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I see a lot of Tumblr users who don't know their feminist history attributing the fact that women* are "allowed" to be masculine under the patriarchy as some sort of facet of the patriarchy universally accepting masculinity over femininity and that shit pisses me off so bad.

The reason why women* are "allowed" to be masculine when men* "aren't" allowed to be feminine under patriarchy is because DYKES and BUTCHES and other masculine women* SPENT DECADES FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO EXIST PUBLICLY.

The fact that women* can wear pants and suits etc. and are not constantly forced to be hyper feminine/in adherence with strict gendered dress codes without punishment (AND ONLY IN SOME COUNTRIES!) is a win on behalf of feminist political action NOT because of some baseline acceptance of masculinity in everybody by the patriarchy.

(*and people forcibly socially classed as women and men)

Like oh my lord some of you need to shut the fuck up and learn what it was like to be socially classed as a woman before the sexual revolution and what it continues to be like outside of the imperial core.

You are reaping the benefits of the activists who have come before you but because you do not know your history you are treating it like the boons of the oppressor classes and you are blind for it.

bedupolker

if youre wondering how things are going in america. This is for the exact same generic drug & dose in my zip code.

teabree-shark

Dog we have no idea either. I bet you yell at waitstaff.

bedupolker

No i do not, because if I buy a burger for ten dollars and it ends up being 15 after tax and tip that's just not a big deal, or if it was, i could eat at home. If it ended up being $540 and also if i had no choice but to eat the hamburger or suffer serious health effects then sure I would be upset.

Also, what if it was the waitstaffs literal job to talk to my dietician and see if there was an alternate hamburger that cost less than $540, or if my dietician had records saying the hamburger was covered and the restaraunt didn't get the memo.

& please highlight where in the post I say I yelled at anyone.

Use your brain.

sokkastyles

I saw some people mentioning the part in the movie where Taga calls Katara "water child" and wanted to look up the context, and the first thing I found was an AI result saying that Gran Gran calls Katara that in the first episode of the series, but she doesn't. Gran Gran calls Katara "my little waterbender," which emphasizes Katara as a child, but affectionately, and also acknowledges her power as a waterbender, not diminishing it.

What Taga says is an insult, as he says that "the skies are no place for a water child," and Katara has an insulted reaction. I am sure that this is supposed to be another example of how Taga represents division vs unity, and how he doesn't trust benders of other elements.

But a couple of problems. One is the ongoing problem of Aang having no reaction whatsoever to Taga saying racist things about his friends, and especially Katara.

The second problem is that this particular insult is particularly offensive, considering that Katara and her people are indigenous coded. "Water child" not only is a diminutive to Katara, who is not a child in the movie, but it also implies that waterbenders in general are child-like, which is historically a common stereotype about indigenous peoples, used as both a backhanded insult (the idea that they are closer to the earth) and to justify oppressing them.

And like I said, Taga is the bad guy, but the problem is that Aang never comments on it. This should be a red flag for Aang, and indeed, seems to be one for the audience. But Aang will later side with Taga against Katara, eventually yelling at her when she calls him out for driving them into the storm. Which is also funny because Taga says the skies are no place for her, but without her control of water, they definitely would have died.

When Taga makes the comment, Katara makes a super-deformed angry face and it's played off as "lol Katara is angry" instead of justifying her anger. Even as the plot validates her, Aang never really does. And I'm supposed to get the feeling that they're in love.

lobtwo

He's so

meenawrites

I have no words 😶

warri0r0fthemind

TOOTH

citizenscreen

Vincent Price was born on May 27, 1911 #botd ❤️

stargirl230

the girl who won’t grow up

seeing all the leaked screencaps of the aged up gaang got me thinking about yue </3

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

roycohn

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

figtreeandvine

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

writing-with-olive

Literally this.

Saying "there's no point in doing something small until the big thing is fixed" is literally just the Glorious Revolution Rapture story all over again, and it's not helpful.