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youre in the circus while my money is reaching Amazing Digits

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

TMRAs are always gesturing towards the women who are supposedly saying that trans men aren't oppressed, and then you look at what's actually being said and it's all, "people broadly treat trans men pretty terribly, which is awful. but it doesn't happen because they're men, it happens because they're trans." and this is seen as an unacceptable insult to manhood, for which these women must be hunted down and crushed.

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

Just want to take a second and thank everyone for sharing the donation post and for the support we have received it means a ton to us, we did just have to drop another $211 to get out net reinstated because its always one step forward and two back. We still very much need help so ty for sharing

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it pains me to say it but the more people talk shit about the women who wear those shorts/leggings with the weird butt seam that looks like it gives you a terminal wedgie, the more compelled I feel to take the women’s side

ohhhhhh my godddddddd you saw someone wearing really tight revealing pants in public? should we throw a party? should we invite goody proctor

and while we’re at it, I’m done worrying about cameltoe. I don’t have time to be pulling and tugging at my clothes all day. if you can see the outline of my pussy you should say thank you and go about your business

The crazy shit Animorphs does with perspective is just insane. Rereading Animorphs has redeemed novels as an art form in my eyes. There's so much here.

Every quirk in the premise of the story is just some absolutely bonkers shift in perspective. The rotating narration. The thought-speak. When they morph they're basically a system with the animal they're morphed into. There's one where the narrator gets possessed by an alien parasite and the entire second half of the book is just a conversation between him and the parasite as he experiences the parasite's death. Like. That's literally the coolest thing I've ever read. These books fuck hard.

The andalites' morphing abilities have a commonality with the way yeerk biology just naturally functions in that both necessarily entail intimate psychic connections with another living being even though the nature of that connection is very different. When a yeerk acquires morphing capability (which has happened three times now in canon) the yeerk is not that freaked out about it because they are already in a constant psychic bond with another living being. And it's like. With all of that going on. What does that make the reader, who the narrator frquently directly addresses.

The point isn't that there's a right answer to the question the point is that the fact that it's reasonable to ask is a Feat of storytelling that nobody even thinks to aim for now

rocky horror picture show is laughably transmisogynist both in content and in direct statements from the director, framing it as being historically important to the queer community is nothing but a huge indictment of its historic and current treatment of transfeminine people

holy shit, to say it "keeps the violence rate down", when these women are being violently raped. aka they dont count it because they dont care when it happens to trans women.

i just kinda feel like some of yall (including other trans people) see "trans men are men" and "trans women are women" as feelgood statements that we just say to be niceys and not like facts lol

all my alters become walters when i pitch the baseball of success

Tumblr communists have a huge weakness where they're just principally pro-revisionism. They don't even care what revisionist current it is they're supporting; they like them all.

It doesn't matter that China claimed to be the centre of the world communist movement for like 30 years while behaving erratically and chauvnistically. It doesn't matter how many investments they made in the Zionist entity or how many weapons they sent to Pol Pot. You're not allowed to criticise them because compared to the US their foreign policy is not as bad. Ruthless criticism of all that exists as long as it isn't on the Good Guy ultra-imperialist bloc.

Tumblr communists have a huge weakness where they're just principally pro-revisionism. They don't even care what revisionist current it is they're supporting; they like them all.