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Not today Justin
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@plainey-janey
It literally isn’t harder for men to “express their emotions” and you’re never gonna convince me it is
Men will brag about how they don't have actual conversations with their male friends and then complain that they don't get enough opportunities to talk about their feelings because women aren't supportive enough
is that an insightful statement or did you just stick the word “white” in front of some virulently misogynistic garbage
KYLE: women are cunts lol
KYLE: i mean, uh…. WHITE women are cunts lol
Y’ALL:
Dana Goldstein on twitter highlighting just a few NYT articles about resource hoarding as it relates to education.
This article from ProPublica is also good: Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
Also, Nikole Hannah-Jones’ two part This American Life episode is essential.
The argument, however niche (it’s very niche) appearing for the first time in human history that people can and should be attracted to one another regardless of biological sex is a direct result of kids forming friendships, relationships, and entire communities and social circles with people they’ve never met online, resulting in a whole group of kids who think of people as disembodied concepts and selfies and personal posts. In this essay, I will-
OP please keep writing
Okay, uhh…uhh…hmmm, outline, outline, outline…
The rise of internet activism/”slacktivism”
The demographic of tumblr being largely the socially outcast and/or maladjusted and younger people/teenagers
the effect this has on their irl sexual activity or lack thereof, and confusing, fluid sexual desires
The normalization via various hook-up, dating, camming, etc. sites of becoming attracted to people via the internet
INHERENT DIFFERENCES IN FINDING SOMEONE ATTRACTIVE ONLINE AND ACTUALLY MEETING THEM
Sex in theory vs. sexual reality
How many young people don’t understand that how someone presents online is often not an accurate portrayal, physically or emotionally, of who they are
“Trans women are women/Trans men are men”: a brief history of how attempts to ease dysphoria have turned over time into making it deliberately difficult to separate trans people from the gender they identify as
The unfortunate implications this has on consent
Tying it all together: Confused young people, who are often isolated from their peers and trying on genders and sexualities like new styles as they grapple with their identity and puberty, are finding themselves attracted to carefully created and maintained online personas. These kids then, with the best of intentions, read about the struggle for trans acceptance and, failing to understand the multi-faceted nuances of real physical sex with someone, create rhetoric based around the validation of someone’s gender identity through sexual contact without understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting
Genuine question. What's so bad about transhumanism? I think immortality would be pretty cool for those who want an extended life span
I think if immortality becomes within human reach, it will suddenly be starkly apparent who is and isn’t considered human. People on tumblr were celebrating David Koch’s death recently—rooting for transhumanism means rooting for a world in which David Koch lives forever, while a poor Mexican immigrant woman doesn’t. It is naive to think that the millions of people around the world who are barred access to proper medical care today will get a fair share of the spoils of transhumanism tomorrow, and it seems more realistic that a transhumanist society will mainly give us immortal Trump, and immortal dictators, oil barons, rich war criminals, and immortal Silicon Valley white males, and immortal first world elites.
You might say “But all advances in medicine are more readily accessible to first world elites and are out of reach for millions of people, so does that make medical research bad too?” but the ‘advances’ favoured by transhumanists are on a whole other level of hubris that would have different implications and consequences. (I mean, eugenics was the subtext of every transhumanist manifesto I’ve come across.) I am reminded of this quote from Sapiens that starts with: “Suppose science comes up with cures for all diseases, effective anti-ageing therapies and regenerative treatments that keep people indefinitely young. In all likelihood, the immediate result will be an unprecedented epidemic of anger and anxiety.”
I wrote a post about this last year in which I mentioned that transhumanist rhetoric also pushes us further along the Cartesian dualism slippery slope. Promises to improve our subpar bodies or plug our consciousness onto better receptacles means you don’t think of your body as your self; it feeds into the same “I am not my body, I own my body” mindset that enables the ever-increasing capitalist commodification of human bodies (as a sum of parts up for sale) that harms women disproportionately (as women have historically been the Body so that men could arrogate the right to be the Mind). Disregarding the body and reducing your personhood to nothing but your mind or intellect is the first step to denying some people personhood because they do not have the right kind of intellect, or not enough of it. This glorification of the human mind and contempt for the human body in its current, un-enhanced state, also translates into contempt for people whose bodies are seen as even more intolerably deficient—hence all the distasteful rhetoric about how transhumanism will finally rid us of disability / the disabled.
This contempt for the human body is also linked to a very male contempt for boundaries, to men’s obsession with unchecked growth and their disdain for the inescapable limitations of the natural world, which is destroying our planet. Buying into the Cartesian idea that you are a mind “driving” a body (rather than being a body, with your mind as a physical body part among others) leads to perceiving the body as a boundary standing between your consciousness /your self, and the outside world. A very frustrating boundary at that, limited in many ways, prone to illness and ageing. I remember reading a quote by a prominent transhumanist (CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation) that went “We seek to void all limits tolife, intelligence, freedom, knowledge, and happiness.” Imagine how much better we would all feel about ourselves if, rather than perceiving our body as limiting our lifespan and freedom and capacity for happiness, we acknowledged it for what it is—our only source of happiness and freedom to explore the world, our incredibly complex and beautiful way of experiencing the universe, of creating sensations of pleasure and wonder, of remembering them and anticipating more. If we thought of our body not as an unsatisfactory flesh prison for our consciousness in need of video game-like enhancements but as a mind-boggingly refined organism, a delicately balanced whole that is more than the sum of its parts, we wouldn’t be so eager to risk destroying this balance by attempting to “void all limits” that make it viable.
The word that comes to my mind to describe transhumanism is ungrateful, both towards nature and towards women. The latter is a no-brainer; women created every human body that ever walked on this Earth and the (overwhelmingly male) transhumanist pioneers, who scorn human bodies in their current state and seek to improve them, really scorn women’s work as inadequate and reveal the same obvious womb envy that led to male-created religions in which male gods are the creators of all life. And this lack of gratitude, respect, and, I want to say, loyalty towards the human body—seeing it as disposable once we find a better, more durable way to store our consciousness—very much mirrors a lack of gratitude, respect and loyalty towards nature in general (which our bodies are a part of), seeing natural resources as disposable, deciding against all evidence to the contrary that the natural world needs to be tinkered with and improved by humans rather than cared for and valued as it is—what Paul Kingsnorth calls “human imperialism” seems to be at the core of the transhumanist mindset.
rip to my old self but im different
remember when people listed privileges in their bio and “conventionally attractive” was sometimes in the privilege list? that was such a flex
Rock stations be like “We only do three things here, drink beer, watch sports, and play the hardest rock in the whole world, and if you don’t like it you can pull that tampon out of your vagina you girl” [plays Thunder by Imagine Dragons]
Alt stations be like “Tired of that tired pop station, welcome to your new alternative, where we only play the most left of the dial underground artists we can find” [plays Thunder by Imagine Dragons]
Throwback stations be like “We’re here to bring you all your favorite classics of decades past, doesn’t matter when, 70s, 80s, 90s, whatever takes you back to the days of old” [plays Thunder by Imagine Dragons]
I absolutely refuse to believe this many people on tumblr were "the smart kid" in school
i’m body positive. i just got the results and it confirms i have a body
it’s kind of a disappointment to be honest, i was really hoping to be a ghost
the only true chad to ever exist is the guy from type o negative
dude was 6'8" and looked as if tommy wiseau finally got his wish of becoming a vampire, except he became a vampire that only feeds on the blood of bodybuilders
hey did bella and edward ever sit down and talk about what it felt like for him to die of spanish influenza or was that like a trigger for him and off limits
edward: *sees flu shot poster at the hospital* *immediately breaks down sobbing*
Edward Cullen actually fought every anti-vaxxer in the entire state of Washington we just didn’t get to read about it because it wasn’t relevant to Bella’s story
android users think they’re like communists or something
ben shapiro seriously saying “you’re stupid and poor. but i can wear lifts” to a bot made to call him short is so fucking funny
tumblr, where I have to explain why child labor is wrong to 27 year old libertarians
Some kids literally have no choice but to work because their family is desperately poor. Are you going to prevent a family from having that extra income because it gives you moral fuzzys?
tumblr, where I have to explain why child labor is wrong to 27 year old libertarians