This Is Not Even Reasonable

More ladies, more gay, more outer space. Mass Effect and Star Trek and whatever else piques my interest at the moment. Canadian studying human rights law in Belgium, cis, lesbian, late 20s.

[tvneon]

[commandershakarian]

EXCUSE ME?!?!?!

[omegastation]

#if you can't handle the utter chaos that is the mako that's between you and god

[flatandsassy]

I know there’s a lot of wacky nonsense in Threshold to memorialize on this blessed day but I just want to take a second to remember one of my favourite scenes that has nothing to do with lizard babies.

Captain Janeway goes to Tom’s quarters late at night to tell him that if he does the flight, there’s a 2% chance that he’ll have a brain hemorrhage and die (which. is kinda huge??) He launches into the expected speech about how he needs this and everything, but the speech? is literally just “when I was a kid my dad told me I was special and everyone at school thought I was the best so I had false expectations about how good at things I was going to be so now I need you to give me the special treatment I was raised to believe I deserve”

And Janeway’s like “wtf” and Tom is like “I’ll DIE if I can’t do this” and she’s like “this seems like a tantrum worth indulging” and just. gives it to him.  It’s incredible. 10/10 impassioned pleading, 10/10 captaining.

[catboymuqing-moving]

guys again please please please please please please please think critically about those posts that are like “i didn’t realize [really common or nonspecific thing] was an adhd thing and doesn’t apply to neurotypicals/anyone else at all!!” bc a lot of the time they are completely unfounded (sometimes frankly insane) and give people really messed up ideas about the differences between nd and nt people and how those differences work. and that shit doesn’t help anybody in any way! you don’t have to pathologize and essentialize everything you do, and you shouldn’t build up firm definitional barriers between neurotypes that don’t really exist. i’m talking about that friendship post specifically rn which is a prime example (come on, you can’t characterize how all people of a certain neurotype manage something as infinitely complex as human friendship), but it applies to SO many other things i’ve seen floating around i feel like i make this post every other day. the mental math thing comes readily to mind too.. honestly just think about these things before u spread them like true information, check the sources or go find sources at least.. please

[1970scop]

1970’s cops: I sure love doing a GOOD JOB*

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[setdeco]

VICTOR HORTA, Art Nouveau Apartment , Brussels, Belgium, 1898-1900

[fluffygif]

Chunky flakes

[metatheatre]

“This is her family. The father that is not her father. The baby that is not her baby. That’s Kira’s family.”  –Robert Hewitt Wolfe

[afloweroutofstone]

[queenology]

This woman is a hazard. My poor heart… my soaring blood pressure… 😅

[lgbtmazight]

i don't want people to "listen to me" because of who i am. my identity is only relevant insofar as it explains my interest in matters of oppression and my accumulated knowledge, informs my experiences and opinions, and illuminates the stakes i have in a conversation. it does not inherently grant me comprehension of a situation or phenomenon, and it does not automatically mean i'm right, even on topics that concern me. i don't want to be taken at face value; i want people to consider my argument and agree with it if it makes sense, not because of any type of innate authority. "you only listen to the people of color you agree with" is a very funny sentence, when you think about it. because that is, indeed, how opinions and beliefs work: people ingest information, analyze it, then decide if they agree with it. if they don't, they discard it. and there are good and bad reasons to discard someone else's position, obviously; but the point remains that this is how conclusions are drawn. liberal "identity politics" discourse (which is really representation politics, but this is a whole other topic) refuses to acknowledge that last point, but it has to: its logic crumbles when confronted with two people who share an identity but hold diverging political stances.

we are all epistemologically deficient when it comes to understanding how others experience structural barriers. women, for example, possess knowledge of simple facts relevant to their life as women that men unarguably cannot experience. this does not mean that men cannot access any knowledge about women's experiences or draw correct conclusions re:sexism. it simply means that they are methodologically limited in accessing one kind of knowledge: experiential knowledge, or what is colloquially referred to as "lived experience".

but the use of lived experience as the only analytical point of reference in political matters individualizes and essentializes the reality of oppression, which should instead be understood as systemic. what identity politics should do is give us epistemic access to otherwise private and personal experiences that are necessary in order to shape one's positions - people's lived experiences can contain invaluable and illuminating insight into particular manifestations of systemic inequality and axes of power. but, while lived experience can give one unique epistemic access in certain domains, it doesn't necessarily dictate the terms of structural oppression or make anyone of any oppressed group morally infallible.

the abuse of identity politics is harmful first and foremost to marginalized people: it puts them on a moral pedestal and expects them to be irreproachable while acting like only "privileged" individuals can hurt other people. our analysis should draw on marginalized voices to explain why some people are systematically subject to violence and economic subordination, but lived experience alone doesn't give us information on the character of every individual marginalized person, the morality of their actions, or the validity of their claims. creating a virtuous/vicious category to parallel oppressed/oppressor is profoundly condescending and dehumanizing. it also obscures the dynamics of power that also exists within and between oppressed communities.

recognizing the humanity in another human being (recognizing them as an equal!) includes acknowledging their capacity to act cruelly or immorally, and their potential to be wrong and make mistakes and draw incorrect conclusions.

[lgbtmazight]

i do want to make absolutely clear that this is a post decrying the abuse of identity politics and not the existence and application of experiential knowledge as an analytical tool. reactionaries who pretend they are against "identity politics" (actually representation politics, i repeat) ironically end up abusing the framework similarly: their message always boils down to X group is not a monolith (good!) and so you should listen to X voice that conveys/agrees with our message instead (no???)

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[headspace-hotel]

Getting a little bit tired of posts that are like “adhd is only a disorder because of capitalism” as if it’s mr monopoly man’s fault that i struggle to stay committed to artistic projects i undertook personally for myself and that I enjoy, have trouble regulating my emotions, and procrastinate on eating and going to the bathroom.

I get what they are trying to say, but even if capitalism didn’t exist I would still want to have things like “the motivation to clean my living space and the ability to actually notice that it’s dirty.” I know this is part of the misperception of adhd, but adhd doesn’t just affect academics and work. It affects EVERYTHING, including your personal goals and your own basic needs

[pajamasecrets]

PLEASE JUST SHOW ME THE CASSEROLE RECIPE

[sovereigndramatica]

this is gross of course but I'm stuck on the implication that men Need to see penis in the bathroom or it's a human rights violation

[bax16]

I go to the dick room, I expect to see dicks. Else I go apeshit

[eveurite-deactivated20150630]

holy toothbrush

lol

[gahdamnpunk]

Look at her opening doors to thousands of girls (if not more) around the world! 😍

[lightspeedsound]

ALWAYS 👏🏽REBLOG 👏🏽BALLERINAS 👏🏽 OF👏🏽COLOR

[flatandsassy]

Stephanie Kurlow is white. She's still awesome and groundbreaking but it's very weird and uncomfortable to assume hijabi means POC