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i tend to avoid discourse because most of it is trite and pointless but just this once i feel like i need to state my opinion: i think everyone should bend to my dark and evil will

star-trekster

buttpoems

gayteensupreme

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

gayteensupreme

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

#mr. k #mr k. movie #Mr. K (film)#Tallulah H. Schwab #crispin glover

doctordune

feyd-meowtha

thekidsfromyestergay

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

otherworldly-tresses

An incubus tells you that they will grant you whatever deep, dark, fucked up desires you crave. You tell them what you want, and the incubus kills off all the billionaires.

You two still fuck though.

hairscare

oh my god i never posted this

helsinore

anyways, read The Coloniality of Gender Studies, or: What is a Not-Woman? so that you can get jump scared (but in an informative way) This may come out jumbled, but this essay kind of bass boosted my feeling that "daddy white empire DESTROYED every single PURE non-western utopian society that LOVED the queers and women forever and ever" is actually a racist take. it feels racist within of itself to assume that the west is just so powerful, so indomitable, so superior uh i mean just soooooo evil and terrible like the guys in star wars, that, with its epic colonial powers, it could singlehandedly destroy the vast majority of all societies on earth. and like. i get that the grain of truth (so to speak) held within this is that western colonialism had massive and horrific impacts and still does. but at some point it feels like we circle around to "the west is just SO powerful, SO strong that of course it would be able to install patriarchy into places which had never considered that before" like again i get they did try to do that in a way, with like, for example, christianity, but like -- we still have other world religions that have survived western imperialism. they do still exist (despite best efforts by missionaries to scrub them from existence). thousands of years of religion did not just evaporate into nothing. so why would thousands of years of multiple cultures' allegedly alternative-to-patriarchal ways of society? This line -- "Is it not in and of itself an act of colonial Western epistemology to make this statement about all non-Western societies?" Really gets me because it is like. Yeah. Applying the exact same assumptions about so much of the world treats it all like some sort of vague, oppressed blob. And once again I think about this line -- "What manner of society did not even allow its women to propagandize for it? "

Talia words it best-- "Oyěwùmí here is not concerned with the unvarnished truth, the complexities of non-Western systems of oppression, and certainly not with feminism of any kind. [...] Her work represents the apotheosis of academic discourse between the racism of the West and the classism of the upper-crust of non-Westerners. [...] The West’s relationship to the Third World remains a deeply orientalist one. [...] Maybe I should listen to this charlatan who is trying to push a very particular narrative? It would be racist of me not to, right?"

where I do come out feeling that it's like. trade offer. the wealthiest people in non-western societies get to propagandize deeply conservative aspects of non-western society and make anyone who isn't cool with, idk, child marriage apparently, seem like the racist for not Accepting This Ancient Pre-Colonial Practice (what?); this allows for these rich people to excuse/justify the structures of oppression within their own societies that continue to benefit them presumably -- and western academia endorses this point of view so that they can feed their guilt complexes about how powerfully evil the west is and pat themselves on the back for Really Caring About Those Others and also use this propaganda about non-western societies as some kind of eat pray love about how the world used to be queer, wow, let's all buy mass produced t-shirts with culturally-inspired designs (which culture? no one is asking this) about it or something. The fact that Oyěwùmí seems to get away with calling statistics white people shit feels racist in of itself. There seems to be like....how do I put this. Either westerners slander non-western nations as barbaric savages with backwards practices, or they decide to be enlightened and swallow down the idea that math could never truly represent a non-western nation, and that gender segregation in a non-western society is Okay Actually, and "that's just how they do it over there smh it's racist and colonial mindset to be upset about misogyny." In both cases the west is in a way treated as some sort of default, and in both cases the "non-west" (most of the planet) is dehumanized, where either their cultures as a whole are evil and unchanging and full of violence (and this will be used to justify any invasion...), or any systems of oppression where misogyny for example is reinforced are actually totally okay because That's How Those Non-People Over There Do It With Their Weird Incomprehensible But Ancient Enlightened Culture! ...you get what i'm saying? it's like....it's like any non-western society can't actually be a complex and living thing. It's either that all of it is worth it, or none of it is worth it. It's the type of ideology where people justify killing palestinians because "they would throw gay people off the roof!!" and the usage of work by a princess who justifies child betrothal as a cultural practice to fuel decolonial queer feminist theory or whatever have exactly the same root, just -- two diametric sides of the same coin. at the end of the day, everyone who isn't a westerner looking to clout chase by slurping third gender juice or a wealthy non-westerner doing image PR still continues to suffer under multiple systems of oppression and get treated like a non-person. no one is saved by any of this.

helsinore

*lighting up my cigarette* and the metal of the coin....the glue of the root...is that it's all in service to the west. it's never actually about understanding non-western societies or solidarity between queer people and women across cultures...it's either about how much you can hate "backwards" people and justify invading them, or how much you can use them as feelings material for feeling guilty about colonization x fantasizing about a past .... a queer retvrn, even (uh oh!!!!)

taliabhattwrites

Decolonialism and anti-racism isn't saying "Oh The Barbarians Are Actually Very Enlightened They Just Do Things Differently They Just Don't See Child Marriage As Misogynistic" it's treating societies outside of the West as complex and multifacted and evolving and living and full of their own contradictions and aspects and politics and conservatives and progressives.

Don't see us as fucking Violent or Noble savages? See us as fucking people?

aruviwrote

Colonialism resulted in many things, one of them being transforming native bigotries and coopting them into statemaking, often laying bare the horrors of perfectly indigenous prejudices and giving them a standardized codification and a state logic. And people being people in ousting the colonists leave the scam open for native bigots to take over post independence. I really like Terry Pratchett's discworld for portraying 'native' bigotry as coming from fundamentally the same place as 'colonist' bigotry back home.