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@queerrevolt
honestly it’s kind of upsetting how much of the autism experience is just being shamed out expressing yourself in any way that’s normal for you and learning to keep everything to yourself so you’re not shamed for being weird and then being shamed for being so quiet because it’s also weird to be quiet but if you tell this to anyone else they’ll say “why do you care so much what people think” and that’s when the ancient ape part of your brain gets ready to beat them to death
Trans women will never be free until people stop having strong emotions about penises. Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks! Dicks have to stop symbolizing maleness, obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing power, dominance, sexual agency and aggression, violence, and even sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both male chauvinists and radical feminists, because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.
Anyway dicks are totally neutral body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent
Gonna step outside my usual programming a bit because that light pollution take and a lot of the responses to it aggravated me so much.
No, wanting to see the night sky isn't a twee retvrn to ghibli-ass take. It's not a matter of some anprim impulse to dismantle industrial society for ~nature aesthetics~, it's an extremely visible symptom of environmental degradation that gets downplayed because the externality seems trivial to most people: "Oh no, the night sky, what ever will we do without it."
But it actively disrupts light-sensitive circadian rhythms in plants and wildlife, which disrupts foraging patterns, reproductive and hibernation cycles, and contributes to wildlife population declines. It's not the major contributor to those declines, but it's an additional point of stress in an ecosystem already stressed by climate change and other forms of industrial pollution. And so much of it is wholly unnecessary.
I don't think people realize how far-reaching the problem is, either. That light isn't just confined to the places people use. You don't escape it by just taking the bus to the edge of town. That light carries, in some cases for hundreds of kilometers. Death Valley has some of the darkest skies in the US, and yet, the dome of light above Las Vegas is visible on the horizon over 250 km away! Anywhere within 50 km of a major urban center, just about anywhere in the world, never gets darker than a night under a full moon.
And this is very much a recent problem too. Before the switchover to LEDs, it was relatively expensive to light places. That meant actually accounting for the energy use and making sure it was being used where it was needed. That light was also warm-colored, so it didn't travel as far. With the decreased cost of lighting, it became standard to light places like daytime whenever they might be needed. Lighting didn't get safer, it just got more thoughtless.
The reason you see astronomy-types sounding the alarm most loudly is because they're the ones who have been seeing the full effects of light pollution and its encroachment on dark skies. It's a hobby for me too, but it's partly because I am a night owl who grew up in a small town with nothing else to do. I used to be able to clearly see the Milky Way horizon to horizon when I grew up in the mid-00s. The last time I visited about five years ago, I could only see it overhead. The population has fallen by like 10%, but the skies are brighter. I can tell when the college decided to leave the football stadium lights overnight. I can tell where the car dealerships that added overnight display lights are. I can even see when trucks with the fuckass LED light bars are coming over a hill from 5 km away.
I'm all for well-lit, safe, and accessible spaces for people to work and play at night. But there is an impact from lighting, and it can and should be regulated like any other point source pollution. It's a pretty straightforward and materialist assessment. But go off about the big scary anprims are coming for your society so people can see the stars I guess, that's not at all a reactionary response to hearing about a problem
At least 64 journalists have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7. NPR's Michel Martin talks with the president of the nonprofit Committee to Pr
More United Nations staff members have been killed in Gaza than in any other single conflict in the organization’s 78-year history, the UN s
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-hopes-israel-quickly-effectively-boost-gaza-aid-access-2024-04-05/
Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that more chi
that last one particularly, there have been more children killed this year in gaza than the rest of the world COMBINED for the last FOUR YEARS
i feel like it is important to remind people that FTX nonbinary people in general do not actually get their identities respected. they also get told they are either quirky women or binary trans men in denial. like being the most visible type of nonbinary person involves being a frequent target for exorsexist, misogynistic transphobia.
none of this is being said to take away from the bigotry towards MTX nonbinary people (altho it should be mentioned that both face similar issues; there are people assigned female who get kicked out of queer spaces for being too male; there are people assigned male whose identities are reduced down to "quirky woman," drawing this binary while somewhat useful is itself sloppy and leaves out a lot nuance esp. wrt to intersex people) but given the whole "theyfab" shit some of y'all need to be reminded. the last US trans survey found that FTX nonbinary people had the highest lifetime rate of sexual assault (58%) and being denied hormone coverage (36%). being nonbinary & assigned female does not grant anyone a uniquely privileged place in the patriarchy even amongst trans people. stop trying to find a group of trans people its acceptable to mock and label privileged invaders
Real weird how people manage to grasp the concept that visibility doesn't always equal acceptance or safety when it comes to trans women, but forget all about it when talking about FTX nonbinary people.
Also real weird how those same people manage to understand that erasure is just as harmful as visibility when it comes to MTX nonbinary people, but also say that trans men/masc erasure isn't that bad or is even a privilege.
I actually just noticed how blatant of a double standard this is.
#one thing about my specific experience as an ftx#is i’ve been made to feel too masculine/male for queer spaces just like mtx people#because i’ve been on testosterone before and i have facial hair i frequently fail to shave#and i always thought it was weird how i wasn’t even included in the category of excluded people#i’m excluded from the excluded lmao#i think it’s because people assume afab enbies never medically transition???#idk how that myth still continues when it’s obvious false#but anyways the queer community demonizes maleness and masculinity and takes it out on trans people of all flavors
^^ yes!!! it's important to talk about ftx people experiencing misogyny & mtx people being discriminated against for being perceived as men/masculine but it's so important that we do not fall into the trap of thinking that's the only way things happen. ive seen a lot of posts talk about the exclusion mtx people face while implying that it Never happens to ftx people- why? ftx people can look entirely male. we can have deep voices, big muscles, we can even have penises. & at the same time, there are mtx people who look like cis women, who even have vaginas. there's an assumption that nonbinary & genderqueer people never transition physically and always look like [agab] But Weird.
which leads to people ignoring how NB/GQ people often have experiences with bigotry (and other things like dysphoria) that are more similar to people of the """"opposite"""" sex. not that binary people can't also experience this but as someone who is regularly read as both ftx and mtx depending on who sees which traits as what, it's. very annoying when people refuse to understand how non-binary transitions.... complicate binaries. & even more annoying when people don't bring up the exclusion of ftx people who present or are read as masculine/male when talking about exclusion, because if they did they'd have to admit that Maybe Perhaps It's Possible That the queer community has a problem with how it sees & treats masculinity (real or perceived) in general.
never let being a girl stop you from being a boy
never let being a boy stop you from being a girl
The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.
And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.
Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.
Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.
This reminds me of that global warming comic, like
for the love of god separate the word TERF from the man hating ugly dyke feminist you made up in your head. it is a group founded on the exclusion of trans women from women's spaces, everything else grows from that ideology. it is not a word for when feminist theory makes you mad. it is NOT when women hate men.
if i have to see another person call a trans woman a TERF for saying she doesn't like men i'm gonna start hitting people with axes
you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are dangerous and need to be excluded. you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are their sisters who need saving. you will find TERFs who are themselves transmasculine. you will find racist tradwife TERFs. you will find black lesbian TERFs. you will find TERFs who commit to political lesbianism. you will find TERFs who are quite happy to have a husband and work with fascist men. (a lot of those actually)
you're not going to find transfeminine TERFs. because the foundation of TERFism is the exclusion of trans women.
taking words coined to describe the specific oppression of trans women and cutting us out of their definitions is transmisogyny. turning around and using those words against us is fucking revolting.
transmisogyny is not sparkling transphobia, it is hatred of trans women. TERFism is not Feminism I Don't Like, it is TRANS EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM
also let me assure you that if you walked into a discussion of transmisogyny with "sex based oppression" on your lips you are 100% closer to TERF ideology than the person telling you that transmasculine people are capable of oppressing trans women.
way too many fucking people seem to think TERFs exist because the feminism'd too hard and accidentally started hating trannies. no, actually, transmisogyny is a foundational part of colonial and christian society and they shaped their feminism around it.
This is a huge part of why listening to public trans discourse as a trans biologist is infuriating. 4chan OP is based AF.
Never thought I would see the sentence "4chan OP is based AF" be used and I especially never thought I'd agree but here we are
@letstalkpalestine has put the size of Gaza into perspective to show just how densely populated the area is.
Y'all I wish it was "no thoughts head empty"- instead I'm "many thoughts head full" bitch I am at capacity
Not queer as in "queer is not a slur" but queer as in "I do not give a fuck if its a slur, you don't get to censor my identity regardless". Queer as in "I HOPE my identity upsets you". Queer as in "my identity is not only a slur but a threat"
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Was reading on wikipedia about how lots of ancient cultures had beliefs and traditions where you had to offer prayers and/or sacrifices if you wanted to cut down a tree because you were basically killing the spirit that lived within the tree and if you did that without good reason bad stuff would happen to you
we should bring that back. if you want to clear cut a forest you have to pray and sacrifice on behalf of every single tree
The more I learn about ecosystems, the more I realize that characterizing "animistic" belief as superstitious and primitive is one of the dumbest lies ever told
I, as well, am an animist (knows what a soil microbiome is)
Now I don't know all the details about these religions all over the world with beliefs and practices like this.
But this way of believing says that a stream or a tree isn't just a Thing, you can't just use it however you want, it's a Life and you owe it respect. And if you want to cut down a tree, you have to think really hard about whether you really need to use that tree, because there's a Process, and you have to really think about and dwell on the fact that you're killing something that's alive and that gives life.
And the important thing is, if you see the trees and plants and rivers as sacred and living, dumping toxic radioactive waste in the water and clear cutting the forest is an unthinkable act of sacrilege. If you see that the mountains are sacred and have spirit, you can't rip them wide open to blast and dig out coal with dynamite and pickaxes.
You know that if you violate the water, or the forest, or the mountains, with such destructive greed, something terrible will happen.
Unrelatedly, the Appalachian Mountains are haunted by something unknowably ancient and eldritch.
Before the invention of breath or bone, there stood the mountains.
The more I learn about ecosystems, the more I realize that characterizing "animistic" belief as superstitious and primitive is one of the dumbest lies ever told “
This.
There‘s a post going around that halfway makes this crossing by saying that ppl in tech and other such ‘contemporary’ sciences need to learn about past belief systems in order to understand their perspectives and why they were wrong (aka superstitions, misunderstood biological perceptions) as a window into realizing that current scientific perspectives and assumptions can also be wrong.
But it’s HIGH FUCKING TIME people also and primarily learn about why precolonial indigenous ~superstitions~ were fucking right and highly intelligent systems of social and environmental management.
Teaching us to disregard all that shit bc it’s spiritual has been one of the most damning and dangerous things colonization has accomplished second to the actual material -cides.
Postcard from the artist collective project THINK AGAIN
How do they scare people straight?
threaten rejection from family and society, justify hate in the name of god, spread myths about perverts and molesters, incite fear about disease, spread lies about human sexuality, threaten rejection from work and community, propagate lies about sin, publicly humiliate queers, withhold information about sex, erase queers from history, allow homophobia on television, deny queers equal protection under the law, promote family values, promise happiness to those who conform.
[ID: A thread on Twitter by @/drdevonprice that reads:
"Psychiatrists used to speak evil about Autistics as if we were evil and inhuman. Ivar Lovaas said we were in the shape of a person, but lacked personhood and warmth. How any Autistic person can believe similar claims about ppl with other disorders, like NPD, is beyond me.
look at how psychiatrists have historically spoken about Autistics and you will see the exact same kind of violently dehumanizing ableism that is still routinely directed at people with Schizophrenia, Borderline, Narcissistic, and Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnoses.
Psychiatrists called us cold blooded & incapable of compassion. They still call ppl w ASPD that. They called us manipulative & emotionally abusive. They still call ppl with BPD that. They believed we were entirely self-centered and incapable of love. Still say that abt NPD.
If you're an Autistic self-advocate but you think people w personality disorders or psychosis are scary, dangerous, or evil, you aren't really a believer in disability justice yet. you aren't interested in neurodivergent liberation. you want social respectability for yourself.
Autism was originally categorized as a form of childhood schizophrenia. There is no separating us from other neurodivergent people. We are the same. The worst things said about other neurodivergent people have all been said about us too." End ID.]
