i cannot focus

She/her | Confirmed Fool | just a mess of whatever over here | Be good, be kind, be safe.

[lezarus]

one of the worst parts of entering an established fandom is reading through the tags and realising with a dawning horror that fans have collectively decided to give one of the characters a horrible, non-canonical, cutesy nickname

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[thememedaddy]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

idk how to explain this properly. but "Marsha P Johnson isn't a trans woman [she] described [herself] as a transvestite" feels very much the same as "its okay to call Native Americans 'Indians' because they call themselves 'Indians' sometimes (after being forcibly labeled that incorrect term by colonizers for centuries)"

just because the exact language used to describe trans women didn't exist or wasn't as prominent throughout all of human history, that doesn't mean that trans women didn't exist.

also i dont trust your bullshit excuse to call Marsha a man when you pull the exact same shit on current alive trans women who demand to be called women.

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

"Marsha P. Johnson, From Interview with Allen Young," pg 233, from The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White (2019)

And for anyone else still burying their head in the sand about Marsha being a trans woman: one, go fuck yourself, and two, here's an interview where she's talking about saving up for SRS and insinuated by the interviewer to be on hormones.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[phantomrose96]

I'm very very glad that my knee-jerk, gut-feeling, primal-instinct reaction to seeing a Default Influencer is embarrassment. I think this saves me from a lot of bullshit.

[phantomrose96]

Some lip-filler lady on enough Ozempic to euthanize a horse: "The sad truth is an elite lifestyle takes money and discipline. Buy these brands on credit if you have to. Skip meals."

Me: "Oh. Oh I'm physically experiencing the effects of secondhand embarrassment. You live like this? This is your life? Your interiority? If I was anything like this I'd kill myself I think."

[phantomrose96]

To be clear ☝️, absolutely not gender-exclusive. Some broccoli-haired shirtless 23-year-old man on enough trenbolone to euthanize a different horse starts talking about how to be a high-value male and I start thinking instantly about how I'd have 4,000 slugs use me as a jungle-gym before I'd want this man within cootie-contagion distance of me.

[phantomrose96]

[refuzz]

[phantomrose96]

Respect for my soldiers… she’s saving him… the hons…

[striborak]

Happy pride month to all my rainbow friends (and rainbow-adjacent pals) 🤩🏳️‍🌈

Wanted to bring back my favourite pride month shirt meme and I just caught up on Poison Ivy so here we are:

[ghiblifilm]

Spirited Away (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[maykitz]

northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"

[leathergerard]

remembering that time i got drunk and told a guy he looked like a wrought iron gate

[leathergerard]

he didnt respond to my observation. just sorta stood there

[leathergerard]

... much like something else i know of

[miamaimania]

from 1980

[madnessofmen]

The cultural phenomenon of the strongwoman lives in a very special time.

industrialization increases productivity and efficiency of labor -> "Industrialization has made men weak" -> Victorian obsession with bodybuilding a la strongmen (muscular Christianity)

Muscular Christianity + women's suffrage -> strongwoman/muscle mommy fetishism

industrial warfare destroys illusions of man's power against the machine -> decline

[madnessofmen]

Kate Brumbach's husband was the OG muscle mommy fetishist

[digitaldiscipline]

Concussions-to-Lovers speedrun

[trucyisright]

my mother is playing pikmin and yelling at them in the exact tone of voice she uses for me and my siblings so we go into fight or flight every time. we thought initially that this meant she regarded the pikmin as akin to her children, but I now fear she’s always viewed us as pikmin

[goldensunset]

hi your post reads like a poem to me

[saintd0nna]

happy pride to him

[trollrider1111]

Gay broke sober king 🤴

[samreich]

the single best post-episode text i've ever received

[1i1yoftheva11ey-doesntknow]

[theereboseffect]

pale blue dot