kritter

《he/him lvl 58 mob boss》

[theimpalee]

things you can expect to see on my blog:

horror media - indie art - blood/gore (fictional)

nature posting - social justice issues - queer content

nsfw themes 🔞 minors DNI

TERFs & zionists begone

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[respectissexy]

Having experienced a lot of it in my 20s, I think some of the worst, pettiest, most straight up this-is-just-bullying-you're-passing-off-as-praxis incidences of Queer Infighting endemic to young people can be best understood as attempts to exercise power by people with very little power.

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

[drtanner]

I'm reminded of this post from 2017. To paraphrase, OP took part in community service via their university and part of that was cleaning the bathrooms at the local homeless community centre, which would frequently get trashed, not because the homeless people using them disrespected the work of the people cleaning them but because they had so little control over other things that happened in their lives, and the bathroom was something they could affect.

This, too, is a trashed bathroom; young queer people living through hell and having precious little control over their circumstances or the world in which they exist can affect something by using the language of social justice as a cudgel on their would-be allies, as well as getting a brief feeling of power over someone else by doing it.

It's not worth it. Don't trash your community bathrooms.

[theimpalee]

putting my hands on everyone's shoulders. if your brand of feminism boils down to men = bad and women = good, that isn't feminism, that's terf shit.

that's still putting men and women inside of boxes. that's still ignoring the fact that the sexual binary is not an accurate representation of human experience. that still doesn't address how factors like colonization have shifted global attitudes towards femininity over time, or how women also play a role in upholding patriarchy.

assigning inherent traits to people based solely on their biological sex makeup is bioessentialism, and that is a tool that misogynists and transphobes deploy. it's literally the same thing as saying men are strong and women are weak, you just slapped a girlboss 💅💋 coat of paint on it.

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[theimpalee]

here's a small collection of birds who remind me that These Are Actual Living Dinosaurs

shoebill

cassowary

bearded vulture

roadrunner

nightjar

[theimpalee]

the public demands more birds and I am happy to oblige!

dino-birds part II

hoatzin

great blue heron

helmeted hornbill

harpy eagle

secretary bird

[theimpalee]

here's a small collection of birds who remind me that These Are Actual Living Dinosaurs

shoebill

cassowary

bearded vulture

roadrunner

nightjar

[theimpalee]

sketch of Fleisch, my fallout ghoul

[sottopressione1]

Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945

[cwnerd12]

this will one day be us

[seashellronan]

guys i’m so sorry to say this but exercising and indulging in hobbies rather than scrolling on your phone for 200 hours actually does improve your mood and overall mental health, this has deeply upset me more than anyone

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of the fundamental flaws in radical feminism is the idea that men must be fully excluded from discussions about gender and sex related rights.

Decentering men? That’s expected. That’s often a good thing. However, coming from the default assumption that all men are a danger cuts you off from allies and narrows your scope of focus away from ways that the patriarchy harms people of all genders.

Feminism can’t be torn down and started from scratch. Our knowledge of the world and feminist theory exists because of the people who came before us. We can’t find some pure ideology completely divorced from the ideas that came before us.

Radical feminism also often completely ignores how race and economic status plays into oppression.

Why should a poor black woman feel more solidarity with a white billionaire woman than a poor black man? Why should an indigenous woman side with a woman who claims ownership over her ancestral lands over the men in her community fighting to regain access to those lands? Why should a cis intersex woman with XY chromosomes side with women who claim that a Y chromosome makes people violent?

There’s a lot of conversations that can and should be had about how socialization in early childhood shapes us, but socialization differs from culture to culture and family to family and how each individual person reacts to the exact same situation can be radically different.

Modern intersectional feminism is about nuance. Radical feminism is about ignoring all of that nuance for a simpler narrative that tries to smooth over all of the opinions of people whose life experience doesn’t align with theirs.

If person socialized as man=bad and woman=oppressed then the world feels simple. The enemy is well defined and all personal questions of morality and self doubt can be brought back to that one supposed truth. It’s the same comfort that people find in any other oversimplified ideology. If nuance is glossed over, the mind is free. All doubts can be crushed by going back to the one supposedly unchangeable truth that the ideology is based on.

The world though, unfortunately, is never that simple. Nonviolent men willing to unlearn their biases exist. Parents who raise their sons well exist. Intersex people exist. Trans people exist. Women who abuse their power over men and boys exist. Race, class, nationality, disability, politics, and sexuality exist. And all of those things make the simplicity of radfem ideology just, so stupid. I’m sorry, but it’s overly simplistic and stupid.

The idiots in power want us to be divided. If you dismiss half of the human population as potential allies, that’s a pretty big division. That makes it easier for them to conquer us. The enemy is the patriarchy. The enemy is authoritarianism and racism and all of the other isms and phobias that keep us down. The enemy is not inherently people born with different genitals than you.

[thebreadslut-deactivated2023120]

Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

[jordanbolton]

Separating - Jordan Bolton

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[mf-dude]

[trr3rr]

He's a journalist

[boobookittenartblog]

Adolphe Millot - sea life

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

[naurielrochnur]

Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.

Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.

He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms

His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.

Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore

And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL

[tedrakitty]

@official-linguistics-post

[uhtreds]

locked the fuck out. distractionmaxxing

[m4rms]

Eat you whole