I talk about things

Anti psych and anti establishment ♧ Youth liberation ♧ Anti capitalism and ACAB ♧ Sometimes vent ♧ He/They/It

[thesituation]

i’m tired of babying grown women who let beauty standards control their entire life. stand up, grow up & get over yourself. enough. you aren’t perpetual victims. exercise the autonomy you refuse to acknowledge you have. you can choose to stop this circus anytime. grown ass fucking women acting like helpless victims to the patriarchy and then in the next breath going “COME WITH ME TO MY BOTOX APPOINTMENT😃” you are traitors and we will never make it out of the patriarchy if personal responsibility can’t be taken

[thesituation]

like god fucking damn women for centuries fought to have financial and social independence, and we largely achieved that in most countries, just for modern women who have no idea what patriarchy used to do to us to turn around and go “i’m not the problem, blame men for saying i look prettier after a nose job” you have everything your foremothers hoped and dreamed for, all that autonomy won through blood and sweat, and you waste it offering your body up to the patriarchy because “social pressure” get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you have no choice. absolutely pathetic

[thesituation]

and whenever people criticize women who get cosmetic procedures done and who enslave themselves to beauty standards it’s always met with “it’s not their fault, it’s the patriarchy” and i find that to be such a circular, never ending blame game. yes fucking obviously it’s the true fault of the patriarchy but you can’t hold a system of social hierarchy accountable because the decisions individuals make constitute said system. and turning it into a chicken or the egg debate does nothing besides shift blame to something that cannot be reckoned with or addressed. stop blaming the patriarchy at large for the individual decisions of fully autonomous women

[markovchaingang]

americans are a saudi oil baron's idea of classy. brits are an american's idea of classy. the french are a brit's idea of classy. unfortunately the chain ends here since the french's idea of classy is also the french

[tyrannosaurus-sock]

[In 1840, people thought slavery was okay because Blacks aren’t people, right? In 1940, people thought genocide was okay because Jews aren’t people, right? Today, people think factory farming is okay because animals aren’t people, right? I’m just waiting for the day that we all take our heads out of the sand and say “what were we THINKING?”]

*viciously rubs temples*

[nebulasfury]

Tonight on white vegans are fucking racists

The comment was in context of the comment section re: livestock farming, humane if memory serves. Rabbits I think.

[bgm05]

ideas for discourse i came up with

having OCs is bourgeois

people who write erotica should be considered sex workers

only americans believe in aliens

it's misogynist to draw touhou characters with big boobs

the "godzilla" franchise is harmful because it teaches children that they should be afraid of lizards and other animals

feel free to argue about any of these, credit not needed but appreciated

[egregore-engine]

I’m going to be so honest. I think in the pursuit of an individualized sexual liberation, the Overton window for misogyny has shifted violently towards normalizing bonkers levels of misogyny. Some of you have got to start being feminist killjoys again. I can’t carry this teamfight myself no matter how good I am at fragging liberal false feminists.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[feotakahari]

But I’m not a toddler, and I would never want someone to tell me the “for toddlers” version of their beliefs. If I found out they weren’t telling me their actual beliefs, I’d get mad and stop trusting them. So I don’t want to treat other adults like they’re toddlers.

[self-winding]

Toddlers do generally understand "you could get sick." With very young children who can't understand the reasoning behind why something is forbidden or required, you might have to resort to "because I said so" on occasion, but obviously that doesn't work so well with adults.

Giving people the "for toddlers" version of an ethical position can be effective in the short term but will generally bite you on the ass once they do a bit more digging and realize that you gave them a distorted and simplistic version of the truth, at which point they will tell a bunch of other people, "Hey, X is giving everyone a distorted and simplistic version of the truth" and erode public trust in you.

[queer-folk-abroad]

One simply must not lie.

It’s a simple as that.

We live in the age of the internet, an age simultaneously of great distrust and easy access to all the collective knowledge of mankind. When you lie, it will be found out almost immediately -unless you possess the power to repress the truth of a large government, in which case it will take a lil longer- and the person who was not on your side will call you a liar and dismiss your argument.

“But Trump lies” yes, and when his lies are found out his followers don’t care, the same way when your lies are found out you and your radfem communist circle don’t care- people forgive their own lies or justify them; they don’t do that for the person screaming at them and calling for the destruction of their nation, race, or social class.

Obviously.

So!

Tell the fucking truth.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Cool beans, but the problem there is that the deeper expertise you gain on any given subject the less clear-cut "truth" becomes, until you know deep in your bones that a comprehensive, non-reductive, zero-incorrect-statements delivery of the Truth means spending five hours reciting a whole book at someone who's going to get lost ten minutes in.

That's when you have to realize that "true enough" is extremely valuable.

That's what the post is about.

[mychemical-boatdrinks]

Only tumblr could take the example "to get people to grasp quantum physics, we have to start simple" and end with "you want to treat me like a toddler which is the sqme as LYING"

Which is toddler logic

[genuinegameurge]

Or the specific example wasn’t great and people pointed it out and every time escalated the hyperbole a little bit and removed a little context which is — just discourse. X would have gotten here in 3 retweets.

[nebulasfury]

Hate when someone says something wrong but correcting them would make me look like a massive racist. "Black people genetically carry trauma therefore white people genetically carry cruelty" well I see what you mean. But that's not how epigenetics works. "White people are uniquely cruel" I also see what you mean. What about arab colonialism though

I obv shut my mouth but it kinda bothers me. My pedantry #mypedantry

[nebulasfury]

Sex work and surrogact are just not the same issue for me I'm sorry. They're just not comparable.

[ceruleanheaven]

if you are a man and you call women bitches you need to be shot :) yes even if its just a joke :) yes even if youre gay :)

[isabelleadjani]

can i say something?

this post has a message that is overall true and is something that a lot of autistic people (which i’m assuming is the target audience since op uses the term infodumping specifically) could benefit from learning; that conversation is a two-way street and letting other people get a word in, and showing interest in their perspectives is helpful for social interaction.

however, i can’t get over how incredibly condescending, judgmental, and ableist the phrasing is, and — espcially considering the wording does read as if it specifically is aimed at autistic people who quite literally cannot help how their social cognition naturally functions — how that is completely unhelpful to fucking everyone. calling a behaviour that is literally inherent to many autistic people’s autistic traits “verbal masturbation” is disgusting bully behaviour, actually. not to mention that it reinforces extremly outdated psychiatric understandings of what autism fundamentally is (i.e. a disorder of extreme solipsism).

i also think that they’re approaching this from an incredibly bad faith angle in general, because it actually isn’t true that people’s bad reactions to autistic socialization is always just because we’re such useless worthless egocentric disableds who don’t care about anyone else. it’s actually very, very often because people are ableist and it doesn’t matter how much we try our best to engage in “normal” conversation because we’re perceived as fucking freaks. hope that helps.

[airoehead]

[zk-j]

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

[yesornopolls]

Do you think c.ai addiction is a (seriously) real thing?

Do you think c.ai addiction is a (seriously) real thing?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 23

[creekfiend]

the speed with which the victims of state violence are labeled "unstable" by the state should make absolutely clear the necessary connection between police/prison abolition and mad rights/antipsychiatry.

there has never been a time in the history of psychiatry where "strenuously objecting to one's own mistreatment at the hands of authority figures" was not a diagnostic criteria for at least one disorder. read that again.

in a system where the "mental healthcare" frameworks are built on a preservation of the cultural status quo, advocating for oneself in the face of mistreatment becomes a symptom of illness.

[ot3]

in my beautiful dream of the future 'masculine' and 'feminine' will be entirely relegated to describing specific fashion aesthetics and if you try and use it to refer to anyone's actions or personality everyone will look at you like you're a crazy person.

[marypsue]

We genuinely as a society need to bring back awareness of 'Ms.' as a term of address because just this week I saw Ms. Piggy and an MS Paint tuna (it was a pun) both referred to as 'Miss'. 'Ms.' has kind of fallen off in recent years, I think partly because formality in speech has kind of fallen off in day-to-day life in general, and partly because of a whole bunch of things about the way feminism has developed since the 70s and how its priorities have shifted.

So! For those of you who haven't encountered this term of address before. Ms. is not short for 'Miss'. It's pronounced as Miz, and it was invented with the intention of giving women a respectful formal term (supposedly equivalent to Mr.) that says 'whether or not I'm married is none of your damn business'. And I think that's beautiful.