#based mom

[greenshark666]

my mom is finally watching stranger things season 4 and she just texted me “steve reminds me of a kid i knew in high school” followed by “hes gay now”

[2econd2ight2yd]

“why don’t you like weezer? I love weezer”

-my mother, 2024

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

I appreciate the things that the west has brought my country and others in the global "south" (third world I suppose), but what I absolutely can't understand is: why do "woke" people defend things that women and children are subjected to here. There are rules barring females to enter certain places (temples, kitchens during menstruation, certain women not being allowed to work etc) , forcing us to cover up, etc. And its even worse in the middle east of Asia. Why do they defend our oppression as cultural relativism?? If they would not like to be subjected to the same rules, why is it okay for the women here to be subjected to that? Do they not want equality for us?

They really don't.

Let me clarify that a bit. There are two phenomena I've observed.

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Firstly, in s simplified form, Post-Colonial Theory insists it's unacceptable to judge another culture by western standards, or view other countries through western cultural norms. Like treating LGBT people as humans, and not executing people for what they say. (Although....)

Because, as everybody knows, "western" culture is monolithic - since American, British, Canadian, Australian, German, French, etc, etc, cultures are all interchangeable, donchaknow - and all dictated by cis, straight, white men, rather than having developed, evolving and experienced as a result of embracing the participation of many different cultures, as well as solving pragmatic issues, such as how do we determine what is true, how do we maintain peace, some of which result in different answers.

But, who are we in the west to say that women in Iran might not have a deep cultural connection to wearing a full-length body-bag their entire lives? Or treated as unclean and a pariah due to normal, healthy biological cycles. It's not for us to judge.

It makes people who are struggling and need advocacy into pawns in stupid political games. in order to "stick it" to the cis, straight, white men who they imagine just want to colonize the shit out of everything, they turn around and say how empowering hijab is, how beautiful and peaceful Islam or Hinduism are.

It's deliberately contrary.

Never mind that in Islamic nations, the original culture has been completely subsumed under the boot of religious dogma, the true colonizer here.

And many people want to be free of it.

What these ideologues are actually saying is that women in these countries don't have the same hopes, ambitions, dreams. Like they're a different species altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-bBHpJ9_KI

"I would like them to talk about Muslim women the same way they talk about themselves. I would like them to see us as no different from them."

-- Yasmine Mohammed

So, yes, cultural relativism, and shall we call it, "western guilt" over telling the brown people - since this is also an astonishingly racist mindset - in a foreign country that maybe there's other, better options.

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The second phenomenon is best described by a quote from Christina Hoff Sommers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47bXIznf-E

Now Atena Farghadani is one of millions of women and men whose basic rights have been ruthlessly violated.

I have been to international women’s conferences and met women’s rights activist from countries like Yemen, Iran, Egypt and Cambodia. They are struggling for freedoms that most women in the west take for granted.

They are organizing against barbaric practices such as child marriage, forced veiling, honor killings and acid burnings. Many of them are asking for moral, intellectual and material support from American women’s groups.

Too many young feminists are too preoccupied with their own supposed victimhood to make common cause with women like Atena Farghadani.

If you look at texts used in gender studies classes, visit feminist blogs or websites—you find alarm and outrage over the allegedly oppressed state of American women.

[..]

This past year [Note: 2015] I visited Yale, UCLA, University of California at San Luis Obispo, as well as Oberlin and Georgetown. I found activist feminist students passionately absorbed in the cause of liberating themselves from the grasp of the oppressive and violent patriarchal rape culture.

Their trigger warnings and safe spaces and micro-aggression watches are all about saving themselves from the ravages of the male hegemony.

It’s not that they don’t feel bad for women in places like Iran, they feel that they share a similar fate.

Except they don’t. They are free women. They are the beneficiaries of two major waves of feminism. Their rights are fully protected by law.

American women, especially college women, are among the freest most self-determining people in the world.

Instead of retreating into safe spaces and focusing on their own imagined oppression, they should be reaching out to women like Atena Farghandani.

Oppressive patriarchies do exist—but the United States is not one of them. Millions of women are suffering. There are few nobler causes than finding ways to help them.

We must remember that third-wave feminism was the vector through which the woke theology gained a foothold, via intersectionality.

Empowerment has gone out the window. It requires responsibility and acknowledging agency. Instead, you have an entire culture of people whose core personal identity is best described as "learned, mutually-affirmed victimhood." The problem is that it works. So while newspapers run articles about such things as whether "Jedi" is a term of white supremacist, trans-patriarchal-able-bullshit-phobic-jargonistery, people like you who need to be heard are drowned out.

It's astonishingly narcissistic, and directly the result of Intersectionality.

Once they liberate themselves from their imagined oppression, such as Dungeons & Dragons, skyscrapers, Mozart, men sitting comfortably, and air conditioning, then they'll get around to helping others.

Don't hold your breath.

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Both are gross. There is a deafening silence from western feminist and LGBT groups, who pretend to be interested in the plight of women and LGBT people, over what happens in other countries.

But are instead preoccupied staring at their own navels.

So, to return to my original answer: they care, just not enough to stop signalling their own virtues, or start thinking about anyone else.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

Does your mom like undertale we have to know

she refuses any retro-style/pixely games. she only plays rpgs like this

she wont play anything that doesn’t ‘look good’ which i definitely got from her but the thing is her tastes never grew parallel with advancements in graphic technology. she still thinks fable looks great. and when it came out, it did! it looked amazing! but she held onto that and decided that its possible for a game to look too good, because it ends up cluttered and hard to look at. i think i agree with her, but i also like cluttered games so we differ there.

she sometimes plays skyrim but she told me once she wished that the people of tamriel were afraid of her for the murdering she’s done, not just because she yells really loud. she likes daedric quest lines because NPCs will remark on the items if you have them equipped. 

she plays video games like once a month but it’s literally always either racing or fable. she’ll play mario 3d world if any children are visiting, but she’ll basically dominate the stages, bored as all fuck.

so games like undertale arent her thing, even though i tried soooo hard to tell her about the endings and branches and shit. she was just like ‘mmm.. nah’

[nieludzki]

I told my mom I don’t want to be associated with the rest of the alphabet soup community and she said “I don’t blame you.”

[lastsonlost]

The Rose McGowan hypocrisy.

[witamyksiezniczka5678]

40 Things I wish people would understand/My Opinions

1. Modern day feminism is toxic and harmful

2. The gender wage gap is a myth

3. The racial wage gap is a myth

4. People of colour are not oppressed (I say that as a Native Canadian)

5. The LGBT movement as become insufferable (I say that as a gay man)

6. Being transgender is a real thing, being non-binary/genderfluid is not (But regardless if you're a respectful and decent person I'll respect it. I'll even use your preferred pronouns)

7. Male privilege does not exist

8. Being gay is not a mental disorder

9. Islam is not a religion of peace

10. ANYONE can be racist regardless of skin colour

11. Free Speech means all kinds of speech. That means from the far left to the alt-right and white supremacists.

12. ANTIFA are the fascists

13. Capitalism is the best economic system ever created

14. Socialism/Communism destroys nations and kills millions of people

15. Women can be sexist

16. Gender studies courses should be removed from publicly funded institutions

17. Using the Bible or any other religious text is not an argument against gay people

18. Vaccines should be mandatory

19. Video games do not cause sexism/racism/homophobia

20. The body positivity movement is disgusting 300+ pounds is not healthy nor is being under 100

21. Men and women are different. That's not a bad thing, we're just different get over it

22. I do not like Ann Coulter

23. Not all liberals are radical SJWs. Just like not all conservatives are not alt-right white supremacists

24. Israel is not an apartheid state

25. We do not live in a rape culture

26. There is only one race, the human race

27. I wish Christina Hoff Sommer's was my Grandmother

28. Though I'm not the biggest fan of him, Donald Trump was the best choice for president

29. "Mircoaggression theory is macroannoying"- Christina Hoff Sommers

30. White Privilege is not real

31. Sexual preferences are not discriminatory

32. There are only 2 genders (But I really care less)

33. Children should not transition (medically speaking)

34. #Metoo has become a toxic movement

35. Men's issues are a real genuine problem

36. Pride marches have become hypersexualized and have lost their true meaning

37. Rape and sexual assault on campus are genuine problems. But the statistic that 1 in 4 girls are sexually assaulted/raped is very wrong

38. I don't care for Beyoncé

39. Diversity in movies/television show isn't bad but shouldn't be the primary focus

40. Intersectional Theory is stupid

[eeveelutionsforequality]

"Friendship is the best way to overcome bigotry, real or imagined - maybe the only way."