#is this some sort of discrimination???

[thorne1435]

Don't nuance me, if your answer is ultimately yes or no, then it's still yes or no. Just explain yourself in the tags.

#for my own answer i wouldn't necessarily conscientiously object to Omelas or anything. #torturing that child sucks but it is just that one child and i think i could stomach it compared to what it would allow for Omelas #i dont think it applies on the same level as any sort of broader discrimination. its not a group of people #its just some kid. #however! #i dont want to live in a utopia anyway. i think Omelas would bore me. #and so my answer is ultimately yes. #the ones who walk away from omelas #dystopia #utopia

[the-warp-core]

Something about the "I've always been different/alienated because of something I can't control" plotline being given to a straight, cis, white guy just. . . really annoys me

#i like st picard #and i like jack #but GOD his storyline would be so much more poignant if it was an allegory for queerness #or just some sort of trait that is discriminated against #like. there are people who experience that kind of pain everyday in our society and they are not straight cis white young men #why not put their story on screen? #i don't know if any of this makes sense but it's just how i feel #this show had so much potential in terms of queer characters and storylines and it just shat on them all #st picard #picard season 3 #my post #jack crusher

[elviraaxen]

i love dunder's little tongue sticking out he's so adorable

he’s just a littol gubbe :p

#asks #i can tell people are either like ’… THAT’S ricky’s horse 😐’ or like ’YEAH SKRUNKLY!!!!’ it’s so funny #bc while you might expect Ricky to own some sort of massive bulky stallion like a clydesdale #he’s a horsegirl at heart and does not discriminate

[tracing-rivers]

What is your Hogwarts house?

#considering the exuberant friendliness of that ask I assume this is some sort of “i like your shoelaces” for transphobes and related bigots #if that's your actual question sorry boo I dont believe in discrimination little boxes or hate in general #I'm actually hoping to leave the world a better and happier place #hope this helps <3

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Me to myself, soothingly: Youtube wants you to rage engage and that's why it put it in your recommended... Youtube wants you to rage engage and that's why it put it in your recommended... Youtube wants you to rage engage and that's why it put it in your recommended...

#this is about a childfree channel video about how childfree people are being quote unquote discriminated in the workplace #look LOOK #Don't have children whatever #but I hate this idea that children are some sort of hobby people have #for which they should shoulder all social costs #because like the video was complaining about how people with children are more likely to be conceded off time when they ask for it #and similar concessions vis a vis childfree people #and like no Karen I'm sorry your theater rehearsal is objectively not as urgent as a parent having a sick child to take care of #child rearing is a social work and labor people do even if it is their own choice #and I'm tired of people pretending it's not

[thegroovywitch]

thank u thank u thank u artists who portray every body type so we can see them all for what they really are: beautiful, and human.

#diet culture capitalism & white supremacist propaganda have doctrined us to believe #that only some people are deserving of being called beautiful #but i refuse i just REFUSE to believe that bullshit #there is so much beauty in diversity #and so much beauty in our natural bodies #moreover beauty is in the eye of the beholder and i refuse to be fed a beauty standard that doesn't represent MY idea of beauty #which includes all body types btw. skinny people i love u and i know you suffer from discrimination as well #we ALL suffer from some sort of mild discrimination tbh because nowadays' beauty standards are literally impossible to meet #but that's another story

[1pcii]

reading one piece after being a naruto fan for so long is like finally experiencing love again after being in an abusive relationship

#started sabody and its got me feeling some sort of way #the way the strawhats do not give a solidary fuck about the celestial dragons and are willing to break every social rules no matter the #consequences to save their friend #luffy seeing and fully taking in the harsh reality of discrimination and punching it in the face #GOD #psii.txt #psii reads 1pc #the scene where franky tosses the keys out to the rest of the would-be slaves reminded me of when suigetsuu was shown freeing orochimarus #experiments. telling them to spread the word that it was sasuke who freed them #reminded me of how orochimaru was forgiven. how sasuke was narratively framed as 'loosing himself to hatred' for going against konoha #how luffy is portrayed as yes doing things illegally and from a more selfish motivation. but morally correct in his choices to put people #before belief systems. before the law #because illegalism =/= morally bad #especially in these contexts

[quillinhand]

i technically have a sort of magical system too but more like cosmic energy that happens to look like its magic and then maybe non-magic people also discriminate and the ones that are like there's a sub-human category and they have powers maybe they dont like humans that much and vise-verse yes yes

thats so interestinggg... you mentioned discrimination, so do the non magical people try to investigate how these people have magic? Like so they know about the whole cosmic energy thing. And are there elements of a magical community or is it just everybody on their own, fending for themselves?

#sorry I love magic #from the ink well #readyafterthesunrise #for me #my magical system is mostly just #so basically #some people are born with magic #and there's this weird thing of non magical s being discriminated against but then the magicals are treated like expensive toys #so nobody wins sort of #asks

[abimee]

amaurot is so cool [turns around and latches the door before anybody can get in from hearing that] too bad people tend to misunderstand whats going on with it and which aspects of it are good and which are not

#also when i call it a utopia im using that word in the literal sense of what the text calls it #i dont personally believe in utopias and amaurot itself literally brings up the argument as well that a true utopia cannot exist #and that a true utopia is a dangerous thing but also. do not ever look up and read an article called like why a utopia cannot exist #becaiuse it brings up some insanely wrong points and not the pure fact that a utopia requires dangerous amount of conformity #and amaurot itself asks well yes theyres good unity but also a pure utopia is kind of bad if theres people with different needs #or a true utopia can only be built catering to one specific type of need and all else are casted as wrong #and isnt that sort of whats happening in now in the state of things [DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISCRIMINATION] #nbut thats a whole nother can. and i dont think hermes is autistic so im not bringing that up because of that

[gender0bender]

I honestly feel like a lot of autistic people with privelege really don’t know the first thing about the r slur and what it feels like to be viewed as one by society and your peers and your family.

#like if you're an autistic who can work and who doesn't need assistance going to the bathroom #can communicate verbally can mask etc #then you are not the type of autistic that this word was created to discriminate against #you are not the sort of autistic people are thinking of when they think of a r-worded child etc #like what for you is a fun little word is a source of really terrible trauma for other people #white autistic people who were diagnosed during adulthood and don't have the experience of being explicitly labelled and treated #as a disabled child #are a fucking plague at times #like what are you even reclaiming you have never had people tell you you need to be sterilised or killed for your disability? #do you even realise how lucky you are to not be visibly disabled? #some autistic ppl get handed their diagnosis age 20 and go YAYYY now I can keep using ableist slurs and look progressive doing it

[johnmeowston]

i think every trans poc person should be allowed to get treats whenever they want and be able to kill 1 person free of consequences a year

#txt #sorry for so many posts abt yt poeple im just. ITS ALL COMING OUT RN #like. the only queers at my school are the insufferable ones . one told me that bc i use the word queer i was a horrible person who never #faced being discriminated . like im literally mexican . i spoke spanish once and was told to go back to my country #ive been called illegal !! ive been told that im in america and due to that fact should adhere to the expectations given to me #treated as something to be feared something to be shamed something to treat like some fucking zoo animal !! #the only trans mascs ive met irl have all been white of some sort and all of them have touched my hair without permission!! #one even fucking yanked on it ! one was insistent about touching it despite me saying no !! #the audacity of some people is so crazy. which is why i should b allowed to kill them. BYE !

[ashetheshade]

The new manager thinks I should just pick through the pain. Bitch I’m always pushing through *something* and pain makes it fucking *impossible* to function properly. And I think he threatened to fire me?

He’s, “worried about my longevity at *insert business*”,

And at first I though he was worried about my health because I’m dense as fuck but I think he means that he doesn’t want to keep someone that gets sick that often around.

He claims to understand pain because he pushes through headaches caused by lack of sleep but,

My headaches are caused by way more random stuff and can get pretty severe (to the point where sometimes I can only lay in bed and try to sleep)

Plus everyday I show up is a trial in and of itself regardless of physical health issues.

I tried to argue all this, but I did no call no show once, but I know my rights. You can’t fire people for being sick. And I am.

#health problems #tw health issues #it’s probably some sort of discrimination #I want to say a diagnoses could help me #but my doctor is shit so whatever #and I sure as hell am not telling my workplace about my adhd and gad lmao #it’s mostly people like my mom that work there #I’m sure they know I’m weird #but clinically weird?

[the-average-procrastinator]

So when am I going to be granted my God-given right to make polls? :(

#this is discrimination #of some sort

[pikslasrce]

whenever my brother reads me a reddit post abt literally anything i suddenly get the reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of a twitter user

#like all common sense leaves my body just so i can disagree w him aldkskfksgh #just now he showed me smth like some guy literally transformed himself beyond recognition to look like an 'alien' #nd then wonders why he cant get a job and ppl dont treat him normally. and im like. damn thats messed up what he did to himself but #its not smrh that should affect him getting a job like thats discrimination then innit #and my god idk for a moment i was like. damn am i contradicting myself maybe? but then im thinking and like. sure like hes messed up #for chopping his nose off and doing all sorts of stuff to look 'inhuman' but like. again im thinking it shouldnt rlly matter #when it comes to employment #but then what did my fam hear? 'oh everyone should do whatever they want and never face any real world consequences for their actions' #like come onnnn. i guess they just wanted me to nod and say whoa damn thats messed up get a load of this idiot what did he expect to happen #like come onnnnn there is Nuance and i have a severe case of stupid brain where i latch onto a perceived injustice to fight abt #ik its an issue but also id love to hear what yall think #piksla.txt

[caroloftheshells]

long post re theory pedagogy again

the other thing about that vid (and another thing! lol) being that hierarchically a lot of the people doing the more interesting or out-there research and diversifying the field from a content perspective (and, tbh, demographically) are like grad students or early-career people who don’t even necessarily have any pedagogical flexibility & tend to be slotted in to teach lower-level theory courses-- whose outcomes are predetermined not only by general screwy nasm strictures but by whatever the professor down the line in the curriculum is teaching / expects people to know when they get there. and we get paid (much) less also than tenured professors. which is really a generic “thing about all academia” that doesn’t necessarily become a nefarious personal flaw on the part of said scholars and instead ought to be addressed at a structural level bc the scale of the issue exceeds individual instructors’ spheres of influence.

BUT music occupies such a fucked “totally separate from society” space in many ppl’s imaginations that it’s like oh man how dare it have the same issues as every other field of scholarship bc it shouldn’t “really” be a matter of scholarship in the first place. ie music is culturally rendered a “nothing matters just feel it” / “everything is ephemeral and there is only Innate Talent and nothing can be taught” sort of field such that any intellectualizing thereof &/or suggestion of learnabilty / non-innateness is deemed, like, boring & regressive by some people & i’d say especially people raised with a certain awareness of the “composer-genius” culture of wam education. like i’m completely on the “fuck partwriting parallel fifths are awesome” train as a matter of taste (for example) but that does not mean that learning what parallel fifths are-- and why some old european guys didn’t like them *bc they preferred it to sound like there was more than one voice and it’s easier to create that perceptually w/o an overtone effect* (eg)-- is going to like destroy your artistic Essence and make you a worse musician bc now you’re no longer an empty vessel put on this earth to channel brahms or whoever. & plus i think perpetuating the synonymizing of theory-as-field with wam harmonic rules not only is like factually misrepresentative of current research but also is sort of a self fulfilling prophesy such that ppl who would otherwise have completely fascinating things to say & questions to ask are discouraged from non-platitudinous & open-ended (theoretical) inquiry re the content and aims of their own rep & listening, and tacitly learn that composers’ ~~genius~~ descended from the heavens & you either get it or you don’t, you either “have talent” as a composer or you don’t, et cetera

#Which I Maintain is dangerous not bc i think there is a set method of learning all music(s) obviously but bc that's how you get like #weird essentialism & i'm thinking especially abt anecdotes i've heard re: vocal pedagogy where ppl have been subjected to (...) #racial discrimination; gender discrimination; fatphobia / discrimination based on having or not having a certain 'look' to go w your voice #& told they are 'naturally' inclined to sing or study certain genres of music & shouldn't try anything else (not even ranges! whole genres) #which is maybe sort of tangential but i think stems from this same deal of 'you just have to Feel it' & such #the idea of music as ephemeral and quasi-spiritually channeled such that you lose something if you approach it w scrutiny #or if you have to break it down in a way that; in its detail & precision; reads as divorced from immediate aesthetic judgment #the idea that there's some magic there not to be explained; that composition thus is a special ineffable pursuit for special people. bleh #& the... in depth research and nuance and hesitancy to have a snappy take that like ime culturally describes many theorists. is good #& is; again ime; something valued by several music scholars who sought it out as a Way Out Of a certain brand of meritocratic bullshit #toward a different brand of weird pedantry of course but i think it has its place despite being hooked academically 2 a toxic music culture #in the sense that; for sure; there are egregious issues; but the repertoire bias is unilaterally present in wam circles #& it's like well. your problem is 'with' the textbooks but since when has a so called 'voice degree' #at your average som / public institution without enormous fucking tons of money #unlike idk berklee lol #actually regarded choral singing; musical theatre; art song; rock vocals; et cetera with the same seriousness as a wagnerian opera career #and made a variety of music available from a performance perspective as well. i mean my undergrad was vaguely ok here but On The Whole... #bigger fish re funding in notated-music industry and degrees as job prep for shrinking market etc #anyway though...... i value myself too much to be a youtuber lol #imagine me appending that 'just saying things recreationally' post to this post #carol overreacts to life #theorycomp tag

[thestarseersystem]

Im just gonna say it, but I really recommend filtering out tags of things you do not like, if it's truly triggering.

But if you merely dislike a piece of media because you find it problematic, etc. then honestly that's kind of dumb. Just filter it out too??? Usually op is going to tag it?? So just filter. Use filters.

But seriously I just hate interacting with people who be like "you can't do this because it's problematic", I'll do whatever I want actually.

#post.txt #most things are not actively harmful #unless they promote some sort of demonization or discrimination #then it's not inherently problematic #usually people don't like something because of the creators #not because of the content