this is the weirdest transandro.phobia strawman ive ever seen like comparing the fact that ablebodied people will say disabled people’s bodies are triggering and something people need to be protected from to women who have some form of discomfort with men due to genuine trauma they have experienced. literally NO one is out here claiming men shouldn’t be allowed to exist in public or something, it’s genuinely just an excuse to be uncharitable towards traumatised people also the classic truther rhetoric of drawing in instances of gender conforming women saying masc women r scary/white women saying black men are scary etc in order to legitimise their claim that men r oppressed or “masculinity is oppressed” while ignoring the fact it’s actually specifically how these groups are failing at cis white male masculinity that gets them in trouble.
honestly treating ‘people finding you scary’ as a consequence of oppression is silly as hell when being perceived as intimidating simultaneously allows privileged men to get away with sexual assault + gets black men killed by police. again white men designed the patriarchy on purpose to be beneficial to them, being found intimidating is a feature not a bug!! the fact its designed to be able to deploy the accusation of posing a threat against marginalised people in order to victimise them (whether or not they are men, btw, since black, trans, and masc women suffer worse from this whilst simultaneously having even less power to actually make it so) does not then mean marginalised people are actually the Real Oppressors for having legitimate feelings of discomfort and hesitation around their oppressors
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It always gets me when people try to frame plastic surgery as being empowering or body positive. "Oh you know, I just think a different nose would suit my face better," like.. ok. Why is it always the same things that everybody thinks would look "better" though? Why doesn't anybody get rhinoplasty to make their nose bigger? Are there not people who would be more "suited" to having a larger or wider nose? Like, get real
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does anyone else realize that white supremacy in america has also taken white people culture away from various different white cultures there used to be and made it into one conglomerate white person thing. like I can't look back into my ancestors and find any culture at all. and I can't really say that being american is much of a culture really it's just capitalism, and surviving that capitalism
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ive already expressed how bunk the culturally christian discourse is but something else occurred to me and its that the discourse not only alienates exchristians (on purpose) but also alienates poc, largely i think also on purpose. because ive seen so many false equivalence posts insinuating that backlash against culturally christian is the same as resistance to the idea of ‘white privilege’ or that being ‘culturally christian’ is the same as being white in a racist society. and so many people keeping this discourse going are white and trying to call out other white people for having another level of what theyve interpreted as unilateral all encompassing privilege, going back and forth on how privileged the cultural christians (exchristians, people raised atheist, people who have converted to other religions, jewish folks and muslims too now if they breathed the wrong too christian air or lived in the wrong country) are and equating it to being inherently racist. and you can see how this analogy doesn’t work for people of color and literally anyone marginalized in any other way. even if you think ‘culturally christian’ works as a term (it doesn’t but go off, mostly because yall stripped it of anything meaningful from conception) how can you say its equivalent to white privilege even for poc without being racist? for all this “you need to unlearn christian biases!” none of you are unlearning your racist biases.
being ‘culturally christian’ is not a person of color’s version of white privilege you myopic racist fucks. the white ‘culturally christian’ enjoyers are either trying to dodge some sort of guilt or accountability but it shows how they use intersectionality is broken and oversimplified otherwise we wouldn’t be having this discussion in the first place. its no surprise a concept made by a black woman (intersectionality) is misused by white folks. and no, i don’t care if youre white and nonchristian saying this, if you can make those kind of claims with no nuance then i get to do the same. a lot of the popular bloggers who say this are white and reblog from people known to harass poc anways...
and now for the personal anecdote as a black person: black churches didn’t get firebombed, be segregated and get defunded so they couldn’t organize against white supremacy for you to say ‘culturally christian’ is the same as being white and racist for everyone. they didn’t edit the bibles they gave enslaved people for no reason, they didn’t burn crosses in people’s yards and march streets with them in white hoods, or claim black people didn’t have souls or that integration was ‘unchristian’ or say that “only jesus could fix racism!” for you to get your white ass on tumblr and say this shit. i hope you feel genuinely uncomfortable and unsettled reading that.
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massive barry (tv) spoilers below
i just finished barry and ...holy christ what an intense ending. my thoughts are still very in chorent about it and
i had been going back and forth on the show for a while because a) the few non-white characters on the show kept getting killed and b) shows with massive time skips usually fall apart. I still have my qualms with it but in the end it really killed or fucked like nearly every main character and i feel like the overarching theme was like how this one white guy really screwed everyone over and over again, perpetuating a cycle of violence with nearly endless ripple effects and got away with it (narratively, he gets murdered at the end) becoming a hero in the eyes of the public and his own son because the truth is buried through shitty cops and the death of those who have any sense of the truth. and in turn, it was another white guy whose is the first white guy's mentor who manipulates him over and over again placing him also at the center of the violence. the mentor also lives and gets away with it. and how like each of the characters who chose to enable his violence even when they didn't like it for their own gain and ends then perpetuate this cycle. those who try to end it or refuse it are then unable to shift the tide bc they are alone again this violent manipulative man.
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i was the only one at the fair today locally with a mask on
and as we were leaving and someone else was coming in, a dad with his probably 5 yr old daughter, he leaned over in front of my face and coughed hard on purpose
fucking jackass i hope he gets humbled so hard, and maybe hope he falls on his face on the hot pavement.
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its interesting that the full grown adults whose heads i live in head free, for whatever reason, never actually try to like... have an honest conversation with me abt it. like i get why ppl would be intimidated by something like that in todays internet culture but like. dude.
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like about the reddit/twitter thing. i still think its just perception. there are probably people who dont use tumblr because they heard about those pedo rings operating in plain sight a few years ago and thought that was all the site was. i use twitter because im familiar with it and it only really sharply declined in dash quality once all the ragebaiters moved there following the porn ban (granted i also filter/block liberally). i never made a reddit account because learning a whole new ui is intimidating, and also i still have the association of rampant misogyny and racism to thank for it. but you know whats crazy. we're only getting TASTES of what the other platforms offer. every circle is going to be different. every site has their share of horrifically bad users. i know its easy to joke about users specifically being bad, but if anything we need more attention directed towards the people in charge who let shitty things happen and enforce bs policy changes nobody wants.
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