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Matilda || 26 || any pronouns posting shit since 2011 bad at tagging but please ask/remind me

[dogpuppy]

Working on perfecting my IG reels. Come with me

[astal-art]

I dont even care about this btw im like nonchalant about the whole thing really

[anywhoozles]

[txttletale]

accusations of "whataboutism" are a particularly childish piece of sophistry, where the interlocutor is pretending to not know what they are actually arguing about and are annoyed that you won't play along

[txttletale]

when an anticommunist talks about so-and-so soviet atrocity, and a communist points out that this atrocity, however genuinely bad, pales in comparison to the scale of imperialist violence perpetrated daily by the united states, or that it represents a significant transformation from the much worse state of affairs in tsarist russia -- this is 'cheating' in the rigged game the anticommunist has constructed, because it is acknowledging that they are not in fact discussing the atrocity in and of itself for no reason, but in fact forwarding the argument that this atrocity is uniquely indicting of the USSR specifically and communism more broadly. by bringing up context and points of comparison you are addressing this, the real point, and not letting them play their silly game where they pretend they are only arguing about the specifics of a particular historical event and no more

[skulki-d]

How fucked in the head do you have to be to think the atrocities of the USSR are in any way of lesser scale than the relatively minor harms of imperial America.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

How fucked in the head do you have to be to think the effects of american imperialism can in any way be described as "relatively minor harms"

[txttletale]

position you can only hold if you genuinely believe iraqis are not human

[klapollo]

various tv, film, and theater producers for the last 50 years smacking themselves in the forehead like fuuuuck how can we make it easy to understand why carrie is alienated from her peers and callously bullied at school WITHOUT making her a hideous fatass like in the book

[mangonetics]

I thought we were good as gravy, but you just wanted to get your pey wet

[medievalthymes]

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[paranoidgemsbok]

Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment

[typewriter-worries]

where's that picture that ruined my life

[typewriter-worries]

found it

[typewriter-worries]

this comic did the same thing

[warbeneaththerain]

my chemical romance has done a great job of curating an audience consisting entirely of sadomasochists

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[mousidy]

My hot take: it wouldnt be fatphobic to declare that you dont want to sleep with fat women bc sex is not political activism and bodies are not public resources

no this kind of thinking lets so much bigotry fly because people don't just declare things out loud for no reason, even if they happen to be true. like if you really just don't want to sleep with a particular minority group then what is your motivation for declaring this out loud? your reason is obviously not just "I have a fact about myself to share for no reason at all"

[mousidy]

you may have noticed that even if someone is flirting with you, they have not actually handed you a form to fill out to provide feedback on everything you think is unfuckable about them. you can literally just turn them down and spare them your bullshit

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."

[academicssay]

academic self-regulation explained

[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[pangur-and-grim]

reading with my creatures

[pangur-and-grim]