The Switch 2 NEEDS to fail at launch, we cannot allow $80 for game cards that don't actually have the fucking video game on them be a thing. Someone at Nintendo needs to die for it, I want investors and executives to fall on their swords for attempting this.
"gay or european" also goes for middle-aged women btw. that lady with short hair no makeup and sneakers isn't a lesbian she's just german
Some liberals really seem to think bigotry (misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc.) is okay so long as it is for the Right Reasons or directed towards the Right People.
This is patently false. But I do wonder why they think the conservative mindset is any different? People don't go through life thinking they're The Bad Guy and their beliefs are harmful. Activists believe their cause – and behavior in service of that cause – is righteous, no matter what end of the political spectrum they fall on. They justify their beliefs the same as any other person. (That doesn't mean they're right.)
But you can't use bigotry For Good. Misogyny directed at Bad Women is still wrong. Racism in service of a Noble Cause is still wrong. Bigotry, no matter the justification, is still wrong.
I would love for one of them to explain to me what they think liking men in a 'gay way' means. How do you have attraction for a member of the opposite sex in a homosexual way?
If I didn't know any better I'd say it's about being sexually dominant with men but most of tifs I know of are pathetically meek and subservient to males so idk about that
I'd imagine it's along the lines of what non-trans-identified women who fetishise or strongly prefer gay male romances say it's about: wanting relationships with men, but without any misogyny or power dynamics caused by sex. Wanting relationships with men but as an equal partner rather than a sex object.
One of the human trafficking public service announcements I made for a class.
hi y’all i just wanted to put you onto this fundraiser for the buffalo nations grasslands alliance. they’re trying to recoup some of the funds for black-footed ferret conservation on tribal grounds that the trump/musk administration has frozen, which is impacting not only the conservation efforts themselves but the livelihoods of the people working on them. the frozen grant is 1.1 million but this fundraiser has a goal of 50,000.
the fundraiser has 24 days left and has only reached 2% of its goal with 11 donations. black-footed ferrets are an endangered lazarus taxon that was thought to be extinct from 1979-1981 before being rediscovered by accident. they’re a miracle of conservation and it would be horrible to lose them for good, not to mention (again) the impact of people working with these animals losing their jobs which is outlined in the fundraiser link. indigenous-led conservation efforts are extremely important for a wide variety of reasons and as someone in the zoology area i feel obligated to share this fundraiser to contribute to those efforts.
i know that things are hard right now and there’s a lot of people and organizations all across the world that need help, so don’t feel pressured BUT if you have extra money and you can contribute to this fundraiser or share it with people who can that would be great.
super cute black-footed ferrets ^
What men don’t understand about misandry is that the vast majority of it still exists to benefit them. I’m sure this is why a lot of radfems laugh and say that it isn’t real.
Do you want to know what the #1 biggest, most widespread form of misandry is? The ubiquitous belief among older women that men genuinely just are not capable of behaving like compassionate, normal human beings. The kind of thing married women going up in years will adopt in order to deal with their inadequate family lives. That they don’t do better because they can’t. It is the twisted reaction you get when you must live alongside an oppressor class that prioritizes itself over you every single time.
I won’t go into precisely what my traumatic experience was, but I will tell you the shocking reactions I got when my father hurt me afterwards instead of caring for me.
“Well honey, don’t be mad at him! He’s a man, and men just don’t understand that!” – the reaction to my father throwing away sentimental items I needed to cope
“The thing about your Dad is that he is a man. They can’t deal with this stuff. Next time, just call me.” – the reaction to my father screaming at me for having a panic attack.
“Guys are just babies.” – the reaction to my father refusing to comfort me when I bawled
“I mean, men just don’t think about stuff like that.” – bonus from years ago when my father waited until my mom was away to attend a funeral to change a feature of our house they’d disagreed over for some time. For some reason my Aunt was certain it was a coincidence and that he didn’t realize what he’d done.
It’s a self-soothing justification. It’s not that your father or your husband doesn’t love you enough to ever prioritize you over his momentary comfort, it’s just that he can’t improve! He’s giving you his best already! You are so lucky to have him!!!!
The vast majority of misandry is what women tell themselves and each other just to survive peacefully under oppression. It literally exists to uphold the patriarchy so that we don’t have to confront the grim reality of male supremacy and what it means. Men don’t have to work overtime to maintain their place on the foodchain, because many of us? Just do the work for them. It is literally because of misandry that men are not facing epidemics of lovelessness and revolt. We expect of them what they tell us to, and then they reap the rewards while crying about it.
Misandry like this is a mechanism of survival, not because men are actually different, but because they insist that they are different or else.
They are currently trying to archive her work but may not be successful in getting all of it.
fiber crafts is like oh you think you know how to count? think again. also count again.
i dislike the term ‚sex worker‘ for several reasons.
most glarlingly, considering sex to be work as in a job, an occupation, a profession, a career - an obligation - is inherently at odds with defining sex as an act that has to be freely consented to - under financial duress, it is not. sex as a service one person does to satisfy the other instead of a mutual act is repackaged misogyny; the person in the dominant position (in a patriarchal, neocolonial/racist society those are white men), the person who has the money the other person needs, is entitled to sexual satisfaction, the other has to serve.
secondly, the people who use this term encompass any job slightly related to sex a ‚sex worker‘, including erotic models who dont engage in sex acts (onlyfans ‚models‘ who sell nudes or lingerie photos for example) and even sex toy producers or worse, brothel and agency owners (‚managers‘). this muddies the water and obfuscates reality. say prostituted women/people. say women/people who do porn. say women in strip clubs. be specific.
when sex is a service or product on the free market, in underlies the rules of demand and supply. despite massive efforts to groom vulnerable groups into entering the sex industry through propaganda and lies (pull factors), as well as poverty and discrimination on the regular job market providing a seemingly endless stream of ‚fresh meat‘ (push factors), around 2/3 of human trafficking victims are sold into the sex industry, because the demand is that much higher than the supply of people willingly enduring sex with people they are not attracted to (shocking) and the few who do it voluntarily (choosing ‚sex work’ against viable alternatives) in the higher priced segment can only do so on the backs of the ones who are pushed, pulled and trafficked into the industry. calling them ‚sex workers‘ is misleading.
‚sex work‘ means it is a job like any other, but sex is not like anything else. sex is not a neutral act in an unequal world ripe with massive power imbalances. in a world where most sexual offenders are men, and most prostitutes are women, transwomen, gay or gay-for-pay men. and yes, in a world where one group of people can easily orgasm through penetration alone, even with an unwilling object (which can be another person). sex buyers are sex offenders and porn consumers are complicit in systemic sexual abuse, but when the exploited are called workers, they are just customers and not to be held accountable, as well as website, app, brothel and agency owners (by the way: mindgeek who owns pornhub is owned by a man, onlyfans is owned by a man, so are most brothels, and when madames run it, they usually were prostituted before, but not the men).
you know who coined the term ‚sex worker‘? carol leigh, who had a bachelors degree in creative writing. she became a prostitute at 22 to finance her studies. she was raped in the brothel she was active in and did not report it because the establishment would have been closed… this made her become an activist, because she did not see the issue in the nature of prostitution, but the stigma surrounding it. the root according to her was that prostitution was not considered work, and she coined the term ‚sex worker‘ opposed to feminists using the term prostituted women. notice something? she does not hold sex buyers accountable and completely omits them from the conversation. this is where it all started. she began the trend of intellectualising and mystifying the dire reality of prostitution: „Leigh sees her own sex work, and the sex work of others, as having the possibility to serve a higher, spiritual function in society.“ she used it as a subject of her creative work, films and performance art, just like so many loud privileged ‚sex worker‘ advocates today who write books or start youtube channels - because they dont actually want to be prostitutes as a career.
so when people tell you that ‚sex worker‘ is a term prostituted women prefer, remember that it was coined by a privileged, white, academic, usamerican woman who fought against feminists and did not hold sex buyers or brothel owners accountable, and used millions of womens trauma as art, being celebrated as the voice of ‚sex workers‘ while not representing the average prostitute at all.
it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
some people will talk about racism and decolonisation all day but still yap about „sex work“ - which is a western concept coined by a white american art student who said that she was raped by a sex buyer because of stigma and not inherent issues with prostitution. i wonder if carol leigh smiles down from wherever she is now proud that her insane narrative is still spun almost 50 years later
„i was raped because of stigma“ is almost „if she did not want to get raped she should have worn less revealing clothes“. it takes the rapist out of the equation: a man made the conscious choice to rape her. stigma is not raping anyone. if you want to blame a system, blame rape culture. but the (not so) funny and paradoxical part is that prostitution is a part of rape culture: it confirms men in their entitlement to use others for their sexual gratification.
of course the argument - which leigh brought forward in 1978 and is still dominating left leaning discourse around prostitution today - is that stigma is preventing prostitution from being recognised as a „real profession“ which is hindering the implementation of „workers rights“ and protection - in the brothel. leigh was very pro brothel. it is therefore unsurprising her narrative paved the way; no, was the first stone to create the pro brothel ‚sex worker‘ movement that has alleged feminists, leftists and liberals in its grip, convinced that brothels are a safe haven for women under the right regulation and that there is no inherent issue with the commodification of sexuality - sex for sale on the free market, something to be supplied, something that is in demand, something that anyone can profit off, and since we live under capitalism, the profits have to be maximised no matter the human cost. there is nothing free about the free market in a world where capital is distributed so unequally but suggesting that it is not the commodification of sex that is the issue, but a lack of regulation, suggests that prostituted women are agents making a rational choice when entering prostitution; which circles right back around to victim-blaming. she could just choose something else, right? different clothes, a less dangerous occupation.
carol leigh claimed there is no inherent issue with women having to get naked in vulnerable positions, on their back, their knees, all fours, with a stranger who is on average physically stronger, to be able to pay rent, bills, groceries and support their families. and more than 50 years later, people who claim to want the best for women still parrot this shit. more than 50 years later, people still claim the best thing for women is for men to legally be able to pay to use them for sex. 50 years later, people still fight for womens right to „choose“ prostitution as a keystone of sexual self determination against the fact that most prostituted womens „choice“ is compromised at best. 50 years later, people still claim brothels are the solution to sexual violence in prostitution. 50 years later, sex buyers are still not held accountable for their actions.
Socks. The key to girlhood.
I have never seen a female person wear knee or thigh high socks outside of:
A) private school uniforms for little girls
B) smut/erotica/porn
C) social media thirst posts
yea^^ its entirely a fetish thing. i think ive seen any woman (or girl) with kneehigh/thighhigh socks maybe thrice in my life. and even then not in any way "sexy" but more like in winter under some boots paired with leggings or skinny jeans and a shwdater and coat. and the last time ive seen an actual girl/woman wear such socks online was like 2015 tumblr when tumblrgirlTM pictures of with all that the mustache imagery galaxy print and owls for some reason was trending.
You can't laugh at racism/homophobia/etc. and then be mad when people who actually believe in those things feel comfortable calling you racial slurs or calling a gay person "fruity."
I'm personally not a buzz kill because I enjoy it, but you're not going to make some racist joke to me and think I'll laugh to keep you comfortable. You can't have it both ways. And I'm talking about "the joke is the racism/homophobia" not jokes in which the joke is how fucking stupid racism and homophobia are.
it's just. so bewildering to see so so so so so many people and "experts" write these extremely elaborate comments and thinkpieces and research papers about why they think women in a specific country x are no longer having children, because the guesses are so... hauntingly stupid that you just stand there open-mouthed, dumbfounded and in rage, not knowing how to channel your emotions anymore.
today i read an actual researcher make a claim in a finnish newspaper that one reason women in finland are not having kids anymore is because they just don't know when their fertility levels actually go down, and so they show up to fertility clinics too late, at an age when it's unlikely for them to have kids anymore.
"they just don't know". despite birth rates going down everywhere in the whole planet, in all countries where women are free to make their own decisions.
no, it's YOU who do not fucking know.
you do not fucking understand that women are PERFECTLY aware of our own biological limitations because the claim that our eggs have "already started rotting" will be the first lesson we ever learn, seconds after being born, and not a single male has let us forget this "fact" for one second since.
we know, and yet we end up postponing our pregnancies in our later years, or not having kids at all, because we HAVE. AN. ACTUAL. CHOICE. ABOUT. IT. for the first time in written history.
why are we even having this discussion? why are we wondering why there are less kids?
there are lesser and lesser kids because not a single free-acting being, human or animal, will take steps backwards in their quality of life if they do not have to.
and they no longer have to.
women do not have to get pregnant, because we can get birth control and abortions, because we can protect themselves more efficiently from rape, because we no longer have to listen to our families' pressure lest we end up in the streets to beg, because we are not forced to marry anybody, because we are not forced to choose between destitution and being a housewife, because birth control is no longer associated with "sins that get you to hell", because we no longer believe the lie that our only purpose in life is to reproduce.
we have fewer women getting pregnant because we do it only, and ONLY, if we think it will IMPROVE our quality of life. when we think we can handle it financially, when we know the child is only going to be a joy (which of course children in and of themselves are) to us, when we are mentally prepared, when we know we have support networks. only then. not in any other circumstances, and that means, in most societies, that the majority of us will wait for a better moment, or withdraw from having children at all. not even because those societies are such shitty places to live and men don't do their fair share, but sure, there's that too.
and this is how it SHOULD be.
this is how it was always supposed to be.
this is us moving forward to a better society, this is us winning, becoming happier, leading more wholesome lives, being educated, making smart choices, protecting ourselves and our children from harm. this is us protecting the planet, this is us being sustainable. this is fucking progress, this is a good, bright future.
just because capitalist economies are not prepared for such a change does not mean this is not a win. it is a win for women, and it is a win for our kids, and it is a win for the planet.
but yet these fucking dipshits dare claim it's only about "women not knowing their bodies have an expiration date and thinking they can wait forever to decide".
look, you can crawl on the floor while scream-crying and drooling all over yourself if you think shaming and blaming older women helps something, but actually, you should be thankful that there are still women out there that want to try getting pregnant even if they are "past their prime" or whatever the hell.
shame them enough, and they too, will stop trying. out of spite, if not for any other reason.
