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They were right

suicide deeefinitely isn’t encouraged in the trans community in the same way it deeeeefinitely isn’t encouraged in pro ana spaces and no quite honestly i may never shut up about that fuck off forever

Whenever anyone wants to discuss the surgical aspect of this issue, I always ask them if they’d consider giving an already severely malnourished and underweight anorexic teen liposuction to be “weight affirming” and they obviously find that extremely shocking and offensive but cannot understand how the same principle parlays into calling surgery a cure for any other mental illness

if you don’t give depressed kids lobotomies you’re literally sentencing them to death……….

The problem is that they don’t view dysphoria as a medical condition, but rather a natural signal of their identity. They don’t see their issues as the same as these various mental illnesses & disorders

As someone in the animation industry, the amount of men (mainly tech bros) who have no clue about how animation works but are convinced that they know exactly where and how AI will be implemented is astonishing. Don't even get me started on the tech bros who think AI writing is good enough for books/screenplays. They are too disconnected from the artistic process to be able to imagine any practical use for AI, and too arrogant to see that their "solutions" often times require more work to implement while yielding worse results.

Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.

McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life.... But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off

She should bankroll unionization efforts at Amazon; really piss in the old man’s cornflakes.

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

Some of yall be like "this woman is talking about radfem theory while wearing a full face of make up so I don't respect her" or "she's a hypocrite" and as someone who never wears makeup (and loves it) Imma be honest: I don't care. And some of yall may not want to hear this, but that kind of mindset helps no one, and especially does not help the movement. It just makes you come off as judgy and nasty. Normie women dipping their toes into radical feminism should be met with support not vitriol and condescension. They're not going to be perfect and check all the boxes on the first try or maybe even the tenth try. Ffs theyre learning. What will keep them coming back and eventually get them to challenge their thoughts around makeup is how welcoming the community is.

Their words are still valuable and I appreciate anyone talking positively about radical feminism, but I feel deeply confused about it. It’s like watching someone talk about the importance of accepting your homosexuality as good and natural while admitting they attend an hour of conversion therapy every morning. 

Are you naturally this stupid or is it a choice

Okay this might be an inappropriate comparison but I feel like it’s so telling of the root of these criticisms. Do y’all feel no sympathy for this hypothetical person? I wanted to kill myself for a long time for being gay, and I wanted to fix myself or become celibate so that I just wouldn’t have to deal with it, but that doesn’t mean I was advocating for other people to do the same. My little sister came out as bisexual to me and the fact that my kind of self-hatred might affect her too was horrifying to me, but it didn’t make it go away. The internalized oppression women and gay people face will fuck with our perceptions of ourself, plain and simple. I’d rather a gay person take the step to say hey, homosexuality is a good thing, even if they can’t accept it in themselves, then to have them never try to fight the things they’re internalizing from the world around them. Same with any woman whose beginning to question the patriarchy around her.

Interesting how so many people will say “It’s important to separate the art from the artist.” when they want to support male paedophiles, domestic abusers, rapists, etc. But when a female writer states a scientifically proven fact, people will call for public book burnings.

…and photoshop her face into porn (Gail Dines), stalk her across the country (Rebecca Watson), accuse her of lying about being raped (Andrea Dworkin), or issue sexually explicit death threats about how she should be shot in the C*nt (JK Rowling, literally half of radblr). All of which are symptoms of misogyny that no male writer has ever faced.

Babies cry with an accent within a day of being born, and can even observe sounds while they’re still in the womb. There’s no stage of life where people aren’t already affected by socialisation, everyone who believes that nature can truly be separated from nurture is naive as fuck. 

hate hate hate how people act like a woman who doesnt wear revealing clothes must not be comfortable with her body. hence the push to treat wearing a bikini as a fat woman (or even as just a regular non-fitness-model woman) as a victory. no one is telling men that they need to wear speedoes to show they love themselves.