Free The Fedora

Basically just transfeminism and Mad Max. I don't know why.

[lesbianskank]

You know what? I’ll say it. I’ve missed tumblr

[lesbianskank]

anyway if any of you asexual skanks wanna get in touch I will prob be cool w that

[lesbianskank]

You know what? I’ll say it. I’ve missed tumblr

[lesbianskank]

What if I started using tumble again

This app autocorrects its own name to ‘tumble’ god I missed this place

[butchfeelings]

Being stone

[stonefemblues]

x

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

This is good to remember. We’ve always been here. The gatekeepers just went after us the most viciously. 

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Trans woman culture is having no clue what the fuck age people are anymore and having to ask because HRT is magic and no one looks their age, to the point you feel the same confusion even when dealing with cis people.  

[girlactionfigure]

For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple. Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either. Perhaps the presence of our armed guard deterred them. Perhaps their presence was just a coincidence, and I’m paranoid. I don’t know.

Several times, parades of Nazis passed our building, shouting, “There’s the synagogue!” followed by chants of “Seig Heil” and other anti-Semitic language. Some carried flags with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.

Soon, we learned that Nazi websites had posted a call to burn our synagogue. I sat with one of our rabbis and wondered whether we should go back to the temple to protect the building. What could I do if I were there? Fortunately, it was just talk – but we had already deemed such an attack within the realm of possibilities, taking the precautionary step of removing our Torahs, including a Holocaust scroll, from the premises.

Again: This is in America in 2017.

Source

[brucebocchi]

tell me they weren’t violent. tell me this wasn’t a threat.

[turians]

honestly the illusive man’s biggest mistake was thinking he could manipulate a woman who will stubbornly drive up a 90 degree cliff out of sheer spite

[lesbianskank]

I definitely know some of the people involved in making these

[afloweroutofstone]

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of “this is satire, duh”, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they aren’t tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, they’re laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, they’re laughing at sexual harassment, they’re laughing at child abuse, they’re laughing at anti-semitism, they’re laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.

And the “satire” is so often pathetically weak. There isn’t a single nativist in this entire country who can’t laugh at a “der takin er jerbs” joke, because those jokes don’t actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. It’s just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for “satire” has been set? There’s occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.

But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, they’ll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. That’s why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.

[pervocracy]

I worked with a guy who would yell “derka derka jihad!” out of his truck at Middle Eastern people.  Or refer to them as “derka-derkas.”

“Derka derka jihad” is a joke from Stone & Parker’s Team America: World Police, and it’s (in a generous interpretation) a satire on “this is what narrow-minded Americans think Arabic sounds like, silly Americans!”

But about 95% of the audience thought the joke was “Arabic sounds ridiculous, it’s not even a real language!”  The movie does extremely little to discourage this.  [click here if you are prepared to experience a full-body cringe]  The level of satire is somewhere between “extremely subtle” and “alibi.”

I know satire is subjective and the public is hard to predict and all that, but I think an easy way to tell that the thing you’re participating in isn’t satire is when you’re inventing new racial slurs and they’re catching on.

[chickadee-sun]

South Park is the opposite of satire.

Here’s how South Park fans think Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal happened. Swift wondered, “what’s the most offensive, politically incorrect thing I could write about? I know! Eating babies!” He wrote an essay saying everyone should eat babies. People were very offended by this essay, which makes it funny. People thought Swift was serious but he wasn’t, kek, he was just being satirical! He fooled them!

Here’s how Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal actually happened. Swift lived in Ireland, a colonial property of England. He was enraged by the ways the English government, Irish puppet government, and Irish wealthy oppressed the poor of Ireland, causing poverty and famine. He wrote a bitterly sarcastic screed carrying their callous dehumanization to its logical extreme–with your cruelty, you might as well just eat their babies! Swift sarcastically included a long paragraph of his actual policy proposals in the essay: “Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients,” strengthening his accusation that to pretend it was impossible to help the poor was viciousness at the level of baby-eating.

The cruel English politicians Swift was satirizing didn’t misread the satire as agreeing with them, because he didn’t just say the same things as them in a snotty voice, because that’s not what satire means. Nobody said, “Yeah, Swift, that’s a great idea, let’s go eat us some babies!” The targets of satire aren’t supposed to agree with it.

The late great Terry Pratchet was a master satirist. His works are fucking hillarious. His friend and co-writer Neil Gaiman explains what made him such a great satirist: “There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld.” And “anger is the engine that drives him.” Anger at what? “ Against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness.” That is satire: a white-hot righteous fury at injustice, channeled into humor. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

Nihilistic apathy and opposition to any and all political opinions and “waaahhh, those buzzkills are telling me not to call people retarded, but that’s hard and I like calling people retarded” is not a basis for satire. If you were to take every distinguishing characteristic true satire has and do exactly the opposite, you’d wind up with something like the genre South Park popularized.

[academicfeminist]

“THE TARGETS OF SATIRE AREN’T SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH IT.”

[wlweddings]

Makeisha & Bridgette, seen on Black Lesbian Love Lab

[daeint]

how do girls in girl groups not fall in love with their group members 

[wwhat-evenn-deactivated20171123]

apparently its called “being straight” idk i dont really understand that way of life

[marnanel]

The story of #HeterosexualPrideDay

Once, in New York, there was a straight bar…

Every night, the GAY POLICE would raid the bar.

The police assaulted and arrested the straights, just for their sexuality. But what could they do?

Suddenly, the straightest of them all said: “Please stop being so mean.”

And the GAY POLICE said: “Oh, okay then.”

So now, straight people are no longer discriminated against, and straight marriage is now legal in all fifty states.

The end.

[darknightstodaylight]

“her wife” are the best two words you can string together in English and that’s a fact

[propazganda]

vivian james is a trans lesbian babe and shes in love with a hairy man hating sjw feminist pass it on !

[gothicprep]

one of my coworkers has a matching tat w her fiance. hers says “beauty” in cursive and his says “beast” in like an edgy Masculine font & that’s what straight culture is

[gothicprep]

it’s with a heavy heart that i must announce…. they broke up and now they have this goofy shit on their bodies forever

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

i never realised that The Babadook was accidentally put in the LGBT+ movies section of Netflix i thought we all just collectively decided the babadook was gay for no reason at all