Ane's corner

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

this recent trend of teenagers using genAI chatbots to talk to fictional characters is fucking grim. what you should be doing is roleplaying on private messages with your friends until the lines between you & the characters begin to blur & you develop some very complex & confusing feelings for each other that culminate in a massive fallout you dont have the tools to process nor understand

critiquing the ways that media + fans treat certain categories of characters and dynamics is something that can be both cathartic and useful but in terms of actually changing the culture, even if just on a local scale, i don’t think we can overstate the impact of expressing sincere and genuine enjoyment of those characters

like, say you haven’t historically been into f/f but you get into a thing and there are a bunch of fans talking about the f/f dynamics, making jokes and fanart, doing analysis, all that good stuff. there’s a chance you’ll be like hey wait a minute, these folks are onto something here that i wasn’t picking up on before, let’s check this out. and even if you don’t i still think there’s a benefit to the passive absorption of the idea that the dynamics between women are worthy of the same fandomization of those between men

over here glass half full as fuck bc my first thought was "i fw everything"

she lets me hit because she hasnt memorized my attack patterns

You have to keep watching

This is INCREDIBLE.

I think a little bookstore dilly dallying would fix this

sorry to my bloodline but its over

this shit sucks. wish bulbasaur was real .