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I really really don't like this veneration of convents as "autism heaven"
made THE BEST soup last night
Creamy, dreamy and full of flavor, this comforting Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup will be on your must make list, forever! This easy dinner
giving unread book back to the library makes me feel like i should be shot
The fact that some people say things like this while other people think it’s totally fine to starve children is something that really should be talked about more.
period i am against that for sure
Quiet moments ✨
yippee pride month where all the cis gay men and cis lesbians proclaim “I love dick/pussy” and “I love hairy chests/tits” as synonymous with “I’m gay”, and gripe about “conversion” where the primary torture is being forced to interact with the other set of binary genitals, and romanticize people in opposite binary sex relationships secretly lusting for the same binary sex and cheating on their partners with them, and cite the beauty of homosexual history from times where pedophilia was socially acceptable and females had no power in society and being trans was punishable by death!
for a whole month I have to be “proudly” represented to cishet society by this majority, whose anatomy-centric bylaws of a proper and profound “gay” identity render passing trans people trojan horses of coercion and invalidation, while non-passing trans people are pompous dictatorial schizos, also, nonbinary people don’t exist but to be quirkier versions of men and women who are probably just really binary cis or trans depending on whether they’re a “nice” or “mean” person respectively, and those who MIGHT exist, only do because they’re not conventionally fuckable.
most cis bisexuals are blameless as far as I’m concerned because being attracted to a trans body doesn’t compromise their whole self-perception (in fact makes them feel MORE confident in themselves and that’s just plumb convenient for us), but THEY get rejected by cis gay men and lesbians just as well and it is SPECIFICALLY because they don’t discriminate based on anatomy, oop!
in any case, worst time of year if you’re trans and gay unless you exclusively hang around other trans gays who have no interest in cis validation, and/or, cis bisexuals who are actualized and indignant about their exclusion in the prevailing LG(BT if you’re so concerned about optics) community. but you won’t catch me fraternizing with a cis gay on pride month, because they’d only do so with me to parade as more worldly than the rest of em, in censored retrospect, of course.
“What does casual racism look like in LGBTQ spaces? A lot like casual racism everywhere else. Casual racism thinks mixed race people are “exotic,” penis size is determined by race according to “some studies” that probably don’t exist, black women are aggressive, and just about every other common racial stereotype under the sun. Really, stereotypes fuel casual racism in all its forms. Casual racism also thinks that LGBTQ people have transcended all responsibility for dealing with racial issues. For example, if you’re a queer person of color who wants to vocalize a racial concern in a predominantly white queer space and casual racism rears its head, you could be accused of being divisive (extra irony points if you were pointing out divisiveness that actually exists). Sometimes casual racism masquerades as inclusion or open mindedness. For example, there are some gay people who go out of their way to date someone of another race just to say they’ve done it. Such gays then receive the Congratulatory Cookie of Open Mindedness from people of color for letting us sleep with them. But not really, because dating someone because of their race is as ridiculous as rejecting someone because of their race. The same applies to predominately white gay groups that go out of their way to snag token people of color (oblivious to the fact that these spaces don’t always feel inclusive to the people of color in question). Tokenism may seem progressive on its surface, but it’s really just another form of othering. So if you see casual racism, remember it. And talk about it. Notice if you’re ever guilty of it and, if you are, take responsibility for it. I would say explain it to other white LGBTQ people, but it’s frustrating when it takes a white person saying the same thing people of color have been saying for ages to convince other white people to change their actions. Instead, tell them to take the race related concerns of LGBTQ people of color seriously – as in listen to us. As LGBTQ people, we get silenced all the time, told we’re too sensitive, told not to flaunt our sexuality. Sexual minorities of color can find themselves silenced further when their concerns about race are dismissed by the predominantly white, mainstream LGBTQ community. Let’s keep working to change that.”
— –Jarune Uwujaren, “How White LGBTQ People Can Be Inclusive Of People Of Color,” Everyday Feminism 2/5/13
真島吾朗 • MAJIMA GORO 龍が如く8外伝 • LIKE A DRAGON 8 GAIDEN (2025)
Wait I thought when ppl said "racist phase" they meant "time when I hadn't deconstructed racist societal beliefs" phase what do you mean these people were ACTUALLY going out there and being racist like on purpose 😭
Baby I’m so sorry but a LOT of white people had periods of time as kids or even early adults where they regularly regurgitated slurs and direct racism and performed cruelty on racialized people. It can legitimately anywhere from “saying slurs on COD at 12” to “putting various unsanitary and hard to remove things into Black classmates hair” to “excluded racialized kids around them because they were yucky/etc.” to “assaulting racialized people around them” to “spent time on /b/ and gained standard 4chan racism brainworms”
You also straight-up can’t guess what it’ll be until they mention it or it jumps out. As an example, back in montana there was a white woman in my local kink community who was generally SO fucking sweet, kind, and caring to everyone around her, including me. One day she posted this on Facebook out of literal nowhere:
And doubled down after I called her on it.
Please understand that “hasn’t deconstructed racist social beliefs” means “can and will use racism when useful or they think they’re safe to, or will engage in white solidarity”
If they haven’t actually put in the work to destroy the white supremacy they’ve been internalizing from society their whole life, this can be basically any white person, at any time, no matter how they’ve behaved previously and how much you think they’d never do something like that.
The racist phases are real, and often haven’t had the work done to truly end either.
I’ve wanted to make a post about this scene for a while, because it’s one of my absolute favourites, and I feel like it doesn’t get enough attention.
Here’s the scene, best watched in its entirety, because Kiryu’s speech to Makoto is really only a small part of the importance it serves as a whole (Major spoilers for 0, obviously).
I want to point out a few things here in this scene.
The entire time Makoto is speaking, Kiryu listens to her. He doesn’t interject, ask questions, just lets her talk. He’s not normally the type to interrupt anyways, but I believe he understands how much she’s gone through as a victim at the centre of the whole empty lot incident, and before all of that as well.
Makoto has been shipped around and treated more like the land she (unknowingly) owns than a living, breathing human being. Her disability causes everyone to treat her like a delicate child, as opposed to an adult. Lee and Majima conspire and leave her out of their plans, Majima stashes her in a warehouse; she’s a target, and she’s felt helpless the entire time, people are dying for her, around her, and she can’t even do anything about it. She wants to get stronger.
She is finally away from Majima and Lee, her self-appointed protectors, and instead falls in the hands of Kiryu. Intended to be more or less “bought” for her land, being shipped by the man she soon discovers to be the one who had caused her immense psycholigical trauma - enough to lose her sight.
She’s given a hidden blade by Sera, using it to free herself from Oda. She finally gets a moment to be strong, not having to rely on anyone else.
It’s after this, that we are given this scene, where she talks about her own past, her feelings, and Kiryu listens to her. He’s really not involved, he has no reason to offer help; his job was to transport her safely. But he can see that Makoto is in a similar situation to his own. Caught at a crossroads and feeling utterly powerless. Not only in a physical sense, but at the events unfolding around them too.
Kiryu doesn’t treat Makoto like a frail, helpless woman, he tells her he’ll do what he can to help. He removes himself from the role of the hero, and offers support. He knows that she needs to forge her own path.
For the first time, she’s not being pitied or babied for her disability. She’s being told she can overcome it, and he’s there to push her back into the ring if she falters.
I believe this may be at least one major contributing factor that causes Makoto to regain her sight. She’s determined to take her fate into her own hands, so much so that both symbolically and literally, she can now stand on her own two feet and walk towards her future, without help from anyone else.
Another significant note about this scene is that Kiryu does not look at Makoto until he begins to speak directly to her. The words he says apply to him as well, and it appears to be something he needs to hear just as much as Makoto does. He’s speaking from experience. He feels helpless, having his life paid for by Tachibana, waiting on him, counting on a man he - at first - hardly trusts at all. He can’t fight his way out of the situation, it’s not that simple. He’s been ready to give up, telling Nishiki to kill him and use his death as leverage to climb the ranks. He thinks, at the very least, his life will have some meaning if he can help his sworn brother have an easy and comfortable life after he’s gone.
It’s at that moment that Kiryu decides that he’ll “stand still and cry”, as he puts it. He’s given up. But he keeps going, and he fights for his life, relying on himself, pushing away Nishiki. He takes the necessary steps to survive, and to keep others safe in the process.
And then he looks to Makoto. She can’t see him, of course, but he still makes eye contact. It’s one more thing done to normalize the situation. Again, he’s treating her like a completely capable person.
He doesn’t pity her, he tells her he’ll be her backup. And she accepts.
It’s such an important scene for both Makoto and Kiryu, because they stand together in solidarity, in completely different, and yet strikingly similar circumstances. This moment most definitely influences Makoto’s decision to attempt to bargain with Dojima, and despite it not going as she had hoped, she still did the most she could at the time.
Had she stuck with Majima throughout this entire part of her arc, it’s extremely unlikely she would have grown at all, and that’s why I think this scene is so great. It gave both of them the courage to go on.
Who deserved to live more?
The Romanovs (entire royal family circa 1917 including the kids)
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Every time i think about this tweet i start crying
'women's bodies are SO amazing!!' is almost always a sentence in which intense dehumanising pro-birth propaganda follows. We must stop tying a woman's bodily worth to how fertile and impregnatable she is, to how well she carries child after child after child. To how well she can serve a breeding function. To refuse to uncouple pregancy and child bearing from womanhood and the worthiness of women is inherently regressive, weather you are doing it with a 'yessss girl powerrrrrr' coat of paint on top or not.