#rjalker

[thisis-intersexism]

rjalker just recently started identifying as intersex (learned from v-hypospadias about VH) and made an alternative blog/account to yfii called "yourfavoritecharacterisintersex." not long after making this blog, it just posted dismissing those with ambiguous genitals/mixed genital & gonadal setups. "you can't have both" ok rjalker, tell that to my clitorophallus and vagina. tell that to people with vulvovaginal setup and ovotestes. tell that to people with penoscrotal setups that have ovaries.

maybe if you know nothing about our community, nor unpacked your intersexism, you shouldn't be frothing at the mouth to claim your brand new shiny marginalized label, and especially not making gimmick blogs for us.

also rjalker and its friends clearly don't understand how someone can be intersex & have a complex gender identity in part to it since they (plural) were invalidating an intersex person for being both transfem and transmasc.

these people are violently intersexist and do not represent our community at all. they have no right to be running gimmick blogs speaking over us.

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This is intersexism.

To be so blatantly wrong about ambiguous genitalia, then to make a replacement blog for yfii because it blocked you is laughable. Skull, and every other person participating in this witch hunt, are jokes.

[specialagentartemis]

you're absolutely right that "murderbot should have killed all of presaux" was one of those ideas. the other was apparently something to do with "mensah should buy more slaves" which i will not be looking into further because seeing that genuinely made me feel sick

rjalker has been beating the drum of “Murderbot should have killed PresAux because they are its slave owners” for a while now, so that bit is unsurprising. This is because rjalker either cannot read or it has decided hating Martha Wells for being a white woman from Texas is the most important kind of activism it can possibly do. Probably some of both.

“Mensah should have bought more slaves”… okay, I can see where rjalker is coming from here: rjalker believes that SecUnit slavery is a perfect 1:1 analogy in every way with American chattel slavery of Black people in the 1700s-1800s and ought to be treated as such. So “Mensah should have bought the freedom of more SecUnits than just Murderbot” is an argument that follows, at least—in the 1800s, there were abolitionist fundraisers to buy the freedom of enslaved people.

One problem with this is of course that SecUnits are literally manufactured in a way humans are not. Another is the nature of the company. In-universe, SecUnits are treated a bit like cars loaned out by the company like car rentals—if you learned right now that every Enterprise car was alive, sapient, and being abused, the ability to buy a lot of them right then and there is… not really super feasible for most people. Rjalker also assumes that Mensah is filthy rich because she’s a planetary leader, apparently viewing her as some sort of Putin-like figure who has unilateral control over Preservation’s wealth, or something. Which in real life we are not given to believe is the case.

“Well Martha Wells should have written Mensah able to buy the freedom of lots of SecUnits” I don’t necessarily agree that this would have been a better story tbh. I don’t know that making it Mensah’s story of being a unilateral savior would be better? Part of the point, as I see it, is watching normal people try to figure out what’s right and do their best, as well as centering Murderbot’s personal journey.

I am still definitely hopeful that Preservation and the University will do something now that consciousness is being raised about SecUnit personhood and the abuses they face! Like I genuinely really do want to see more SecUnit class consciousness that Murderbot is only slowly starting to realize, and more structural movements for freedom and equality. System Collapse brought us more free SecUnits and I genuinely do hope that keeps snowballing. I want to see some grappling with broader glactic politics! But I also don’t think it’s wrong to have a series from the perspective of one person slowly grappling with the meaning of its own personhood.

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

It's kinda funny, Moby Dick confused me more than Flatland or Le Morte de Arthur. I think it was cuz the narration vs dialogue kept going back and forth from more modern sounding to "thee and thy and thou", my brain couldn't figure out which track to go on lol

i don’t know what those other things are !

but yeah that’s fair. it’s a confusing book. all the Quakers characters (Starbuck, Ahab, Bildad & Peleg, and the other Quakers) speak using “thees/thous” because that used to be the informal second person, and in Quaker communities that was used with Everyone for far longer than most other communities. they used the informal second person with everyone bc it was a part of Quaker “plain speech/plain dress/etc” and a way of not differentiating (via formal vs informal) between ppl they spoke to bc everyone was to be treated equally (in the theory/idea of it at least)

anyway so all the quaker characters in mobydick use thee/thou/the informal second person while most everyone else just uses “you”

[wokerevolverocelot]

rjalker vague posting abt me like a lot of the ppl i worked with werent also victims of CSA 😭😭 they just actually knew when to disengage, manage their emotions and how to actually handle evidence instead of leaping to insane conclusions about not necessarily ATATU, but morbs, dymphna, ridafi and all the others because they would not put up with your emotional immaturity. The only company i regret keeping was YOU. yalls notifications and messages were what made me feel physically ill because i knew i woild have to deescalate an argument in a reblog chain. I was trying to both-sides it because yall were the ones with the most evidence, but the others actually knew wtf to do with it, and if that was cut because of yalls dumbassery, this would have went no where.

When i wrote my "baby's first discourse" hiatus post i was not aware of ATATU's rape defense connections. Once again, we convienetly ignore time stamps, context and interpret everything in bad faith. I didnt really know what else to call it at the time. Wtf should i call it now? Drama? that makes it feel more petty and insignificant. The ATATU incident? what do i say??

100% of the messiness of this situation could have been avoided if i blocked yall once i had everything holy shiiiiit

post in question:

[evrl0ng]

full crippled-peeper / penis-peeper / penis-keeper documentation! tldr; uses ai art despite acting like he's against it, makes vitriolic hateful posts using adhd and autism as an insult

thx 2 george for assembling this

pls dm me if you have any more screenshots!

[thenixart]

[id: Digital art of a tawny werecat drawn from the waist up. The werecat stares with mouth agape, ears flattened, and one paw flexed with claws extended. /end id]

Gift art for @rjalker

[I also have a kofi]

[the-voiddemon]

OK SO this is my last post (unless smth funky happens, idk) on this current thing going on, then I will shush on it. Especially since there are bigger fish to fry, and I feel like who is right/wrong here has been largely cleared up. I feel like since I largely brought attention to this in the first place (Didn't expect everyone to get wrapped up in it) I should make one last little post.

This personal opinion was originally going on the end but I am moving it to the top: I find it very weird and gross that these three(+some) focused so much on Britt and Ridafi14. Two wonderful people who only interacted with my post. Argue with me and accuse me by name instead of two people who did not level shit against you in the first place. Not doing so proves you are doing this shit in bad faith.

This is why this community needs to (and does) have a focus on not conflating shit and eagerly giving up evidence of claims. There are people whose minds will not be changed on any situation, and there are people who will. Saying "Oh, but I provided my evidence! You just didn't want to look" and then not doing so again will not change anyone's mind. Not listening when a good faith actor says "Hey, this doesn't prove what you're saying. Do you have more or can you explain?" won't change anyone's mind. Which generally this community is fucking great. Because almost everyone does in fact do that, which is very admirable. I love the people here bc we don't take shit w/out any semblance of proof.

When I made my post I DID want mind blowing evidence that changed my mind. And I did get evidence that only somewhat did, but not entirely, from someone not a part of the core three levying this shit. And I did not get it for the shit you were actively lying about.

If you make a claim about someone, especially a very serious one, you should provide evidence. You should also be kind (within reason) to people asking in good faith.

If people do not 100% fully agree with you, they do not 100% fully agree with everything you dislike. You are smearing someone by claiming "they are pro xyz" if they say "i am pro fake-x, but not yz" or "i am not pro fake-x, but x and y, and z are not the same thing".

Believe it or not, your credibility does matter a lot, and it goes down when you say shit baselessly. Especially when talking about people w/ way more cred than you (not me, but others you're trying to drag through the mud. My goofy ass is only mildly credible).

REAL ISFF shit is not screenshotting a post you disagree w/ and breaking it down on your own. Real ISFF shit is vagueing "look at these disgusting fake liberals, they think abc" and then not showing it. A lot of the shit you are saying now in response to my post (even with it's edit) is debunked in my post. A lot of the shit you are smearing about other people is disprovable both by their words and consistent behavior. You look like lying assholes conflating shit because you ARE.

Finally: yes two sides can be bad. Fucking duh. But if Fuckface(s) makes posts every thirty minutes being a little asshole, Fuckface(s) will get more attention.

[panicatthecriscodisco]

Oh yeah someone showed me screenshots of RJ accusing the author of animorphs of being ableist and pro slavery or smth bc in the book a character called Racheal is manipulated by a villain who makes her think her friends see her as a psychopath or smth.

The thing about being ‘pro slavery’ is that the VILLAINS are the ones who enslave others and the kids are trying to fight against it, the whole beginning of the story is learning there’s these slug aliens who trap people within their mind and control them.

Racheal dies at the end, not bc of sexism bc she’s ‘broken’ like RJ claims, but because the entire book series is meant to be a commentary on war and how it hurts everyone, Rachael is a casualty in the war, she’s one of the protags and because she’s so willing to do dirty work, she gets morphed more and more into a killer for the cause even by her friends. It’s like, clearly a commentary on how soldiers are treated. I have not read all the books but it’s SHOCKING to me that RJ read them all and came to the conclusions I saw them come to

ANIMORPHS???? ANIMORPHS???????? RJALKER MISSED THE POINT OF FUCKING ANIMORPHS THE ANTI-WAR SERIES FOR CHILDREN????? I GOT THE POINT READING THE FUCKING 29th BOOK AND NONE OF THE OTHERS