I have things to say

Hello, you may listen to the things I have to say

[the-bitter-ocean]

While we are at it I need nonblack people to stop saying “YN” and “🥷🏾” just to get around saying antiblack racial slurs. Yes that includes that stupid shit where white people go “ooh but I said nega not-“ I don’t give a shit. You know damn well what you meant. Fuck off. It’s a insta block from me for anyone who does this shit and think it’s funny or whatever don’t pmo.

And before someone fucking says “erm are you referring to the fanfic / shipping term? How is your name offen-“ obviously no I’m not referring to that and anyone who is using it to mean “your name” types it with a slash -> (y/n) *NOT* “yn”. Like. I need nonblacks to stop randomly regurgitating aave they see or hear without knowing what it fucking means and misusing it to hell and back thinking it’s cool/ trendy/ or something worthy of mockery. It means young nigga. Stop fucking using it if you’re not black lol

[sistersorrow]

People wanna pretend it was all in good fun and only got racist afterwards (if they'll even acknowledge it ever was racist) meanwhile some of the earliest TikTok making clanker jokes were skits that were just "racist dad hates his daughter's black boyfriend" only the boyfriend is a robot instead, and before that, these exact same kinds of jokes were circulating the Star Wars fandom for over a decade

They want all the "fun" of being blatantly racist and provocative, but don't want any of the reactions you'd get from someone watching you being blatantly racist

[i-like-having-opinions]

also pls stop using slurs you "can reclaim" in a way that makes it blatantly clear you just wanted to say the n word.

like "what's up my f*ggot", no, just no

If you want to reclaim a slur you should be considering what it would actually mean for that word to go from something that hurts you to something that empowers you, not just using it as a substitute for the n word

[multifrukt]

People who form their opinions on whole groups of people based on personal negative interactions with one or few members of the group fascinate me.

Do you really not see a problem in that logic. Like reaaaally.

[i-like-having-opinions]

i literally cannot understand how people openly allow themselves to do this when this is literally the basis for bigotry. making a negative assumption about one group because of a few bad people you met

but it always happens when the sterotype is "these ppl are bigots" because they think the two bigotries cancel each other out

[i-like-having-opinions]

Guess who got diagnosed with sleep apnea but is gonna have to wait 2 goddamn months to start any treatment cause of the fucking government

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[i-like-having-opinions]

imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry -> Disabled people still do not have marriage equality

Many of them risk losing money they need in order to live if they get married, meaning they either have to marry someone who can financially support them or not marry at all

[citronavalkiro]

One advantage of having a CPAP is that you can put your blankets over your face and use your CPAP to go scuba diving under the covers. It's those little advantages that make everything better! I can't wait to be able to do that in the winter! It will be so much easier to stay warm!

[i-like-having-opinions]

I just got a call from my doctor 2 days ago that I have sleep apnea and I cannot WAIT to get a cpap machine. I'll finally be able to sleep without getting more tired, I'll be able to wake up and do things! AND I'll be able to be covered head to toe in my sheets

[jasontoddsguns]

Just got my first CPAP, about to take a nap. Will update y’all in 1-2 hours.

[i-like-having-opinions]

*goes to #cpap machine*

*half the posts are fetish posts*

*many of the others are calling cpap machines turn-offs*

so which is it, huh??

[liberaljane]

Rest!

Digital illustration of a tan cat with spots laying down sleeping with a cpap machine. There is text that reads, ‘REST! - capitalism is exhausting’

[somarysueme]

Getting sleep apnea treated is fucking wild because on the one hand it is kind of like the Lacking the Vitamin post where suddenly half your worst ailments go away and also ailments you didn’t even notice go away and also the full range of your color vision comes back and you can perceive flavors you forgot existed.

But on the other hand now that you are getting real sleep you are aware that there is a different sleep. A secret, evil sleep. And if you don’t do the silicone bondage ritual correctly even once it will come back and you will have twelve nightmares at the same time then wake up with stomach acid in your sinuses.

[redstonedust]

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

[i-like-having-opinions]

makes me think of the time some bigot made a tiktok account with a random brown guy's face on it and started commenting sexist things on people's tiktoks so one of the girls made a 'drawing sexists' video where she made the most racist drawing of the brown guy

like even if he was sexist that would still be racist but she fully responded to sexism with racism aimed towards a random brown guy

[crippled-peeper]

if your disability came from something you did voluntarily, like driving a car, or having sex, or doing BMX stunts, then guess what???

you deserve respect. you deserve to have your needs met. you deserve to live

[dead-mad]

Or self-harm or an eating disorder or a suicide attempt or drug use or literally anything

[i-like-having-opinions]

including directly just trying to make yourself disabled

[i-like-having-opinions]

stop saying the black community when you really mean the usa black community

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[segamascott]

taylor swift invited a guy who owns and operates an ice detention center to her wedding swifties can pack it up forever now your bitch is awful

[originalitysquared]

Wild how no one made announcements like this about P.Diddy when his trial was happening.

Wild how abusive artists like Micheal Jackson can have biography movies made and not a single mention of accused abuses or the subsequent trials will be mentioned.

Hmmmm I wonder why people feel the need to explicitly condemn women and any action they may have possibly been a part of (like inviting a shitty guy to your wedding) yet do not extend this same behavior to men in the same industry who commit abuse and atrocities on a much larger scale 🤔?

[segamascott]

yeah i hate concentration camps because i hate women you caught me

[i-like-having-opinions]

people are so goomba-fallacy-minded that they legit think this one tumblr user is in charge of all media discussions about celebrities

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

[weirdthingifoundonline]

[i-like-having-opinions]

the real issue with declining birth rates is that there slowly stops being enough young (and abled bodied) people to support the old (or disabled) population

and with mass disabling events becoming more common it's all the more concern

we don't nessesarily need to start making more babies but we do need more systems in place so we can survive with a population that is majority disabled

[i-like-having-opinions]

I need to just start responding to shit with

Opinions: everyone has them. They can span the most mundane, seemingly unimportant topics like what's the best toppings for a pizza, to real

[gothhabiba]

god forbid Black women have fun

[gothhabiba]

Black woman invents or popularises a phrase -> it enters the vernacular and circulates widely amongst Black and nonblack people -> people removed from the phrase's initial context read it too literally, do not interpret it with sensitivity, assume that the ideas expressed when people use it are shallow / "over"-sexualised / problematic in some way or another that mirrors their feelings about Black people as a whole -> there is a backlash where a supposedly more 'thoughtful,' 'subversive,' etc. alternative to the initial phrase is offered, implying that the initial phrase contained none of that complexity within it to begin with -> rinse & repeat

[i-like-having-opinions]

hey, black people are a wide range of people and convoluting the idea of being good or valuable with being hot is both an idea that black people can call out as harmful and something that DOES hurt black women