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danielle | 30s | she/her travel, learn, relate.

[ladyoftheharbour]

hey why do tumblr users think "intersectional feminism" means "denying that any woman who holds any privilege ever in any situation is affected by misogyny"

[afurioushawk]

[deadeyesopened]

ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

[schmergo]

@bonos-grindcore-sideproject This is so good

[stupidusernamepolicy]

[8nin]

"Ur so chill" thanks i gave up

[rederiswrites]

"It's great that they protested, but what are they going to do to actually get rid of ICE?" "What are the democrats doing to stop this?" "Where are the leaders?" Some of y'all just want Captain America. Some of y'all just want a hero to save you. Some of y'all...just want somebody that is not you to fix the problem.

This is not a Marvel movie, sweetie. This is hard work over a long period, and it includes you.

[thememedaddy]

[afurioushawk]

...fucking christ...

“Kamala Harris lost because people thought she was too right wing”

[afurioushawk]

I really want y'all to remember this poll when leftists (and their Europoid enablers) start running their mouths again about Democrats. No other group is more out-of-touch with the median American than the leftoids. Just remember that they thought campaigning with Liz Cheney cost Kamala Harris the election.

Stop listening to them. They have no fucking clue how the average voter sees things. Kamala Harris being seen as far-left is actually a problem she's going to have to overcome if she runs for reelection. She'll probably have to make a political ad posing with her glock personally promising to take down all the drug cartels crossing the border on her own and vowing to nuke North Korea if they even look at us the wrong way, and y'all just better be ready for it.

[quantum-dragon]

Cheney voted for Kamala Harris despite being a piece of shit like imagine losing the moral high ground to Dick Cheney

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[jessaerys]

how do i say "horror novels these days are too woke" without sounding like a right winger. what i mean is: this one is about a woman serial killer who kills Bad Men, that one is about ~anticapitalist activists~, this one is ~queer~, that one is about *spins wheel* someone dealing with the ghosts of their immigrant roots, all of them are about intergenerational traumaaaaa. okay. cool. but is it good though. is it fucking scary

[jessaerys]

something something, losing the ability to convey horror through abstraction, through metaphor, through symbolism, through allegory, through raw unexamined un-psychiatrized feeling. if the real horror is.... dun dun dun! the patriarchy then i just feel preached to. don't use fiction as a vehicle for Saying Something About Society. write with total vulnerability and then see what it says. it will be probably be far more interesting and horrifying than what if the monster was uhh my mom's abuse or whatever. this brand of new horror writers are all so terrified of actually disclosing anything about themselves. it's like if an instagram infographic performance was a mediocre contemporary novel

[some-stars]

YOU ARE MAKING THE TEXT DO THE WORK OF ANALYSIS!!!!!!!

[cardassiangoodreads]

One of the difficulties of book discourse online lately is that there genuinely has been a huge rise in "progressive" literature that feels like it was written for a Tumblr post about "bad characters are okay as long as the text doesn't agree with them!" - that are super didactic, or allergic to making an actual villain out of anyone from a marginalized group, and so on - and yet there are also a ton of right-wing weirdos on book sites still who throw fits about "woke" if there's a gay character or a Muslim character or even a major female character who exists to be something other than a love interest / damsel in distress / masturbatory description about how big her boobs are. (You especially see this if you read anything that combines more than one of those identities, and especially that has powerful women or LGBTQ+ people in a non-Western and/or historical setting. So many people just cannot wrap their heads around that, say, non-cishet Muslims are real people who exist in the world, or that people in the past having different attitudes about sexuality and gender from today applies just as much to 2.5-kids-and-white-picket-fence heteronormativity as it does to contemporary queer culture.) So I wholly sympathize with the delicate dance of how to say "I am a person who cares about representation and thinks it is good, but I would like these new diverse takes on well-worn genres to be well-written and to be written for adults who can handle some challenging concepts and moral ambiguity, please!" It's hard! It sucks! And yet it's important enough that we have to do it.

[abyssaldyke]

*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

[madnessofmen]

The cultural phenomenon of the strongwoman lives in a very special time.

industrialization increases productivity and efficiency of labor -> "Industrialization has made men weak" -> Victorian obsession with bodybuilding a la strongmen (muscular Christianity)

Muscular Christianity + women's suffrage -> strongwoman/muscle mommy fetishism

industrial warfare destroys illusions of man's power against the machine -> decline

[madnessofmen]

Kate Brumbach's husband was the OG muscle mommy fetishist

[digitaldiscipline]

Concussions-to-Lovers speedrun

[femalegothic]

It’s so funny that nonvoters are always going on about mutual funds and community organizing because that’s just reinventing local government but worse lol

[deepspacescully]

can’t stop thinking about this thread i found describing the ds9 cast. like yeah. that’s family.

[spockwithacat]

I propose a forced merger of all the red fly over plains states. They do not need that many senators

[millenniumitem]

new favorite reddit user

[angel-demiel]

[guidancerune]

scam texts aren't even trying any more. i have to pay my taxes? at latina fiesta dot co???