A Pure Little Egg

Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo

Like if a white person from the American suburbs who had doctors for parents says "the suburbs are set up in a way that's designed to alienate the people within them from their neighbors growing up there can be an incredibly lonely isolating experience" and you respond with "shut up you had everything you ever wanted growing up" you are sort of pretending that this asocial way of living we've set up based on harmful ideas like castle doctrine and individualism is in some way desirable for someone when the reality of the situation is that everyone is miserable.

Oh boy this is popping off. But I just want to put on this post that this isn't just about the example that I used this is also when people get mad at you for complaining about aspects of living in America because other people are getting bombed by America how dare you, or when (usually neurodivergent) white people complain about how wasp monoculture is high key hostile to be raised in, or when people with middle class jobs complain about the shit their boss pulls, or any other number of situations in which a relatively privileged potential ally talks about the unique ways the oppressive systems we're looking to overthrow effects them negatively. Like yes sure if you have a minimum wage job it's annoying to listen to someone with a salary and benefits say "my boss treats me like shit and my company is doing x evil thing" but if you're in that situation and you're actually down for the cause instead of just here to play oppression Olympics, you want to gain allies in this fight by saying "have you considered unionizing" instead of pushing people away by saying "shut up at least you can afford rent"

the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.

accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can't do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.

"and then you force yourself anyway" folks im starting to think some of you really do not understand what it means to not be able to do things.

anyone know that reddit post about a girl who’s gf washes her hair and it talks about non sexual intimacy

My heart..

Uncharacteristically reblogging text post because I think about this all the time and I think it’s so fundamentally fucked up and never spoken of how most men are literally NEVER shown casual affection. Yes it’s fair to note that it can be difficult for a woman to offer validation to men because it is often perceived as romantic or sexual interest - but I hate that we’ve as a society just decided the reason for that stops at “idk men are just fucked bruh”. This! THIS IS THE REASON. If you’ve never in your life received the kind of casual compliment on your hair or your sweater that some women give each other on a daily basis, of course it will seem a strange and loaded act. Ugh, breaks my heart.

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away

also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer

walkable cities also means cities with free accessible public bathrooms whilst we're at it

everyone who ever tried to kill you failed btw

this isn't something you can rly say in polite company but it's true. if you're trans or from some other marginalised community then a lot of people have wanted you dead. some have tried, in one way or another, to make that happen. you beat them and i'm proud of you

I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.

No, I am not 'hoarding craft supplies.' I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.

It's absolutely important to recognize trans people as a very very vulnerable demographic to the fash and often *one of* their first targets but I just saw a post saying the nazis came for trans people first & that feels... inaccurate. I mean. Pretty famously their main thing was jews

They Did destroy a lot of knowledge and set the progress being made in the 1920s back by decades & we need to recognize patterns in history & etc I completely agree but also we can't be forgetting that Nazis' Main Thing Is Jews

Queer gentiles I'm grabbing your shoulders rn. Gripping a little tighter than is comfortable for either of us. You do not have to be the main character of the holocaust for your oppression to matter

Yes they burnt the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, but what many queer goyim conveniently leave out is that Magnus Hirschfeld was Jewish. He was targeted because he was a Jew. Most men (& those assigned as men) targeted & imprisoned under the pink triangle were also Jews. You don't have to write Jews out of our own history for yours to also matter.

^^^ Yeah that, you articulated what I'm talking about way better thank you

It has been two hours and people are already not BEHAVING in my notes everyone be really normal about this one ok? Promise