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"I didn't feel like a man/boy"
"I didn't feel like a woman/girl"
You can't feel like a sex because they're not emotions or sensations. It's just a state of being. You're just uncomfortable and unhappy with gender roles forced unto you.
I can assure you most people, especially women, aren't happy with these roles either.
Not feeling "feminine" or not subscribing to sexist gender roles doesn't make you not a woman.
Same how not feeling "masculine" or "manly" doesn't mean that you're not a man.
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we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means
these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"
It was Bad.
Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.
For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.
A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)
Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.
Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.
The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.
This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.
“it’s okay for girls to be feminine” as if anyone in the history of humanity has ever told them it’s not, meanwhile butches and tomboys are a critically endangered species. girl, the reason you feel bad about being feminine is because you’re a girl, not because you’re feminine. men as a social class will hate you and everything they associate with women, because they hate women. but rest assured, women are still expected to perform femininity, because women performing femininity caters to men. that is what it is designed for. that is its social purpose to reinforce the gender hierarchy and men as the top social class. femininity is built on women’s ability to endlessly serve men with their labor, particularly menial and undesirable household tasks, emotional labor, and sexual labor. men see femininity as beneath them and worthy of mockery because it’s meant to cater to them. of course they see it as beneath them, they designed it that way. but if women don’t perform femininity the way they want, they mock it, because the whole point of femininity is to cater to men. that includes putting women down to ‘keep them in their place’, even women reinforcing the status quo.
that is why masculine women are far more socially stigmatized. they aren’t catering to the dominant gender class, so men despise masculine women. they’ll mock some feminine women for not catering to their specific ideals and kinks, but masculine women don’t fulfil the assigned social role of footstool nurse nymph cook servant mother punching bag, so men hate them and want an example made of them.
so get a grip. you don’t need positivity posts about how it’s okay to be feminine. not just because it’s constantly reinforced everywhere you look. but also because nearly all aspects of femininity are a psyop meant to condition women to cater to men. you should unlearn that shit. and for the love of god. stop telling girls “it’s okay to be feminine.” they fucking know. they’re told being feminine is the only option. you should be telling girls it’s okay to be masculine. because i promise you, no one else is.
women keep trying to invent the kind of femininity that will be subversive revolutionary and untouched by misogyny so that they don't have to feel bad for wanting to enjoy the social benefits of performing it but they can't and they never will because the express purpose of femininity is to shackle women up. so that's that.
Ngl I do think "air conditioning is rightwing" is the funniest take Europeans could possibly come up with. First off, never call Americans ignorant ever again. Second, get help, possibly in the form of an AC unit.
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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind
I am Begging Tumblr to start using humans to mark mature content.
Even a "community notes" approach would be an improvement
I am so sorry to break it to you @darnitjack and @meadowdaughtr but this post was one of the the First Posts Tumblr marked as mature. as in. before Any porn blogs started posting about their posts being marked as mature, Tumblr staff Very Specifically marked this post as mature
(the link leads to to the post I made documenting the whole thing when it went down due to the fact that No One Else Had Posted About Being Marked As Mature Yet. actual porn/kink blogs didn't post about their posts being marked until The Next Day. btw.)
The reason why I said it's must likely indiscriminate is because I have been very active on tumblr for years, including when the ban on pornography hit and various peoples posts were getting flagged, including some of mine, all of which were nonsexual. (I even saw an official render of Mario made by Nintendo get flagged.)
I remember seeing someone tested it with an image that contained a flesh color, and an image of the same thing that contained an unnatural color (bright green.)
The flesh colored image got flagged and the green one didn't. I recall seeing a bunch of other people test this to similar results. Lots of people were making jokes at the time of tumblr flagging obviously non-sexual things.
I just don't see why exactly staff would go out of their way to manually flag hundreds, if not thousands of non-sexual posts.
I don't know how the specifics of how exactly the flagging process works on the moderation end, but I could see someone on staff maybe glancing and just clicking confirm things the bot has flagged without actually looking too deeply at it because they are combing through thousands of posts and don't have the time to give each report due process and examination.
That's my best guess. I just have a hard time believing a random employee on tumblr staff went out of their way to target specific people/specific posts, especially when you remember the sheer volume of content they would have to moderate.
If they wanted to test the moderation system, there are avenues they could do that without affecting the user experience. Most websites already do that; they test features before implementing them. (Even unpopular changes still get tested before implementation.) They wouldn't have to test it on a popular, 100k note post made by one of their users.
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I sometimes I think of the pale blue dot photo and think of humanity's current state of affairs and it's difficult to not feel something like grief.
We overcame and adapted to extreme, excruciating challenges and circumstances for over 300,000 years, thus evolving into highly intelligent and immensely complex beings. We are by all accounts miraculous on an astronomical level, we have yet to find any other complex intelligent life anywhere. Every other species of human died out except for us.
And then the completely made-up, unnatural incorporation of oppression (patriarchy, racism, etc) only stunted us a general whole.
There's a saying that I see thrown around occasionally; "how many Einstein's were labouring over a kitchen stove?" Or something like that, and I feel the overall sentiment of that saying rather strongly. I can't help but wonder just how far we would have come if the all of humanity was given equal opportunity to contribute.
reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind
I am Begging Tumblr to start using humans to mark mature content.
Even a "community notes" approach would be an improvement
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Zimbabwe Akashinga Rangers, all-women anti-poaching unit
These women are amazing.
Many of them are vegan. Many have survived domestic abuse and sexual assault. For many of them, this is their first-ever paid job after a life of domestic servitude in marriage. They're the only armed female anti-poaching group currently active. They've arrested hundreds of poachers just since 2017.
Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.
An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.
Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.
What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.
Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. It’s not that you hate theme parks, it’s not like you’ve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. It’s just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.
I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it.
It’s pretty clear that a lot of this website is basing their perceptions of Black oppression no longer existing in the United States off of the career of Barack Obama as if he isn’t one token and Black wealth wasn’t collectively in the decline concurrent with his administration.
You saw a few rich Black people on television and in your narrow understanding of the world and with your limited experience decided this was the collective condition for Black Americans.
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“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”
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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)
Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.
(via iamayoungfeminist)
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there’s nothing inherently oppressive about female biology, including pregnancy or periods - women don’t have “inferior” bodies to males, we literally outlive them in every society despite a brutal patriarchy
what exists is medical misogyny, and it’s the reason why pregnancies and periods are so much more harmful than necessary in a scientifically advanced, modern society
but to think that the issue is inherently women’s bodies is just wrong, though i get why the patriarchy can trick you into believing this
women and girls just haven’t been the spotlight at all within medical research, but many people - both females and males - wouldn’t exist or survive into adulthood if not for scientific innovation
it’s not female bodies which are the problem, it’s just the fact women and girls haven’t been deemed worthy enough to understand, and we were barred from scientific fields for millennia
by calling historically ‘masculine’ women trans (i.e. joan of arc, mulan), it only perpetuates the idea that heroism, strength, and success are male traits
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