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[drtief]

In response to a popular comic that's been floating around.

Headcanons are not activism. Ships are not activism. Fandom engagement at large is not activism. Punching down on someone for relating to a character in their own way, especially by claiming the way they are relating to the character is inherently not progressive, is reductive and damaging. Believing those who disagree with you are bigots and what they bring to the conversation is wrong or irrelevant is reductive and damaging. Telling any group that their headcanons 'overpower' fandom and are 'an epidemic' is reductive and damaging.

You are ostensibly telling someone they're playing with their dolls wrong. We are well past the age to be fighting over who gets the swings at the playground or whether you should go through the monkey bars forwards or backwards. Turning exceedingly minor fandom disagreements into a moral crusade, using the opportunity to feed into existing discourse about vulnerable groups, and refusing to listen to the voices of the group you are harming by mislabeling them all under a pejorative reactionary term to de-legitimize them makes you a bad person. Be better.

peace and love on planet earth or whatever

[kosher-salt]

Queerness isn't inherently political, actually, it's politicized. I think that distinction carries weight because we often paint ourselves as a sign of a progressive society. But we predate progression and regression. We have always existed. The presence of queerness is primeval, part of the natural state of a species, even removed from our current position standing on the shoulders of giants. We just *are.* Which makes any action against queerness, any cultural upheaval against our expression, that more clearly absurd.

[lagtrainzzz]

i think transfems should be allowed to be good at sports.

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

it's not enough to support transfems in sports if your support hinges on us being bad at them.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The mythical disabled person who is so disabled that everyone consistently supports and accommodates them without question is a straw man which only exists as a hypothetical for the political purpose of denying real disabled people care while still being able to argue that said care would be accessible to disabled people who "actually deserves it"

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It can be easy to confuse the two, but you don't actually "wish you were more disabled", you wish your disability was taken seriously and was properly accommodated and that you had access to the support and resources you need - and that desire is so valid. You deserve more. But the sad truth is that no level of disability actually guarantees a sufficient level of support. So you have to work to separate your very understandable desire for more support from the incorrect assumption that other disabled people are consistently receiving what you aren't. All of us are getting fucked over in this society, and no group of disabled people actually has it easy.

[talkethto-thehandeth]

It’s so annoying to see “some of us have no choice but to work!”

You. Physically. Can. Work.

What is so hard to understand about that?

[crippled-peeper]

this might sound mean but if you’re constantly peddling skincare advice to people and they get frustrated or blunt with you because you will not stop, that is not misogyny, that is you lacking boundaries and being disrespectful toward others

[crippled-peeper]

implying someone’s skin needs expensive cream or medical attention because you don’t like looking at normal human skin with wrinkles and pores and scars is not a gendered problem. It’s a you not shutting the fuck up problem

[manuciruja]

I think it's insane that even in the most leftist and "progressive" spaces the idea of equating morality with looks is alive and present and no one fucking bats an eye at it. like racists and mysoginysts are always portrayed as fat and hairy and generally unkept, as a contrast to the morally good and attractive leftists of course; people will have no problem being genuinely fucking awful about someone's appearance if they're deemed to be a "bad person". and the worst part is you point all of this out and people act like you're reading too much into things like no dude you gotta start using your brain more

[redhairandpronouns]

yall are so fucking weird about gnc people. a woman wears a suit and she's "conforming to the patriarchy". a man wears a skirt and he's Secretly A Trans Egg. have you considered It's Fabric

[genderkoolaid]

are you a gender abolitionist or a gender anarchist?

I prefer the term gender liberationist, but I think that mostly lines up with what is meant by gender anarchist. My ultimate goal isn't for gender to be abolished, but for it (and social constructs more broadly) to be liberated, meaning that they are no longer tools of power and oppression, but are properly understood as constructed/historical and fluid, and purposefully (re)constructed and creatively engaged with by free people in a free society.

[genderkoolaid]

Not necessarily. Horoscopes are a form of divination, and I don't think gender liberation means treating gender as a way of predicting divine will.

What gender would look like would ultimately be up to communities themselves. The idea is that gender is acknowledged as constructed, while also acknowledging that the construction of cultural identities is a natural thing humans do, and that people have a right to want to be a part of their culture/s and to engage in social construction.

Gender could still have meaning. I think its a mistake that we think acknowledging something was made up by humans means there is no or less value in it; humans are a part of the world, culture is a natural thing for our species to create as a way of maintaining social bonds and navigating life, our social constructs are no less meaningful or valuable than a dam made by a beaver. It's just a thing we do. Like many things humans do, gender has become a powerful tool for oppressive systems to control people and exploit them for power. But I don't think our options are "gender has meaning to people, and is a source of harm" or "gender is meaningless and thus cannot harm anyone."

It's very similar to my feelings on religion/spirituality & also pretty inseparable from my value of democratic synjectivity.

[sluglover666]

Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.

Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.

[darkladynyara]

[emfrots]

"convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions. you will continue to be a potential breeding ground for fascist thought until you stop dehumanizing people in any context, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, or how serious you are. there can be no acceptable targets.

[standwithdaanes]

Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia

The Rwandan Genocide: From Colonial Roots to a Contested Future - Explaining History Podcast

In the spring of 1994, the small African nation of Rwanda was engulfed in a maelstrom of violence that saw at least 800,000 Tutsi and modera

I always think of the Rwandan Genocide when it comes to this. Thank you for bringing it up.

In particular, from that second link:

As we have already seen in this series of articles, Rwanda’s ethnic division between Hutu (around 85 %) and Tutsi (around 14 %) had deep roots in colonial rule. Under Belgian administration, identity cards fixed ethnicity as a rigid category, and the Tutsi minority was favoured for education and government work. After independence in 1962, this hierarchy inverted, and Hutu elites consolidated control. [...] When RTLM launched in July 1993, it combined pop-culture style with extremist ideology. This hybrid made hatred sound normal, even entertaining. Music, jokes, gossip, and death threats co-existed in the same broadcast. [...] RTLM’s language fused entertainment with ideology. It mocked Tutsis as arrogant “cockroaches” (inyenzi), accused them of conspiring to enslave Hutus, and encouraged listeners to “work” to eliminate them—a euphemism for killing. Humour, music, and familiarity disguised the lethal message.

[alienjoyer]

when people say sea creatures are aliens that pisses me right off. no man that’s your cousin. usually not even that far back. that thing’s still an animal. it’s not even like, a plant or a fungus or anything 90% of the time. and never a 🦠. thats cousin octopus. auntie fish. uncle sea cucumber. you know them.

[existennialmemes]

I don't think it's unreasonable for our public officials to be expected to prove they're alive and not in a coma to be able to retain their office.

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

And there should be, you know, consequences for the people who would do such a thing.

[transmeds-confuse-me]

friendly reminder if someone tells you they're non-binary, that means they're non-binary

NOTHING ELSE

It doesn't matter if they use pronouns outside of they/them, they're still non-binary

It doesn't matter if they're on HRT, they're still non-binary

It doesn't matter if they have prominent secondary sex characteristics, they're still non-binary

Stop fucking telling non-binary people how they should be called, act, express themselves, identify, look, etc.

[robertreich]

Trump's corruption is making us all less safe.

[busket]

obviously I think merch artists always need to source their manufacturers in a way that prioritizes local businesses, environmental sustainability and fair labor, that goes without saying. but i think its unfair that people hold poor 20-something self employed artists making anime keychains to afford rent to a higher standard than mega corporations. people will be like "I cant go into artist alleys at cons without being appalled by the plastic and thinking of the supply chain" then go into target and be like "ooh another cool cup for me to put on my shelf and never use"

[catboybiologist]

Cis ppl will be like "transitioning is far less effective than my solution of dismantling gender norms" and then not dismantle gender norms