Eye and Mind Candy

aka clearing out my likes

[spaceportcrescentia]

(◕‿◕✿) facts about divorce for feminists and MRAs:

in most (51%) of cases, both parents decided on their own (out of court) that the mother was to receive full custody

in 29% of custody cases, the decision was made without any third party involvement

in 91% of cases, the decision for the mother to have custody was made without court involvement

of those who go to court, 70% of men who seek custody of their child receive it

of those 70%, 1/3 of the cases cited domestic abuse as part of the reason for divorce

women who mention having been victims of domestic abuse in court are less likely to receive custody of their children than women who didn’t

i’m tired of seeing posts on feminism by both feminists and MRAs citing “gender bias in custody cases” as a problem we need to solve. women aren’t unfairly receiving custody more often. abusive men are unfairly receiving custody.

the fact is, if my dad had actually attended his court ordered anger management type classes, i would legally have been required to spend a portion of my time with him until i turned 18, even though he beat my mother and abused me.

don’t let anyone make you think that the scale isn’t still tipped toward men in a court of law.

sources: (1) (2)

[hexingkyriachy-deactivated20200]

I mean I’ve definitely reblogged this at least seven times before but come on

[odinsblog]

Officials calling for calm can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death, and so they appeal for order. Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson …. And in almost every case, prosecutors or judges dismissed the charges against the victims—if charges were filed at all. In an incident that drew headlines recently, charges against a South Baltimore man were dropped after a video showed an officer repeatedly punching him—a beating that led the police commissioner to say he was “shocked.” The money paid out by the city to cover for the brutal acts of its police department would be enough to build a state-of-the-art rec center or renovations at more than 30 playgrounds. Instead, the money was used to cover for the brutal acts of the city’s police department and ensure they remained well beyond any semblance of justice. Now, tonight, I turn on the news and I see politicians calling for young people in Baltimore to remain peaceful and nonviolent.

Ta-Nehisi Coats: When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. (via theAtlantic)

[krxs10]

UNARMED BLACK MAN FATALLY SHOT BY VOLUNTEER COP

Eric Harris, who was unarmed, died an hour later after what Tulsa, Oklahoma police officials called a “mistake.” According to several news sources, On April 2nd, the victim had reportedly tried to sell a gun to undercover cops and fled on foot as they attempted to arrest him. A video camera captured him, wearing dark shorts and a t-shirt, running up a sidewalk. Harris was quickly caught and subdued. That’s when a 73-year-old volunteer patrolman, Robert Bates, “allegedly” reached for his Taser, but grabbed “accidentally” grabbed his gun instead. According to Tulsa World, Bates, who has donated thousands of dollars worth of items to the Sheriff’s Office since becoming a reserve deputy in 2008, is a Tulsa insurance company executive. He was working undercover as a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Task Force. The World reported that “Bates is classified as an ‘advanced reserve,’ which means he ‘can do anything a full-time deputy can do.’” 

Rather than immediately render aid, the officers held Harris down by his neck as a deputy screamed, “Fuck You! You shouldn’t have f*cking ran!”

As Eric Harris lay mortally wounded, face down on the pavement, he begged for his life. “He shot me!” Harris shouted. “He shot me, man. Oh, my god. I’m losing my breath.” 

“F*ck your breath!” the officer yelled.

Capt. Billy McKelvey said the officers were not aware the suspect had been shot, despite the unmistakable sound of the gunshot noise. Bates “made an inadvertent mistake,” he said.

The New York Daily News reported that no further investigation is planned, unless requested by the sheriff’s office.

Source/ Source / Video

#StayWoke

[themoonisfree]

BUT CAN WE GET INTO THE FACT THAT THIS PIECE OF SHIT WAS A FUCKING VOLUNTEER COP! Wow…just wow. Another George Zimmerman.

[fkaeros]

I work at a swim school and we occasionally have birthday parties. I over hear a conversation one of the kids had with their mom

Hears conversation between a mom and daughter who is like 6.

Mom: Looking at news article on phone about Sam Smith**

Girl: Mommy why is Sam Smith kissing a boy?

Mom: it’s because he’s gay honey.

Girl: Mommy what does gay mean?

Mom: Like girls like boys, it’s when boys like boys.

Girl: Oh….well why can’t girls like girls?

Mom: They can they’re called lesbians.

Girl: lessions?

Mom: No, Les-Bee-Ens.

Girl: Oh Okay,….can I be lesbian?

Mom: Sure, only if you feel that way, why?

Girl: Cuz there’s this girl name katey and she’s really really pretty like prettier then Elsa.

Mom: PRETTIER THAN ELSA?!?!

Girl: Yeah, I want her to be my girlfriend.

Mom: Okay, wait…what about that other kid you liked, that boy named Jimmy.

Girl: I don’t like Jimmy anymore, I only said that cause I thought I didn’t have anymore options but boys.

Mom: *starts dying laughing*

Me *starts dying laughing*

[latinosexuality-blog]

Why We Need More Non-White Sex Ed Teachers

The co-founder of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network talks about the specific needs of black and Latino communities.

here’s a interview I did while in NOLA in Feb 2015 finally up!

[ayetroyler]

YES PLANET FITNESS. (x)(x)

[safetybuzz]

joss whedon, noted feminist who fired charisma carpenter for daring to be pregnant

joss whedon, white cishet male who decides that he gets to define feminism and rebrand it to make it more appealing to himself, while also erasing the entire history of feminism and ignoring the existence of the term womanist

joss whedon, making a speech about feminism whose only mention of a female is to dismiss her entirely

joss whedon, deciding that the biggest problem with feminism is in its name and not its history of being racist, transphobic, and homophobic

joss whedon, lacking all self-awareness when twisting a brilliant junot diaz quote about poc representation to mean representation for white cis females

joss whedon, trying to equate sexism and racism while completely ignoring that woc exist and can experience both at the same time

joss whedon saying equality is important!!!!! but not casting a single asian person in his show grounded in the fusion of asian - western culture and also equating reavers (literally referring to them as the monsters of the story) with the apache

wait hold up, ignore all that, i should just be super grateful to joss “what is privilege and intersectionality?” whedon for having the courage to speak over women on a continuous basis

[aliuribe]

Joss Whedon, who came most excitedly to his co-writer on Firefly with the idea of an episode based entirely on the brutal gang rape of Inara, therefore giving her initial characterization as a rape victim, since it would have been one of the very first episodes. Also, apparently this is the only situation that would cause Mal to “treat her like a lady.”(x)

Joss Whedon, when asked about his future hiring of Asian actors, given his envisioned (i.e. stolen from Blade Runner) ‘Asian’/American future, gave a highly problematic and ignorant answer ( x 18:15 minute mark)

Joss Whedon, who at that same panel, kept making fun of himself for “being a woman” for crying.

Joss Whedon, who felt the need to discuss Black Widow in terms of her moral inferiority to the men in the Avengers, because Tony “put my loved ones at risk for my self-indulgent, self-destructive behavior” Stark, Clint “villain turned spy for S.H.I.E.L.D.” Barton, and Bruce “leveled entire cities out of anger at myself” Banner are deemed by Whedon as “heroes” and she’s just a “spy” without the “moral high ground or any of that good stuff” of her male peers. (x)

I love both Avengers and Firefly, but Whedon and I are fucking done professionally.

[sihayadesigns]

Joss’s work has meant A LOT to me over the years. A LOT. But it bugs the hell out of me that he gets lauded as suuuuch an awesome feminist when he basically advocates the most basic Feminism possible while simultaneously pulling some of this shit. And I find it really sad that his output is so much more woman friendly than 95% of the stuff put out by other Hollywood white dudes.

[bearbuttz]

What about our fans? Are they privileged? Let me tell you about Anders. He was one of two male love interests in Dragon Age II, and the only one of the two that would actually make his intentions known to the player without the player expressing interest first. If you were nice to him, he would make a pass at you, and you could turn him down, and that would be the end of it. And some fans REALLY did not like that. Some of them asked for a gay toggle; because in a game where there’s mature themes, slavery, death, and none of which we offer toggles for, encountering a gay character? OOH, beyond the pale. They didn’t want to be exposed to homosexuality. And this one fan on our forums posted that he felt too much attention had been spent on women and gays and not enough on straight male gamers. For all of whom he personally spoke, of course. ‘It’s ridiculous that I even have to use a term like Straight Male Gamers, when in the past I would only have to say fans.’ The purpose of the romances in Dragon Age II was to give each type of fan an equal content. Two romances whether you’re male or female, straight or gay. How upsetting for this particular Straight Male Gamer to realize he wasn’t being catered to. This was not equality to him, but an imbalance; an imbalance of the natural order. He did not want equality, he’s not interested in equality. To him, from his perspective, equality means he’s getting less. Less options? Actually, no, the number of options we had in that game was actually the same number of options that he would have received earlier. What was his issue was the idea that there was attention being spent on other groups, which SHOULD have rightly gone to him. Do ALL straight male gamers feel exactly the same as he does? Absolutely not. In the thread where this came up in fact, there was quite a few guys who came in and identified themselves as straight male gamers and said ‘I actually don’t have an issue with that, as long as I receive an experience I enjoy, I think other people should be able to enjoy that too.’ But if you think that Straight Male Gamer Dude is an outlier among our fanbase, you were not paying attention. This is Anita Sarkeesian, she’s the author of the Feminist Frequency, a blog which examines tropes in the depiction of women in popular culture. You’ve probably all heard about this, it’s a matter of public record, she announced a Kickstarter to start a web series to look at the tropes in video games and she was subjected to a campaign of vicious abuse and harassment by male gamers. Why? Well, because she represents to these guys the loss of their coveted place in the gaming audience. Never mind that well all know Goddamn well that they’re still at the top of the totem pole. What they see themselves losing is sole proprietorship over their domain. That’s what it is. Everything that is changing about the gaming industry to accommodate these players, to them, is diluting the purity of gaming which has belonged solely to them. That’s what this is all about. And here’s the thing, I’m pretty certain that our industry fears the scrutiny of those guys way more than the scrutiny of everyone else. Because those are the guys that scream at the top of their lungs, they spend their time on every internet forum, they spend their time making Metacritic reviews. Infuriate them, and you become a target. It’s so much easier to say “Well, that’s what our fans are like. There’s nothing we can do.” And that’s bullshit. They didn’t set the tone, did they? We set the tone. What we put out there, what we permit, whether it’s on our forums, whether it’s on Xbox Live, the things that we permit we are in effect condoning. What happened to Anita, we the industry, are partly responsible for. We’re in part to blame. And if the idea of moral responsibility doesn’t phase you, consider the idea that the time will probably soon come that this will also amount to legal responsibility.

BioWare EA Writer David Gaider speaking on sexism and sexuality in video games. (via lolitsgabe)

[justice4mikebrown]

March 9

DeKalb officer shot and killed Anthony Hill, who struggled with mental illness and was unarmed and naked at the time of the shooting. 

Follow the hashtags #AnthonyHill and #Antlanta for more information.

[blackeatblack]

This is so devastating

[punlich]

It irritates me. If Eddie Redmayne knows that the role should go to a trans woman then why did he pick up the role? Why didn’t he use some of his clout to push the casting people to look for a trans woman? Why didn’t he turn them down?

Admitting what you’re doing is bad doesn’t change much if you’re still doing it

[krxs10]

this is the kind of fucking bullshit I’m taking about.

[florecitadelalma-deactivated201]

What the fuck yo

[manc-inquisitive]

http://www.mywlas.com/george-zimmerman-arrested-while-visiting-ferguson/

[cosmic-noir]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[the-friction-in-your-jeans-deac]

I AM SCREAMING.

[queeenkareemuh]

wow

[pumpkinmcqueen]

Someone put him in prison already and don’t let him out. He’s itching to kill again. He’s tryna be a serial killer.

[kagekiid]

I think it is important to have the rest of that article up here too:

Zimmerman is heard yelling something again, and finally the teens stop. One of the teens rather articulately asks Zimmerman to leave him, his friend, and his town, alone. “Sir, sir, we don’t… we don’t have an issue with you, sir. Please leave us alone,” the younger teenager says in the video, while Zimmerman continues to rant about something in the background. “Mr. Zimmerman, I don’t know why you’re here in Ferguson, but It’s pretty damn insensitive, you showing up here. This town’s been through enough already, we don’t need you here intensifying things, okay? And my friend and I didn’t say anything to you.”

“I have a right to be here. It’s a free country, we’re on a public street,” Zimmerman angrily says to the teens. “Why were you following me? Why were you harassing me?”

“We did no such thing, Mr. Zimmerman. You were leaving the store and we saw you and crossed the street,” the younger teen replies. “You followed us for a whole block. We said nothing to you and we were not following you.”

“Why are you here, George?” the older teen asks. “Ferguson has enough going on without you trying to get in the news again.”

At this point, Zimmerman drops his beverage and reaches into his jacket. The teen holding the cell phone raises it, and then the video abruptly ends. Authorities say a State Police cruiser, which just happened to be driving by at that moment, pulled over, and the officers found Zimmerman aiming a 9mm pistol at the two teens, who had their hands raised above their heads. After drawing their own weapons and ordering Zimmerman to drop his, Zimmerman was taken into custody.

Police found two handguns, a shotgun, and several knives inside Zimmerman’s car at the time of his arrest. It is unclear why Zimmerman was visiting Ferguson, when he arrived, or where in town he was staying. Police say the teens will be allowed to release the full video to the public after their investigation is complete.

[putmezove-deactivated20171012]

holy fuck

[dabbinglich]

This is completely fucked.

[7-2wice]

That last part is BS. They know exactly why he had all those weapons in Ferguson

[nosuchthingasfiction-blog]

I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped. The first dozen times I heard this, I was horrified. But I heard it over and over again. I realized that many young men are not being taught the impact that sexual assault has on a woman. They are inundated by sexual imagery in the media, and often come to the (incorrect) conclusion that having sex is not a big deal. This, no doubt, is why the number of sexual assaults is so high.

Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, on the question “Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you?”

Read that again. Read it again, and again, and again. Over and over guys have asked her why Melinda was so upset about being raped. This is a girl who went to a party with friends. She was thirteen. She had a drink, because everyone else was. And a senior held her down and raped her while she was too drunk to get away.

And guys don’t understand why she was upset.

Read that again and then come back and tell me again why I should just shut up and take a joke when a comedian blows off rape as a big deal, or women’s bodies are casually treated as commodities in media. Remind me why I shouldn’t care about the very real harm that society’s treatment of women and sexual assault does.

(via nosuchthingasfiction)

THIS. 

(via authorsarahdessen)

[congalineofdurin]

Vector isnt a scam. Lol you were a receptionist, for a few weeks. Dont act like you know shit. Im not trying to change your mind, your opinion is irrelevant. Im just going to say, dont talk shit, unless you worked as a REP, for at least 6 months.

Good holy lord, how deep in my blog did you have to go to dredge up that ancient history? It’s been ages since I mentioned Vector.

BUT, I’m glad you did, because it’s always the right time for a fresh reminder that VECTOR IS AN EXTREMELY SHADY, PIECE OF SHIT COMPANY THAT TAKES IRRESPONSIBLE ADVANTAGE OF TEENAGERS and I am always happy to step back onto that soapbox.

LISTEN UP, EVERYBODY. A lot of you are teenagers, and some of you who are teenagers in America are going to be contacted by Vector Marketing (or workforstudents, or Cutco, they’re all the same thing). They’ll ask you to apply. Don’t do it. At best you’re wasting an afternoon, at worst you’ll be wasting much more of your time, money, and gas.

Yes, it is possible to make money with Vector. Is it likely? No. Is it a pyramid scheme? Absolutely.

Vector takes everyone that walks in the door. They promise them large amounts of money for little work, lie to get them in for interviews, exploit their friends and neighbors, waste their time, and take advantage of them in ways their ‘hires’ would avoid if they knew any better. This is why Vector employs almost exclusively teenagers.

Vector Marketing, first of all, requires all hires to provide a list of friends who ‘might also be interested’ in the sham of a job. Then that list is handed off to a telemarketer (which is what I was, despite being hired explicitly as a ‘receptionist’ who would answer their phone, do paperwork for new employees, actual receptionist things) whose entire job consisted of coldcalling from the minute they arrive until the minute they leave. They had to (I had to) read from a script that was blatantly just lies about the job. There were three of us back to back in a tiny room, marking on a white board every time a sucker fell for it, with a manager looming in the door several times a day to insist we get our ‘numbers’ up. Again, I was hired as a receptionist.

Vector then sets these people up in ‘group interviews’ which aren’t interviews at all but rather a presentation and a pitch, trying to convince as many of those people as possible to join up with them by insisting ‘the product sells itself’ and all kinds of pipe dreams about how much money you’ll make with them. Then, as I understand it, there are smaller one-on-one interviews that are barely a formality.

Now, Vector doesn’t see you as an ‘employee’, technically. Which means they don’t have to pay you for the mandatory training you’ll have to take, they don’t take money out of your paycheck (if you ever see a paycheck) for taxes or social security, they can jerk you around however they want.

 You’re encouraged to sell to family and friends (because who the hell else is going to buy extraordinarily overpriced knives from a stranger who doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing) and in pressuring wealthy family members you MAY get a sale, which means you MAY get paid. 

But very, very few people actually make decent money, much less the kind of money Vector claims you will. Most teenagers walk out of there with barely enough money to cover the hours they had to sit through of training and listening to pitches, and the gas to get there.

What’s worse, the ever-peppy Cutco ‘success stories’ will insist through the entire carnival of scams that ‘if you’re not a people person it’s not the job for you, but if you have basic education you can do this’, and other such nonsense. They will tell you again and again that if it doesn’t do miraculous wonders for you, that it’s your fault. You didn’t have what it takes, you’re not the right kind of person for this. You failed, not the company, not their business model. They are telling the inexperienced, untrained, never-had-a-job-before struggling kids that they’re scamming that they don’t have what it takes to make it in sales on a personal and mental level and that makes me truly fucking sick to my stomach.

I was only a receptionist telemarketer there for so short a time because I don’t want to be a part of something that shady. I still don’t.

Vector Marketing/Cutco/workforstudents is a pyramid scheme. Their ‘sales’ focus entirely on hiring new people and ‘building sales staff’, because constant turnaround of suckers through the door is their lifeblood. This is a company that’s been around for years and years, doing the same thing, and they’re good at it. And there’s a group of people totally loyal to them who will insist again and again that what they do is normal and acceptable. Don’t listen. 

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/employment/vector-marketing.html

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1183566-vector-marketing-is-it-legit.html

http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2010/08/penn-teller-on-multi-level-marketing-and-pyramid-schemes/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Marketing

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/save.html

http://anti-vector.livejournal.com/

[muchymozzarella]

I also almost became part of a pyramid scheme type setup called Nu Skin—the product itself is legit but the way they hire and sell here in the country is very much not. 

If you read the above mentioned, that’s exactly how they tried to hire me. Reading it felt like I wrote it myself—this is how they operate. With a presentation and a supposed recommendation by a friend. That, and a lot of manipulation and pressure. 

They kept trying to get me to buy products to sell on the first day and kept telling me not to consult with my parents about spending 25,000 pesos on products (one of whom is an economist and both of whom are familiar with the way money works) and kept insisting that “it’s my decision to make” while trying to get me to spend 25,000 pesos in one sitting. 

They continued to call me over and over to set up a meeting in a way that made me extremely uncomfortable.

I told them I’d “get back to them” and called my mother, who told me that my brother experienced the same thing and got very little in return for it. 

This is how these scams work. They promise big returns, but all they’re really looking for is instant cash from people who believe they can trust these companies based on “a friend’s recommendation” and supposed high and stable pay for what is ultimately an unstable investment. 

If you’re looking for a job, find one that doesn’t expect you to spend more than you’ll earn. Don’t be caught up in all these promises of big bucks and wonder-products. Trust me, it’s not worth it. 

[krxs10]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS SHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Unarmed Black teen was just shot dead by police on #BlackOut Day.

19-year-old unarmed teen, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin last Friday night. According to several news sources, Madison Police Chief Koval said they received calls looking for a man who had committed battery and was jumping in and out of traffic One of the police officers, Matthew Kenny, spotted Tony and then proceeded to follow him into his apartment and forced his way in after claiming to “hear a disturbance inside”. the unarmed teen then “got into an altercation” with the Officer who then shot him 5 times in the chest, and dragged him out to the street while he bled out. He was later rushed to the hospital where he later died.

Large Protests have already begun in Madison and are quickly spreading all over. 

#StayWoke #BlackLivesMatter

Sorry to ruin #BlackOutDay but this is why it exists in the first place.

Source 

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

[intersectionalfeminism101]

It’s important to be able to spot when certain phrases are silencing tactics. The concept of compromise can be used to make minorities look irrational, as if their demands to be treated respectfully are complicated and difficult to agree to.

Such tactics that evoke the same type of doubt in a minority’s claims :

Gaslighting. Simple phrases such as “but I’ve never seen that happen,” or “that’s never happened to me” are meant to counter the oppressed’s credibility and make them seem unreliable.

Demanding sources for lived experiences. Sometimes it isn’t enough to the oppressors that a person testifies to living through horrible injustices. Facts are demanded to support the oppressed’s experiences, which are dismissed as “anecdotal evidence.” Which leads to the next point:

Framing human rights discussions as debates. No one should be able to debate whether or not someone deserves to live peacefully and happily. When oppressors try to engage in “debates” with the oppressed about their situations, the oppressor gets the upper hand, because suddenly the rules of debate apply, and emotions and anecdotal evidence are off limits. The oppressed are forced to discuss their own lives by the oppressor’s rules.

If you have experienced other silencing tactics when discussing racism, sexism, ableism, etc. please share to let others know what and who to be wary of.

[aurazoo]

jesus fucking christ

[scabphobic-deactivated20170206]

Fuck transmisogynistic casting practices that lead to cis men playing trans women.

[septemberpoems]

I rolled my eyes so hard my lens fell out. no joke.

[inkblotgalaxies]

*sigh* I understand how this can be upsetting, but here’s the thing. This movie is about the first trans person to undergo reassignment surgery. And at first I, too, was upset they didn’t get a trans actor. And Redmayne even STATES IN AN INTERVIEW THAT THERE ARE A BUNCH OF TRANS FEMALE ACTRESSES HE THINKS WOULD NAIL THE PART, but he believes the reason he was cast is because this film takes place in a time before hormones were a thing that the trans community could use, and those casting did not want to risk trans females going off hormones just for the shoot.

Breathe, guys.

[nappingmachine]

That is literally such a bad excuse though?

Not all trans women are on hormones or WANT to be on hormones. And there’s also no reason a trans woman would have to stop taking hormones in order to play this role? Hollywood magic has turned cis dudes into “cis” women, been used for transmisogynistic shock effects, and drag has existed for ages. There’s no way they wouldn’t be able to make a trans woman look pre-transition for the first or better part of the movie. Heck, they’re making Eddie Redmayne look post-transition (assuming this movie shows Lili post-transition) or at least making him look like a “woman” for the film. Yet they couldn’t be bothered to do the same with a trans woman? With such a big budget?

Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper and whoever else are attempting to white knight while grinding their heels into the trans community, whether intentional or not. This excuse is paper thin and insulting and is laughable at best. If this is their understanding of the trans community, it’s got a hell of a long way to go. As in, they don’t know a damn thing (about trans people, about the struggle of trans women and trans actresses, and they don’t even care). They’re speaking for an entire group of people and reducing them to one voice, one skill set, one want, one need. There are definitely trans women who would’ve taken this role, but you didn’t even bother to ask them. You decided their well-being for them. You stripped them of their voices, their agency, and this opportunity to bring another trans actress to public attention. Can you name another trans actress besides Laverne Cox in big productions, in a media spotlight, getting jobs? 

This movie is making a huge profit and CIS PEOPLE are benefiting from it. They’re getting the money, the recognition, the next job. This movie isn’t benefiting real, living, breathing trans women in any way except for “telling their story” without actually helping them or bringing attention to the trans community by casting trans people. This is not only a role trans actresses deserve, but one they NEED. No one will cast trans actresses as cis woman, so if they’re not getting the roles of trans women, they’re getting literally nothing. Eddie Redmayne sure isn’t hurtin’ for a job.

The point being, Eddie Redmayne, this movie, and Hollywood as a whole are just continuing transphobia, trans erasure, and transmisogyny while making a hell of a lot of money and fame off of the stories and struggles of the trans community. 

[gradientlair]

[social-darwin-awards-deactivate]

There are always at least two sides to every issue, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You may not like your opponents, you may not want to come to terms with them, but if you do not understand them, you will never defeat them. “Dehumanization vs. survival” is a black-and-white proposal that has no grounding in the real world.

[gradientlair]

I, who sent the tweet above, and whose blog this originates from, said my humanity is NOT fucking debatable. And this link below to my essay on anti-Blackness and “opinions” was on the original post.

I Do Not Give A Fuck About Your Anti-Black Opinions…At All.

My humanity is not debatable. I will not have nor entertain “multiple view points” about whether I am a human being who does not deserve the dehumanization of anti-Blackness and the ramifications of misogynoir and other intersecting oppressions.

And spare me the “if you do not understand them” line. See the archive. I understand bloody fucking well. The receipt trail on a hunnid.

I am not talking about “opponents.” You speak of the “real world” yet your point is completely grounded in theory and not the reality of oppression and the violence of oppressors. Oppression is why Black womanhood is “not real womanhood” and why Blackness is “not human.” This is not a goddamn high school debate exercise when Black bodies litter the streets, when our very citizenship and sentience itself are treated as question marks.

You think epistemic violence and casual disregard of humanity, as a debatable topic with “opponents” (which already implies a parity in structural power that does not exist; again, this is not a high school debate exercise) is “logic.” Heh. I can tell. But you are wrong. Because there is no “logical” reason why I would entertain dehumanization of Blackness as valid. Plenty of violently socialized ones, that again, my tweet rejects.

Don’t put this violent mess on my blog. If you think your response is “calm” and “rational” and “unbiased,” response, you are wrong. It is violent. Please leave me and my personal blog Gradient Lair blog alone.

[blackourstory]

^ Boom!