The idea that being born with a penis/testicles means that you’re biologically programmed to be an aggressive, domineering, violent, selfish asshole and there’s simply no way to avoid it is patriarchal propaganda meant to excuse men’s violence (especially against women), and to convince women to blame themselves when men are violent against them, and any feminist who tries to repackage this view in their analysis of “biological sex” is what 11/10 experts call a sucker
Not that I expect Tumblr to be the kind of place where John McCain’s death to be met with the rending of sackcloth and the gnashing of teeth. But this is a good summation of how i’m feeling right now.
You know, I’ve tried writing material where the number of bisexual and gay characters present matches up with real-world demographics, but even that’s apparently enough to get folks passive-aggressively going “wow, is anyone in this setting straight?”, so basically my answer from now on is “no, not a single person in this setting is straight”.
When a room has 30% women in it, men think it’s 50-50. When it is 50-50, they think they’re outnumbered. Just one of the fascinating statistics on how people perceive gender balance, says Laura Bates.
…When a story has 5-10% not-straight people in it, a lot of straight people think “the gays are taking over.”
Well… You are a terrible influence and I love it! 😂
Hi I want to say. This seems cool in theory but please do not try this on your front door or other doors that you ever want to be able to lock again.
I know this is going to sound really dumb, and I’m not proud of it, but one day I got locked out of the house and, because I had seen this exact post like once, and having plenty of bobbi pins on my dumbass head, decided I might as well try and pick the lock. In my defense, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown and was fully aware that I probably wasn’t going to be able to actually pull it off, but figured I’d try to amuse myself for the hour or so I had to wait for my mom to come home.
HERE’S THE CATCH. LOCKS ARE REALLY, REALLY FUCKING SENSITIVE. If you fuck around with them even a little bit, you will just absolutely ruin it and the key will be completely useless from that point onward. Obviously this did not occur to me in time to stay my destructive little idiot hands. The many times that I have seen thieves and cool action heroes pick locks in movies or vidya games, it was in situations where they didn’t really give a shit if they ruined the lock forever. But, that’s what I did to the front door of my own fucking house. Spoiler: I didn’t even manage to get in. I just fucked up the lock so bad that NO KEY WOULD WORK. That was fun to explain to my mom when she got home to let me in with her now completely useless key. I wound up climbing in through a window and we had to replace the front door lock.
So yeah. Your thieves skill did not increase from seeing this post but my Dumb Idiot That Fucks Up Everything skill skyrocketed. Please don’t be like me.
the concept of production = good is literally the basis of patriarchy/heterosexualism and the basis of ableism and the basis of exploitationin general as it justifies the subsumption of one person’s life force within a larger productive schema so… if your politics is in any way based on prioritizing productive forces over reproductive reconstructive forces and the destructive decomposing forces those require to operate, forgive me if i’m ultimately not enthusiastic about your lopsided suicidal cult, whoever it claims to speak for and however it claims that its personal ecological distortion is less harmful.
production without limitation and negative feedback: when it shows up in economics we call it accumulation, when it shows up in cells we call it cancer. wild, unstopping growth has no place in communism. even a “communist state” must decompose the productive forces–the bureaucracy, the cisheteropatriarchy, the factories–before it can reconstitute them into part of a working ecology, or else by adopting them it will inevitably recreate the exploitative structures it deposed.
Wow, it’s almost like this post was made for a reason? Anyways, you can find all these posts and thousands more by literally just typing ‘kweer’ into the search bar, it’s not hard to find people using ‘kweer’ as an insult, and ironically all of them are against using ‘queer’ because ‘it’s a slur’.
I love how a huge chunk of these people are transmisogynists.
What is worth bearing in mind, amongst any other problems, is that ‘kweer’ is a variation on ‘queer’ used by some Asian communities—not something that should be appropriated as a pejorative.
Don’t forget its also an african/African American spelling on top of all that
I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
^^^ The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage
My husband and I used to think we were “preppers,” until we discovered that for most people, “prepping” means hoarding guns and ammo and bear traps and nonsense like that, and planning to turn on other survivors in the event of some society-destroying cataclysm. And here we were geeking out about woodworking and first aid and sustainable edibles foraging and water purification and subsistence farming and how best to set up an agrarian community to maximize square footage.
Turns out we’re just prepared solarpunks. I think I’m fine with that. Miss me with the toxic, gun-crazy, neighbor-hating Prepper culture and join me in my garden of native wild edibles.
Just reblogging to add that I kept reading this as “Preppy” and now I want a tv show about a sorority surviving the apocalypse.
I was really into the stuff the person above talks about when I was a kid, the idea of relearning the old skills to live off the land as a part of it.
Such a disillusioning experience to find out most of the people interested in that are not actually interested in it, but really are just looking for a pretext to worship guns and view society as a zero sum game.
I think also this mentality is one of the conclusions of that whole hyper-individualist/libertarian mentality– that we spend our lives accumulating resources for ourselves, not mutually in cooperation with other people. To this mentality, it’s easier to consider collecting water, farming food, making clothes, if you’re not beholden to provide those services for other people. You don’t have to prove your water is potable, or if you can transport it reliably. You don’t have to consider having a surplus of food or how to divide food amongst several people. And you don’t have to worry about if you will have to spend time and energy clothing someone else who doesn’t directly contribute to your own prosperity, if they are entitled to your products because they are in a mutual relationship with you.
But like… looking at not just early societies but extant societies in the world living right now, all of those things are more easily achievable with the help of a community. One person farming or hunting enough for themself to survive is hard, but more people means more person-hours in the day to achieve subsistence. Everyone digging their own personal private well is labor-intensive, but a larger solution can serve many people and there’s nothing stopping anyone from making backups with the surplus labor in case the main one fails. Creating goods like clothes or houses or tools is much, much easier with friends to work together on the project.
Basically what I am saying is that in seeking this power fantasy where one doesn’t have to carry those other losers in society, preppers are making way more work for themselves. People might dream that if the world ended they might no longer have to be a project manager or go to meetings or collaborate with people ‘at work’ but honestly without the useless cruft that’s why we have civilization.
ugh 