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shark week oo ha ha
i am, obstensibly, not really back here, and i've made myself a rule that i won't reblog anything without directly adding to it, or post without it being my own thoughts and whatnot. social media detox has been good for me.
however, if anyone does want to chat or ask me anything, my inbox is open and i'll do my best to answer. i wouldn't mind being back here to talk with people, i'm just trying to avoid doomscrolling and mindless consumption.
shut up about barbie god i hate it literally so much lol it's not fucking insightful it's not a modern day women's fight club it has nothihg of value to say and is only a corporation's heavily sponsored libwavy jism. they paid buckets in marketing so you would pretend there was substance. the only worthy analysis one could make is how it's a glorified movie length example of when corporations readily mix liberalism into commercial advertising to make others Feel about their product
now to comment on the content of that glaad billboard. i think it's extremely funny that they were like the science is settled in red letters like it's jesus' words in a red letter bible. very fitting for what is now nothing more than a religious movement.
it's been weird realizing i don't think anyone truly needs to be on cross sex hormones for their entire lives or get expensive and complicated surgeries that in most cases render you unable to orgasm to be self actualized. the existence of very young children insisting they are the opposite sex always made it seem like, well, surely some people need this as in literally need it. and one day once everything gets studied enough we'll be able to figure out who needs it and who doesn't! and look how that turned out. people's reactions to kanye west's clear mental illness (no no he's not mentally ill he's bad, mentally ill people are never bad because being mentally ill is bad) helped seal it for me, this is mostly about the stigma of being mentally ill. living with sex dysphoria is an experience of being mentally ill, i have experienced it myself and there is no other way to describe it. there is literally no value/moral/whatever other judgement there because mental illness is not bad or wrong or yucky, it is neutral unless you think mental illness is bad or wrong or yucky.
also, i think this is going to be a pretty common stance soon or in the near future given how insanely resistant "the movement" is to any type of honest research, and i know there are women who have suffered immensely for coming to this conclusion a long time ago and i think the rest of us need to be very radically honest about that.
The cultural impact of āboomerā as a pejorative has been disastrous and Iām not even kidding
Gen z is not exceptional. Large swaths of gen z propagated Facebook-uncle tier misinformation to smear Amber Heard for speaking out about their favorite pirate actor. People are convinced ādeadass no cap on godā is ātiktok speakā and not butchered AAVE. Many are already starting to define themselves as a generation of work ethic and meritocracy, unlike those whiny debt-riddled millennials. Itās becoming humiliatingly clear that this generation is not exceptional, itās not radical just by virtue of being young (and we wonāt be young forever), and itās not going to fix everything āonce the boomers die out.ā We are speedrunning the stereotypical āhippie to Reagan voterā trajectory of the boomers, whose counterculture at the time frankly puts ours to shame. So are you going to put in the work, or are you going to gloat about being young and special and then shit yourself when you turn thirty?
You know what could actually help lots of women in the global south? Especially if you're American? Stop consuming drugs. I find it kinda funny how betrayed everyone seems when you can't even give up weed.
If you're American and you consume illegal drugs, you are two steps from consuming porn to me.
im guessing this has to do with not supporting drugs traffickers thus not supporting gangs who then therefore have less money and influence to hurt women and children? or is there also another reason? because i always thought men were the primary ones dying due to gang violence
Gang violence in LatinoAmerica is huge. And I mean HUGE. Every city under the USA border has its own relationship with drug cartels. You really really don't know how is to live in a country where the drug cartels dictate everything. There have been entire cities destroyed by them. Vacated. Some of them serve as mercenaries for transnational companies, to enslave men for manual labor and women for manual and sexual labor. One of the worst femicide crisis in recent history in Mexico was fueled by drug cartels, just search Dead women of Ciudad JuƔrez. The drug cartels own human trafficking rings across the country. They kidnap and traffick migrant women, local women and children. They are known for closing highways and cut food and supplies from towns where they think they need control over. There have cases of towns where drug cartels close highways and try to kidnap all the women and girls in there. They kill indigenous people and farmers who refuse to cultivate their crops. Mexico is in shambles because of the narco. We couldn't even send data to the investigation on black holes because the drug cartels wanted money to open a highway that went up a hill where a telescope was. With this I am trying to say that pretty much every aspect of civilian life, especially outside big cities, is dictated by drug cartels.
And this is just MƩxico. Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and other countries have their own problems with drug cartels. This is not gang violence anymore. Some of us are living in what it resembles a narco state. A state where the drug cartels control almost every aspect of politics.
I did a free walking tour in Medellin, Colombia and the tour guide spent at least an hour talking about how much he hates foreigners who come to colombia to do cocaine and do pablo escobar tours and another hour talking about how fucked up it is that europeans, americans, and australians consume most the illegal drugs but see none of the violence. he went hard before huge group of people, many of them there to probably just party and do drugs. I could've listened to him talk for ages. mad respect.
I can't believe how many people turn a blind eye to the violence.
The majority of weed smoked in the states where itās most popular is grown in the US, not in the global south. I can see this argument being valid for things like cocaine, but claiming people who smoke weed thatās grown in their legal state are contributing to violence and trafficking in South America isnāt remotely accurate.
I specified illegal drugs you fucking stoner. I said weed because of people who aren't willing to even switch to a legal source. If you source it legally then why tf are you on my post.
According to the DEA, one third of the illegal drugs trafficked from Mexico to the USA is weed so... Who tf is smoking that illegal pot?
Okay even if itās weed. Letās talk about it. How do you really know where it comes from? Okay letās say you buy it from a storefront. Seems legit. But a lot of them are not legally obligated to buy their supply from gov regulated producers. So they are selling product most likely from illegal grow-ops, often with falsified labels. Letās say the product / supply chain is legit. The store front also acts as a money laundering front. The store owner is also a human trafficker and/or a dealer for illegal substances. This is just his ālegalā business.
Like unless youāre buying your weed directly from the govās website, you do not and cannot know 1) where your supply is really from 2) if the money spent is being used to fund illegal activity.
It's also legal for NestlƩ to sell and guess what? They use child slave labor.
This applies to Europe too. The Netherlands are famous for having legalized marijuana, but a lot of the (completely legal!) marijuana in the Netherlands is supplied by dangerous cartels. And of almost all of the cocaine in Europe comes from South America, so from the same woman killing cartels. Europeans who do cocaine are also funding the enslavement and murder of women in Latin America. To boot a lot of the cocaine in Europe is trafficked through Africa, where drug cartels there also hurt and murder women, so cocaine in Europe often has the blood of both Latin American and African women on it.
I advise people to only smoke weed that they either grew themselves or that they know for a fact beyond any doubt that it was grown locally and ethically and it wasn't produced or imported by cartels.
Young people love corporations so much now bc corporations tend to them like theyāre in a veal pen. Hereās your merchandise-based identity. Here are your material objects. Here is the press release you agree with. Keep giving us your money and ad impressions. Keep scrollingĀ
I donāt think a lot of people really understand that ecosystems in North America were purposefully maintained and altered by Native people.
Like, we used to purposefully set fires in order to clear underbrush in forests, and to inhibit the growth of trees on the prairies. This land hasnāt existed in some primeval state for thousands of years. What Europeans saw when they came here was the result of -work-
the east coast was all mature and maintained food forests. decades if not centuries of nurturing and maintenance. when the british arrived they were amazed that there were paths through the forest just ānaturallyā lined with berries and edible plants, like a garden of eden. then they tore that shit down to grow wheat. dumbasses
My mom is an ethnobotanist and getting people to understand this is literally her lifeās work. A lot of native tribes just had a whole different way of looking at agriculture. Instead of planting orchards in tidy rows near their villages, they went to where the trees were already growing and tended them there. They would girdle trees by stripping the bark in order to stop the spread of disease or thin out badly placed saplings. And they would encourage the companion plants they wantedĀ and weed out the ones they didnāt, so that in the end the whole forest would be productive while remaining an ecosystem and not a monoculture. It is still agriculture, but it is a form of agriculture that is so much gentler on the landscape that, as OP says, the European settlers could not recognize what they were seeing. To them the natives must have seemed to magically live in abundance while they starved. They did do controlled burns, but so-called slash and burn agriculture was never a primary farming strategy in North America. They were just way more subtle than that. They also made the amazing Mississippian mound structures so itās not like they couldnāt do dramatic reshapings of the landscape when they wanted: but they changed their minds about that, walking away from Cahokia and the dense, farming-supported urban structure they had build there in the 13th century, well before any European contact. My mom says it wasnāt a collapse, it wasnāt a war, it wasnāt a natural disaster; the farmers in Cahokia just voted with their feet. They just gradually left, dispersing in different directions but generally not very far, and it was probably because theyād gotten tired of menās bullshit. See, agriculture was a female domain in pretty much all the native American cultures. The specifics differed by tribe, but often they had gender-specific age-grade societies: for example, the Hidatsa Goose Society was composed of married women of childbearing age. Not only did they physically plant the fields, they also had responsibility for conducting the social and ritual events around ensuring the harvest. This included things like digging the storage pits, and organizing feasts in order to bring the whole community together to plant plots for families who were suffering illness or disability, and could not do it themselves.Ā So, as Cahokia urbanized (at itsĀ āheightā it was a population center ofĀ between 10,200 and 15,300 people), it is very likely that the traditional, informal systems of land use-right allocationsāagain, always the womenās domainābecame stressed by top down political pressures from the rulers (who were men). And as my mom puts it in her book Feeding Cahokia: āIf rights to land ever became highly restricted as a result of a top-down, centralized process of allocation, the likelihood of poorly informed and unfair decision making is extremely high.ā So basically, the farmers took their families and they moved away. Not all at once, no mass exodus, justā¦gradually, they decided that theyād tried doing things the urban way, and they didnāt like it. They went back to living in smaller villages sustained, not by intensive farming, but by more garden-style plots and the traditional, sophisticated management of āwildā lands that they had never stopped practicing. It takes a shift in thinking to recognize that was a deliberate choice on their part. Not a failure: Cahokia never collapsed, not dramaticallyāit just gradually wound down. They were perfectly capable of feeding themselves and they did for well more than a century. They went back to the old way because they liked it better.
And again, different tribes had different specific ways of doing it, but farming was always the womenās domaināand there are also important spiritual figures who occur under different names in different tribes. One of these is Grandmother/Old Woman Who Never Dies: giver of all plant food, protector of children, bringer of summer, and rejuvenator of living and dying things. Iām just gonna end by dropping this passage from my momās book because itās amazing: āI think it likely that the female flint-clay statues from BBB Motor and Sponemann represent an Earth Mother personage in a manifestation known to all early Cahokians, and that their Woodland ancestors had sought her powers and favors for centuries preceding the Mississippian period, just as Siouan speakers continued to protect her sacred bundles and conduct rituals focused around them long after Cahokia was abandoned. She never died. Several years ago, I accompanied a traditional Hidatsa farmer named Amy Mossett from New Town, North Dakota, to the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center [in Illinois]. When we came to the display case containing a cast reproduction of the Birger figurine, Mossett froze, took a step backward, put her hand on her chest, and said, āThatās Grandmother. And the snake is her husband.āā
āBy 1492 Indian activity throughout the Americas had modified forest extent and composition, created and expanded grasslands, and rearranged microrelief via countless artificial earthworks. Agricultural fields were common, as were houses and towns and roads and trails. All of these had local impacts on soil, microclimate, hydrology, and wildlife.ā
William M. Denevan, The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492Ā http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html
āWe cant raise minimum wage bc rent will increaseā
Stop using the passive voice. Say what will actually happen. Landlords will increase rent ā a voluntary action, not a natural result. The fun thing about voluntary actions is that they can be legislated against. What IS a natural result is that when landlords raise rent, their tenantsā wages automatically devalue. Again, the solution here is to stop the voluntary choice from being a choice at all.
Landlords choosing to increase rent is the problem, not a natural result of the solution.
there are so many facets of me that are more important than my appearance or desirability. i have a large capacity for understanding and curiosity. i want to learn and connect with people and that is a beautiful thing :-)
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I care way less about leftists being forced to publish certain articles in conservative or else unaffiliated press than I do about leftist groups and organisations accepting right wing funding or else financial support tbh. one of those is just far more pressing and compromising to me than the other, I donāt care if someone has written for the daily mail I really donāt
if we accept funding and thereby give social conservatives or religious fundamentalists influence over our positions, especially as they relate to lobbying and policy, we leave ourselves wide open for co-option and distortion of our ideals. that is much more directly worrying than whether or not so-and-so wrote for a problematic paper (and in some cases thereās even obvious upsides in exposing a new crowd to leftist talking points) imo and I donāt get why this latter issue is used as the prime example of conservatives co-opting leftism when in many cases it was the writers themselves who had to make this decision in reaction to leftist media outlets being censorious. Iād love it if no one had to but I think the larger issue deserves more focus
At this point i've lost count of how many times i've seen stuff like "i just can't live as a woman. i've been forcing myself to hate my trans name embrace femininity and present like a proper female to convince myself i'm cis and it failed so." (and viceversa with male transitioners). I personally believe gnc ppl are not 'cis', they're gnc, but if you ask trans people they'll tell you they are and get mad when you point of the overlap of experiences, yet spout stuff like above. It's doublethink!
i don't think anyone is cis. but yes, for gnc ppl transitionkng, it often feels like the last ditch hope to have nothing wrong with him. better to be a loved and accepted trans man than a hated and demonized gnc woman. of course, trans men only usually get acceptance as in conditional lovebombing, and from the rest of society only if they actually pass, but it's still more than gnc women get.
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