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I've been thinking about one of my favorite SCP entries recently, SCP-2112, which is an anomalous set of copies of the Rush album Caress Of Steel which, if you hear a track off of one of the anomalous copies -- or even a broadcast or recording from one of them -- you get the uncontrollable impulse to form a Rush cover band. Further, if anyone hears anything playing by one of these cover bands, they get infected too.

Its containment procedures treat it like a world-imperling threat, and they explain why thusly:

What it does present, however, is a severe existential threat to the entirety of human culture, the arts, and all forms of creative work whatsoever. Man is a wonderfully creative animal and has developed a myriad of ways of expressing his thoughts and emotions - through poetry, dance, film, the written word, theatre, painting, sculpture, video games, even internet memes. We run the risk of every one of these mediums - every single last one of them - disappearing from our common experience, forever, in favor of thousands and millions of mediocre everymen performing the exact same songs over and over again.

#scp foundation #scp 2112 #Rush

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lavenderslut

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thatdiabolicalfeminist

those positivity posts for men that like, reassure them they’re still Manly™ if they have certain qualities/do certain things traditionally seen as Womanly™ really skate over the surface of some complex gender role shit without ever really challenging it.

i’m not talking about gender affirming posts for trans guys designed to offset actual dysphoria. i’m talking about the more general ones like “you’re still Manly if you have depression” or “taking care of your health/asking for consent/cooking/etc is actually Super Masculine because xyz”

it’s the same phenomenon as people reassuring straight men that Physical Affection Isn’t Gay, like yes you’ve identified the symptoms of the problem, that men won’t discuss or do certain things bc they are terrified of not seeming Manly Enough™ but it isn’t getting to the root of the problem

which in this case is that patriarchy draws a line around women and anything associated with women and calls it tainted, lesser, weak, foolish, crazy, worthless. And so men don’t want to be associated with those terrible Womanly things because maybe that would mean that they were just as tainted, lesser, weak, foolish, crazy, or worthless as women are.

and insisting that some of these ‘tainted’ things are actually Manly After All doesn’t solve the root problem. even if you succeed there will always be other important things men are cutting themselves off from because they don’t want to be tainted by the association with women.

so like even if your only priority is men being whole and healthy people, even if you don’t give a shit about women, if your goal is to make it okay for men to cry and be vulnerable and seek help and live full and happy lives as complete human beings who aren’t constantly dividing and subsuming and destroying vital pieces of themselves they don’t think are Manly enough –

if you want to let men just live without the pressure to constantly prove themselves Manly Enough –

targeting misogyny is just the only viable way to do that.

hegemonic masculinity requires a ‘lesser’ thing to set itself up in opposition to, something that’s hated and despised and demeaned that men have to be trained to try to not be like. Without misogyny the whole thing collapses. There’s no pressure to be Manly™ if there’s no shame in not being a man.

so instead of pacifying men’s egos by reassuring them they really ARE manly and untainted by Women’s Things, maybe let’s start challenging each other to think critically about why these things feel so forbidden and shameful, and start actually engaging with the root cause of so much of this stigma.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

like declaring more things Manly™ doesn’t actually lessen the pressure to be Manly™. it literally just accepts unchallenged the idea that men should strive for hegemonic masculinity, just maybe a very slightly different version.

That seems fairly pointless from a liberation standpoint; it challenges nothing, and adds very little. Men in this perspective are still entitled to power over women, but the things they must do to maintain that power are slightly different and perhaps a little less violent.

More useful I think would be to work on alternative ways for men to understand themselves as people – ideally, as human beings with a great deal in common with women, as people who have unjustly been given power that they now have an obligation to cede – instead of as rightful rulers whose efforts should be to preserve, with minor expansions, the identity that gives them power.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

One current iteration of this trend is the many, many thinkpieces, memes, and posts about the difference between “toxic masculinity” and “healthy masculinity”. Well-intentioned though these ideas may be, they still completely miss the underlying gender role enforcement.

The idea that men are and must be masculine, the concept of gendering certain traits as Manly and others as Womanly, is inherently a patriarchal construction and any attempt to expand these categories or salvage some kind of healthy way to use them is doomed.

Courage, integrity, kindness, all these things people are currently championing as “healthy masculinity” - these traits can and do exist in people of all genders. When we urge men to behave in prosocial ways, it’s ultimately counterproductive to appeal to their desire to identify with hegemonic masculinity, because we’re still, in that case, working with and upholding the gender hierarchy.

Men are capable of doing good without being rewarded with the power that comes with a higher station in the gender hierarchy, and it is both unnecessary and counterproductive to promise this reward by identifying good behaviours as “masculine”.

It is unnecessary and counterproductive to gender the traits required to engage with others in a positive way. And it’s ultimately more useful to think of ourselves as human beings trying to live our values, instead of trying to redefine divisive and hierarchical gender roles into something healthy and progressive.

We need to stop trying to reform gender roles into something more palatable and start working on dissolving them entirely.

deepdiveastro

batmanisagatewaydrug

you actually don't have to hand it to the catholic church ever, like under any circumstances

batmanisagatewaydrug

"heehoo chicago man beefing with trump!!!" okay. I hope they both explode

batmanisagatewaydrug

I think some of you had too much fun making memes about Conclave and forgot about the genocide and colonialism and imperialism and misogyny and homophobia and transphobia and

batmanisagatewaydrug

I hate trump too but this is who you're cheering for

hauntedaether

Has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet

goodbadhabit

I hope my soulmate finds true love soon

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dorothylarouge

Such a great, revealing peek into the transmisogynist’s mindset

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

they are so fucking angry we're having fun

dreams-seeker

None of those things are women exclusive either

Transmisogyny loops back to misogyny classic, like a snake sucking its own dick for eternity

plaidos

“trannies don’t have to look after their kids” yeah because we’re not allowed to have them

hareofhrair

Reminder that transmisogyny (especially of the TERF variety) is rooted in bioessentialism (the pseudoscientific belief that your physical body determines traits like interests, behaviors, and skills that are not physically linked) and gender essentialism (that “biological” gender specifically dictates behavior). ie women are “biologically” better caregivers or more naturally compassionate or men are “biologically” more aggressive or dominant.

To be somewhat hyperbolic, it’s a belief that males and females are fundamentally different animals somehow— this often accompanies a belief that people with different skin pigmentation are also fundamentally different animals, unsurprisingly, which is why so many transmisogynists are also staggeringly racist.

I point out the TERF connection specifically because that ideology is deeply rooted in the belief that women are inherently physically inferior and inherently morally superior to men. Men are natural predators, women are natural victims, but also if women ruled the world there’d be no war because they’re biologically better at statecraft I guess.

Human beings are some of the least sexually dimorphic mammals on the planet. There is next to no actual physical difference between the traditional sexes that cannot be linked to culture— ie girls are widely discouraged from doing sports, especially sports which require upper body strength, and thus have less upper body strength on average. But female athletes who spend time developing upper body strength close the gap created by cultural upbringing and will have the same upper body strength as men.

There is no skill where the least skilled male will still match or exceed the most skilled female. There is no “biological advantage.” Just different skill levels and weight classes. That’s why feminists were arguing so hard for getting rid of gender segregation in sports back in the 90’s, before transmisogyny (and especially transmisogynoir) dragged the conversation back to the 50’s.

The few differences there actually are between a male sexed and a female sexed body can be almost totally reversed by influencing ONE hormone. Our bodies are so similar and so ready to switch sides on a dime that people sexed as female can straight up grow a phallus. It’s so easy to develop breast tissue that 35% of men experience gynocomastia— people sexed as male developing breasts— at some point in their lives, and estimates show 70% of adolescent boys will experience it during puberty.

We have no idea how prevalent most intersex conditions really are because they generally have so little influence on the person’s life or health that unless some other condition causes them to get a full body mri or similar, they will never know! The mortician embalming your dead body may be the only person who ever knows you had fully developed ovaries or internal testes.

We are the same animal! Our bodies are the same!Our brains are the same! Our bones are the same! Even our organs are largely the same!

Any road that starts from the assumption that you are fundamentally, biologically distinct from another nearly identical member of the same species will lead you nowhere but pseudo scientific justification for bigotry.

Once you have accepted the premise that your own opposite sexed sibling is a different kind of animal than you, you are primed to accept that explanation for any other demographic group that it has historically benefited someone for you to despise.

Bioessentialism is bullshit pseudoscience.

Do not fall for it.