha” bc they find gayness to be funny and feel the need to emasculate each other even when it’s on a friendly level. Do you have any other stupid fucking questions to ask me

[werothegreat]

also because they're touch starved and the only socially acceptable way for them to get physically close to their friends is to pretend they're gay as a "joke"

that or wrestle

[gokusclit]

And who set that system up

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[transcephalopod]

it's fascinating to me how people often start off trying to logically argue why things like "mspec gay/lesbian" or "asexual who loves sex" are perfectly sensible descriptors, then pivot to "why do you even care what words people use, you big meanie? you're excluding people!" as if exclusionary is the worst thing you could possibly be. why are we as adults discussing serious issues operating on the grade school logic of "leaving people out (of groups they objectively don't meet the criteria for) is bullying!" and never thinking any deeper. it is both fine to be excluded from a group/label that doesn't accurately describe you, and necessary that you are excluded from it so the people who it actually does describe can continue to use it accurately.

and to expand on my previous examples, what about the lesbians who are attracted only to women? what about the asexuals who genuinely lack a desire for sex and never want to have it? these experiences don't cease to exist because you diluted the words we used for them. should these people just make up new words? what happens when you want to use those too?

language evolves, yes, but isn't it convenient how it often seems to evolve in ways that strip away the ability of certain (often oppressed) groups of people to discuss their shared experiences? I wonder who that benefits?

[transcephalopod]

I've just never understood how the word "lesbian" is supposed to be simultaneously so important and vital that people who are attracted to men simply HAVE to be able to use it, and so trivial that lesbians shouldn't have any kind of opinion about its meaning being diluted into nothing.

[ispyspookymansion]

being a horror fan will have you saying sentences such as “i liked it a lot, super gross and sad”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Also true crime

[ispyspookymansion]

no thats a different and worse thing i am not associated with you

[anglaised]

theres a reason u associate east asians with femininity and black people with masculinity and it has nothing to do with actual masculine or feminine “behavior” and everything to do with race science 😭 u have been taught race science, u haven’t unlearned race science 😭😭😭😭 READ A BOOK ABOUT RACISMMMM

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)