WE'LL CRACK BEFORE WE SHATTER

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

a weird thing is that we got waves of people going "who cares if its cringe or youre annoying! have fun!" but no one really learned how to accept the fact that some people will find you annoying or think your art or your work or posts or anyrhing sucks and thats ok. rather it just became a weird "if people think youre annoying theyre just morally bad. let people enjoy things!". like no i think this yes man only biome sucks and people are allowed to not like artstyles and shows and media and other things

if youre an artist, a creator, or just someone whos involved in hobbies: learning that no matter what you do, some people will find you annoying is extremely important for your mental health, just as learning that not liking things is normal and youre allowed to do it

as people have mentioned in the tags, i think this yes-man attitude leads more people to make up random moral reasons to dislike things. if disliking something for no reason is bad, then you have to constantly justify yourself as to why this thing sucks, which is also not mature and sucks

Carlee Gomes, from "The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire"

Bluebirds also eat tons of mosquitoes!

another critter life advice i give you: any dehumanization you justify inflicting onto someone you dislike can be justified as its inflicted onto you. you should keep your standards even when fighting a shithead because inevitably someone will think you are one too

People being doomers and defeatist about climate change is really so interesting because you try to tell them they’re being unhelpful and they start tweaking out

Like okay it’s never gonna go back to how it was but we still have time to do shit in the present and if you’re so deadset on that there’s nothing to do what then?? Like are you gonna kill yourself? No?? Okay so let’s do some damage control and be active in our community and try and try and try

If you’re white and a defeatist I’m judging you especially hard like you literally need to snap the fuck out of it and get a grip. People are still here and the world is still here and you’re still here so get up

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'filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right' is going to live in my head for a while now huh

Norman Gary Finkelstein, for those asking.

just wanna say as someone who's Aboriginal that I think First Nations peoples have every right to be a little angry at white leftists (NOT Palestinians, people blaming Palestinians stfu) who ignored our anti-colonial movements for years but are now supporting the Free Palestine movement. If you, someone living in the US, Canada or Australia or Aotearoa, are serious about the liberation of Palestine then you NEED to be just as serious about justice and liberation for the First Nations peoples' who's stolen and colonised land YOU live on. If you're not serious about where YOU fit in the paradigm of anti-colonial work, fix it. Here's a good place to start: if you're a person living on occupied Indigenous lands, learn who's land it really is, and how you can help them as an ally.

I don’t know how to say this in a way that doesn’t sound like I’m advocating for casual cruelty or whatever but something that grates so much about this current social moment is how many people are incapable of saying they dislike something or someone without cooking up some higher morally correct reason for their dislike. Sometimes you just disliked a book. Sometimes you don’t “get” an actor or a musician. There’s nothing morally wrong with your girl’s fuckass boyfriend he’s literally just annoying and you’re annoyed that you have to pretend you like him when you know he’ll be history in six months. It’s fine. You don’t need to justify your dislike.