Golbats for Equality

CURRENTLY INACTIVE. Golbats yelling at oppressors. Good for all your anon-hate reaction pic needs.

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Would you agree that 'power' is situational? For example a teacher has power over the students, but only in the classroom. A manager has power over their employees but only while they work there.

Yes, power is situational.  Some situations are temporary and some are permanent.  For example, societal antiblackness doesn’t just turn itself off, so white privilege, while still “situational,” exists all the time.

...Why am I being asked this by an mlp roleplay blog?  I mean, not to cast aspersions, but if you want to sound like an obvious troll, that’s how you sound like an obvious troll.

--Golbat

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Hiatus

Dear followers: You may have noticed that we haven’t posted any new memes for about a week. We’d like to avoid leaving you in the dark by issuing an official hiatus.

Maintaining a consistent stream of content is hard work. We have to generate new ideas, research, write, and format every post, and find time to be somewhere with internet access. And sometimes, with everything else we have to do, we can’t always find the time to make more memes.

As a trio of queer, disabled students and workers, we have many opportunities for life to suddenly get in the way of running GFE. Having three mods allows us to cover for each other, but sometimes all three of us are out of commission at the same time. This is one of those times.

Let’s be clear about one thing. This hiatus is not the result of pressure from any Tumblr user: not trolls, not anti-SJWs, not hate mail. We have lives outside of Tumblr, and sometimes we have to prioritize them first. GFE will be back when things quiet down.  We will probably cover the 2016 election season, once that gets into full swing, since elections tend to generate a lot of things for golbats to yell at.

Also, that perfect-IV Zubat giveaway from a while ago:  it’s still happening; Mod Golbat forgot to do the drawing for that, is all.  They will do the drawing soon and send out the results.

We’re still open to user submissions, so the submit box will still be open for anyone interested to send in memes of their own.  Again, even sending in meme captions still works.  Thank you all (minus trolls and possible spam blogs) for following us.

--Golbat, Nidoqueen, and Glaceon

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Equality Golbat: “Being pressured to accept your abusive parents because ‘that’s just Asian parents being strict’ is not a form of privilege.”

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This Golbat costume Pikachu is probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!

Nintendo World NYC

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The only time since the 90's Burger King toys that there's Golbat merch, and it's still not an actual Golbat lmao.

--Golbat

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Equality Golbat: “Being stereotyped as bad drivers, bad speakers, and abusive parents is not a form of privilege.”

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Equality Golbat: There shouldn’t be a compulsory pledge of allegiance to begin with.

I’m fully aware that the US Pledge of Allegiance violates separation of church and state. It’s also horribly inaccurate.

“Liberty and justice for all” doesn’t exist for our enormous prison population, societally oppressed groups, nor for the people whose cultures have been almost destroyed in the aftermath of American imperialism.

The US today is run as an oligarchy, not a republic, and certainly not a democracy.

And children who don’t even know the implications of swearing allegiance are being deprived of the ability to think critically about their country from the start.

-Glaceon

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Equality Golbat: No one should be drafted, regardless of gender.

Even if military drafts are an example of sexism harming men, no one should have to be drafted from the start. Military drafts remove all people’s agency. If the people don’t want to go to war, they shouldn’t have to be forced into it.

The people should ultimately decide whether or not to go to war.

-Glaceon

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Equality Golbat: Being annoyed with “political correctness”, instead of being hurt by people refusing to be respectful, is a privilege.

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Equality Golbat: A rewards-only approach can still be abusive.

Reward actions that should be rewarded. Positive reinforcement helps kids remember things that can help them in the future. It's important to help your kids and get their opinion if they have trouble doing some things. 

Reward your kid for doing something good for someone else without being asked, for instance. Help your kid and reward them for doing something that might not be the easiest thing for them to do. Why reward your kids if you have to help them do something? Because it shows you understand that they’re putting in a lot of effort to do the thing, even with your help.

If you're rewarding acceptance of punishment, pain, degradation, helplessness, or withholding vital necessities and putting them under the guise of rewards, that is abusive.

-Glaceon

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Equality Golbat: If you’d rather pay a doctor to “fix” your child because acceptance is hard work, did you forget it was hard work to get that money in the first place?

One of things you need confront before you ever think about having kids, is that your kids are not going to be you. Those kids might end up radically different from you. Don’t ever say that if your kids aren’t exactly like you, that they’re bad people. 

There are a lot of different people in this world. All we want is to be happy and secure in our lives and in ourselves. There are a lot of different ways to be happy and secure and to do good in the world. Do not be your kid’s bully. Guide them to whatever way helps them be happy and secure and able to do good in the world. 

You might not understand your kid’s definition of happy and secure. But your kid will be infinitely better off if you help them come into their own, rather than force them into being someone they’re not.

-Glaceon

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Your favorite children’s book is probably racist and sexist.

Or, if it’s not, the author probably also wrote things for adults which will extremely disappoint you.  (Yes, this is mostly about my thesis reading.)

--Golbat

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Equality Golbat: The fact that mindfulness has accomplished anything disproves behaviorism.

Mindfulness is essentially meta-thinking: thinking about your own thought process. That’s a very simplified explanation, but it’s the basic foundation. Behaviorism says that your thoughts, feelings, and awareness don’t matter, only trained responses. The fact that anyone has accomplished anything by being mindful disproves that claim.

-Nidoqueen

I’d also like to add that it’s very difficult to actually be mindful of yourself, especially when behaviorism has taught you that your thoughts, feelings, and opinions are worth jack shit. It’s incredibly empowering for abuse victims to practice mindfulness and use it to draw up and sustain their boundaries.

-Glaceon

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Equality Golbat: If you believe what and how people think is irrelevant to the human experience, why call yourself a psychologist?

What it comes down to is this: people think differently. People think differently in every social, political, and cultural group that exists. The point of the psychologist shouldn’t be to make our thinking and functioning more monolithic and homogenous. It should help people find ways to work with their current thought processes and functioning in ways that work for them.

-Glaceon

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Behaviorism: A school of psychology that focuses on forcibly training specific behaviors.

Behaviorism is based on neurotypical, able-bodied behavior being the norm, and makes no attempts to be inclusive to neurodiverse and disabled people. According to behaviorists, as long as you display “appropriate” behavior, it doesn’t matter whether the process of acquiring such behaviors was harmful or not. This makes it unsettlingly easy for abusive parents to institutionally abuse their children.

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Abuse culture: A culture in which certain groups are treated as problems rather than people.

Let’s not pretend that abuse is “only a family problem”. In every setting, in every aspect of society, abuse runs rampant. Everyone not seen as “normal” is treated violently and inhumanely-whether it be through physical, financial, or emotional violence. Abuse is so ingrained in society that members of the group "normal” can say they believe other don’t people deserve to be happy, don’t deserve to be accepted, don’t deserve to express their feelings, or don’t deserve to live, without any repercussions whatsoever.

That, needless to say, is a huge problem. And navigating through the sea of abuse culture colors our lives in every way imaginable.

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If hate rhetoric conflates two categories, then the hate is about both categories and no amount of hairsplitting is going to change that.

Or, it might even really just be about the actually not-bad category.  When someone calls all Arabs terrorists, they don’t really hate terrorists, they’re justifying hating Arabs.  When someone calls all gay people pedophiles, they hate gay people more than pedophiles.  When someone condemns feminists for being socialist lesbians, it’s a pretty good chance that they just hate women, as well as socialists and gay people.  Bigots noticeably don’t care about or even at times glorify white terrorists and straight pedophiles, so it’s pretty easy to tell what they’re actually talking about; and it’s not simply misconceptions, it’s deliberate.  Hairsplitting instead of pointing out hateful attribution is derailing.

--Golbat

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Yes, not all Muslims are Arabs.  No, you can’t act like islamophobia isn’t a race issue.

The rhetoric of islamophobia is heavily racialized and islamophobia is used primarily to excuse racism; therefore islamophobia is a race issue.

--Golbat