the patriarchy does not love people who are men. it coerces them into constructed desires (for power, for control, for wealth, for punishment) and rewards them for willingness to be coerced. but to be A Man, in the patriarchy's eyes, is not to be a person; to be powerful is to be a person.
this is why bell hooks says to create loving men we (as in, people committed to anti-patriarchal revolution) must love (care for on a political-social level) men whether they are performing or not. it exposes the lie of the patriarchy and exposes that there are other desires (for connection, for emotion, for liberty, for hope, for peace, for personhood) that have been silenced and restrained and there is real pain that comes from coercion.
bell hooks was not being idealistic when she explained that the revolution against patriarchy must start from love. not just the emotion or our individual relationships, but with a deep sense of shared personhood and innate care and compassion towards others, that guides us to political-social revolution, that makes an alternative world possible through the force of sheer refusal to submit to the cruelty the current system runs on.
If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.
Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?
We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.
I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.
Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.
if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.
WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.
When I saw this scene as a child I assumed that the reason why Hammon said that is because he was the host and Ellie was the guest.. I still thought it was bit weird in a survival situation, but I find interesting how sexism is not a thing in a kid’s mind
Same, though I thought he meant he knew the way! I understood it after the conversation was finished but I always thought it was kinda odd because if it should be him going, then why isn’t he just going, why didn’t he say anything until now…and then it hit me. He’s OOOOLD. He knows he’s old.
And I love this scene so much because it’s sexism fighting against common sense within one really charming character. Hammond knows Ellie is the one who should go because she’s competent, physically fit and good in a crisis. Muldoon can’t go because he’s less expendable as the de facto leader. He’s not even offering, Hammond isn’t even suggesting him as an alternative even though he could be the perfect proxy for his sexism. Ellie is the logical foot soldier here.
But Hammond still feels like he’s gotta pay dues to the sexist gentleman’s code. The way he says it…he’s not convinced. He knows how stupid it is! But his conditioning just won’t let go.
Ellie could have said ‘Yeah and you’re old and walk with a cane’ which would have implied that were it not the case Hammond would have obviously gone, but she didn’t, she called out the sexism instead and that plus Hammond’s hesitation is what gives the viewer much more food for thought than some fight for dominance would have.
I am a multi-media artist. I am my own photographer, editor and model, I am an illustrator (HUMAN ARTIST, NOT AI) and seamstress. I am a crafty/fitness YouTuber, a semi 🌶️ model and a boxing instructor/fitness coach. I do hope you enjoy your stay in my wee corner of chaos and please feel free to use any and ALL of my reference photos for your artistic needs! Also do say hi!! I try my best to answer every message and comment! I just appreciate you being here so gosh darned much.
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YOUTUBE: I started my YouTube channel as a way for me to express myself even further with my art. My fan page photoshoots aren't always the artistic sets I would like them to be and I stopped drawing years ago (attached are a few of my illustrations, including the cover to my web comic "The Nun's Mistake" and the cover for Colm McGuinness' album "The Colm Before The Storm" on Spotify) so I figured I would try and make photography my new medium for "paintings". Even with that in mind, I still wanted to be crafty and what with my day job in concrete/construction, I don't get a lot of free time to myself. Hence, YOUTUBE! YouTube has given me the chance to make content that I can be free to have fun with and Patreon is helping me to continue pursuing that dream!
MY ART: I spent 10+ years working as a freelance artist between my other jobs. My art never sold, I barely got a single commission and people always tried getting things for free. Safe to say my art failed miserably and I gave up on it for a few years. My fan page and ESPECIALLY my YouTube are helping me find that spark again! (P.S art commissions are not open, I see where your sweet little brain was going!)
BOXING: I have been a trainer/professional boxer for over 8 years now. I trained with world champions, fought on a professional level and found a love for teaching along the way. I got tired of how expensive boxing classes are, seeing as there are so few "trainers" who actually know what they're doing and aren't just MMA people pretending to know what Boxing is. SO, I and the other trainers decided to dedicate our lives to opening a completely FREE boxing gym. We have put every penny we earn into this gym. Everything I make in my day jobs and fan page (mostly the fan page) helps to fund the gym, while the Patreon helps me to fund my dream of quitting my back breaking job in concrete and work full-time as a YouTuber/Creator.
WHAT ARE YOU: I'm a goblin. I got my dad's tits and his jaw...what about it??
WHAT ARE YOU ON: Bro, if I was on roids, THERE WOULD BE SIGNS. I am a SMOL, natty Muscle Mommy!
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I usually greet my crush at work with a hug. I think she suspects my crush on her, but I don't know for sure, but anyways, I had my headphones on with some random Børns song playing like white noise. She was mid conversation with her peers. But then she saw me and hugged me like usual. But then my BT headphones, which comes with a sensor to increase the volume at the right side, got triggered because it came in contact with her temple probably and I had the words "By your electric love..." blaring in my ear with the volume smoothly increasing each second, and I swear to God the world fucking stopped. TBH it felt more like everything fell into place. And every damn sound just drowned out. I was having trouble breathing and my vision just blurred and fucking turned pitch black.
Do you know what the duration of that entire line is? 9 seconds! Are co-workers even supposed to be hugging that long? I almost clenched my lit cigarette and gave myself the worst kind of burn, but somehow managed to stop and smile as her like I usually do while we both turned back to our own peer group like I didn't just fucking die a few seconds ago!!!!!! This woman is gonna be the death of me.
And the worst part? My god damn boyfriend who I freaking love a lot, walked up to me with his friends and started rambling about some nonsense I didn't care about because I was replaying what just happened over and over and felt like the worst person on the planet.
I'm gonna have to prepare myself to chill with Hitler in the lowest circle of hell where I'm definitely gonna be placed in.
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