decapitated fetus

is this real? / i thought pro wrestling was fake? wrestling is 'fake' in that the fights are choreographed and the winner is predetermined, but the physicality is very real. there's no way to 'fake' getting whipped with a metal chain so hard it leaves welts.

why ARE they chained? this is a specialty fight called a 'dog collar match' where both participants are, you guessed it, fitted with dog collars which are then chained together.

is this legal? / how can this be allowed? why wouldn't it be? they're both consenting adults who planned and agreed to it.

but they could be seriously hurt! they know, and they accept the risk. pro wrestlers are well aware of the injuries possible in their line of work, and they do it anyway because they're crazy people.

IS there aftercare? of a sort, yeah - there's a medical team on hand to patch everyone up, and lots of coworkers backstage to give them a 'job well done!'

why are they wearing thigh highs? they're kneepads/shin guards for protection. looking like sexy thigh highs is just a bonus side effect!

ok, but why's that guy in a shiny speedo? personal preference. wrestlers can design their own outfits and some prefer full coverage long tights, while others wear less to show off the gams.

is that cm punk? yup! he unretired last year.

Apologies if this is too confusing or specific!

fuck twitter

fuck reddit

fuck tumblr

and fuck you

How many Americans comprehend The Bomb?

How many Americans know the Secrets of Steel?

The Smartphone in my hand was made in China. The Intellectual Plantation Owners make a feeble attempt to rightful claim, “designed in California.”

A Memory; rummaging through bins of Capacitors & Resistors with my Father, seeking a part with the correct Color Code to fix an old Stereo. The blue smoke curling from the tip of the Soldering Iron. The crackle and hum of the stereo coming to life. Satisfaction.

My ability to read a Wiring Diagram has come in handy a mere 3 times in the last 5 years. There are no bins of Parts for my son to rummage through. Even the unspeakable beast which once stalked the land wearing the skin of my beloved Radio Shack has starved to death for want of customers.

Pretty much title. I dunno if this is really a fitting space to talk about it, but it feels like one of few Im in that will be receptive. Ive noticed a lot of bigger womens’ subs Im on have a huge problem uncritically celebrating or calling for use of police power even in cases where criminalization isn’t necessarily a safe or productive approach, or ignoring or down voting critiques of police misconduct in cases where the perpetrator has done (or been accused of) something that catches their radar.

For anyone ootl, carceral feminism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carceral_feminism) is a term stemming from a fairly broad range of theoretical critiques that highlight how mainstream feminism often over-relies on the police and incarceration system in ways that directly or indirectly winds up excusing or justifying the harms that police contact can cause on (especially) people from marginalized backgrounds, and that winds up perpetuating the abuses embedded in the policing system. Even as a white trans and gnc person Im acutely skeptical of any feminism that winds up justifying increased police surveillance and control, and doesn’t want to hold police accountable; Im sure the danger is worse for black and brown queer and trans women especially. Leaning too much into carceralism is creating a feminism that isn’t really safe for queer and trans women, or especially woc.

Im not really sure where Im going to this, but damn if that doesn’t describe what Ive seen in a lot of places to a T. We need to have conversations and spaces that aren’t treating police intervention, even in cases of misogynistic crime, as an untrammeled good, and too few spaces are doing that right now.

Here are some replies:

Budding_clover: I mean, sure, but that’s an Intersectionality conversation on White Feminism and the way white feminists have historically weaponized patriarchy against other marginalized communities that I can never seem to have in public w/o a bunch of people jumping down my throat about “reverse racism” or “Black Men are still MEN and Patriarchy more than makes up for racism!” 🤷🏽‍♀️

ShaarkShaart: YES. Absolutely. Actually, Olurinatti has an awesome video essay about this: How Women Become Carceral Feminists I see it a lot more in mainstream feminist spaces than queer ones, but nobody’s exempt. The carceral system as a whole is built on fear and sustains itself with the false narrative that it makes us safer. In the US, we have more people imprisoned than ever before. The largest percentage of the population than ever before. And yet, we are increasingly surveilled and far from safe.

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