It's time to recognize Tina Bell of Bam Bam: the original Queen of Grunge
I saw this video today, and I am beyond delighted about it. THIS is the seed of grunge, the beginning of the Seattle Sound. Tina Bell's voice is killer. I also hear Pixies elements in the songs, before The Pixies even existed and directly influenced bands like Nirvana. It is fucking frustrating, but not surprising, that misogyny and racism have tried (and continue to try) to discredit a Black woman and her band.
I am just getting acquainted, but I recommend listening to their songs "Ground Zero" and "Stress".
Know whatâs great? The fact I can masturbate with zero pornography because I have an imagination and my brain isnât rotted. People who equate porn use to masturbation and act like being anti-porn is anti-sex are losers.
This is a fantastic video bio of Veruca Salt. It's so so nice to see such a dedicated analysis of a female-fronted band, especially by a woman. There needs to be more fan media like this.
so @sailor-moon-rage asked me for details with regard to my comment that white nationalists are masquerading as leftists to radicalize men in communist, anarchist, and other radical left spaces on social media. this post is me providing further detail.
i suspect my claim was surprising for many folks who assume that, if you identify as a marxist or anarchist, you'd be resistant to alt-right ideologies. in a traditional sense, that would have been true; typically young men would have been radicalized through learning about marxism at college and/or by working with a union, and/or by joining another progressive activist group. these are real-world experiences, though, and as social media and polarization further isolate people from one another, young, politically-minded men and women are learning about politics and social movements exclusively via the internet. that means they have no lived experience, or little lived experience, that would expose them to their ideologies in the real world. they're not talking about their politics in person with other people, exploring nuance and differences and being tempered, they're not organizing--they're posting. and algorithms push people to consume more extreme content in order to maintain their interest (and keep them on the site longer, for advertisers.)
this matters because, in online leftist spaces, the way men talk about their grievances with the government is virtually indistinguishable from the way alt-right men talk. again, this might surprise people, because there's a common misconception now that the alt-right is synonymous with conservatism; it is not. nazis are generally not watching fox news and sporting blue lives matter pins--they hate the police, they hate the government, and they believe in total political sovereignty and independence. the SPLC list of related extremist ideologies is useful for illustrating the scope of these beliefs, which does include general anti-government ideology. most of these groups want to start a revolution that hastens the demise of government, which they see as irredeemably corrupt and bad for the people.Â
sound familiar? (cut for length!)
this isn't new. i grew up, as an impoverished black girl in the south, in a predominately white area filled with these types of men. they're deeply committed to domestic terrorism and violence against the state, which they see as righteous. and if you visit any anarchist or communist's page, you'll see them posting/reblogging/retweeting nearly identical rhetoric every day--our enemies must die violently, we must arm ourselves, the revolution begins now. seriously, go to any leftist's blog, like that balaclava moron i was fighting with, and you'll see them reblogging these very posts from open nazis with names like 'pnzr'. partially, this is their shared aesthetic--they love their slavic warcore or whatever the fuck you want to call it lmao--but they also share many ideological beliefs about the nature of politics.Â
so, there are superficial similarities. but how does a nazi convince a committed marxist that their goals arenât so different in the end? by finding an âinâ. as i described in my post yesterday, this "in", on most modern social media sites, is a seemingly shared hatred of women. the dirtbag left movement, popularized by podcasts like the red scare and el chapoâs traphouse, and by influencers like that absolute piece of shit rapist hassan and the former incel and anti-feminist contrapoints, problematized feminism as a distraction from ârealâ political goals. it goes like this: feminists are fat, whiny cunts. why are we letting them emasculate our movement? we need guns, we donât need nannyscolds. all real leftist women understand where their loyalties should lie. this is a classic appeal to the âcool girlâ, and it worksâyoung women, especially, are anxious to be seen as cool and intelligent and desirable by men, so they begin to define themselves wholly in opposition to patriarchy-critical feminist beliefs (usually just termed âradical feminismâ which is catch-all for the left, like âzionismâ or âglobalismâ): iâm not like other girls, i love porn. i have an onlyfans, the only acceptable form of capitalism (i guess??) i hate other women. iâm just one of the guys. if you disagree, youâre an ugly terf swerf pig cunt who needs to be decapitated. so the left, like the right, becomes an echo chamber where dissent is violently shut down in certain areas--feminism, yes, but also moderation in any measure. you think violence isn't the answer? bootlicker.
remember, the goal of white nationalism is an ethnostate. they are terrified about a âcrisisâ of white population demographics; they constantly fret over the decline of western civilization due to âmiscegenationâ and âimmigrationâ, etc. they donât actually see a violent leftist white man as their enemy; heâs just misguided. white nationalism and related beliefs are inherently evangelical: that is, they want converts. they talk openly about this on discord servers and chan sites and even openly on twitter, where they discuss tactics to bring these men into the fold, to awaken them. hell, i've talked with many nazis on here to learn more about their beliefs; i'm upfront that i'm a black woman, and they calmly explain to me what their goals are. they evangelize.
so, a united front against âradicalâ feminism is the easiest way in for them to convert more white people, and from there, once theyâve normalized extreme violent language against "enemy" women, they can more easily begin to problematize other tenets of the left. the trust has been earned. the government should be violently overthrown, right? and whatâs in place of it? an anarchist utopia where the people make their own laws, right? and maybe where people who want to be with their own kind, who want to start big families should be left alone, right? patriarchy is intoxicatingâmarx himself was an abusive patriarch. and most white people are deeply suspicious of non-white people (this is a tenet on the left, after all, that white people are all racist đŹ), so obviously for the safety of non-white people, we should encourage separatism, to some extent, right? that's what nazis tell me--the races just aren't meant to mix, and it's best for everyone. it's not a hard sell for white leftists. i mean, they historically love black seperatismâthey supported the black panthers, right? (by the way, i am a black feminist and i put black women first. the original panthers were a leftist organization where misogyny was a core value to the extent that black women had to break away and form their own groups, because some of the most powerful men in the panthers were avowed rapists and abusers.) so this isnât a hard sell for black and brown men, either, because machismo and patriarchy are strong values in every culture; just look at andrew tate and kanye, two of the most prominent alt-right figuresâtheyâre black. and look at hassan, a MENA man, and so deeply committed to misogyny in the name of âmarxismâ.
in the end, there is no real difference between the goals of these guys. they want âfreedomâ, they want the independence to rule their little domain as they see fit, and they want to murder their political enemies. i am very active in irl political circles, especially my union, and it is full of these violent, borderline-psychopathic leftist men who donât care about social justice whatsoever (ârestorative justiceâ is only for rapists, ig), but they do care deeply about violence and subjugating their enemies. iâm not saying all leftist men are like thisâi also know incredible male allies who are deeply committed to real justice and care. what I am saying is that young men, especially those who really only ever post online about their politics, are susceptible to extremist ideologies writ large. they can accept, coexist, and even cooperate with alt-right men when their goals and beliefs align, and sometimes they even have a âcome to Jesusâ moment and see that, perhaps, for them, the alt-right has the answers theyâre looking for. we have a name for this: the alt-right pipeline. and it sucks water from many wells. stay vigilant and take the advice of our radical sisters and sistas from the 1970sânever trust a man just because he says heâs a marxist.Â
if you have something to add, please do feel free to reblog with commentary, or even just to boost if you found it useful!
edit: reading list!
daniel lombroso (author of white noise and many articles), who embedded with the modern alt-right movement on the internet. i also recommend the work of the following academics who write about white nationalism as a movement and how it lures "normal" (apolitical) and sometimes even leftist radicals into its sphere of influence:
thomas frank (author of what's the matter with kansas? which is the definitive work that traces the roots of leftist radicalism to modern extreme right movements in america)
george lipsitz (author of the possessive investment in whiteness)
dan carter (author of the politics of rage)
theda skocpol (author of the phenomenal states and social revolutions who later wrote about the tea party movement)
rick perlstein (author of nixonland, one of the best history monographs ever written imo, was my go-to in grad school)
Do you know a comic or illustrated short story about a Korean comfort woman and what soldiers did to her? Iâve been looking for it and thought I might have seen it here a while ago?
i do remember it, but i haven't seen it in like two years, sorry.
"Women, in fact, had as much to fear of Union soldiers as they did of Confederates... Nearly everywhere the Union army left a trail of violence against black women and the men who tried to protect them... On the Jenkins plantation in the South Carolina Sea Islands, after Union soldiers burned ten slave cabins, robbed its residents of food and fowl, furniture, and cooking utensils, they tried to rape the slave women. When husbands and brothers tried to protect them the men were cruelly beaten and threatened with instant death."
- Ar'n't I a Woman? Revised addition by Deborah Gray White
âOrganicâ isnât better for you or for the environment. It actually means nothing of any significance at best and is sometimes even the more wasteful, more hazardous option.
A shitload of ânaturalâ food including a lot of imported produce is grown and harvested through slave labor in inhumane conditions.
Pizza, fried chicken, french fries, fast food, candy bars and chips ARE nutritious. They are loaded with good things. Just because they have an abundance of excess fats and might not be healthy as a staple doesnât mean they are ânutritionlessâ or that their calories are âempty.â Those are hokey buzzwords pushed by the people in charge of how much you pay for the alternatives.
Eating healthier costs more. Much more. Looking down on people for their reliance on cheaper food is extremely classist and expecting everyone to be able to live off fresh veggies and cage-free meats is insultingly unrealistic in the modern world.
âProcessedâ literally only means the food went through some kind of automated process. This can be literally the exact same thing a human being would have done to the food for it to be labeled âunprocessed.â Being processed does not make something less healthy.
Chemicals with long, scary names are part of nature. An apple is full of compounds you probably canât pronounce. A shorter ingredients label only means they didnât bother listing all 300 things the product is actually made of and HAS to be made of.
Preservatives, artificial flavors and other additives are not the devil. Most are harmless and in general they are part of the reason you havenât already starved to death or died of a food borne illness.
MSG is not bad for you at all.
The fact that something might be made of âscrapâ meats like pig snouts or chicken necks only means one thing: that we didnât waste perfectly normal, edible meat.
I DONâT KNOW HOW I FORGOT THIS IN MY FIRST VERSION OF THIS POST BUT GMOâS ARE NOT DANGEROUS TO EAT. GMOâS ARE SAVING LIVES. YOUâVE ALREADY EATEN GMOâS BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW THE TERM. ITâS FINE. EAT THEM.
So Iâve literally done this twice before and so have several other people but here are sources on all of these, most of them fairly recent academic studies or otherwise the most up-to-date I could find:
Organic food isnât better for you: [1] [2] [3]
Tracing food industry slave labor: [1]
Healthier food is more expensive: [1] [2]
Saturated fats (i.e. âjunk foodâ) still provide needed energy, arenât as bad as people thought: [1] [2]
âProcessedâ isnât synonymous with less healthy, because it means a lot of different things: [1]
âChemicalsâ also means a lot of things and many food components are misunderstood by the general public: [1]
MSG is not harmful: [1] [2] [3]
GMOâs are not dangerous to eat: [400 sources collected here]
âProcessedâ always gets me, itâs like yeah even that delicious homemade salsa you brought to the party is processed - the moment you took a knife to the tomatoes it underwent processing
Posts like these drive me fucking nuts with their self righteous moral posturing passed off as the opposite. You shitbirds are not fucking immune to the propaganda you seem so irresponsibly convinced youâre bravely disspelling. Ok so:
Several points here are, on their face, correct, including that MSG tastes good and wont hurt you (tho its opposition is historically unconnected to a lot of this other rhetoric, and was more the product of a racist panic), âhealthâ food is more expensive (a serious equity problem, that is at least partly due to an economic inevitability of producing food in ways that differ from the exploitative corners cut and economy of scale in conventional ag, depending on what one means by health food), âorganicâ isnt inherently superfood (tho this is a misnomer, as thatâs literally not the point or the significance of that label; different less environmentally harmful farm production practices are, and if you cannot connect your own health to reduced environmental destruction, which is dumb, can you at least connect it to the well being of all of the other species devastated by full bore conventional ag? Of which âorganic agâ is basically just a mitigated part?), saturated fats provide lots of food energy (l o l at this one, did anyone say otherwise??? The point is that saturated fats are comparatively dietarily rare historically, and are unbelieveably concentrated in the intake of meat and dairy products in the diets of the global north, both bougie and working class alike, and in those amounts has had seriously adverse cardiovascular consequences), while long term environmental and physical effects of many GMOs remain to be seen, the most serious objections to and concerns about GMOs are not, again, health related but have to do with the transformation of the life processes and the life itself of living things into legally controllable private property under powerful IP protections, often amounting to the theft of millennia of indigenous labor and craft by extremely powerful corporate entities, as a major driver of GMO research, adoption, and value is the ability to control and limit supplies, induce artificial scarcity, and marshal legal punishments for anyone who uses those things in a way not sanctioned by the spectaularly powerful rights holding megaconglomerates that dominate the seed, agrochemical, and animal husbandry businesses supplying the overwhelming amount of food in the US and globally.
Furthermore, the suggestion seems to be that âregularâ food does not also involve slave labor in the supply chain, which is the opposite of reality, and that highly processed foods are just simply the unjust victims of white Connecticuit liberalâs snobbery, when in reality, âvalue addedâ foods like doritos, oreos, literally most any packaged prepared foods etc, are designed first and foremost to allay overproduction of highly subsidized crops and other foodstuffs, to move more of them to prevent price crashes, thus making conventional factory faming capitalist ag look ârightâ and âbetterâ and ânaturalâ despite its pure artifice, and playing an important part in the economic and even military imposition of US geopolitical hegemony over the past 70 years. And honestly, anyone who does not understand the differences between the nutritional profiles or the bioavailability of energy - i.e. how much work your body has to do to get it - between a rapeseed oil soaked piece of pizza crust made with highly refined (ie, low in any of the fibers, proteins etcâ) white wheat flour, and a piece of plain whole meal brown bread, and why those differences are metabolically significant, has no business in dramatic and self congratulatory indingantposting, because they dont know what the fuck they are talking about. I could go on, but I hate writing on my phone, have to pee, and shouldnt waste any more time responding to this asinine horseshit I suspect is somewhere down the line the discursive result of Kraft or Nestleâs marketing departments
Source: me, a PhD candidate writing an NSF funded dissertation on precision agriculture at a major midwestern university, with several publications in this area
And I'm tired of being encouraged to ignore my desires. That's all every woman is encouraged to do - to shut up, not want too much, to not seem too desperate, to learn to be comfortable with doing without and even desire that in the absence of desire. It's sick.
can u explain why fueling the drug industry harms women i want to learn more please
Three of the women were found in bags, next to a hand-written message from the leader of a drug gang â the latest in the wave of crime again
Denisse Velasco has been suffering from acute anxiety since spring, when she narrowly escaped being abducted from a busy street in Guadalaja
In male-dominated cultures characterised by machismo, women are victims of violence on a daily basis. In Latin America, hundreds of women ar
Drug cartels are known for kidnapping and traffic women. They abduct, rape and kill migrant women, local women, indigenous women. Every woman here is terrified of bumping into a drug lord. Or even a drug dealer. We know that if the drug lord wants to, he can kill everyone around us and kidnap us. Or that a wrong look to him and you're dead.
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