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Where is your compassion

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[hiimneptune]

Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem

[momoboyds]

so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh

[creatingblackcharacters]

"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month

[sunflowerdigs]

Britain only stopped paying former slave owners restitution in 2015. It used tax payer dollars to put $20 million into the hands of slave owners as compensation for the enactment of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 for 182 years. And only stopped when the "debt" was fully paid. Yet Britain isn't the problem anymore.

[shes-unforgettable]

"Put that behind us" means refusing to acknowledge that it even existed, placing blame on impoverished countries that got that way due to centuries of slavery and colonisation, and refusing to collect race-relevant data in-country to amend structural inequalities because out of sight out of mind. "Put that behind us" when our cultures and countries have been irreversibly changed and even completely wiped out leaving us without a sense of ancestry, land ownership or our own language, but then treat people of other races, even those born in your countries, like they're a threat to your nations' very existence.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

note to self: sometimes you have to let people be wrong about you, because they will refuse to see you any other way

[beneath-the-moon-and-me]

[belvira]

She balled so hard they banned her from ballin.

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[napalmdebt]

[hellanahmean]

The great thing about pride is that you can do your own event. And there's usually other women/people who want the type of event you're doing. One year I was invited to a privately organized lesbian pride event and it was great. About 50 women (and children and dogs) attended a BBQ on the beach. I really encourage y'all to rent a park bench and invite who you want. It's a great way to make new friends and meet new people. You can do pride however you want. Don't let the losers kill the good vibes.

[hellanahmean]

One woman flew in from central europe just for the event. 3 of the women from the event are still friends of mine today after 12 years. It wasn't even in June. Do what you want. It's fun and it will positively affect other women's lives. Trust me.

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

when the curse is lifted

[mevil]

[kkoffin]

physically, in modern day design, children are recognised as not merely “small adults”. designs take into consideration their softer skulls, pseudo-kneecaps, extra bones, underdeveloped immunity system, different ways of processing food and even breathing. not to mention obvious proportional differences.

even when proportion is less of an issue, pre-pubescent and older minors have physical differences taken into consideration - different organ processes, skin issues, lack of strength, and different sleep and nutritional needs.

further, design for the elderly is massive - fragility, muscle weakness, lack of dexterity etc.

all this but still, medical, safety, and health equipment and advice for women is just designed for “small men”. next to no consideration is given to the differences between women and men unless it directly involves reproductive organs.

you may think many of the above are obvious differences, but are women having breasts not also an obvious difference? because regardless, in car design and CPR dummies, breasts are entirely forgotten about. teaching CPR for children is absolutely standard, but for women (50% of the population, mind you) is rare. children have special seats in the car, or may not be allowed in the front seat for safety reasons, but seat belts aren’t designed with women’s breasts in mind, resulting in women dying in more car accidents.

as a child, i was told endlessly that i needed more sleep than adults. I was never told that adult women need more sleep than men. i was told endlessly how children need extra calcium and vitamin D. I was never told women need nearly twice the iron intake as men.

women’s bodies make up half the population and every single new human life is dependant on them. It’s absurd that male bodies are always the priority when women are literally the only reason humanity can CONTINUE. it is absurd and borderline self-sacrificing for society to continue neglecting women’s health and physical differences.

[bish0ps]

accused of using too many ellipses... don't care... there's always more to come...

[friendlyfreakazoid]

It’s actually funny as hell that you can successfully ragebait like 99% of the human population just by existing as a woman and not altering your natural body. Like people get SO MAD about a woman having leg hair but like… thats a natural part of all human bodies 😭😭😭 it’s a human trait, it’s part of the package of being a mammal…

[helenvaughans]

[carrotcupcake]

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[dvandom]

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

[waywardmartian]

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

[sandersstudies]

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

[3liza]

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[ratajota]

[violet-lavender-fem]

the actual pride month rundown

- marsha p. johnson repeatedly identified as a gay man and drag queen and survived into an era where the language did already exist if he chose to identify as transsexual. he explicitly stated that he was not transsexual and claimed that all transsexual people were also homosexual.

- sylvia rivera did identify as a transsexual woman (and made disparaging speeches about lesbians). she was not an ally to lesbians. lesbians and transwomen have not always been allies.

- neither of them were there when the stonewall riots began, according to marsha’s own testimony. sylvia was sleeping off a drug trip on a park bench, and by the time marsha arrived at stonewall, the riots were already in full swing.

- storme delarverie, a mixed black gender-nonconforming lesbian and drag king, may have been the one who incited the stonewall riots. she never identified as a transman despite surviving into an an era where the language was made accessible to do so. accounts differ as to who started the riots.

- stonewall was not a special haven for trans people and drag artists, it was just some bar where gay people met up. by all accounts, it wasn’t even a good bar.

- pride as a festival and parade was invented by gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people. fred sergeant is one of those gay men, and he has been beaten (in recent years, as an elderly man) by trans people and their allies due to his views on medical transition. non-homosexual trans people were unheard of in this era.

- this is just united states history, and not even the beginning of gay rights activism in the united states alone. the rest of the world didn’t necessarily base its gay rights activism on stonewall.

[bakerstreetdoctor]

@ethotheosis how about not leaving this in the tags