we playin mcr 2nite

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[omgniatheapricot]

you fucked with the wrong virgin

[cishits]

Repeat after me:

Transmisandry does not exist.

Trans men are not systematically oppressed for being trans men.

They are systematically oppressed for being trans.

That is literally transphobia.

[mustyoshi]

So that means that transwomen are not oppressed for being trans women, but just for being trans, right?

[cishits]

Trans women are oppressed for being women & for being trans.

Why would a conversation about how trans men aren’t oppressed for being men “mean” anything when it comes to trans women?

This is literally “soo if unicorns don’t exist then neither do horses!!! CHECKMATE SJW” logic.

[incense-witch-deactivated201812]

Transmisogyny is literally the cross section/overlap of transphobia and misogyny. Therefore, transmisandry is the cross section of transphobia and misandry. And we all know misandry doesn’t exist, soo….

[clickrtraind]

11 years ago

[quoms]

Nolan's Odyssey plays with PTSD as a theme, but it neither glorifies nor condemns war as such. It's textually a movie about how war and fighting and killing have Rules, and if you break the Rules enough then not only will you as an individual be divinely punished but all of civilization will collapse. This is the rare take so ultra-centrist that it will appear to many viewers as cryptic and esoteric

[quoms]

I actually don't resent Nolan for making movies with assertively centrist politics. That's his right as an artist, and anyone vehemently asserting anything is automatically kind of interesting to me. But of course there's a void at the heart of centrism - a fundamental absence of real belief - which is why people run into so much trouble when they try and pick apart the politics of a Nolan film. There's nothing underneath, nothing there to "get to."

I was thinking about Disco Elysium's Moralism while trying to explain this post to someone, and of course about "Kingdom of Conscience", and it occurred to me (and I know this isn't an original thought) that centrists have a very hostile relationship to desire. It's not just beliefs and convictions that must be "put away immediately, and the child reprimanded," it's the wordless desires that lie under those beliefs and convictions. Desire is by definition unfulfilled: all desire is the desire for things to be different, which is the opposite of what centrists want.

What I'm saying here is that the lack of sex, and of sexiness, in Nolan movies (and Marvel movies and other contemporary blockbusters) has a direct connection to their political messaging. It's not solely American puritanism or risk-averse PG-13 corporate conservatism - although it is those - it's also this desire thing. These movies don't just lack sex, they lack eroticism in the broadest sense of the term. They lack frisson. Even when there is sex or nudity, there's still no eroticism!

These blockbuster protagonists generally don't want things, they don't need things, they don't crave things, they're obligated to things. That makes them less than human, not more than human (just compare and contrast with the gods in Greek mythology), and it makes the movies quite boring in my opinion!

[elasticheartsblog]

by shintaro kago

[carnadelions]

twitter: am i too woke for thinking fat people shouldn't be stoned to death

tumblr: you're calling me racist? how do you think that makes my non-white oc feel?

instagram: if he doesn't look at you the way your boy cat looks at you he's not 🤚 the one 💍

[hotvampireadjacent]

[mevil]

[fairycosmos]

local woman doesnt choose career family or even freedom

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[redstonedust]

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[brightlotusmoon]

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[rosslynpaladin]

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

[rainydaymay]

Being high has me saying things like “I like friends” as if it’s some profound relization

[creepymutelilbugger]

a puff of truthweed will have your breath carry only the undeniable

[gumi-megpoidd]

brat x brat yuri where theyre both just annoying and nothing actually happens

[gumi-megpoidd]

this is really funny

[lesbomancers]

whoever those two are they should kiss

[stardial]

that’s weird. why would you say that. i don’t know you

[dogpuppy]