a simulacrum

as we see reprisals of Y2K skinny culture (as part of fascism) people are making a lot of posts like ‘if you’re too young to remember, it was so toxic. people shamed [skinny woman] for being fat!’ and perhaps it’s useful to bring up someone like kate winslet circa 1999 being fatshamed to express how truly dire the situation was/is but i find it increasingly frustrating that the response seems by and large to be ‘wow that’s awful! she wasn’t even fat!’ [so clearly that was wrong!] and not the real point: ‘so imagine how horrible it was for actual fat people, who also don’t deserve the far worse treatment they got/get.’

tl:dr if your response to fatphobic bullying/harrassment is “but they’re not even fat,” you have not gotten to the core issue. you haven’t even considered the core issue.

lots of people in the tags pointing out the same thing about transphobia and especially transmisogyny where instead of centering trans women in conversations about transmisogyny, it turns into defending cis women who are mistaken for trans women like “and she’s not even trans!” instead of saying “we shouldn’t treat trans women that way.” you’re not derailing you’re 100% correct

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

I suppose? You can just replace that with what kind of bender tribe you'd be, or if you're a Jedi or a Sith.

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

I'll do you one better, identify with your choice of lightsaber color and form you'd use~!

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

ok but power rangers are dope as hell and also are FREE to watch on youtube so tag yrself im light blue

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

Personally I don't want to have my eternal punishment defined by any futile boulders for kings because I have a three-dimensional sense of eternal torment,

HOLY FUCK i need more art of Prometheus getting fucked

By the eagle?

Can you leave me alone

Apparently not

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

israelis could experience the most horrific terrifying night of their lives and it wouldn't even be a fraction of the palestinian suffering they have gleefully supported so yeah i'll be celebrating right along with the people of gaza yemen and iran it's fuck every zionist forever in this house

wait did something happen to Jesus

my doordasher has been fucking around in the restaurant parking lot for a half hour now. probably playing with his tip and maybe even his balls a little bit on the holy day no less

to be honest he may even be curiously slipping his middle finger in and out of his hole with his shirt between his teeth adn his legs shaking well as long as i get my food buddy

who knows though

Rly enamored with that post that's like (paraphrased bc i can't find it) "this is a natural self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence" bc it's so succinct and so broadly applicable. Look at anything we take as natural, or inevitable, or a necessary evil, or regrettable but there's no other option - is there not? What happens when you try to make another option? What violence is necessary to foreclose all other paths? Who benefits from naturalizing this hierarchy, this essentialism, this economic system, this electoral system, these national borders, etc? How many things do you think are impossible (be it transgressions of sex and gender or be it socialism, anarchism, etc) because they're always demonized and punished and strangled in the cradle? "Natural" is a word that raises my hackles. How much work goes into maintaining "the way things are" (and always have been, and have to be)? How much violence has been enforced on your imagination, to keep you thinking that no other worlds are possible?