#western centric

[mywitchcultblr]

I'm actually feeling sick and tired when I see a post discoursing or fighting about queer issues and then I realized that it is a USA/Europe centric post all over again, I'm not saying that western people shouldn't talk about it nor anyone shouldn't care about what happened in the west.

But it's just sad when you realize that the existence of queer people is acknowledged enough in the west to the point there can be discourse about it while in your country at the moment it's impossible.

I'm sad when I see post like "Pro tip and organization that you can call to help you if you are an abused queer person" and it's in the USA. Any solution and conversation about queer issues, any resemblance of help only available for western queers

So many leftist conversation are made by western people and only for the west, from the beginning to the conclusion and solution

In the end I'm just an outsiders, looking out of the window, joining a conversation that won't actually affect or help me because I live so far away from the west. Others have a lifeboat even though life as a queer person in the west can be sucks as well

I and others who don't have that privilege don't, we are just drowning and dying...

I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just acknowledging the near hopeless reality

[icedsodapop]

Ah, only on a Western leftist twitter account can I find the simultaneous release of a silly product placement movie and a biopic of a man who was complicit in a US war crime be described as a "cultural moment" 🙄

[auressea]

BBC Scotland - The Social, The History Of Women’s Body Hair Removal

Why did women start shaving their body hair?

[soulakuarian]

[keraleda]

Signal Boost

Looking for other non-western tumblrites that are sympathetically rolling their eyes at America’s everyday “woe is me” routine so we can elevate synchronised eye rolling to the level of an olympic sport

[animalrights101]

Are humans less valuable today than the future human sporting a 3,000-cubic-centimeter brain? And what about our "souls"? Did we have souls when our brains measured 400-cubic-centimeters, or did God slap them on us when we reached some magic threshold?

Created Equal- Ernie Bringas (2003).

“ If we did have souls early on, wouldn't today's chimp [and other animals for that matter] qualify for the same honour?“

[chamomileyes]

There are people who will say feminists are victimizing women by exaggerating the extent of sexual assault or misogyny, but then there are also people who expect women to be in a constant state of terror because whatever happens we could've prevented it and it's really our fault. So either way we're victimizing ourselves.

[animalrights101]

Those who care about animals are often represented as abnormal in contemporary American culture. Animal activists are represented as overly zealous, as human haters, even as terrorists, while vegetarians and vegans are often presented as spacey, hysterical, sentimental, and neurotic about food...Since many animal protein alternatives are not traditionally American, the marginalization of these foods as somehow weird or unnatural works both to solidify an American identity (what “real” Americans eat: real meat) and to exoticize the other. However, the abnormality of those who do not eat animals is perhaps best exemplified by the name of a popular vegan podcast and book: Vegan Freaks. The title refers to how many vegans feel that they are perceived by mainstream culture. Diane Beers writes in her book For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States “that several late nineteenth-century physicians concocted a diagnosable form of mental illness to explain such bizarre behavior. Sadly, they pronounced, these misguided souls suffered from ‘zoophilpsychosis.’”As Beers describes, zoophilpsychosis (an overconcern for animals), was more likely to be used to diagnose women who were understood as “particularly susceptible to the malady.”As the early animal advocacy movement in the UK and the United States was largely made up of women, such charges worked to uphold the subjugation both of women and of nonhuman animals.

-Vegans, Freaks, and Animals: Toward a New Table Fellowship -Sunaura Taylor (2013)