#equality and stuff

[lacy-shoes]

Literally just do whatever you want as long as it’s not harmful to you or other people. 

I don’t give a shit who you want to marry or fuck or how you identify your gender (I mean I’ll try to be polite and use all the right pronouns but it doesn’t make a difference to how I treat you) or which religion you follow.

You shouldn’t give a shit who I want to marry or fuck or how I identify my gender or what religion I follow.  

Honestly I get so mad when I see people who are intolerant of other people’s very normal lifestyles because it’s 2015 and WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE UGH I just can’t grasp why anyone would be concerned about two men living in the same house and checking a different box on their tax forms. 

[soundvsvision]

So...Happy Halloween and Things Instead, I Guess

I was going to write a whole blog post about how much I not only hate racism, but how society won't let racism die because everyone is so caught up in how bad racism is, and how if everyone hadn't made such a big deal teaching about racism when I was a kid I wouldn't have had a second thought about race and inequality at all. I was gonna write about how annoying it is to have every world literature class I take be taken over by discussions about racism, and how if you want to spend three weeks talking about race, we should have a separate "Racism in World Literature" class. I was gonna write about how I like Stephen Colbert's and many other people's idea of not seeing race, and just seeing people. I prefer to like people for who they are as people, not who they are as a gender, member of a race, et cetera.

...But then I got lazy and figured that would be perpetuating the whole thing to begin with, and I remembered I have a ton of stuff to do for the con this weekend. Go Youmacon 2013 everybody!

So I probably won't post much, and if I do, it will most definitely be con or cosplay related. Cosplay is my current hobby passion.

So cheers and Happy Halloween!

-SVV

Random tag is laconic.

[takeadeepbreath-andcarryon-blog]

Halloween costume idea!

Dress up like you usually would on a day to day basis and then when people ask what you are say gay. BAM get it because you can't tell the difference

[tansy-91]

I used to believe in the concept of “NPOV” (neutral point of view) that is one of the governing principles of Wikipedia, but I don’t anymore. The old saying is that history is written by the winners. Likewise, in practice, a neutral point of view seems to mean the particular point of view of whatever political groups have the biggest cognitive and emotional weapons. As a concrete example, I repeatedly ran into resistance and even ridicule when editing articles about trans people that used the phrasing “was born female” or “was born male”, to use the phrasing “was assigned female at birth” or “was assigned male at birth” instead. While the latter phrasing makes fewer assumptions, editors insisted that it was “POV” to say that people are assigned a sex at birth, but “neutral” to say that someone who may never have affirmed himself as female was born female. I can’t conceive of “NPOV” as being anything but a tool of domination anymore. Rather than striving for neutrality (which doesn't exist), I would rather strive to mark opinions as opinions and provide citations for facts. I think it’s easier to distort the truth in an atmosphere of false neutrality than it is to do the same in an environment where it’s the norm to acknowledge your biases and the social position from which you speak.

Tim Chevalier, "When who you are is off-topic"