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A story in three parts
You should be able to criticize gender as a construct without criticizing trans people in the same way that should be able to criticize nation states as a construct without criticizing immigrants. Unfortunately, TERFs like to use "gender critical" as a euphemism.
I've always struggled with this concept but this post helped me understand. My struggle was along the lines of, "gender isn't real, so how can trans people exist."
But now I see that even though gender is made up, it is very much the system we live in. As long as we are placing people into categories there will be people who don't belong in the category they are placed in.
In short, "Gender isn't real and should be abolished altogether" and "some people don't fit into their assigned gender" are two separate ideas that can and should coexist.
you must
HAVE
enough
fuel units.
you must
HAVE
enough
lamborghinis.
you must
CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.
for the uninitiated
REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON HAS DIED FROM TRENCH FOOT LOL HE SERVED WITH COURAGE AND HONOR LOL PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES LOL
No longer allowed to help my dad in the garden because i picked up the shovel and he saw “a gleeful and cruel darkness in my eyes”
You're right but don't say it like that
criticism of christian syncretic holidays generally rests on the idea that "paganism" represents a single cohesive religion in opposition to christianity, and that paganism is older, more natural, and thus more "true" than christianity, which in this frame is inherently unnatural, regressive, and imperialistic. The fact of the matter is that "paganism" meant and means different things in different places and times, and often represented (represents!) not an opposition but a commonly-held set of beliefs with christianity. Christianity, especially in the popular conception of the middle (dark) ages, is seen as something imposed on a population by force of a ruling class, rather than as a culural technology continuously created and used by all classes across the social hierarchy. The heirarchical structure of the catholic church in its current form was only brought (close) to its current effectiveness during the counterreformation in the late renaissance.
The Protestant Reformation galvanized the catholic church into inventing itself as a singular body with a singular dogma; in order to define an outgroup you gotta have an ingroup. Prior to the Counsel of Trent, catholicism was much more heterogeneous, more like the current structure of many of the larger protestant churches where local communities are centered around a single charismatic preacher or group of preachers, who are defined by their relationship to the larger heirarchy in terms of a descent of teachings rather than adherence to a dogma.
to bring it back around to easter, this structure parallels the structure of (some) pagan groups (in certain areas and times), as well as religions we wouldn't consider pagan before the advent of fast and easy transmission of ideas. And not for nothing, of political groups across the spectrum.
"Every week the daycare has children's council, "The children's parliament", 45-min meetings. The children get to voice their opinions about anything. They take meetings very seriously and don't talk over each other. Their latest decision is that they want spinach disco. We'll have to see what that could be"
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Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭
During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.
The term ketchup implies it lags behind. You should call it tomato flavoured dipping sauce so as not to make anyone feel bad. I'm not offended, but someone else might be so it's really important to not use language like that.
im gods weakest faggot
i’m gods strongest tranny let’s team up. what if we called ourselves team rocket
im gods most literate cat can i join
I’m a straight up mob boss with a lioness for a pet, you’re all hired.
my yellow rat and I find this really offensive and problematic
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Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines
So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.
Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion
Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.
The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.
They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.
The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.
The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.
The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.
Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.
Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.
The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.
Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.
As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.