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and what's even crazier is that this is the exact same reason why feminism is "problematic" too. it changed our lives so drastically that we genuinely started thinking men aren't that bad at all, and now are ready to dismantle all the protections because we no longer remember what men were like back when they had unrestricted access to us.
Congratulations taylor swift for your album throughout which you repeatedly refer to women as bitches and talk about how much better your life is now that you’ve accepted that you’re a cancelled girlbillionaire dating a football player. great work
um. okay i guess i'll see you all in the next time loop
"men aren't inherently evil patriarchy makes them that way" and the patriarchy was created by whom and for what purpose again exactly?
“capitalists aren’t inherently evil capitalism makes them that way” and capitalism was created by whom and for what purpose again exactly?
male dominance is not believed to have always existed in society; neither is the separation of people into classes with overwhelming ownership over society’s wealth/means of creating wealth (this pre-dates the creation of the capitalist and capitalism, of course, there have been many owning classes), and those who by and large do not (at the least, not significantly enough to change their class position in that society). the creation of an early form of socioeconomic class became possible after certain societies went from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists, a change made possible by advent of the holocene and necessary in some parts of the world due to the depletion of natural resources to sustain the community.
in a similar way, the advent of male dominance is believed to have largely come into existence as a defining feature of human societies during this transition to sedentary, or semi-sedentary, agriculture. there are various theories; I find Gerda Lerner’s to be most persuasive, in that once humans began experimenting not with matrilocality (men move into their female partner’s village and home), but patrilocality (wife moves into husband’s village and home), — a choice that was, again, simply one of the numerous available options human societies could choose at the time, and not a deliberate ploy on the part of men to ensure domination or women to ensure they were dominated (why would women ever have allowed this to happen if that were the case, if they could see male societal dominance coming?) — a choice which came with the unintended consequence that now, should a man ever try and exercise his greater physical strength over a woman to get her to do what he pleases, there would be no other relatives of the woman in that community to take her part or defend her. this began a precedent. men began to learn that now conditions made it possible to use their physical dominance to control their social group, and significantly, the women within it. this also made it possible for men to have some control over their group’s numbers and reproduction in competition with other nearby groups, something made possible by this new ability to control the movements and actions of women without consequence.
there are more theories than just this, but they mostly agree on the moment in which gender — meaning here, sociohistorically constructed sex roles and prescriptions — became possible. certainly hunter-gatherers are believed to have had some form of the sexual division of labour necessitated by the harshness of their environment and reproductive necessities (most babies, unsurprisingly, died at this time in history), but they are not believed to have had, by and large, sex roles that were hierarchical, or sex hierarchy, of which patriarchy is one form. this isn’t to say no man ever mistreated a woman in nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, but the social and material conditions of these groups didn’t allow such individual misbehaviour/aberrations from the norm to become an organisational principle of their society.
similarly, nomadic groups did sometimes have individuals who were greedy or didn’t pull their weight, especially in times of food shortage or hardship, but conditions didn’t yet exist for this behaviour to not be managed and potentially punished by the rest of the group, as it was seen as a direct threat in some cases to group wellbeing and survival. in some cases, as individuals didn’t own significant property individually, as this belonged to the collective, everyone else could just kick you out. this isn’t as possible later on when those who are greedy actually own a larger part of the food supply as they farmed it, etc. then those individuals had much more decisive control over the group.
directed at nobody in particular but if you are a grown man you should not be wearing a long sleeve button down + tie with shorts. perhaps acceptable if you are a european schoolboy on a warm spring day but NOT if you are a beastly bearded man at a semi-formal dinner with your girlfriend who is way out of your league. again, aimed at nobody in particular.
how is this allowed? menswear guy please kill this clown
"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High
No intervention makes sense when it's predator and prey, or two animals competing, etc.. But caring for an animal you found injured, or rescuing a drowning animal, or in this case digging animals out of snow, I just don't see the problem. Not only is it part of nature because we are part of nature, but other animals do it too. Caring and helping other species is not a human invention.
There are no gods or a plot to life, but if there is an existential reason to humanity, it must be because we have the potential of being shepherds. Not gods, not almighty, not the wisest of anything. But shepherds. We can help plants, bugs and animals. We can help our own, those that are disabled, sick, starving, old or very young. We can medicate, we can surgically operate, we can provide therapy, we can build mobility devices, we can provide food and shelter, we can start complex rescue operations, we can offer a smile and an encouraging touch. And we can stand up to anything that tries to stop us from doing all this.
the way people talk about oasis you’d think they were good
that post that's going around about wikipedia being banned in the UK is driving me insane because of this one stupid line
the fuck do they have to do with this lmfao. like:
GIRLS IN MY PHONE. WE CAN DO IT
what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.
and it is imperative that it ends with killing the better version of yourself with your bare hands btw.
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genuinely do NOT want the world to see me because i don’t think that they’d understand
yesterday at work we were all talking and i mentioned south america and one of the teenaged girls i work with went “what’s south america” and i was so taken aback that her twin sister answered before me and said “it’s like mexico and shit” which gave me even more whiplash. and i went “mexico is in north america. have you ever heard of brazil” and the first one went “i dont knowwww…..😣” like i know not everyone has a knack for geography like i do but that was fucking scary. they’re both recent high school graduates. today i went to dunkin and the girl making the coffee was chatting with a regular who said he wants to pet lions and tigers someday. i said “well they still eat people” and the worker handed me my coffee and said “yeah, like they’re still venomous animals” and i think ive just started to accept that the average person knows fuck all about the world as long as they think it won’t affect them. i’m not even particularly smart. i just know a thing or two. yet people irl say im the smartest person they know. towards the end of rome’s industrialization period they were smelting a lot of lead, which produced toxic fumes that are believed to have lowered the cognitive capacity of almost every single person in the region by a noticeable amount. i have to wonder if covid and lead (in vapes and the air) and other man made chemical contaminants today are doing the same thing. i wonder if thats part of why fascism is becoming so popular in the west
I hate when people shorten vacation to vaca. you gotta spell it “vacay” otherwise I’m just picturing a cow
Finished 'femininity and domination' and i'm just gobsmacked. in a world full of propaganda about "reclaiming femininity", it feels like resistance to remember that femininity is not a harmless collection of traits and aesthetics but a politicized value system that demands the subordination of women. femininity not only demands women be subordinate but teaches them how to be subordinate and take pleasure in their subordination. and it makes power, real power, seem dull and abstract. it's an excellent mechanism for producing docile persons
this was something i intuitively understood at a young age and which was slowly eroded after a decade of "feminist" attempts to reclaim the value system that demands our subordination. gender was and still is about power
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression by Sandra Lee Bartky
