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i'm not actually mad i just like the comedic delivery of righteous but pointless anger

I have noticed in recent years that men say “no homo” way less often than they used to when I was in high school at least. Like I’ve witnessed in media and online and in person adult men just willing to say “I love you” or “you look great” to their guy friends without tacking a no homo onto the end of it.

And if you think that’s not progress you weren’t there in the trenches.

what-even-is-thiss

I’ve seen middle aged comedians on national tv sincerely say “I love you” to their friends with no jokes attached. Nature is so slow to heal but it is possible, I tell you. We have planted trees and seen them survive.

probuccalfat

no unique experience for real

aropride

the fact that 8pm is only 3 hours after 5pm is fucking insane. we have to do something about this.

clementine-kesh

i’ve made this post a million times but it really does drive me up the wall when people think that the phrase “everything is political” means “everything is related to current political happenings” instead of “everything is a product of its context”

tomundsen-deactivated20250731

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

space-cookie11

#ugh #just the fact that you can see how awful elizabeth feels about pulling that card #(while also of course having to use herself as a bargaining chip) #but also that he KNOWS #of course he knows #and he is just hoping that she means it #at the end of the movie he asks her *so this is where your heart TRULY lies?* #not omg lizzie u don't love me??? #he KNOWS (via primruesabcd)

visorforavisor

I think disability justice would be easier if abled people understood that being disabled is a mixture of all three of

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

and that trying to treat one of these as if it’s another one will get you nowhere.

thlayli-rah

Hot take but I really do think that some of y’all need to consider how/why/when/how often you’re making fun of straight people for being straight

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

So, I dunno, I think maybe some of y’all should think about that too

thlayli-rah

Coming back to say that while a lot of the responses to this post have been mainly positive, some folks have an attitude that it should be something that my friend— or any cis, straight man —should just be able to get over, because fuck ‘em, that’s why, because they’re in a queer space and they should shut up and accept it, because you suffer as a queer person and they should have to suffer too— regardless of whether or not this specific person has done anything to wrong you

I’m gonna say this point blank— you’re a tar pit if you think this way

Your suffering does not make you special, you are not granted brand new permissions to be belligerent and cruel because you have been treated poorly, straight people aren’t an oppressed class, no, but they’re people who are entitled to the same amount of basic decency that you, yourself, are entitled to

It feels good when you’ve been treated like shit to then go forward and treat other people like shit. That’s what you’re admitting. Does it make you feel good to do harm? Are you proud of that? Are you comfortable with being that kind of person? Because I dunno about the rest of you— but I realized I wasn’t, and it turns out it’s pretty fucking easy to change

therubberducker

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

I feel like on the left we started separating the concepts of "bullying" and "systemic oppression" so we could explain the big things like racism and kyriarchy, and why whitewashing characters is bad while race-bent characters are good even though on the surface it's the same thing, and then we backslid into "only systemic oppression is real and matters." Like, we looked at people on the right going "But if straight-only comedy nights are bad, so are queer-only comedy nights", and rather than going "Context matters" we went "Actually the only determining factor is which group is systemically oppressed", and gleefully pranced our way to the opposite binary.

Bullying is still bad. Marginalised people can 100% be bullies. They can 100% be wrong. They can 100% be shit-heads.

If your instinct to make yourself feel better about your oppression is to find a group you think you're allowed to bully, do some self-reflection.

probuccalfat

why do so many freaks go right to “there should be exams or tests before you have kids” when the real solution is better social services, robust infant and child development education that is accessible both financially and schedule/distance accommodating, and resources throughout any stage of a child’s life. genuine question like did you think about any social development before going straight to eugenics

solarprominence

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

ghostlythinglady-deactivated202

A lot of fantasy goes with Tolkien explanation of fantasy racism being the result of ancestral grudge.

Then you got Dungeon Meshi which is like:

"Elves and Dwarves hate each other because their respective empires make up 2/3 of the imperial core and are stuck in a cold war as the planet runs out of uncolonized land to grab. Elves are able to live in pastoral paradise because they've horded most of the settings farm-able land and natural capital, displacing and mass murdering any natives in the process. Orcs and goblins are hostile to other races because there the primary targets of an ongoing slavery and genocide campaign. The dividing line between human and inhuman is arbitrarily assigned via a phrenological pseudo-science that quickly falls apart when questioned by anyone who wasn't indoctrinated into it since birth."

ayy-junipei

Yarn holder

ayy-junipei

The slurperrr...

heedra

In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.

zerosocialskillz

I'm pulling these tags out prev

agent13ronnie

”She ruined his career” is something that is often said when a victim comes out about an abuser. Have you noticed how untrue this statement usually is? Abusers like Brad Pitt, Jeremy Renner, Chris Brown, and Johnny Depp still have careers. Meanwhile female victims often have smear campaigns against them. Female victims like Megan Thee Stallion, Blake Lively, and Amber Heard get memed about and treated like jokes.