You have to choose to die or to lie. I have never been able to kill myself.
Simone Weil
7 notes
·
View notes
Thinking a lot about how exclusionary/reactionary ideology is so incredibly easy to fall into and act upon because it preys on and weaponizes people's existing insecurities. It gets people saying things like:
"I'm deeply dysphoric can't even access HRT yet because of transphobic policy so why should someone without dysphoria have access to resources before me?"
or
"I'm targeted by transmisogyny regularly. It is the biggest issue in my life. Therefore other trans people's issues are secondary and are either less important than or just side effects of transmisogyny, so why should I ally with them?"
or
"Ace people don't have laws attacking the ways they have sex like other queers because they don't have sex, why should I have community with them at all?"
or
"All men benefit from systemic privilege, even marginalized men. Men have everything handed to them by the patriarchy so why should I care about finding common ground with them when they are the ones oppressing me?"
or
"The word queer is a slur and it makes me uncomfortable so no one should use it for themself."
All of those lines of thinking follow the same pattern: "I am hurting, I am oppressed, I am beaten down, so why should I care about other people that either make me uncomfortable or I deem as having more privileges than myself"
And it is okay to hurt. It is also, genuinely, okay to only really feel passionate about issues that impact yourself. Compassion fatigue is real. It's very easy to get so swept into caring for others you forget to care for yourself.
But you can't let your pain harden you so much you stop viewing others as complex human beings trying to live their lives and start seeing them all as adversaries to your existence by virtue of existing themselves. That's no way to live.
4K notes
·
View notes
Monique Wittig (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 13 July 1935
RIP: 3 January 2003
Ethnicity: White - French
Occupation: Writer, philosopher, feminist
62 notes
·
View notes
Women's History Month
Dr. Angela Davis (American, b. 1944) • Feminist activist, philosopher, author, and academic.
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." – Angela Davis
31 notes
·
View notes
Credit to PhilosophyMemes on Twitter (;
But also let’s make that 13 and scratch Mary Beard’s terf-loving junior scholar-hating ass off there
40 notes
·
View notes
Partner, writing an essay for the Uni: “What do you know about the philosopher John Rawls?”
Me: “Harrow quoted his theory the original position in The Dragon Prince season 2."
Partner: “...”
Partner: “TDP wouldn’t happen to have anything useful to say about Émile Durkheim or Marx or any other philosophers I could use for this essay as well?”
Me: “No.”
42 notes
·
View notes
gyns can you tell me some female philosophers i could read about ? i really want to read more philosophy but i am tired male philosophers, and i would love to read more female philosophy
14 notes
·
View notes
Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
1 note
·
View note
The fact that people are so weird about trans people in sports while claiming to be feminist, but forget the fact that historically sports leagues have only split off women™ into their own categories whenever they beat men™ is hilarious to me.
Anyway, back to uh... you know
2 notes
·
View notes
We’re literally only reading papers written by women for my next seminar and I’m fucking giddy. Do you know how rare that is? Do you???
3 notes
·
View notes