Obst

Honiglich

[decompose1]

you people neeeed to stop making someone bathing someone else into this inherently weird/gross/awkward/horny thing it is a completely neutral action. it is normal. every animal has to groom itself or be groomed. people need to be cleaned. it is completely normal and expected for a social species to clean/groom one another- whether through affection, necessity, or both. there is nothing weird about washing your loved ones. there is nothing weird about washing someone who can't, or is struggling to wash themself. it's so normal. it is SO normal and common and expected. most people will need help being cleaned at some point in their life, some people just need that help earlier than others. i promise you it's okay. & if you have a problem with idea that some day someone you love might need your help getting clean i really do not know what to tell you maybe just don't date anyone or have any close relationships idk

[guavamandering]

they should invent a more pleasurable way to be a creature of discipline

[maxknightley]

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

[maxknightley]

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

[str-ngeloop]

david graeber described three fundamental freedoms: freedom to move, freedom to disobey orders, and freedom to reorganize social relations

[prudencepaccard]

fundamental human right

[2peachy]

[loveridden1999]

[westofvenus]

men in the 70s were like “I’m so very hairy how sexy of me” and they were right

[zvyozdochka]

Polar bear on board a Soviet icebreaker, 1970.

[strawhatsufi]

sex and gender are different in that gender is an elaborate series of superstitions that arises around the reproductive process in the context of class society, while sex is a form of pop science that arose to legitimise those superstitions

[junglejim4322]

People really underestimate the power of just telling someone you like them. romantically obviously but hell even just platonically too. You can admit you enjoy peoples presence it doesn’t have to be mind games it’s okay to just be sincere and true with your thoughts and intentions btw

[huariqueje]

Wave in Backlight - Peter Witt

German , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.

[honigobst]

"In any case, through those people who recognise themselves as transsexuals today, we can glimpse the transsexuality (bisexuality) that is latent in everyone. Their particular condition has brought them more or less close to an awareness, potentially a revolutionary one, of the fact that every human being, embryologically bisexual, maintains for his or her whole life, both in biological and psychological aspects, the presence of the other sex. I believe that the resolution of the present separate and antithetical categories of sexuality will be transsexual, and that transsexuality discloses the synthesis, one and many, of the expressions of a liberated Eros." - Mario Mieli, towards a gay communism, 2018 (orig. 1977)

[dduane]

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

[liliacfaerie]

your life should not be a museum

[plaidos]

s soon as you point out to trans men "No, actually, I do believe trans men are discriminated against, just as black men and disabled men etc. are discriminated against. But I also acknowledge the fact that the women of these demographic groups are treated worse" they just totally shut down and start spiralling into an endless repeating circle of "but you think everybody treats us well because we're men you fucking hate us because we're men" because they don't have any argument in response: they have to just invent a position that transfeminists don't hold in order to justify treating us poorly and harassing us.

with men, it always comes back to "you hate me because im a man!! dont you fucking dont you!!!!" as a response to feminism. because... well. many many men are sexist! including many many trans men apparently.

[patricia-taxxon]

I dont believe men behave the way they do because of being socialized as such in their childhoods, they act in ways that benefit themselves in the present day & are unchallenged when they do so at the expense of others.

[patricia-taxxon]

this is something I've been wrestling for a while in the context of race & the focus on "unconscious bias," it always made me feel like i was being unfairly placated and absolved, able to combat racism as this persuasive force that is separate from myself. no, I benefit from racism & it remains in my personal best interest to continue doing so, my position in the hierarchy in the present day is the persuasive force.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[demonprincex]

A lot of the people who are attracted to me are, frankly, into younger people. I've seen the pattern. People will be 32 and say they would never date someone older than themselves, and then they'll message me. Or they'll have partners who are mostly in their 20s but then also approach me. Whatever, I'm not too pressed about it, in recent years I've had partners that are 21 all the way up to 65 and counting and I don't think age tells you much about a person. But where it really steams my broccoli is when these same exact people who are interested in me make blanket statements about not being attracted to older people, or finding older people creepy or off putting. Why am I the exception??? because I'm short and slight? because I seem young enough to you? If that's the case, then it's clear you just don't believe that people over 35 years old can be attractive to you, and i'm just some strange exception to you. and that's not acceptable to me. I am the age that I am. and i ALSO have whatever appealing qualities that i have that you associate with youth. do your thing, have your boundaries, whatever, but don't tell me that wanting to fuck this specific 37 year old doesn't count, or that being 35 or older is inherently creepy! people older than you and people who are not attractive to you having their own sexual lives is not creepy!

[synthient]

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[open-sketchbook]

i fucking love the matrix

[mutant-distraction]

Turtle House in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia