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I find it quite strange how often people let a label decide for them how much love or importance they can give to something or someone. It demonstrates how often we see things as inherently hierarchical and how attaching labels to these hierarchies stops us from focusing on the thing behind the label, preventing us from exploring our own true feelings and, in the worst case, causing an endless cycle of discourse about labels. In this essay I will talk about how Pluto is still a fascinating and beautiful celestial object, and how people who argue that it should be a planet again are demonstrating their belief that the reclassification automatically implies that Pluto must be loved less, when in fact Pluto itself has not changed and you are free to love Pluto as a dwarf planet just as much as you would love Pluto as a planet planet.

#PFFFT

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CONGRATULATIONS TO CANON ACE KING DARIAX! 🎉

#Oh shit fr? #anyways aspecs stay winning

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cronch

#These are the smartest people in the series btw #+fyodor but rats don’t count

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I’m here to talk about a concept I am currently referring to as power-jacketing, especially as it relates to the queer community. This is when a marginalized group is painted as having power over others in their marginalized community when this is not the case. Power-jacketing and its consequences are a form of lateral aggression and tie into the idea of oppression olympics.

The point of this term is to understand and discuss the cycle we’ve seen of the queer community misrepresenting a queer group’s experiences to claim they have power over other queer people. An example is the way asexual people on this site a few years ago were misrepresented as “basically straight” because they aren’t often called slurs or physically assaulted for their identity. This idea was used to accuse them of taking away resources from “real” queer people and justify harassment towards them. It relied on ignoring the very real and sometimes unique problems that asexual and other aspec folks face, like being called less than human for not experiencing sexual or romantic attraction and the way aspec identities continue to be viewed as something to eradicate by the medical system.

It is power-jacketing to claim something associated with a marginalized group is a privilege and grants them power over others when that isn’t true. For example, having one’s identity erased isn’t privilege, invisibility isn’t privilege, and having to be stealth/closeted to be treated well isn’t privilege, but these are all treated as if they give the experiencer power over more visible queer folks. Claims of privilege are made by cherry-picking what counts as true oppression, such as murders and slurs, and then considering the target group’s reduced experience on that axis to be privilege while ignoring other, often quieter unique forms of systemic oppression the group faces. Privilege can be used to consider a group “basically straight/cis” (in other communities, basically White, abled, etc.) and deny them access to and support/resources from the community. It is power-jacketing to willfully ignore or purposely deny experiences of oppression by the target group. It is also power-jacketing to exaggerate a privilege gap between two marginalized groups while minimizing the gap between the target group and those with actual systemic power.

Currently, transmascs are being power-jacketed to explain why transfems should be allowed to talk over them and to justify their mistreatment. This comes in several forms. One is calling their invisibility a privilege compared to transfems’ hypervisibility despite the way it contributes to their oppression. The term power-jacketing recognizes that it is not privilege to swap one problem with another. Another big one is the claim that transmascs’ identity grants them male privilege. Using this term requires acknowledging that one’s social perception, how they’re perceived and treated by others, may be different than their identity; for example, trans men may identify as male but be treated as female, and transhets may identify as straight but be treated as gay. Ignoring or denying these lived realities is very much power-jacketing.

This theory is very much a work in progress, so if you have any perspectives or experiences to add please do!

#I’ve kinda felt this as an invisibility disabled person too #There’s a reason I avoid most of the wider disability community

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#I am currently working on long-form meta for the first time in years #It’s great and awful at the same time #for something I really haven’t done before probably fanfic #At some point I’d like to make some short vignettes as fancomics

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Parallels

#I love when people make fanart of that goddamn AU #like I’m pretty sure it’s just four panels #nothing else #and yet #Trigun

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It occurs to me, looking through a bunch of DNI lists and carrds (although it has surely been observed before by others), is that what the people who make these want is not unreasonable per se. Rather, what they are asking for is unreasonable, because what they want is to not be using social media. They want to be using forums, or group chats, or instant messenger, or blogs; they want online communication spaces that are moderated, that are topic-specific, that are limited to existing/vetted members. And these this desire is not unreasonable, but it does not match modern social media.

And because so many of the people who make these seem so very young, I wonder how many of them even realize that spaces that do what they want can (and used to, and still somewhat do) exist, realize that social media can't do what they want it to, but that social media is not the only way for the internet to be.

#I tend to see DNI lists as like #a reminder #nothing more

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I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

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Girl help I’m trying to write things up but whenever I look at the cinematography my brain starts short-circuiting

Man, I’m trying to do a deep read of Tristamp at the moment, but I’ve got to episode 5 and it’s… already rough

#BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK #AWOOOOOOOOO

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#I have seen emus! #Which are essentially desert cassowaries #*Checks Wikipedia* #Same family #different genus apparently #anyways ratites are cool af #every day is a good day for ratites #A bit hyper #but very entertaining personalities #Shame they’re not naturally occurring down here #I’ve been to places up out of Sydney where you can see wallabies just hanging around in the mornings #AND they have tarantulas up there #sorta #funnelwebs are tarantula-adjacent I believe #anyways I’m SO jealous #I suppose on the other hand our maggies down here aren’t arseholes #so #You win some you lose some I suppose

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Y’know an awful lot of Terry Pratchett’s books are concerned with how powerful women are when they get angry and how important anger is as a driving force to defend what is right and to tackle injustice. 

A lot of his most interesting and most deeply moral characters are angry ones. Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching. All are to a large extent driven to do good by anger.

And that honestly means a lot to me.

#👏COMPASSION👏IS👏A👏FORM👏OF👏STRENGTH👏

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Once again proving the reason I'm single is that I've set my self care standards so high: knew I'd be sugar low but too sleepy for a meal after That so I packed myself a chocolate bar with a smiley face sticker on it to find in my pocket and be delighted by later when I came out the gig, which I just Discovered and almost wept with joy at. No other man loves me like I do

#This is not the point of the post #but #I see ‘eating a chocolate bar to account for low blood sugar’ #and just #*whines in reactive hypoglycaemia*

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ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.

ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week

#The only nice thing about being ill at the moment #is that since I can’t sleep at night (too blocked up) #I’ve essentially become nocturnal #and I’m actually doing stuff!

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Me looking at Vash and Knives when I realize all dependent plants are female and all other independent plants we see are female and that Vash and Knives are the only male plants:

#Under this interpretation I would like to add: #Elendria as an AFAB intersex trans woman #(I’m not entirely sure on the terminology) #Everyone just assumes the twins are cis because there are no cisgender Independents on NML to reference them with

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