#'splainers

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So.  That Thing™ with the two boys + the artist’s self-righteous petulant ‘splainy rant about how only one of them is Valid™ because that’s somehow up to him rather than the other guy? 

Why the fresh hell is it in my recommended, again?

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“If you’re not ready for discussion, you shouldn’t post at all!”

Says the person who:

Swept in on a wave of high dudgeon to begin with.

Started babbling incoherently about real-world issues and concepts of which you clearly have minimal understanding and still less desire to understand.

Trivialized the above into matters of mere rhetoric and philosophy (even going so far as to use the word “propaganda” inappropriately). 

Whined about others allegedly faking the moral high ground for calling you on the above, while yourself breaking out the standard excuses for faking the intellectual high ground.

Decided to be randomly ableist in the bargain.

And...has a 3edgy5u anime icon.

In closing: nothing resembling productive discussion seems likely to be your forte even at the best of times.  So hush.

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Actually, I am one of those people.  And even if I weren’t, it would be entirely within my rights to call you on your ‘splaining.  But thanks for automatically jumping to the “lazy” conclusion and generally being such a shining example of exactly what I was talking about in that post, I guess?

P.S.: As long as y’all are all reciting from the same error-riddled script that you just take at face value instead of bothering to fact-check it, y’all do not rate to accuse anyone of being “lazy.”

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I think there actually is a completely or mostly vegan culture: The Dimona community in Israel. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm pretty sure someone has tried to argue that veganism is universally feasible by pointing at them.

Looked it up.  Dimona is a city, and the vegan group in question don’t make up its entire population (far from it, in fact).  While their exact status seems to be debated by Dimona residents and by Israelis as a whole: one way or another, I’m not quite sure that they could really be said to constitute a distinct culture in and of themselves. 

Now, there are a lot of vegans in Israel as a whole.  But any vegan who’s trying to use one small group in one city as a “gotcha” in favor of vegan absolutism is misled (and probably trying to tokenize a group to which they themselves don’t belong). 

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What is your opinion on Virginia Messina? I think that she does a good job of refuting the china study, but she is still someone who claims that veganism is universally feasible and dismisses ex-vegans as "not doing it right".

I think that her refutation of Campbell’s fictionalization of the China-Cornell-Oxford project qualifies her as a classic example of a broken clock being right twice a day.  My thoughts on anyone claiming the universal attainability of veganism (namely: it’s ableist, it’s paternalistic, and it would be cosmic justice for anyone who thinks that to develop my legume sensitivity) are unchanged.

@fucknovegans, @ableist-vegans, @agro-carnist

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goldenglyphs replied to your post: “So.  That Thing™ with the two boys + the artist’s self-righteous...”:

is that the truscum post accusing the one who adheres less to traditional gender roles of being a """transtrender"""

Yeah, that’s the little bastard.

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there's a large reblog chain of people who disagree with the op and turned it into a positivity post, but because there's a huge amount of notes on it tumblr thinks the original post is popular and recommends it to people without the commentary.

Okay; you guessed correctly which one I was talking about.

Seriously: I saw what I thought was just some cute character designs, clicked on it…and here’s this douchebruh ‘splaining about what adds up to how real men are not allowed to wear pink.  And while I did see people calling him out in the notes (including a “what did you say about my boyfriend?” from the character whom the artist had validated), I also saw a bunch of people praising him for being “brave” (newsflash, kiddies: mainstream bias is not punk rock and never will be).

And then, the damn thing shows up in my recommended again; and it looks like the criticism has been buried in a flood of praise (aside from someone trolling him about toes, anyway). Ugh.

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I think having had Sam provoke the racist party in Dear White People was a dubious narrative decision.  Realistically, it’d be treated as “proof” that she was just “looking for things to get offended about" and had made absolutely everything up—no matter how many of her examples had nothing to do with her provocation, or how enthusiastically her bait was taken.  Because that’s how it tends to go even if you didn’t provoke them at all.