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[waving] Hi, hello, it's me, the old gen-x'er on your dash! How's it going kids? [bad, it's going bad, I know, sorry for asking]. Let me tell you a personal story of how I watched exactly this play out in my social circles.
Anecdotally, my fellow cohort of gen-x'ers were convinced this was going to be the solution, the ticket, the fucking way. Inevitably, all we had to do was outlive these old mayonnaise white devils, because that's where the racism was societally stored - like a big racism appendix that would get removed someday.
We thought we knew what was up because we were cool white kids who listened to Public Enemy. And because we thought we were largely inoculated against racism, it was just a long cool slide into the Clinton years and we'd be set.
So we didn't question shit like South Park. We didn't question shitheads like 'ironic' (at the time) racists like Weev in our IRC channel. We had zero fucking awareness of how racism shifted, because the only examples of racism we were ever taught either wore a white robe & burned crosses, or sig-heil'd and lived in misery. We shamefully thought racism = southern*, and since we were alt-goth kids living on the west coast, we were fucking sorted out and safe.
It wasn't on our radar. We weren't ready. We hadn't listened to anyone, because we thought we'd learned enough to not be a problem, and wasn't that enough?
We didn't clock or understand the way racist language shifted into a new economic handwringing. We fell into stupid rhetorical traps that snuck racism into concerns about unhoused people and substance abuse. We refused to recognize and realize our own inherent racist attitudes because of the sunk cost fallacy of wanting to believe we really didn't have to do anything other than be cool and wait it out.
I watched some people absolutely lose their shit when called out on this and flounce directly into the arms of right wing philosophy (always some variation on "left wing politics has gone too far!" when it's pointed out how they're upholding inequality with a cherished attitude or anecdote they've leaned on for years to prop up the mythology of their self-worth).
No one was ready to realize they weren't good just by being alternative. And some of them cracked apart.
Racism has a full time advertising budget ready to repackage and rebadge it minute to minute, and you always have to do the work. It never ever fucking stops. And making sure you're always doing the work has the very valuable side-benefit of keeping you in touch with yourself and what you're about.
You gotta do the work. It never stops.
*-this fucking haunts me so much.
oh, this gets a reblog
Will also add to this that ANY other prejudice/bigotry/form of hate has to be continually fought as well, INCLUDING its encroachment into spaces that claim to be opposed to it.
Because the thing about bigotry - whether it be racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia - is that it's more like the flu than say smallpox. It's not a virus with zero mutations that, once the existing population has been vaccinated, disappears for good.
Using this analogy, hatred and bigotry are a constantly replicating, constantly changing, constantly mutating "virus," and if you don't keep updating the vaccines and getting them for each new variant and practicing reasonable public health precautions (washing your hands, not going out when sick) you, yourself, can easily become sick with it and can infect others. Anyone can.
To continue the analogy, let's say Transphobia A is your traditional MAGA asshat whining about "biological sex." Unfortunately, next year's Transphobia B will be "trans people are a Western bourgeois concern" or "trans people all have male privilege." Will you be able to be "ugh, transphobia is going around again" or will you eagerly agree that trans concerns are Western propaganda or somehow trans women and trans men both have male privilege, thus spreading the virus's new form to a new population?
Or Racism A is slurs and deportations, but Racism B is sneakily attributing awful things like SA and terrorism to a specific marginalized group (e.g. Muslims, people in non-Western countries) while defending it as "they can't help it and it's a way to lash out against oppression" - would you be "oh yeah, that's ALL racism," or would you, even for a moment, go "I guess that's true, they can't help themselves from hurting people" and happily spread Racism B because it slid past your defenses geared to spot Racism A?
Reblog daily for health and prosperity.
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Rb to give a touch starved trans woman a hug that'll make her break down
So, mature content huh Tumblr? Hugging trans women is mature content? Fucking *fascinating*
I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.
we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!
I've somehow gotten really into answering my roommate in animal noises and reading the locked tomb series
Last call for "it's 100% June"
IT'S ALMOST PRIDE MONTH
it's either pride or almost pride at all times
I hate that the "x reader" or "x Y/N" style of fanfic has become sooooo popular, partially because it's just not for me and partially because they clog general non-fic related tags and those authors seem allergic to the "read more" function on this website, but ALSO because I believe that you should have to go through the trouble of creating an absolutely batshit self-insert character, with a backstory that makes no sense and a name that doesn't really gel with the aesthetics of the universe. Legolas and Aragorn should be in a love triangle with Kylie, the angsty sixteen year old half-human half-elf and inexplicable tenth member of the Fellowship. Do the WORK. If everyone was doing "Y/N" nonsense back in the day, there would be no Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, or probably Bella Swan. These are important women. They deserve to be named, confusingly and with no regard for the fictional world they inhabit.
Give a man a leaf and he will eat it. Teach a man to leaf and he will go away
posts that could have also been in a newspaper in 1910 on a slow day
people say non-passing trans men get treated like defective women and that's true but so do passing trans men. you can look fully like a man with a beard, flat chest. even a phalloplasty and if one transphobic jerk in your life knows you are trans they will NEVER address you as a man even if you are indistinguishable from a cis man. you can look like a whole ass lumberjack and still get introduced as somebody's daughter. for most, the only way to be seen and acknowledged as a man is full and total stealth, keeping your trans identity a secret, cutting out anyone in you life that knows you used to be a woman. and that's not a good thing. we talk about pride as being fully and unabashedly ourselves, and there is no pride in hiding your trans identity and pretending to be cis just so you can have respect and be treated like a man
[Image ID: A screenshot of a tiktok responding to a message which reads "sorry Miss you are still a girl no matter wat u do". The openly transgender man in the tiktok is hairy and muscular with a full beard.]
Ok breaking containment for this one because I need everyone who will listen to hear this.
Women who suffer bad cramps are told cramps shouldn't affect school/work/etc, but no one ever investigates further because no one can possibly know if what someone experiences is just typical pain or something much worse.
Well after 15 years of stage 4 treatment-resistant endometriosis that came with pain as bad as, if not worse than, actual labor contractions every month, all the while being told I was 'typical' and 'just had bad cramps', I've finally been healed (another post for another time). I have had what everyone describes as the elusive 'normal period pain' for several months now, and I am begging you to look me in the eyes and listen because I need everyone who can hear this to hear this.
I have been on both sides of this. I have the hard-earned knowledge of what a period 'should' feel like.
If you have to put in any effort to hide your cramps, you need to get help.
Even during of the PEAK OF CRAMPING (i.e., as bad as your cramps possibly get), you should still be able to stand, speak, walk, eat, work, and sleep with no problems. These tasks should require very-little-to-no extra effort beyond what you would normally do when you aren't on your period. When you do these things, you should feel grumpy and a little bit icky and maybe a twinge of nerves and NOTHING MORE.
If you have to sit in the corner and hope no one approaches you because you can't speak or stand without showing pain, even slightly, you need to get help. If your pain is showing on your face, you need to get help. And most importantly, IF YOUR PAIN DOES NOT RESPOND TO 1-2 TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN, YOU NEED TO GET HELP.
Your period cramps should make you grumpy. Your period cramps should make you feel a little icky and tired. Your period cramps should make you feel your insides existing/moving a bit and a twinge of nerves that makes you groan slightly then the "pain" should stop there, NOTHING MORE.
If your cramps put you on the floor but you make believe you're the captain of a ship who has just been stabbed and has to hide it to fight on, and you force yourself to power through the day, please understand: you are not okay, that does not make you okay. Just because you can power through the pain doesn't mean you aren't sick. If you have to force yourself through any basic task beyond the effort it takes you to do when you aren't on your period, and I am holding your face and looking you in the eye as I say this because I need you to hear me: You aren't normal. You don't 'just have bad cramps'. You are sick and you need to get help.
Now most people will tell you if your cramps are beyond a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale, you should see a doctor. While this is usually true, you have to consider chronic pain CAN AND WILL BREAK YOUR PAIN SCALE. Most people will only compare pain they currently feel to pain they may experience one day but probably never will. "Sure these cramps feel bad now, but if I had a leg amputated with no anesthesia, that would hurt WAY worse, so this pain can't be that bad-" No. Your pain is what it is, objectively, full stop. My cramps were at a 10 out of 10 every. Single. Time. And nobody told me claiming they were a 6-8 because I thought to myself 'what if I lose a limb one day?' was completely wrong. 10 pain is 10 pain. And if there's something that hurts worse than that, guess what. The thing you are experiencing right now is still a 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. Just because you experience it every month doesn't mean it's magically not as bad is it is. And if your pain is worse than a 3 out of 10, you need to get help.
Now when I say get help, I mean find the root cause of your pain. You can't just throw drugs and hormones at it without knowing what it causing your pain. Endometriosis, fibroids, pcos, cancer, adenomyosis, polyps, thyroid issues, there is always a cause. And if you leave it untreated, it will grow and get worse to the point where it resists treatment and the drugs and hormones you've been throwing at it for years don't work anymore. You have to find a doctor that will investigate. If your doctor tells you you 'just have bad cramps' get a new doctor. I know you've been told that but please hear me: no one ever just has bad cramps. A healthy human body doesn't spontaneously cause itself pain so bad you can't stand up; there is ALWAYS a cause.
I was sick for more than 15 years. My entire life was put on hold and now I'm in my late 20s trying desperately to play catch up for everything I missed. I want to pick up 12yo me, spin her around, and tell her she doesn't have to die before she finally stops hurting. I don't want anyone to suffer the same fate I did simply because everyone told them they were normal. A little twinge of pain here and there is normal, suffering is not. I promise you your pain is real, it is not normal, and dear heavenly day I am begging you you need to get help now.
TL;DR: There is no such thing as 'just bad cramps.' If you feel anything more than grumpy, icky, and pain greater than a 3 out of 10, you need to find out what's wrong with you before it gets worse.
my doctor's like 'yeah that's just cramps, we've looked and your uterus seems fine, deal with it' after sticking a stick up my body once
and then of course 'we can always give you *expensive hormones that may or may not work*'
He has a lot of testimonials attesting to his effectiveness.
I'm so g-ddamn tired of hearing people counter asshole northerns essentially celebrating disasters in red states with, "but there are gay people and disabled people and bipoc in these red states, so we should care about them!"
I was one of those people for 34 years of my life. I was a queer, Jewish, trans woman who spent nearly her entire life in Texas. So when I say I don't care if someone is good or bad under my moral compass, everyone deserves to live in safety and security, I mean it.
I want a better world for all PERIOD. No qualifiers, no buts, no ifs.
I will offer my hand to someone who wouldn't off theirs to me. Even if it offers no benefit to me. Even if it works to my detriment. We end up in a society where fascism is possible when we start deciding who is and is not worthy of life.
Anyone who flatly dismisses red states because 54% of the population voted for Trump is an anti-humanist asshole, but countering that with "yes but there's people we like there, too, so let's make sure they live and the bad ones die!" is not much better.
This is the excuse liberals use to justify the genocide in Gaza or the wars with Iraq, Afghanistan, and in this recent ramp up with Iran. "Some of them are homophobic! Or misogynists! Or religious fundamentalists!" I don't care! They still deserve to live! They still deserve safety and security! Denying them aid is still bad!
Maybe I'm a naive bleeding heart, but I'd rather that than open my heart to dehumanization of anyone, even "bad" people.
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Looks like I will go to two festivals next year... WHOOPS
And since nobody wants to come with me there
DOUBLE WHOOPS
Guess I need to find new friends on the go eh?
Woohoo Rock im Park! Its gonna be wet tho.. Packed your rubber boots? I certainly did.
Maybe we'll see each other there. maybe I might even have a patch for you
ohaaaa without me qwq AGAIN
Same bullshit, different year
New liver, same eagles