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decolonize-the-left · 1 month

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Why do terfs find the transandrophobia community such an easy target for recruitment?

....you don't think lesbians are especially prone to being targeted despite so many of them being (political) lesbians?

But yeah okay I'll humor your disingenuous question.

They are drawn to transmascs for the same reason they think trans women are oppressive.

TERFs fundamentally have no respect for them or their gender identity. They pretend to be respectful, but disregard it completely. Why? They want to unify with transmascs over something they call "sex based oppression."

It's their latest psyop to try erasing trans people. Their goal is to exploit uneducated transmascs into thinking they experience oppression because of their sex and not their gender identity.

If you can get transmascs to parrot that point, then eventually the logic will reach transfemmes who will undoubtedly be discoursing with them about it. Suddenly the trans community is debating whether our oppression is even due to gender.... And well if that's the case does it Matter if we identify as trans? Should laws even recognize gender over sex at that point?

For obvious reasons TERFs can't "bond" with trans women over "sex based oppression" and manipulate them with the same methods. They also don't want to since they see trans women as men; as The Enemy.

See, idk if you know this but TERFs don't believe transmen are men. They think they're mentally ill women who need to be saved as fellow women. To a TERF this is the same as just having Awful self esteem. Which is so relatable because you know who tanks the self esteem of women?

Men. Only men could make women hate themselves so much that they don't want to identify as their own sex anymore. To a TERF every trans man is a tragedy that gets more pity from them from anything. They think they're helping. They feel sorry for transmen and see them as something that needs to be saved.

So no.

It's not that the transandrophobia community are easier targets than anyone else is.

They aren't targeting transmen because they Like transmen. They don't target them cuz it's Easier to make men hate transwomen.

They target transmen who wanna talk about their experiences because (as people who don't think transmen are real) they want to poison the well that they think is making so many "women" sick in the head in the first place and if it helps hurt "men" in the process then that's better for them.

But like I said at the beginning of the post, this isn't a special exception. It's been a well-known fact that TERFs we're behind early 2000's exclusionary discourse, behind bi/pan discourse, and now seems to be the Cause of transandrophobia discourse.

This isn't new for them or the queer community.

What IS new is that TERFs seem to have successfully convinced yall that some trans people IN the trans community shouldn't be given the permission to create language to talk about their experiences.

At the very least they've already done That much damage.

Their little psyop is literally working and you are in my asks asking why trans men begging to be heard out are easier targets for TERFs?

#asked #answered #transandrophobia #queer #lgbt #trans #transgender

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butch-bakugo · 1 year

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I hope the christians and Christian sympathizers who throw fits because of a piece of nun lingerie or because someone joked that they'd give hand jobs in the pews or some other thing being "disrespectful to christianity" die a horrible death.

Like I'm sorry but LGBT people are allowed to shit on christianity, Poc are allowed to shit on christianity, Disabled people are allowed to shit on christianity, Poor people are allowed to shit on christianity, Ex-christians are allowed to shit on christianity, Women are allowed to shit on christianity, Children are allowed to shit on christianity, the elderly are allowed to shit on christianity, fat people are allowed to shit on christianity, People of other faiths(and even no faith at all!!) are allowed to shit on christianity.

I litterally can not think of a single, if only even slightly, oppressed demographic that isn't shat on by christianity. Litterally not one. You dress weird? Christians hate you. You wear something they think isn't "appropriate" for any reason? Christians hate you. You speak a language other than English? Christians hate you. You believe in anything scientific? Christians hate you. You listen to rap/rnb/hip hop/emo/alternative/pop/country/litterally any music genre that isn't faith based? Christians hate you. You literally can not exist as a gay, trans, bi, nonbinary, black, brown, red, yellow, physically disabled, mentally disabled, abused, raped, poor, homeless, prostitute, Ex-christian of any sector of Christianity(even ones other Christians think are crazy like the Amish, Mormons, flds, Jehovah's witnesses, etc.), Women/afab, intersex/hermaphrodite, young, old, fat, thin, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, pagan, taoist, diasporic, alternative, emo, punk, autistic or non-modest person around them or at least a solid bunch of them will beg the government to straight up eradicate you.

I can garentee there's fifteen billion other specific things I can mention that christians don't like. Christianity as it stands in America and many other white countries today is an oppressor group almost inherently, same as cisgender people and white people and abled people. So many oppressed people will continue to be oppressed as a result of white Christianity and I'm sorry but if you're throwing yourself on the ground screaming and crying about how someone hates your god and hates the Catholic church, expect your body to get stepped on. So many people, uncountable numbers of people, have died as a direct result of white Christianity. Period. That is an immutable fact. I don't care if it hurts you are scares you or upsets you. Their are stories about the crusades of Jewish and Muslim women killing their babies in temples so that white crusaders wouldn't take them. These crusaders who wrote lovingly about how when they were in said temples, their horses were up to their knees in blood and viscera. Christians have killed millions and millions and millions and MILLIONS of people.

My entire race of people cease to exist because white christians decided their religion was more important than native lives. They killed over 7,000 of our children because they wouldn't become English speaking, white acting Christians.

So sorry not sorry but I'll wear an upside down cross and talk about spray painting cathedral walls and fucking on alters and doing heathenistic things just to spite your dead god because even if he was real, he wouldn't want my kind dead, he'd have your fucking Pope's head. You suck 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽

#levi speaks #obligatory: i dont care if your christian but you reapect lgbt people or your only believing in god not the other stuff #but christian culture isnt Christlike at ALL #i was raised christian i know jesus #jesus would fucking hate the lot of you #he would be appalled and angry #why do you think its not the most popular religion in the world anymore?#partially because of how christians look down on many people for darling to even exist #but mostly because the white people arent able to finish the colonization they started #disporatic religions and cultural religions specific to native peoples are finally starting to heal #because christians fucking killed so many people that the climate changed #the death total in Canada america and central america is 100 million at least #and i can not nor will ever respect that religion ober my people #i genuinely think the world would be a better place without white christianity #like native practioners and other abrahamic religions have my full support but this?#this white shit can burn #and that fire won't be normal it'll be a weird fucking color #because it is so toxic #fuck christianity #i have no empathy

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priestessofcreation · 1 year

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So the thing about the Girl and the Goddess is that in the Teenage section (it’s split into childhood, teenage, womanhood), it contextualized a few things about my own teenage experience.

This is how I know I am connecting with my inner femininity - because of the shit I realized in this book.

I’m a woman, I’m thick, I’m queer.

I’m focusing specifically on being thick and queer. I blossomed early. I gained weight at 14. Got tits on my chest and I got told by multiple people that I had to lose weight. AT FOURTEEN. Including people I loved and trusted. As a result, body dysmorphia out the ass since I was fourteen.

I was never asked out by boys. Not to dances, not to dates. I was only asked once because they saw me disappear to the bathrooms in tears.

As for being queer? I discovered I’m bi at 14 as well (in high school rather than middle school). I had to… apologize to a certain someone and lie to her, telling her it was “just a phase” to get her to not emotionally abandon me.

This person has gotten better. But the fact that I had to beg her for approval through a lie… Christ. Still makes me mad.

This book has homophobia, sexism, and body shaming. I was reading her poetry and I was watching my adolescence play out right in front of my face. She was a girl living in India, sure. She was also a bisexual girl with body-image issues with an interest in art, writing, and magic. It was like LOOKING AT MYSELF.

And I got maaaaaaaad. Because I didn’t realize until I read this book just how much I was victimized by the oppression in this society. I thought I had… idk, I thought because of my weight, I hadn’t been othered for my sex. That I was just this sexless blob that no man ever was interested in.

No. I felt that way BECAUSE of sexism. It wasn’t that I was victimized in the more known way that women are. It was the opposite. I was written of as unattractive because I didn’t fit the mold at all. Not just by men, but by my own sex. By people who should have helped me with my self-image.

And it’s not better.

You end up feeling unattractive, gross, and unloved.

As for the queer factor, it’s is a horrible thing that children end up hating themselves because grown adults have not learned to grow past their own biases.

I have a lot of thoughts, but the point is, this book helped me contexualize a lot of systemic traumas I endured in my teenage years I didn’t realize was there until now. This is the price of reconnecting with your femininity. You have to see how it was wounded.

The one good thing out of this, is that I’m reconnecting with my inner teenager. I ran from her and those memories for so long. I don’t think I ever got to be a teenager - I was always racing to get the hell out of high school. It was just purgatory and I was an outsider there, like I am in every institution I’ve been a part of.

#personal #yo you can skip this #tw body shame #tw body dysmorphia #tw homophobia #tw bullying #the girl and the goddess #nikita gill

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boytoycowboy · 3 years

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some of you really hate masc women & do nothing to address that huh

#i can’t watch style analysis videos anymore #like i just can’t #they want to talk abt internalized misogyny when it regards traditionally feminine women but never want to examine how the same internalized #misogyny in relation to their weird hatred of masc presenting women #hate to break it to you but if you’re a trad feminine cishet woman… you aren’t oppressed for being a trad feminine cishet woman #i say cishet bc femme trans/nb bi/lesbian women (and any combination of those identities) inherently have a completely different #relationship w femininity & how they present themselves bc it’s inherently not traditional due to that #anyway. i’m begging you all to stop being passive aggressive in regards to masc women #and like actively acknowledge & work on that dislike… bc it’s not cute lol #god.#and i’m not even that masc!#actually fuck it. butch straight women also deserve the world. i do not care your alignment if you are butch or even futch i love you #t talks

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biblicalhorror · 3 years

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Just saw an absolutely terrible take on tiktok that bi women who wish they had a gf are "fetishizing lesbians" and "begging for a crumb of oppression" and I just feel like I need to lie down

#yall how many times do we need to go through this discourse #im just so tired #biphobia cw #it is not 'bi women begging to be oppressed' it is bi women having a problematic RESPONSE to oppression #people on the internet are so quick to silence bi people from speaking out about their bad experiences in the lgbt community #because 'youre equating lesbians to their oppressors'#and then the same people turn around and say shit like this #we're all on the same side here i am literally begging some of y'all to view other people with some empathy and compassion

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slutauthority · 3 years

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when you look at the alarming statistics regarding abuse and violence that bisexuals face, it feels odd to know that a lot of ppl disregard bisexuals begging for recognition of our struggles as seeking attention, or taking attention away from REAL problems. and yet, we have very clear cut proof in numbers that bisexuals are facing a risk of violence that we are specific targets for. and ppl don’t want to admit that it’s because we’re bisexual.

for the longest time, i didn’t realize how many bisexual ppl, particularly bisexual women, had been abused. I did not realize that so many other bisexual women suffered biphobic remarks and violence until i was in a space with other bisexuals ...and while you’re talking, you realize it’s the first time you’re talking about it like the targeted violence it is. You’re not watering your experience down for the first time. You’re not leaving details out and people are nodding and jumping to agree with you. It’s the first time you’ve been met with this kind of reaction of shared pain and experience.

a dear friend of mine noted how it seems hard for people to put faces to those statistics. and i think what some people dont realize is that it’s hard to put a face to that because bisexuals DON’T talk about this stuff except with other bi people. Historically, we’ve been discouraged from taking up space in LGBT issues, because we’re benefiting from “heterosexual privilege.”. We are usually an afterthought, people just wanting to be oppressed even though we’re just gonna run off with a cishet partner. and we are isolated until we have a moment to speak with each other.

#biphobia #bi tag #abuse tw

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nona-gay-simus-main · 2 years

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7 Tropes That Make Me Uncomfy

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion, calm down. Also, I'm white and do not speak for BIPOC communities

1. The Black Cop

Look, cops are racist af, we all know this. So what is this obsession with cops in media being Black? Is it to make them seem more palatable to liberal/leftist audiences? (That's rhetorical, we know it' is.)

Here's a wild idea: instead of making cops Black, stop writing stories about cops. Even if you want your protagonist or one of your main characters to be an investigator: private detectives exist. Defense lawyers, investigative journalists, there are literally so many options that don't have to include cops.

2. The Supernatural Police Procedural

This one I just don't understand. So you have zombies in your show, or the devil, or whatever, and you made it a police procedural? Really? There were no other, more interesting options out there?

I guess the supernatural element adds a bit of an original twist to the genre, but at the end of the day they're still cops investigating a murder. I think there might be more fun ways to use your supernatural characters than copaganda.

3. Rape as Karma

I think get the appeal of good, old schadenfreude. I too love when a bad guy gets a taste of their own medicine, it feels very satisfying & ironic. And irony is great!

But when it comes to rape, I just feel like it's one of those things that shouldn't really happen to anyone, even if they themselves are a rapist. It just feeds into the toxic mindset that some people are acceptable victims or that they 'deserved it' and I don't see how that's any better than what we have now.

4. The B word

No, I'm not talking about bitch - weirdly, that's one most media has no issue with. (I wonder why...) I mean 'bisexual'.

Why does media treat the word bisexual like it's a slur? I've seen shows that go to extreme lengths just to avoid mentioning it., "ex lesbian", "lower on the kinsey scale" and the always popular, "i like people, not gender." Oh my god, just say bisexual! Or pansexual! Or whatever you actually mean and stop this beating around the bush. Please, I beg of you! And ofc this isn't to say that some people don't use labels and that's also a valid experience, but why is it that the unlabeled characters are ALWAYS the ones attracted to multiple genders??

And stop treating bi characters as gay or straight based on the relationship they're currently in. Newsflash, but most bisexuals date men and women (and non-binary people) at different stages of their life and their sexuality doesn't actually change based on their partner's gender.

5. Queer In Name Only

You know that queer character, that's queer, but they also don't speak, act, think, dress, or even the same sense of humor as any real life queer person you know? Usually, it's a traditionally attractive, feminine, white cis woman - once in a while, the same, but a guy.

Now, obviously, there is no one way to be queer. That's not what I'm saying, nor am I advocating to bring back two-dimensional stereotypes. I'm just saying that it feels incredibly disingenuous that most of the 'representation' we have in mainstream media feels completely divorced from real-life queer culture.

6. Rampant Misogyny in Fantasy

This applies to any sort of bigotry, but misogyny is the most common one, because there is plenty of fantasy with no PoC or queer people, but there's almost no fantasy with no women.

And they are always there to be oppressed, be sexually harassed and assaulted (or at least attempted to be assaulted), and saved by the hero if they are lucky. Maybe there's one woman that has power, but she's usually evil or she dies. And if there is a stronger, warrior type woman, she has to be Not Like Other Girls and detest anything féminine from dresses to kindness.

I get that for most of human history women have had a pretty rough deal (and still do in most places) and I know that fantasy is often inspired by history, but it's still made up. You're allowed to create your own rules. So why do they always have to be sexist?

7. The Strong Female Character

I like a good, well-rounded female character, but what I'm talking about the Not Like Other GIrls, Strong Female Character who has to be stripped of any softness and compassion, and any femininity (besides maybe a surface level-one like love for dresses and nail-polish, if that) to be a true #GirlBoss.

Can we maybe stop doing that? Believe it or not, you can be 'emotional' and be a good leader. You can have healthy relationships with other women (platonic or sexual). You can even be a smart and dedicated person rather than a fighter.

I'm just tired that every female character has to fit this 90s femininism mold now. Where are the complex, broken women? The ugly women? The women who use compassion, intution, and vulnerability as their strongest qualities, rather than just a literal weapons? God, just give me more than this please.

#tropes #worst tropes #writeblr #writing community #mine #bisexual #bi rep #queer rep #lgbtq #lgbtq representation #bipoc rep #copaganda #misogyny #female representation

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frnajdi · 3 years

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Come See

In shame I have bowed my head The Master of Martyrs, I’ve yet to visit By Hussayn, I have lived and learned In the flame of his existence, I burn Yet his shrine remains unknown to me The birds above him are found more worthy His shrine is my home in these holy nights My heart is far and awaits his sacred invite A gathering of hearts is being hosted I am left behind like a soldier wounded I will sacrifice anything for this A whole lifetime of joy and bliss If it means my death on his holy road Or my last breath at the gates of his holy dome If he is my master and I am his servant Then what kind of servant won’t he let visit? Yet I serve him because I know of his mercy And every year, he blesses me with his ceremonies So somehow even from afar, he let me in I came and saw the horrors done to his holy kin

Come see… come see… even if you have already What Karbala has done to the Prophet’s family

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A young girl is paraded in desert and fear Above her is her father’s head on a spear She is in chains and is beaten So she looks at the heavens “O’ Zahraa, I have your bruises! Does this mean death toward me rushes?” She walks and speaks silently to her father Never looking at what is above her Her tears are quick to dry on the sand This sun’s heat is too much to withstand She silences her cries when they whip her She knows her aunt Zaynab is under pressure She holds her hijab tightly around her head “O’Father, come see what they did! O Father, come see me and let me see you By the right of Fatima, I want to come too”

Come see… come see… even if you have already What they did to Ruqaya and how she was set free

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A woman in court is fierce and zealous Her voice alone will lift Khybar’s fortress Her hijab is her steel and iron armor You wouldn’t know if it was her or Haydar You wouldn’t know she had just been hit Or that her two sons were just martyred You won’t see her fall apart and crumble Her heart has held tight onto the firmest handle What is in her heart for her to remain steady? Her beloved Imam is beheaded mercilessly Her brothers, sons, and nephews, all killed But her voice is unshaken, breath uninterrupted In battle, she sits next to her Imam-breathless “O Allah please accept this sacrifice from us.” In Kufa, she reminds those with empty promises Of who her brother, mother, father, and grandfather is Of the greatest mistake to ever make And that is to leave Wilayah for comforts’ sake

Come see… come see… even if you have already How Zaynab is the reason for Hussayn’s victory

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On the path to Hussayn, you will see a mother Who has no more sons left to offer Her entire motherhood thrived off martyrdom Her selfless Abbas is proof of her wisdom She saw the grace that comes with serving The honor that comes with death and suffering When she asks and begs, “What about Hussayn?” She confirms she gave everything before he is slain She ensures all that she had is now given Nothing is worth having if the Imam has fallen The woman who is a mother to no sons Will assist you in giving with no question The mother of Abbas is your teacher Her hijab is the flag her son raised higher Follow her and she will know your name In you, she will set the love of Hussayn aflame She will teach you his love should come first And that it is his thirst before your thirst

Come see… come see… even if you have already Who Ummul Baneen gave away to her Imam freely

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The planes of Karbala have a crimson hue From the blood of Hussayn they create morning dew How has the world watched Hussayn fall thirsty? Near a river that begs for his forgiveness and mercy He prepares his women and children For a journey he knows won’t include him On the ground and ready to be slaughtered Is it his mother or his sister on the hill anchored “Is there no defender to defend our sanctity? Is there no one who will respond to me?” These words are for what we cry and wail And for why our tears will resist and prevail In his his farewell to those crying for water “Be patient and forbear my dear daughter” Bi Rabbil Ka’ba, his success is that of Ali’s And he takes his final breath knowing God sees His eyes on the tents and says, “O’ Allah, my family O’ Allah, don’t let them touch their holy bodies”

Come see… come see… even if you have already How they placed on a spear, the head of Hussayn Ibn Ali

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All comfort is forsaken for the Imam’s victory If not, then in your regret lies your misery To be a bystander, a watcher, a forfeiter Who left my Imam and followed my own desire Is the worst hell and the worst prison Because how do you escape your actions? Karbala is now and there is war on truth God has already clarified it for our holy youth They know truth is on the side of the oppressed And it is they who will see that glowing success Whether or not you’ve made your path Wilayah It’s the path taking you to the freedom you’re after It’s the path your Imam has called you for The one he expects you to die for with fervor The Hussayn is here now and his Muslim has come Which of us made promises we have yet to back up? The Imam is waiting for our hearts to awaken So not one more sin or one more transgression This is it, we have all seen what happens When we sit with our hands in our laps

Come see… come see… even if you have already What holy slaughter takes place when we sit idly

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#Imam Hussayn #Imam Hussain #Hussain #poetry #poem #midnightpoetry #Arbaeen #Karbala #Ashura #islamic poetry #ahlulbayt poetry #Zaynab #Ruqaya #Ummul Baneen

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introvert--weeb · 3 years

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Hello!! May I request a matchup for a tokyo revengers character?

I'm 19 year old female with a height of 5'6 feet. I'm a Leo and an INTJ, I'm also asexual bi leaning to women <33

Personality wise, I'm an ambivert and very lively when I'm with my closest friends. If we're talking about social standings, I see myself as the outcast, the bottom of the list. I'm pretty bold when no one's watching but when someone with a higher social status is near, I tend to sit back and observe. Despite being a logical person in serious situations, I have a tendency to do impulsive things. I also tend to hide my anxiety by having a calm body language, slowly swinging my legs so it seems like I'm vibing with music or sipping cold beverages. I also experience guilt whenever someone buys me something, cheap or expensive.

I'm not sure if I have a fixed aesthetic but I'm into baggy pants and fitted crop tops right now. I'm planning to dye my hair dark purple next month for my birthday!!

A hobby of mine is to listen to music, especially to game ost and angsty songs, it depends on my mood :DD. I also have a longboard but I never had the chance to practice because there's no parks nearby ;-;

That's all and don't overwork yourself <3

You sound like one of the coolest people, in my opinion ❤️❤️

The character I see you being with is...

Yuzuha Shiba ❤️

You both would have quite a spontaneous relationship. Ever since she had been freed from her older brother's rule, you better believe that Yuzuha is going to do whatever she wants whenever she feels like it.

She would need someone who had the ability to talk her down when it was needed. And so you would have to be the one who observed the situation and made a rational choice for the two of you. Remember, this girl had gone headfirst into a confrontation between her two brothers in an attempt to get rid of the oppressive life she and Hakkai lived.

However, you would both be chaotic when the situation didn't require any seriousness. One moment you both be calm and appear like a cute normal couple, next you could be riding a shopping trolley down a hill. Yuzuha just wanted to experience everything with you and enjoy her life to the fullest. So buckle up buttercup, you're in for one hell of a ride!

On public transport, you both would be listening to people spill the tea to their friends. It was something interesting to help pass the time. Once at your stop and sure you were away from the people you were listening to, your whole conversation would be exchanging thoughts at what you think was going on. Laughter would ensue as the potential situation ideas got more ridiculous. Yuzuha would appreciate that you were someone she could have fun like this with.

I think you would both help each other out with anxieties and traumas. Yuzuha would panic internally if someone that reminded her of her brother was around, and so you would grab her hand and reassure her that you would protect her. She would do the same for you whenever you were feeling anxious about anything. Definitely the couple who looked after one another, each of you promising to protect the other.

As Yuzuha got money, she would offer to buy you things or even surprise you with small gifts she found. When she had learnt that you felt guilty with each thing bought, Yuzuha would tone it down a little but insist that she wants to buy you nice things. In time, she would hope that you would let her spoil you but for now, she would have to keep in mind how you felt about the situation.

You would always take your longboard with you if you were heading out. In the spur of the moment, Yuzuha would BEG you to let her ride it. And so it was now a hobby you both would take part in. Hakkai had noticed how much Yuzuha would talk about it and so he would find her her own to use. Now the both of you could board together. Definitely a new date idea for the two of you.

At the end of the day, you would be that cool yet crazy couple that people didn't know what to think of.

#tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers x reader #yuzuha shiba #tokyo revengers match up #match up requests #match up event #100 followers event

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bibitchtude · 4 years

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Like it genuinely hurts my heart when I see young bi women/girls make posts about how they have “straight passing privilege” and how the best way to be a “good” bisexual is [a literally list of violent biphobia]. And it just like honey no. I get it you probably followed someone who told you that if call yourself gay you’re personally oppressing the entire lgt community but it’s not true. I’m begging young bi girls out to please seek out bi history don’t take advice from a stupid asses on this hellsite who think that a bi girl dating a man who’s abusive towards her is her fault because “she chose to date a man 🤪🤪” or if a bi girl calls herself a femme its the worse thing that could possibly happen to the lgbt community. Half of the people on site are super biphobic and literally don’t know shit about bi women.

(edit: Forgot to add terfs/febfems don’t touch this post I literally hate y’all)

#myposts #biphobia #bi tag

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agenderakali · 4 years

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Ppl mention the Asexual Manifesto and get tens of thousands of notes of asexuals like wow!! We have a manifesto like the bi’s! Ace history! And then do not bother to even read the first page of that radfem bible.

Aces I’m begging you to write an actual manifesto instead of quoting weird radical feminist theory from the 70s that shames women and blames them for their own oppression because they chose to ‘exploit’ themselves by.... having sex with a man.

#ace discourse #asexual manifesto #asexual #the Asexual Manifesto describes political celibacy/lesbianism not asexuality #if youd bother to read more than the title

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lalafoxtrot · 4 years

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Black Designers Matter

Black Designers Matter - magicTCG

I couldn’t find the original article posted on Tumblr, only Reddit, original linked above, contents are below. I did not write any of this, but I agree vehemently and want to share it to the MTG and artist community on Tumblr.

BLACK DESIGNERS MATTER

Wizards of the Coast and the community claim to support black people, but WOTC has never hired a black designer. Content creators and the community at large have a responsibility to apply pressure to WOTC to hire black designers as soon as possible.

Wizards of the Coast presents itself as a progressive company, even though its record of support for black people is appalling. Wotc has made several posts in support of black lives matter in recent times. Mark Rosewater has linked to articles on how to campaign for Black People, and Gavin Verhey has asked for people to signal boost black mtg content creators. If WOTC is so committed to black rights, why have they never made inroads into the black community like this until the nation was literally on fire? Wotc marched in a pride parade as a matter of course, they made a Women's Day secret lair (starring all white and white-passing women) in black history month and they publicly talk about being inclusive, yet political action for black people required extreme circumstances.

WOTC has created over 200 product releases, each with design and development teams. This amounts to thousands of design opportunities over the company's 27-year history. Out of these ZERO have been black people. When asked, WOTC has claimed to want to correct these issues but for years we have seen no change. In 2016, WOTC hired activist Monique Jones, as a consultant to design the planeswalker Kaya, as the creative team had no black women on it. Even though this was a problem they said they “hoped” to deal with “in the future,” years later no changes have been shown. They didn’t even hire Monique or any other consultant when they made Vivien Reid and Aminatou, who are also black women. In 2017, I asked Mark Rosewater about the lack of diversity in WOTC R&D and he said they are “working to solve” it. In 2019, I asked Shivam Bhatt, the highest-profile person of color in the MTG community, to publicly take WOTC to task for their failings in diversity. He said he had spoken with them about it and that WOTC had a “Wizards of Color” program to deal with this. Wizards has paid lip service to their lack of diversity but given no results.

The MTG Community at large is just as culpable as Wizards in this matter. A company’s ultimate interest is its bottom line and WotC has shown to be very receptive to community demands when they make them. The outcry from the community got Damnation reprinted, undid the shorter standard rotation, gave white card draw, and got an apology for the War of the Spark Novel. When the community makes a demand, hard enough WOTC listens, and yet the community at large has been apathetic if not hostile to the idea that WOTC R&D is woefully undiverse.

The MTG community created huge uproars over not supporting pro players, preemptive uproar over WOTC should they be forced to take a stand on Hong Kong, Companions, the Amonkhet Masterpieces, Standard bannings, legacy bannings, (Top got a frickin SIGN at WotC HQ), card prices, issues with the story, Bi-Erasure, card foilings, fetchland reprints, damnation reprints, Magic Duels being shut down with no compensation, great designer search questions, removal being weak, masters sets sucking, masters set being removed, masters sets coming back with a huge markup, and countless other issues. Yet every time I have brought up WOTC not hiring a SINGLE black designer despite 27 years and literally thousands of openings the response is silence at best if not outright antagonism. “Who cares?” “What IS meaningless is knowing that behind the curtains there are 2 black women... instead of four white people” “What does it matter?” “Qualified white people applied and were hired. Wizards didn't go out of their way to conform to your arbitrary diversity requirements.” “Oh yeah, you’re so oppressed you get your own month.” These are real responses that I’ve gotten from the community and they aren't outliers.

I literally begged the Professor of Tolarian Community College to do an episode on this and/or bring on a black guest to bring this up, and people just told me to shut up. The only major positive feedback I’ve gotten was in the Circlejerk Reddit of all things. The community funds WotC, and what they pressure the company about leads to results. By sweeping their horrible record with black people under the rug while fawning over them for being inclusive, they enable this problem to go on. The big-name content creators like u/ProfessorSTAFF and Pleasant Kenobi, who are overwhelmingly white, do huge long-form essays on countless topics, including political ones, yet never bring WOTC to task on this, and a community gets to consider itself progressive while either ignoring the few people who bring this issue up or coming down on them with the fury of Rush Limbaugh. It was only under extreme political pressure brought about by the current protests and a scathing open letter by Zaiem Beg that content creators spoke out at all. If it takes a man being choked to death on national TV and a letter elaborating on publicly accessible information for someone to say anything, I question your commitment to the cause. The Professor has long heralded himself as someone willing to critique wizards despite potential influence from the company, and he has proven that to be true, except for when it comes to black people.

Wizards needs to hire black designers as soon as possible. The MTG community at large needs to make this an issue on the scale of other campaigns they have made against WOTC such as the price gouging of collector's items and the bi-erasure of Chandra Nalaar. Majority white content creators such as The Professor and Pleasant Kenobi need to use their platforms to raise up black voices and pressure WOTC and the community to make social change. And all of the above need to stop paying lip service and performative gestures towards Black Lives Matter while they continue to disregard black people in their own spaces. The community has mobilized in the past to get changes made to the game, we must now mobilize to get changes made to the game designers. Contact public-facing figures like Mark Rosewater, Gavin Verhey, and Aaron Forsythe on twitter and Tumblr. Write about the lack of black creators at WOTC in customer service surveys, request content creators to do videos and articles about the subject, use the massive power of the magic community for good. Please.

TLDR: Demand Wizards of the Coast Hire Black Writers and Artists and Demand Content Creators to do the Same.

[Edit: It has been brought to my attention that I was in error to refer to Narset as "white-passing" in the Secret Lair Woman's Day, while there is a discussion to be held about colorism in media, the line in question was not properly constructed. It is left here as an admission of the mistake. Apologies.]

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bootymacaroni · 4 years

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Colorism: Anti-blackness in the Black Community

Racism is something that there is no hiding it still very prominent in the world today. Black folx and POC do not face the same burdens as our ancestors, but there seems to be this notion among Black Americans that we must be black before anything else. We must carry the burdens of our past on our backs even if we are not still facing the same burdens as those that fought for use to have the life and privileges that we have now.

We all know that know that racism is real, alive and sadly apart of our “American Culture”, but what no one seems to want to talk about or admit to being a real thing is that anti-blackness and racism in the Black Community.

Colorism or shadeism is a real problem, not only here in America, but also in Latin America, East & Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Outside of the US, colorism is seen more from a class perspective than White Supremacy, White skin was seen as superior due to the ruling classes at the time having lighter complexions. Peasants developed tans from working outside, and because of this, having light skin meant you were able to receive employment opportunities, while their darker counterparts did not.

In order to even begin fighting against colorism, we need to first define it, it’s origins and its history.

For starters, colorism has been around since as early as 1619, but back then it was more commonly referred to as colorphobia or “Negreophobia”. It wasn’t until Alice Walker, an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist best known for her publication for the novel “The Color Purple”, was credited for being the first to use the word colorism. Walker defined colorism as, the prejudicial or preferential treatment of the same race of people based solely on their skin tone.

There is no denying that colorism originates as lighter skin tones being more favorable than darker skin tones. Colorsim began because during slavery times, light skinned slaves had the privilege of working doing domestic tasks, while dark skinned slaves worked in the fields. Light skinned children were not acknowledged as the offspring their slave owners, which still lead to them being treated better than darker skinned slaves. This meant that light skin was considered to be an asset in the Black Community.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the “Paper Bag Test” was introduced in order to see if you were going to be permitted into special social clubs for those considered to be “free slaves”. A paper bag was placed up to your skin and if you were the same color of the paper bag or lighter you were granted access to the spaces and were considered for hire. If you were darker, you were not granted access and looked over for hire.

Colorism also stemmed from the fact that black slaves were not allowed to be educated. This lead to black individuals believing that having an education was “anti-black”. Many believed that “schools and blacks don’t go together”. Many black kids were teased and mocked for “acting white” because they were viewed as thinking they were better than their peers. Kids were sought out and asked to spell words or answer math questions and if they answered correctly they were beaten up. Gifted black students had to choose between peer acceptance or intellectual achievements. Most chose acceptance. This is why many believed that kids didn’t do well in school.

Along with all of this, the black community struggles with internalized racism. Internalized racism or internalized oppression is a conscious or unconscious acceptance of racial hierarchy in which whites are constantly ranked above POC. This can be shown by having beliefs in racist stereotypes, adaptations of white cultural standards, and thinking that supports the status quo ( denying that racism exists ).

Because of this internalized racism, black women, more commonly dark skinned black women, are seen as incapable of processing information, thinking or succeeding independently, are unintelligent, undesirable or beautiful, need to be dominated or “tamed”, and are constantly talked down upon and insulted, and because of this white skin became greatly desired.

White skin was so coveted that skin lighten creams are some of the best selling products in the US, Asia, and many other Nations.

None of this is a secret when it comes to the history of dark skinned black women, but still more knowledge, understanding, compassion and acknowledgment are needed around these subjects and they pertain to dark skinned black women and the racism and colorsim they have faced for decades and still continue to have to deal with today.

With that being said, there is another aspect of colorism we still need to face because too many in the black community either think it is not a thing, or do not wish to believe it is a real problem and that is the black eraser of light skinned blacks.

Creoles in Louisiana were told “You’re too white to be black and you’re too black to be white”. We are all aware that racial features play power roles in who gets ahead in the world and who does not. These factors determine who gets hired, who gets convicted and who get elected. We still can not separate these very painful stereotypes of colorism from misogyny, mostly because of the fundamental fact that light skinned blacks heritage in the US stems from the practice of sexual slavery, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation in American Slavery. Because so many slave owners were having offspring that were still considered slaves, rules such as the One Drop Rule were put into place. The One Drop Rule stated that if even one of distant relative was black, you were black, or at the very least “definitely not white”.

There seems to be this notion that a light skinned black is somehow not black, but at the same time they are not white? So what are they? I have been told many times that I have to refer to myself as mixed, I’m not allowed to identify as black, but that I have to refer to myself as bi-racial. Yes, I am bi-racial, meaning i am 2 races, black and white, I am both, and at the same time neither. When it comes to mixed black individuals they are looked down on by those that, don’t suffer the same plight as, but understand the harsh situation because they suffer their in the own way. There seems to be this century long pissing contest to see who will win the most oppressed Olympics and its disheartening to see that after all theses years we as a community can not word to dismantle this internalized racism.

Dark skinned black folx and light skinned black folx do not suffer in the same ways, but they should acknowledge the suffering of each other. The more we a divided among ourselves the harder it is going to be for us to actual heal, and grow. We as a whole need to work together to dismantle colorism before it destroys us.

The following are ways that we can work to dismantle colorism:

1. SELF: Do you show preference? Do you assign hierarchy to skin tone?

Work on your own self hate

Be mindful of your reactions

Take pride in people that look like you

Mourn how you have been treated

Acknowledge your privilege

2. Family, Infant & Colorist Language

Do not make comments on your infants hair texture. Refrain from comments like “I hope their hair isn’t nappy” or “I hope you get your moms straight hair”

Do not make comments about your infants nose. A large nose is seen as “too African”. There have been studies that have shown mothers pinching the bridge of their babies nose in order to make it smaller.

It is a well ingrained belief that the ears, knuckles and knees are the areas that are strong indicators of how dark your child will turn out. “I hope he doesn’t get too dark“

3. Family & Colorist Language:

We can actively check the members of our family for their use of colorist language. “My sister is beautiful the way she is. Saying she is pretty for a dark skinned girl is hurtful”, “Kinky hair is great hair. Texture is normal. White/Latin/Asian parents, do not lose your composure when doing your child’s hair. Watch some tutorials if you are struggling. Speak up and protect even if you are scared you will meet resistance.

4. Men. Black men have no idea how painful it is to men and women when they scan a room and make it obvious that their choices are based on colorism.

Acknowledge your privilege in this area. Men carry the bulk of the power in maintaining colorism inside the community. No matter how many times the womanists may clap back, most black women who want a black man as a lover/life partner/husband, seek to be considered desirable to the men in their culture. The rejection by men because of the womans’ hue is most painful. While it is not fair that colorism was handed down to men, a contribution towards dismantling it will go a long way - for generations to come. Avoidance of a woman for the concern of how the children will come out is akin to eugenics.

5. Church If possible, ask the pastor if you can read these solutions to the congregation.

6. Young Children

Control the TV to the best of your ability for your younger children so that they don’t internalize colorist messages. Small children are impacted by pictures more than words. Images on TV permeate so powerfully tot he point that black children continue to view a white person’s image as superior to that of a black person’s image.

7. Children

Teach boys not to assign girls value based on color hierarchy. Girls are more like to be on the receiving end of being permanently placed on colorist base hierarchy.

Teach girls not to make fun of dark skinned boys. We cannot afford anymore Tommy Sotomayors. We owe it to the next generation.

Teach boys and girls about colorism and how to not use colorist language.

8. Rich Black Hollywood/Alanta

They have the power and money to produce films and cast any way they wish. Let them know that there is no need to pander and beg for casting and EGAT awards. Produce and lead. Issa Rae has already demonstrated that content is king, no matter the medium

9. Employment

Employment law is indeed on the side of stamping out colorism. It can’t be denied that lawsuits are correcting colorism in the workplace. Nothing can put cooperate America in its place more than a lawsuit. It’s well known that companies actually have to abide by protected class laws and protect black people from discrimination experienced in the workplace not only from white people but also from black people.

“In short, radical protest through calling out the perpetrators of colorism is necessary. We may lose some friendships but it will be worth it for subsequent generations to not being raised with self-revulsion and to heal. We need to do this in order to better our communities and ourselves.” - Suzanne Forbes-Vierling

#racism #black women #black men #colorism #Mental Health #Social Justice #Black Lives Matter #psa #podcast

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abigailzimmer · 5 years

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