skunkitty

Marcy Rose or Al. ⬆️ 18. TME. Perisex. Mixed black&lightskin. Racially ambiguous. Moderate physical disability and mild cognitive disability. ΘΔ Thing. It/its. dr baby kitten buggy. I like bugs. Ask me about them. Reblog and described art account: @witchsreblogs [Icon ID: Chip from Wachifield, a small and fuzzy black cat.]

[witchshut]

Ok I made a new account. If you wanna know what it is then DM me somewhere else you have contact with me. If you don’t know me anywhere other than Tumblr then sorry…

[missstrogen]

This idea of "meeting a trans girl where she's at", of "never pushing her" kills girls, by the way. Ask me how I fucking know.

There is a horrible pressure put on trans girls to be normal, to not ask for things, to not do anything, to not exist. Without that pressure, that push forward, the girl dies.

When a girl tell you she is a girl, you cannot stop at milquetoast acceptance. You cannot stop at "I'll always support you no matter what" You need to be here for her, to help her, by making a safe environnement, and by actively helping her discover herself. When you stand here to "leave her space", you are about as helpful as a rock.

Too many girls need actual support. Not a one tile acknowledgement and a subject never again brought up. If she is expected, at every turn, to come forward, to make every step alone, that is a terrifying pressure you put on her, in the name of giving her space. You need to be here for her. actively.

Most new girls needs a push. If they don't get that, they won't ask for anything.

[b0tster]

trans woman: this guy harassed me

comments: have u considered that ur wrong? maybe they just misheard him? perhaps ur just wrong? maybe he didnt mean it? maybe ur just wrong?? source?? do u have a source???

cis person: yo that trans woman is friends with a literal murderer

comments: NO WAY ARE U SERIOUS?? I 100% BELIEVE YOU.

[txttletale]

usamericans really need to understand that if you have ever received a paycheck in USD and then used it to purchase items priced in USD then you have benefitted from the privilege of living in the imperial core, no matter what sort of brutal poverty and oppression you are otherwise facing

[geeseareassholes]

can you please explain what you mean by this? i'm confused, are other countries' paychecks not in the local currency?

[txttletale]

sure. people in other countries do get their paychecks in their local currency, which is in fact the source of this inequality -- for multiple reasons that all boil down to 'usamerican imperial hegemony', the dollar is the primary accepted currency of international trade. for some commodities, like oil, it is for all intents and purposes the only accepted currency of international trade. that means that imported items and items produced for export across the third world are priced primarily in dollar terms, and will see their prices fluctuate with the value of the dollar. this can cause the prices of goods to spiral completely out of control as the dollar that controls the underlying logic of commodities pricing changes in value relative to the local currency most people are receiving wages in. acquiring dollars themselves, of course, can only be done with steep exchange rates at prices many people can't afford.

so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.

[txttletale]

you can see this most obviously in the ability of usamerican 'expats' to retire to the global south (typically central america or SEA) to live comparatively comfortable lifestyles because their savings are in dollars but just because it is most obvious there do not mean that its underlying logics do not apply more broadly

[txttletale]

this is also why migrant workers from central america will risk coming to the USA illegally, facing legal consequences and intense racism, to do agricultural work for slave wages -- having their paycheck in USD means that money reaches a long further when they send it back to their families in their home countries.

[blubodhi]

This simply isn't the case for people in poverty and food insecurity, whose paychecks below a living wage would solely be used for the necessities of life which have high costs matching the high value of the dollar. Like, yeah, maybe the $540 a week a 7/11 worker makes (10 hrs, 6 days a week, $9/hr to assume) is comfortable within Mexico's cost of living, but in the US that's not enough to survive in most cities. Maybe you have a bigger market with a wider variety of goods available, but ur not spending ur $2000 a month on that, ur spending it on survival.

The only part that fully applies is what u say about remittances. People who expat are *not* the same as those who face brutal poverty. More people die of hunger in the US (over 20,000 per year since 2019), or lack of healthcare, than several dozen poorer countries. Consider Cuba, whose peso has hardly any value compared to the dollar, but whose cost of living is low, with a high "social wage" to compensate. Nobody in Cuba benefits from imperialism (quite the opposite), and p much nobody dies of hunger either (a relatively "privileged" life imo).

I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.

[txttletale]

right, but usamericans living with poverty and food insecurity can still have the basic assurance that the dollars they are paid in will be useful to buy food when they go to the grocery store. the point is not just 'dollars are worth more than other currencies' but 'dollars are stable, can reliably be used to purchase things, and imported and export-bound goods are both priced in dollars'. usamericans earning poverty wages and being brutalized by capitalism don't have to worry about finding ways to convert those wages into a currency that won't be worthless tomorrow. that doesn't mean they're not being brutalized by domestic capitalism, it just means that they're not suffering the effects of imperialism.

the idea that usamericans are somehow uniquely or primarily victims of hunger is also just not backed up by any data i can find. very unsurprisingly, it is a much bigger problem in africa, south asia, and latin america [x][x]. but like nobody is denying that the benefits of imperialism are not a lot of use to someone when they are dying because they can't afford insulin -- but that fact doesn't mean it's wrong to point out that usameicans as a class do in fact experience the benefits of imperialism. arguing that it does is just as specious as the old MRA 'wow, so you're saying a HOMELESS MAN has MALE PRIVILEGE?' routine.

[athousandgateaux]

Really starting to believe that the "Everyone is 12 now" thing is just a way for people who really want to say the r-slur to call other people mongoloids without the moral pushback that would entail.

[athousandgateaux]

Again, it's telling that eugenicists coined the term "moron" to mean an adult with a mental age of 8-12. Saying that every adult you want to criticize and look down on has the mental maturity of a 12 year old isn't the sick burn you think it is. It's literally just fascist bullshit.

[rui-cifer]

To understand capitalism, we need to be able to see it. This is difficult. Many people believe we can understand capitalism from our own experiences, which makes sense, considering how powerfully it structures our individual lives. Unfortunately, our own experience is a terrible guide. We see only a tiny part of capitalism at any given moment, and we miss the vast story in time and space in which it is embedded. ... Understanding capitalism from our own experience is like taking a movie frame and looking at one detail, then trying to deduce the movie’s plot from that particularity.

- Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History.

[bladeweave]

you can feel the moment in a tv show when a woman who was an independent character suddenly becomes a love interest. its like shackle locking onto her ankle.

[selfpoweredoxygenmachine]

girls are so strong

[selfpoweredoxygenmachine]

once a girl put a cup over me and a paper under me so she could remove me from her house without harming me i didnt know that was possible she must have been very intelligent or creative

[witchshut]

Nobody likes Alopex the way I do which is so so so miserable. I’m gonna live in my bubble forever. If you ship Alopex with Raph I’m docking points.

[flowercrowncrip]

Disabled adults should get to choose to go to bed whenever the fuck we want, even if the support we need to do so is inconvenient or expensive.

Disabled adults should be able to go on nights out with friends until 5am then sleep in until the afternoon if we want to.

I really shouldn’t be turning down social invites because my care provider and local authority say I need to be in bed by 10pm at 26 years old.

[flowercrowncrip]

Update to this post: it turns out that local authority was not involved in setting my bedtime. My care company imposed the rule and blamed the local authority to make me think they were being “reasonable” when they were simply becoming more controlling following me raising a complaint a few months ago.

Since making this post I’ve sought professional advice and it turns out it’s considered intuitional abuse and it’s hella illegal in the UK to have a strict bedtime for adults who have the capacity to decide when to go to bed. (as in a potential violation of the human rights act and mental capacity act). This should imo also extend to adults without capacity and people who need support to make decisions shouldn’t be supported by someone who wouldn’t accept the possibility of an “unusual” routine being in someone’s best interests.

That doesn’t mean it’s not a common thing to be done to disabled people, even those judged to have capacity, but it might mean that it’s possible to challenge it if you’re in a situation like I am. You may want to consider getting advice or doing a safeguarding referral either for yourself or with support from a friend, relative or a professional who supports you.

[discodeerdiary]

I think a big reason why "children are an oppressed group" gets (wrongly!) read as a "pedophile talking point" is that everyone treats children so terribly that actual child molesters can speedrun winning a kid's trust by like, actually respecting their needs and perspective, at least at first. Which means that the only way out of this mess is for all of us adults to treat children with respect, so that abusers can't use the rareness of that respect as a weapon.

[discodeerdiary]

Yeah I've been thinking a lot about how cults will prey on marginalized people and how it's so much easier to push an "us versus them" mentality on a person who already (legitimately, accurately) perceives the world as hostile to them

[clickrtrained]

in 2026 we must all use girl and babe as gender neutral terms. spread the word

[clickrtrained]

men suck and girls are awesome. hope this helps

[witchshut]

[ID: Text that says: “girl how is this any different from using dude or bro as a gender neutral term.” End ID.]

[glubby]

“Am I the only one who—” yes. You’re all alone. And nobody shares your experiences or loves you. And you’re floating on a raft in a dark ocean and there’s sharks and squids trying to get you and lightning is crashing and the water is choppy and black

[witchshut]

We should make everything illegal so that nothing bad ever happens. Let’s ban sex.

[annabelle--cane]

idk I just think happy queer stories need to be properly labeled so I can be warned beforehand to not get invested in the main ship because there won't be a culminating catharsis of mutual corruption and self-betrayal crystalizing into an inevitable murder-suicide :/ . like I don't think happy endings in queer media shouldn't be "allowed" to exist or whatever I just think tbh honestly to be honest that those creators need to think and be more responsible and let me have my boundary of nottttt wanting to see that. this is because I feel it's really important for me to see myself represented and reflected positively on screen and the real truth of my lived experience is that I'm gay and evil and I'm not going to make it.

[jame7t]

Waiter? For me, your yummiest slices of meats & cheeses. For the lady one yucky berry

[cryptotheism]

Berry Sized Cackling Evil Witch: you always know what to get me

[tlirsgender]

One of my controversial takes is that I kind of hate the term "rejection sensitive dysphoria" wrt adhd because it's so clearly the same thing as being anxious and insecure in relationships w trauma based disorders but people talk about it like it's just an intrinsic part of your brain that you're simply Too Sensitive & not, like, a consequence of every neurodivergent person alive being bullied as a child. Like that thing of how there aren't any non-traumatized autistic people to study

[tlirsgender]

Like if you have Struggles Socially Disorder you're going to be disliked by most of your peers growing up & you'll be affected by this. Maybe you'll get nervous about people not liking you. & then people will try and tell you your problem is that you have Sensitive Bitch Disorder because you're paranoid