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positing hamas as some kind of evil boogeyman when hundreds (at least 300) of dead civilians are found in a mass grave around nasser hospital after the idf ran through khan younis……………🥴🥴🥴🥴

#Palestine #jesus. fucking christ

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#Palestine

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Question: Are you a top or a bottom?

Top: I'm a top.

Side: Let's conceptualize this question with a hermeneutics of power knowledge. We recall Judith Butler's observation that "which pleasures shall live and which shall die is often a matter of which serve the legitimating practices of identify formation that take place within the matrix of gender norms." Gay sex escapes the procreative expectation, but in the reproduction of these norms still adheres to the same performance principal. Under this discursive prison sex can never truly be about mutual pleasure. While some say our pleasure possibilities are hindered, I invert the accusation that yours are limited by an unimaginative phallocentric philistinism.

Vers: A hypocritical invocation of Butler when your argument is based on the presupposition of a prediscursive original desire, a flagrant departure from the Foucauldian tendency which Butler follows, and their further claims on the futility of trying to imagine a queer culture fully independent of heterosexuality. Your critique further ignores the treatment of anal sex as the defining sin of homosexuality and its place within a serophobic signifying economy. I implore you to read Leo Bersani's exploration of the topic, Is The Rectum A Grave.

Bottom: Did I really make it that obvious? Dhdhdjdjfjf

#even old new york was once new amsterdam

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helldivers 2 is really fun. I like that the game makes you feel overwhelmed and on the brink of panic at all times. its tutorial is legitimately bad, like it deliberately does not tell you how to play most of the game beyond “here’s how to shoot a gun and use equipment” but it’s for diegetic reasons, like the guy who leads you through the tutorial is a starship troopers buck turgidson style character who speaks to you exclusively through a microphone and tells you you’re one of Earth’s greatest heroes for shooting a wooden cutout of an enemy

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bed bug sighting in our apartment building. kills self one million times

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why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen

#cats

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actually now that we’re talking it out I hate that graphic. fuck that gay ass unicorn

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I’m really interested in the discussion about how future Star Trek stories can adapt and grow to avoid colonialism in its narratives and implicit worldview without essentially rebuilding the entire universe from scratch; where do we go from here? And how do we do better?

tbh I think grappling with the colonial premise of Star Trek would have to be a genre-wide reckoning, because sci-fi as a genre (at least in the west, I can’t speak globally, but Star Trek is obviously western) is founded on colonial premises. Like to treat it seriously the scope would have to extend far beyond Star Trek. I’m not a literature person and so I don’t really know how this reckoning would occur, what confrontations with the colonial lineage of sci-fi have already taken place (as I’m sure there are many), what those confrontations look like, what a decolonial sci-fi imaginary produces, and so on.

I know that’s a very unhelpful answer lol but if anyone has reading recommendations in this vein they can add them to this post !

#tos.txt #asks

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in that post abt the gender unicorn graphic, in the comments the idea of the “split attraction model” is brought up and you say you dont want to litigate that. however, im really curious what your opinion is bc i have some ideas abt it too. i feel like its sort of an incomplete analysis? like, people feel different ways about others and that cant really be flattened into like two modes of attraction. but i personally would call myself aromantic and bisexual so obviously i have some level of investment of the idea. anyways i just ask because in general i find your analysis and opinions compelling

thank you! re: this graphic

My issue with splitting “physical attraction” and “emotional attraction” is that it does the same naturalising trick that the chromosomes-as-the-symbol-of-sex does - by splitting the emotional from the physical, this implies that physical attraction is natural, without emotion, and by the same token that emotion can exist completely detached from the physical body of the person you emotionally desire. Like I just don’t think this is true! For example, the idea of “casual sex,” ie sex that is devoid of emotion/emotional investment, is a social construction, it is a sexual act that is being contrasted against societal norms of “serious sex” or “invested sex” or whatever you want to call it - sex that is being done in the context of a monogamous, married relationship, or an otherwise exclusive long-term one. the base social unit of much of western society is the nuclear family, and the nuclear family is “ideally” produced by monogamous, cis-heterosexual, racially homogeneous reproductive sex. That is the norm by which all other sexual behaviour and activity is judged by.

and to be clear I’m not using “emotional” in an idealistic or moral sense, I am not using it as a shorthand for romantic feelings, I am purposefully using the language the graphic is using - I mean any emotion. Like just to be super clear, I’m not suggesting that people who have casual sex all secretly love the people they fuck, or that sex has to always be a serious emotional endeavour, or that people who do not feel sexual attraction to the people they have romantic feelings for are secretly lying, but that I don’t think sex is something that can be devoid of emotionality entirely. Like I think we are engaging in this Cartesian body/mind dualism where the physical acts we perform are somehow wholly separate from our emotional states. Pleasure has an emotional component to it, I don’t know how to articulate my experiences with pleasure that do not involve some level of emotionality, and emotionality has a physical character to it. Like in fact I think this graphic is treating emotions as ideal states - it reminds me of like old misogynistic psychological theory that described rationality as an absence of emotion, that to engage in rationality is to move away from emotion. It treats rationality as “out there,” objective, natural, detached from social influence, and emotion as “in here,” in our hearts, ruled by the social. And this distinction is made on the idea that the social world is detached from the physical world, which is pure idealism.

this is not a dismissal or denial of anyone who feels a disconnect between their sexual and romantic desires, such as asexual or aromantic people - while I am neither of those things, I have experienced intense physical desire for the person I’m fucking while actively dissociating during sex as a result of dysphoria/heteronormativity/etc etc. by the same token I have also felt emotionally compelled to be physically attracted to someone without actually feeling physical desire. These are both emotional states that were in conflict with my physical desires, or rather my physical desires as I understood them at the time. our ability to interpret and understand our desires is itself social! otherwise heteronormativity wouldn’t be a thing. We don’t have unmediated, unemotional access to physical desire, which I think this graphic is arguing, intentionally or not.

so having complicated, contradictory, disconnected, or otherwise ‘non-normative’ relationships to our emotional states vis a vis physical desire is obviously very real, and the reason they are real is because physical desire is also socially mediated and constructed. What and who we find attractive, why types of bodies, physical and character traits, etc are attractive to us are all part of (joker voice) society.

now, idk how you easily communicate this in graphic format. perhaps these things are unsuited to the medium of easily digestible graphics, or perhaps I’m limited in my imagination. either way I don’t think bifurcating emotional-desire-as-social and physical-desire-as-natural is particularly helpful

#asks #disabling reblogs because um. well you know what tumblr is like #this is not ‘ace discourse’ or whatever the fuck I’m not doing that shit and if you start on here I’m gonna block you #even old new york was once new amsterdam

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From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

#good words

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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I need to read more marx

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we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

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Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

#food

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trans men get to argue that we are women for the purposes of disavowing any male privilege we have while still being able to maintain the legitimacy of our transmasculinity. the inverse is true for trans women, whose oppression disappears if they were to ever attempt this same trick. and the reason is because these are literally terf beliefs, they are bio-essentialist beliefs, that trans men are divinely ordained as feminine, permanently cast as pure victims as a result of this female assignment at birth - we are women for the purposes of dismissing the privileged position of our manhood and we are men for the purposes of legitimising our experience with transphobia. our victimhood is absolute and comprehensive. trans women, under this same formulation, are made invisible, literally made non-existent; they cannot make any claim to experiencing misogyny as a structural force in their lives because they are basically, at the end of the day, men. denying the very banal, basic fact that trans men experience the privilege of being men is literally just transmisogyny. nobody is fooled by your bullshit!

me defending trans men online: we’re actually oppressed for being women

#even old new york was once new amsterdam #transmisogyny tw

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me defending trans men online: we’re actually oppressed for being women

#even old new york was once new amsterdam