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autistic lesbian (she/her) / 35 years old / penguingirl rights, women's wrongs, and death to capitalism

[quasarboobs]

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[blackheart-biohazards]

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

[dovesndecay]

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[jayalaw]

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[donuts-multifandom-hellhole]

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

[sleepymccoy]

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

[jinkohhh]

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

[chongoblog]

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[fagstaynight]

some people on the internet have only been on here for five minutes

[cowboyspones]

i will never get over this one i’m afraid

[thebronyfandom]

a fandom for mlp? idk sounds fake tbh

[taiwanesekid05]

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[hamstersinagraveyard]

Happy honorary pride month to Elaine “I hate men but I’m not a lesbian” Benes and George “I think it moved” Costanza

[strawberry-crocodile]

"it's not a monkey it's an ape" is so funny because. apes are monkeys. and then you'll hear someone like "i know phylogenetically yes but thats not how it's colloquially used." but like. clearly it is. someone just used it.

[strawberry-crocodile]

People are offering a lot of theories as to why people care, but I think it's important not to leave out that the historical and christian perspective on biology is that life is organized in a hierarchy with humans at the top and everything else ranked by proximity to humans. Apes are closer to humans than other monkeys are; thus, they are "higher" on the "pyramid of life" than all other monkeys.

This philosophy is still one a lot of people have in the modern day; fish and insects, which are distant from humans, are treated as "lesser" animals, sometimes not even animals at all, while mammals and birds are valued over reptiles and amphibians. In this philosophy, the idea that apes are monkeys is perceived as a slight; to call an ape a monkey is to treat it as "lesser" (see: every talking cartoon chimp ever), and also, implicitly, an insult to humans (because we connect with the ape and consider it "greater" because it's close to us).

[strawberry-crocodile]

but also to the original point. when you "correct" someone that an ape "is not a monkey"... on what authority are you doing it? like there's no scientific information being conveyed, you only have old linguistic perscriptivism to fall back on. your pedantry is hollow.

[commanderchrist-deactivated2017]

Haha, thanks for reading, guys!  My name is RL Stine.  Your eyes may have glanced at my name before on the cover of classic spookers such as “Say Cheese and Die” and “How The Boogerguy Blew My Dad.”  I just wanted to let you creepypasta fans know that I have a new book coming out called “Spiderwriter Fucking Dies on Oprah,” this Halloween, at all the cock-sucking book stores in the goddamn world.  Don’t believe me, you stupid shit?  Go suck a rotten clit.  And I hope a chill runs down your spine when you do so.  Fuck you.

[filmphotofranz]

[mikus-sleepiest]

[mousidy]

hey why did you say "even if that trans woman did do all that, I don't care"? really just reminds me of how men will protect abusers in their communities and ignore victims. I really don't think that's the look you want.

gotta change the text of the post to make your argument work, huh?

[mousidy]

I think it's funny when people are like "what?? 😨😨 you don't care to join in on harassment campaigns of oppressed women you've never met?? this is basically the same thing as how members of the dominant sexgender class under patriarchy hardly get targeted by these campaigns in the first place and are systemically protected from their consequences 🤨🤨🤨"

[mousidy]

betting my entire life's savings that if I posted the exact same thing without the word "trans" they'd be like "right onnnnn truuuue!!!!!"

[fizzytrashcan]

[weirdmageddon]

[humphreybogie]

When you're a transmasculine person who isn't also a tranmisogynist, this fun thing happens to you that I'd like to call "chaserjacketing".

Where if you confront a transandrobro for being a transmisogynist, for having nothing even resembling solidarity with their sisters, for LYING about the male privilege they benefit from, for centering themselves in conversations about sexism, or for resurrecting the dangerous MRA movement; instead of arguing with whatever point you made (because they can't) they will instead dismiss you entirely by saying something along the lines of; "ok pickme, you're just a chaser who wants to fuck trans women."

And they say it like some kind of crazy gotcha, but really all it says is that THEY can't imagine defending someone more vulnerable than themselves unless they can materially benefit. Unless they can "fuck" them. And gee, if that's not the most Man Bullshit ever. These guys have truly reached patriarchal gender euphoria... Surprised they haven't resurrected the "friendzone" yet.