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[alexical-gap]

My least favourite thing about straight incredulity about marginalized identities is how it is a self perpetuating cycle. When someone comes out/talks about their identity and a straight person (more or less) goes:

“Oh, I’ve never heard of that before. If it was a real thing I think I would have heard of it before”

This can be said in a lot of different ways with a big range in anger and condescent, but it’s important to recognize because it encourages silence. This is how it’s a cycle: step one-- marginalized person talks about their identity. Step two-- marginalized person is discouraged from doing so by non-marginalized person. Step three-- Margialized person(s) stop talking about their identity in general/to that person. Step four-- the idea that ‘no one is like that’ is reinforced. Rinse and repeat.

I’m super not advocating coming out/making yourself vunerable to dangerous people but this is one of the reasons why I think being out and proud is so important.

[alexical-gap]

Sometimes I think about how the culture of many english speakers is apparent in their language. The way we use insults, especially, show a distaste, if not outright hatred of women’s bodies, POC, disabled, and gay people. It’s very ingrained, and I know a lot of people don’t think about the words they use like that. This is one of the reasons it gets so much kickback. I think sometimes words ARE actions, though, and that’s why being aware of what they mean and how the effect people is important.

[felicisfox]

also uh. i’m not really sure what’s going on re: taylor swift but i mean?? everyone was worshipping her not long ago and i mean. whatever it was i really don’t think you should be shitting on her to this extent just because she messed up this once??? 

like. like i said idk exactly what she did but you’re all suddenly treating her like the devil incarnate and making some pretty shitty jokes about her just because of this one thing she did and it’s just?? give her some time to redeem herself??? maybe you should give her a chance to learn from this 

if she carries on doing shitty stuff then sure, carry on, but honestly this one thing shouldn’t define her as a person and it really sucks that people are letting it cloud over all the good stuff she’s done 

i’m not saying it should be ignored, whatever she’s done she should be made aware that it’s wrong, but it really seems like it’s being blown entirely out of proportion tbh?? idk that’s just my two cents on this whole fiasco 

[ignimortis]

Why these people want to be offended by every-fucking-thing?

[babukizushiku]

It speaks for itself. 

[vermillionsketcher]

[ignimortis]

There are some things you can't affect, like gender and skin color and nationality - those are inherent parts of a person and no one deserves to be treated differently for those. But this "oh god I'm so offended over any criticism that I want to ban it" shit should stop ASAP. And there's a line between being large and being obese. It's called "healthiness". P.S. Patriarchy paid me to make this post, obviously.