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Gilbert Baker and the first pride flag in 1978. I met him at the San Francisco Flag Store, back in the day.
Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

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Me: I want to see a cultural third gender that isn’t a way of othering effeminate males out of ‘correct’ manhood.
Progressives on Tumblr: I have the gender.
Me: You’re sure? You have the third gender and it isn’t exclusivily for males?
Progressives on Tumblr: This is correct. I have a socially functional third gender that is completely different from masculinity and femininity and isn’t sex-exclusive. I do not have a fringe identity for male crossdressers.
Me: Excellent! Please show me the gender.
Progressives on Tumblr: Here you go! *Effeminate male in a patriarchal society*
Me:
it's kind of amazing how well men have managed to team up and fuck shit up and like, develop genuine strategies to protect their shared class interest and mutual loyalties at any cost, given how little they seem to genuinely like each other. i'll give them that. if there is one thing we can learn from them it is not like, toxicity and domination strategies and violence and cruelty and superiority complexes imo, it's not liking each other (as we inevitably will) but doing our best to be a united front regardless
happy pride! 🌈☀️
“Sex work” isn’t work. It’s the oldest lie men tell to justify treating women’s bodies as public commodities.
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I’m going to say something that might sound crazy. Suicide and suicide attempts are sort of a societal alarm bell that says “something is very wrong with the environment this individual was in.” A living being choosing to take themselves out of existence is the most extreme act of distress there is. The state stepping in to silence this alarm bell by funneling suicidal people into a state sanctioned euthanasia program, normalizing this act through a socially accepted bureaucratic system, is not a good thing. It goes hand in hand with the state’s interest in maintaining the status quo at the expense of the population and the psychiatric industry’s interest in individualizing societal problems to extract profit and aid the existing system. It’s saying “there are no complaints here, just people with sick brains, carry on.”
it does not sound crazy

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Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
“I don’t want to be seen as a woman, I just want to be seen as a person!”
Believe it or not, women are in fact people.
asking the “genital preference” crowd what they think happens during conversion therapy is always fun because you get to see them completely short circuit
ive actually never seen one of them attempt to answer
I’m convinced they all think it’s medieval torture and shock therapy. They don’t want to admit that their rhetoric is lifted directly from modern conversion therapy.
You’re being selfish. you’re being shallow. Why are you so obsessed with genitalia? You’re telling me that all you’re interested in is sex? Have you considered a sexless relationship? You can always try and see how you feel. Just because you didn’t like it once doesn’t mean you will never like it. Let’s talk about why you’re so fixated on genitalia. What if you found you soulmate, but it turns out they’re the opposite sex, you would really just lose interest? Look how you’re hurting all these people - you’re saying you find them repulsive? How do you think that feels?
I’ve heard it all. I’ve been through it all. Modern TRA rhetoric is literally conversion therapy and it’s often actually more overtly hateful and full of vitriol than the standard
I was put through conversion therapy as a teenager. There were no electric shocks involved, no chemicals, no beatings. What did happen was a very friendly, charismatic and manipulative woman sat me down twice a week, asked me simple questions about how I experienced attraction and then shamed me and nitpicked every single answer I gave.
It's a subtle psychological torture, no matter how resilient you are it will slowly get under your skin and stay there. Conversion therapy isn't what was portrayed on AHS you idiot children, it's literally the same things I see on twitter every day.
i’ve brought up to multiple TRAs that homosexuals historically have been put through conversion therapy, beat, jailed, publicly humiliated, correctively raped, kicked out, made homeless, and executed since the beginning of time across most cultures, don’t you think one of them would have figured out the fantastic loophole of just being attracted to a member of the opposite sex’s “womanly/manly spirit” or their “internal gender identity”, or decided to overcome and unlearn their “genital preference”?
seriously, you’d think homosexuals in times and places where having homosexual sex could result in their death, would have worked that out centuries ago. it seems like quite a simple solution. and before you say “oh yeah but not as many trans people were out back then so they couldn’t just date a trans person” hmm i though trans people have always existed? obviously most wouldn’t have actually transitioned, and if they did than the relationship wouldn’t have helped as much with getting out of the danger of being in unconventional relationships, but if a lesbian who faced persecution or execution for being a homosexual could simply unlearn her genital preference and locate a man who has a “womanly spirit” or the “mind of a woman”, regardless of if he actually identified as trans, that should’ve done the trick right? because sexual attraction is based on internal identities right?
no one has had a good answer for me yet….
also conversion therapy has literally proven that lesbians and gay men cannot be persuaded or coerced into liking opposite sex genitalia or bodies even in the most high stakes situations, and yet they still act like everyone on earth can be attracted to both sexes even when we literally tell them in our own words from our own experience that we have never been attracted to the opposite sex and cannot force ourselves to. it’s almost like they don’t really gaf about homosexuals
Get that abortion and finish school. Dump that worthless man and get that abortion and live your life. Get that abortion and keep that promise to yourself to only having one kid and being done. Get that abortion, you don’t have to keep a pregnancy that was unplanned and unwanted. It doesn’t mean you’re taking responsibility when you accept pregnancy, getting an abortion is often the best choice. How could I be a mother and not support the bodily autonomy of all other girls and women? Women who are anti abortion or “pro life” are lost and confused, I don’t hate you, but I don’t understand why you hate abortion and how that affects you.
I don’t know who needs to read this, but get that fucking abortion, pregnancy and birth is not for every woman. Not all of us need to be having kids and that’s ok, so don’t ever feel bad about anyone trying to make you feel guilty for not having kids. You will regret being a mother more than choosing to become childfree. Read that again.

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he seems to be doing a pretty good job tbh
theist accelerationism: the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible so God is forced to intervene
atheist accelerationism: the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible in order to trigger a collapse of the current economic and socio-political structure
agnostic accelerationism: nobody knows why the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible
15 years ago the people screaming slurs at feminists and saying they deserve to be raped to death were understood to be obvious anti-feminists, mens-rights-activists, conservatives, whatever you want to call them they were very obviously on the opposite side and made no attempt to hide it. now a not-insignificant fraction of the people screaming slurs and rape threats at feminists are... other people who claim to be feminists, but "good" ones, and they just really hate feminists that go "too far"... much more than they hate, you know, men who rape and kill women. are we on planet crazy right now. is this insanity island perhaps. did something happen in 2012