Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
pixel skylines
Product Placement
ojovivo
occasionally subtle
cherry valley forever
JVL
No title available
Show & Tell
One Nice Bug Per Day
Peter Solarz
h
@theartofmadeline
Cosimo Galluzzi
Keni
AnasAbdin
Origami Around
Three Goblin Art
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
d e v o n
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Bulgaria
seen from Türkiye
seen from Maldives
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
@kalimbist
People's insecure need to be a "good person" actually keeps them from being one a lot more often than not. Stop obsessing over being "good" and make sure that your choices and actions are in line with being a good person. If you're not there yet, do better instead of expecting others to make you feel good about yourself. Ultimately, you're the only one you have to be on good terms with. Figure it out.
the grocery store should be open 24/7 but they should let the employees go home and just trust us
i fucking love megan thee stallion she's so iconic and amazing omg
Never once missed a look
Like how can someone be so perfect. Black, bisexual, degreed, sexy af, loves anime, super sweet, good rapper, a girl's girl... Her bag is Thee Bag.
And when you think of what she's gone through... Losing both her parents and her grandmother so she has little close family, shot in a domestic dispute and not believed by the masses despite going through a harrowing trial that WASN'T EVEN HERS, constantly sexually harassed and mocked by endless scores of jealous stinky men on the internet with AI and meme sexual photos, let down by half of the pick me women in the rap game friend and foe alike, every man she's dated has turned out to be some sort of loser, hater, or cheater because they're so insecure around her blessings...
And she STILL SHOWS UP! Runs a mental health program because she's admitted to depression and suicidal ideation from her own traumas. Has really succeeded at every business venture. Coined "Hot Girl Summer" and now every dork on the planet has done a variation on it, not that they credited her. I wouldn't blame Meg in the slightest if she said fuck all y'all I'm moving to Japan to retire.
Like... I can't imagine NOT loving Black women and not respecting Megan. She is That Girl. I will root for her forever.
At this point there could be a video of Doechii and Chappell Roan hitting a man with their car holding hands Thelma & Louise style and I'd still be like "well let's hear them out"
real talk tho ive seen ppl talk abt how long hair on men isn't intrinsically feminine & assuming so is racist can we get the same convo going for Black women w short hair can we start talking abt how short hair isn't intrinsically masculine or is that a step too far
the thing about het romances is most of them are sexist so even tho i’m meant to root for them ill spend half of it thinking he shouldn’t talk to her like that
To put it very bluntly.
You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.
I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment
Nestle has:
Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.
Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.
Used slavery to produce their cocoa.
Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.
Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.
Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.
Price-fixed food items.
Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.
The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.
Nestlé is LITERALLY the largest food company in the world and have one of the worst track records. Pls avoid their products if you can
Flint, Michigan
They looooove draining springs and then hopping onto the next one.
They are diabolical.
i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
I haaaaaaaaaaate the "affirmation only" framing of trans rights that some ostensibly pro-trans advocates take like there are actually more pertinent issues than feeling affirmed going on here.
I didn't go through the bureaucratic process of changing my Norwegian personal ID number, which encodes gender in it, because having an odd number there made me feel bad.
I did it because for someone with my name and outward appearance, having "man" on my IDs reveals private medical information to everyone who sees the document, information that they aren't entitled to know, which they might act on in deeply undesirable ways.
Taking HRT also isn't something I'm doing to be affirmed, it's something I'm doing because the biological processes signaled by having high levels of estrogen and low levels of testosterone are both something I want, and something that helps my overall well-being and functioning in daily life. Material, real, physiological effects that are well understood, easy to look up, and not about some vague sense that putting estrogen in my bloodstream is a badge of validity handed out by the doctor.
Like at some point I just want to ask these people if they actually believe trans people exist or if they just feel obligated to humor the idea to be nice. Have they actually understood that there are people walking around today with the full effects of transition care already sorted? Have they comprehended that the surgeries exist beyond the occasional picture of someone who's still in recovery?
Do you live in the same material reality as trans people, or are you just being polite to shadows on the wall?
Oh and this is also part of the broader centrist "every material claim the far right makes is true, I just disagree with their tone and think we should be nice" tendency. Like what I'm outlining here is a worldview where the anti-trans notion that trans people Do Not Exist is taken for granted.
anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.
It makes me happy when they listen
YES. YES YES YES THANK YOU
‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ trust me, if white people know you aren't safe to be racist around, we'll notice! Your ACTIONS will speak for you!
omfg
This is another reason why I don’t fuck with ebooks. How are they going to edit the paper book in my house? Break in and red pen it?
I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀
say what you will about the 90s but there were so so many women on TV with beautiful curly hair. we used to be a proper society
90s curls really were so special and breathtaking
Anti-homeless architecture makes cities hostile to everyone, but we understand that the driving force behind this phenomenon is specifically anti-homelessness.
The curb-cut effect makes streets better and more accessible for everyone, but this is still the result of combating a specific type of ableism in city planning.
This is easily understood by many, that even though a social force may affect many people broadly, it does have a specific target.
So why does this become so difficult to understand when we're talking about transmisogyny?
Transmisogyny can be weaponized against anyone, but as a social force it specifically targets transfeminine people, and thus non-transfems can leverage their position to mitigate the effects of transmisogyny, or indeed, exempt themselves from it.
This is why we have the terms TMA and TME, so that we're able to discuss this phenomenon.
If there's one salient criticism against this terminology, it's that the specific words used can trip up people unfamiliar with the terms; "affected" is pretty broad, and "exempt" is rather particular. This can be remedied by simply providing the definitions for the terms, however.
Maybe terms like "transmisogyny targeted" and "transmisogyny exemptable" would communicate the terms' meanings more immediately, but this would amount to little more than language policing that detracts from the actual discussion of transmisogyny and how it functions in society.
