Keeping up with the Cardassians @context-is-for-the-weak - Tumblr Blog

I mean not to say that every single thing that RT puts out is lies, bias & bullshit but it is all literally State Propaganda and I would not trust it as far as I could toss it.

durendoll

I realize, now, that perhaps I could have made it clearer that I was talking about Russian state-owned propaganda station Russia Today and not Rooster Teeth. At this time I do not know to what extent Rooster Teeth is merely state propaganda.

soldier-of-death

im only attracted to worthy opponents

kuuderecatgirl

hypnosis works on me because I listen to women

mollyjames

"I'm immune to hypnosis" okay so you're basically a misogynist

evilsoup

this is just truthslop.you believe it because it happens to conform to reality

doubleca5t

This is what Republicans sound like

demilypyro

you're just jealous because my emotional walls are higher than yours

perception-filter

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

airmetsierra

Watching the original Gundam after only having seen Witch from Mercury:

airmetsierra

injuries-in-dust

An adorable comic I found on reddit and wanted to share.

Original artist Heidi.Doodlez on twitter.

hound-of-heaven

Heidi’s also put this and a continuation on WEBTOON!

injuries-in-dust

Rebloging to spread that webtoon link.

valtsv

i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people

valtsv

if you could see the thread i'm hanging on by you would not say these things to me

w0nderland42

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

marithlizard

Gaahhh this makes so much sense. I immediately thought of the "women are perceived as dominating a conversation if they talk more than a small percentage of the time" study too. And now I'm also thinking about a certain kind of complaint I hear from customers. It's just like @infamousbrad said. If communication problems with one person piss you off that much, then you won't think "oh well I'll ask someone else", you'll extrapolate straight to "there are all these PEOPLE here of different ethnicities from mine and I'm sure NONE of them can speak English, what am I even DOING here" .

(Also Edge City is of course an old book now, but it was a very easy-to-read, clear explanation of SO MUCH about American mall+suburb culture and how we ended up stuck with it. Recommended.)

orteil42

i love reading gacha game reviews like yeah the devs are super generous with the currency they just made up

theconcealedweapon

runawaymarbles

☝️not anymore!!!! People kicked up enough of a fuss

Seattle Children’s Hospital says a Laurelhurst neighborhood group has agreed to support its effort to end a review process for helicopter la

jackalpants

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Show your pride with our 25mm transgender pride flag pin badge. Perfect for wearing on your favourite denim jacket, back pack, or lanyard to