her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry
From one of her friends on a Reddit post.
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her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry
From one of her friends on a Reddit post.
pattern ive noticed recently
> Artist only draws skinny people >> No one says anything > Artist draws all people with body fat >> They apparently have some sort of fat fetish > Artist draws everyone aggressively white / pale >> No one says anything > Artist has all POC ocs >> It's "blackwashing" (its literally their own ocs) > Artist draws all trans people as perfectly passing >> No one says anything > Artist draws trans people that dont pass as well and dont fit into the cisgender norms (women with facial hair, men with hips, etc) >> They're making caricatures with the intent of harming people
ppl only ever get upset by things that arent the super hetero cis skinny white capitalist shit / directly oppose it. like cmon.
you cant hope to do ANY good progressive work as a feminist if you think that body shaming is a valid tool at your disposal. yes, even against men. any trait you can insult a man's body for there exists a woman with that trait who knows you arent in her corner. there are women who are fat and women who are hairy, women who are balding. women with penises and testes. women with acne and neckbeards. these traits are not exclusive to the misogynistic creep cishet men who you are trying to insult.
i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.
grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.
there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.
those positivity posts for men that like, reassure them they’re still Manly™ if they have certain qualities/do certain things traditionally seen as Womanly™ really skate over the surface of some complex gender role shit without ever really challenging it.
i’m not talking about gender affirming posts for trans guys designed to offset actual dysphoria. i’m talking about the more general ones like “you’re still Manly if you have depression” or “taking care of your health/asking for consent/cooking/etc is actually Super Masculine because xyz”
it’s the same phenomenon as people reassuring straight men that Physical Affection Isn’t Gay, like yes you’ve identified the symptoms of the problem, that men won’t discuss or do certain things bc they are terrified of not seeming Manly Enough™ but it isn’t getting to the root of the problem
which in this case is that patriarchy draws a line around women and anything associated with women and calls it tainted, lesser, weak, foolish, crazy, worthless. And so men don’t want to be associated with those terrible Womanly things because maybe that would mean that they were just as tainted, lesser, weak, foolish, crazy, or worthless as women are.
and insisting that some of these ‘tainted’ things are actually Manly After All doesn’t solve the root problem. even if you succeed there will always be other important things men are cutting themselves off from because they don’t want to be tainted by the association with women.
so like even if your only priority is men being whole and healthy people, even if you don’t give a shit about women, if your goal is to make it okay for men to cry and be vulnerable and seek help and live full and happy lives as complete human beings who aren’t constantly dividing and subsuming and destroying vital pieces of themselves they don’t think are Manly enough –
if you want to let men just live without the pressure to constantly prove themselves Manly Enough –
targeting misogyny is just the only viable way to do that.
hegemonic masculinity requires a ‘lesser’ thing to set itself up in opposition to, something that’s hated and despised and demeaned that men have to be trained to try to not be like. Without misogyny the whole thing collapses. There’s no pressure to be Manly™ if there’s no shame in not being a man.
so instead of pacifying men’s egos by reassuring them they really ARE manly and untainted by Women’s Things, maybe let’s start challenging each other to think critically about why these things feel so forbidden and shameful, and start actually engaging with the root cause of so much of this stigma.
like declaring more things Manly™ doesn’t actually lessen the pressure to be Manly™. it literally just accepts unchallenged the idea that men should strive for hegemonic masculinity, just maybe a very slightly different version.
That seems fairly pointless from a liberation standpoint; it challenges nothing, and adds very little. Men in this perspective are still entitled to power over women, but the things they must do to maintain that power are slightly different and perhaps a little less violent.
More useful I think would be to work on alternative ways for men to understand themselves as people – ideally, as human beings with a great deal in common with women, as people who have unjustly been given power that they now have an obligation to cede – instead of as rightful rulers whose efforts should be to preserve, with minor expansions, the identity that gives them power.
One current iteration of this trend is the many, many thinkpieces, memes, and posts about the difference between “toxic masculinity” and “healthy masculinity”. Well-intentioned though these ideas may be, they still completely miss the underlying gender role enforcement.
The idea that men are and must be masculine, the concept of gendering certain traits as Manly and others as Womanly, is inherently a patriarchal construction and any attempt to expand these categories or salvage some kind of healthy way to use them is doomed.
Courage, integrity, kindness, all these things people are currently championing as “healthy masculinity” - these traits can and do exist in people of all genders. When we urge men to behave in prosocial ways, it’s ultimately counterproductive to appeal to their desire to identify with hegemonic masculinity, because we’re still, in that case, working with and upholding the gender hierarchy.
Men are capable of doing good without being rewarded with the power that comes with a higher station in the gender hierarchy, and it is both unnecessary and counterproductive to promise this reward by identifying good behaviours as “masculine”.
It is unnecessary and counterproductive to gender the traits required to engage with others in a positive way. And it’s ultimately more useful to think of ourselves as human beings trying to live our values, instead of trying to redefine divisive and hierarchical gender roles into something healthy and progressive.
We need to stop trying to reform gender roles into something more palatable and start working on dissolving them entirely.
not me getting emotional looking at a picture of my grandfather because I realized for the first time that his left eye is higher and deeper set than his right eye in the exact same way mine is, and it's a weird asymmetry that's always bothered me when looking at myself in pictures, but now it means that I'm like him
and here's a picture of him with a bazooka
yeah a socialist revolution in the usa that, as a real socialist revolution guided by marxist-leninist principle entails, makes one of its foremost task the battle against imperialist war and the destruction of imperialism, it will make life worse for impcore proletarians for the first few years of its life, with a lack of cheap products year-round from the exploitation of the imperial periphery and rhe fact the usa has very little developed industry. of course it will set in its sights also the development of the means of production but still.
the USA depends almost entirely on the export of capital. it is quite silly to think that an anti-imperialist socialist revolution in it would not worsen living quality in some regard for impcore proletarians initially
i think it's a little silly to refer to this as "making lives worse" or "worsening living quality" — it's just making the same evaluation as the fervent banana defenders (quality of life is when more banana and newer iphone, cuba is a miserable dystopia because they don't have eighty brands of breakfast cereal) but inverting the value judgement.
it's just completely giving in to liberal framing to say that a proletariat gaining political power and achieving workplace democracy, freedom from the threat of homelessness and starvation, fair provision of housing and healthcare would be "making their lives worse" because certain consumer products would no longer be made artificially cheap, right?
"autogynephilia" is fucking hilarious to me bc like. i promise u i get more hot and heavy seeing myself looking sexy in a tight little dress than any trans woman does doing her estrogen shot and getting ready for work. every night i watch myself in my bedroom mirror as im getting undressed and into my pjs and stare at my tits and bounce my ass for my own perverted amusement.
me (and like a million other tgirls): I can't believe I think I look good today... wow... sexualizing myself.... im such an evil ugly moid... I dont deserve to be a woman...
Every other cis woman from time to time: dammmmnnnnnn Im fucking hotttttt
like. the basis for "autogynephilia" is just the idea that there is something wrong with a woman (in the case of agp, specifically a trans woman) who loves herself and loves her own beauty without a man having to be involved.
its just "why do women look beautiful if they dont want men to catcall/grope them??" but adapted in a form which is specifically designed to harm trans women.
Cis woman here. I'm always wanting to say this. I can confirm that at least some cis women do get turned on by being sexy for ourselves and not for anyone else.
I actually think more women should try taking nudes for themselves only and dressing up in cute lingerie for themselves only. It's hot to be hot, and it's really good to be a sexual being and to feel sexy without anybody else's judgment or observation.
i sometimes see like "leftist" critique of nuclear power and it's like yes i agree that is bad but 100% of this is issues caused by capitalism disregard of life and well being of it's disposable classes, while the power source that runs much of the world is actually inherently damaging when burned to create power. same sort of shit with solar right like, yes mining for lithium creates some horrific events, but why is it brought up like a gotcha almost it's insane to me, like oil prospecting has caused untold amounts of violence as well, and also in a world without imperialism, oil would still be doing untold amounts of harm!
not to like parrot technology connections too much but like. unlike oil. YOU CAN RECYCLE BATTERIES. LITHIUM IS NOT DESTROYED WHEN A BATTERY IS "USED UP" WE CAN RECYCLE IT.
Well, aside from the very real problems with uranium mining and its social + ecological consequences, main issues with nuclear energy are that
it is insanely expensive (highest costs of impementation, maintenance and waste processing of any energy source)
takes ages to implement (training highly specialized engineers and technicians + building the reactors - France has a big problem rn bc the nuclear technicians are aging out of the workforce and there's not enough trained successors)
contributes to highly centralized, inflexible energy systems that are more vulnerable to critical system failure
needs a steady water supply to cool the reactors, which has proven difficult with increasing droughts, e.g. in France in the last years (they had to import a lot of electricity in the summer). So not a universal application by any means (same with the need for seismic stability, tho there's been progress on that front)
And then there's still the issue with nuclear waste, which, while not necessarily time-critical, is still not solved in a satisfactory fashion to this day. There's not even the infrastructure yet to safely dismantle shut-down reactors.
So just saying "oh those are issues caused by CAPITALISM" instead of you know, logistics and material realities, feels very reductive of a complex technological issue and dismissive of valid concerns.
None of this is an argument for oil or coal or gas. We need more renewables, more low-tech and decentralized alternatives to centralized energy systems, we crucially need: a lowering of energy consumption, a rethinking of enerrgy grids to accommodate more fluctuation from renewables sources, and also battery systems that don't rely on rare minerals as much. I'm still hopeful for a breakthrough on salt batteries, but ony time will tell.
But blindly arguing for nuclear because it's less environmentallly damaging than other fossils is not a good look.
(I'm not saying that running reactors need to be phased out but focusing on constructing new ones is not the way to go.)
it's sad to me that cis people never apply their "loved one with a wanted-pregnancy" script to medical transition. like cis people often indicate they don't know how to react to hearing about medical transition, but a huge portion of that social script is directly applicable.
tell someone "congratulations!" tell them "I'm so happy for you. I know you've been trying for a really long time." ask them "do you need help with anything?" throw them a party with loved ones where you all give them some gifts in acknowledgement of how expensive it is. celebrate how far along they are. take photos with them so they have a record of being loved while their body changes. allow them to voice fears and doubts and anxieties about how it'll go, and reassure them that they'll get through the intense medical procedure coming up & you'll be there for support no matter what. let them tell you about the gross parts and laugh together. really listen to them when they talk about how amazing and profound it is that the human body can do this. share in their excitement for beginning a new stage of their life. i
If there are complications, comfort them and help them navigate what's next. If they lose access suddenly due to finances or criminalization, treat it like a miscarriage and hold them while they grieve.
I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious
women are half the population
pick your warrior
sorry gotta get my ‘friend that’s too woke’ on but I don’t think the solution to misogyny is more misogyny. like by all means rip into republican/right wing women but your critiques should be about how they’re evil soulless people not ‘haha they’re ugly/visibly aged. they don’t know how to put on make up!’ like i don’t fucking know man I don’t think any woman at all should be required to wear makeup or be made fun of for not wearing it ‘properly’ also let’s stop doing the ‘not conventionally attractive = morally bad’ thing. that last part especially be kicking y’all asses.
"i can't benefit from oppressive power structures, i'm literally nice :)" is a disturbingly common sentiment on here and if u express it then i can never trust u again
AND THEY ARENT EVEN NICE!!!
y'all gotta stop acting like trickle-down civil rights is gonna accomplish anything meaningful. Liberation starts from the bottom up.
"we promise this time if the white middle class queer people get their rights then the rest of y'all will get yours"
white middle class queers to indigenous, black, disabled, poor, etc. queers after we successfully enforce whatever milquetoast demands their bourgeois civil rights movement was championing:
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.
I've been looking for such archives, thanks
i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.
the first link broke, here you go
BEGGING us to read nonfiction every now and then. Like. Words on page. It doesn't have to be the only thing you do, but you gotta keep in practice with it. No easier people to subjugate than those who question nothing they're told.
It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives
“What will I be if I don’t graduate/don’t get a promotion/don’t get my shit together/don’t make this relationship work?” You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits
“What if I fail even when I tried my very best?” The world keeps turning and you will find many other things you will succeed at.