netanyahu destroying the israel-america bond (finally)

finally, a feminist anthropologist on youtube. please go and support her and this video to encourage her to make more (-:

also it’s accurate to talk of the self-surveillance inspired by abrahamic religions but that is also an aspect of the patriarchy and class control. organised religion, of all things, does not exist outside of political and social reality either! I’m in a bit of despair at how the current culture seems to cause otherwise very intelligent women to reject any form of self-criticism of their own practices and ideas. people are obsessed with ideas of identity and personality type, ‘personal development’ and growth, but there is so much effort put towards always being 100% fine with everything you ever choose to do, to never consider how those choices are conditioned or constrained, to never turn the critical eye inwards. anyways this isn’t really about this one person, it just made me think how depressing it all is. and now I need to go out and take a walk.

rest in peace marjane satrapi ♥️

and when you come to take a break in your work day, or just relax on an evening and want to stop being bombarded with random stimuli, just pick up your list of things to look at and decide which one seems good. it doesn’t have to be complicated or taxing, whatever fits your current state. the idea is just to avoid the time-waster that is looking for things to do or getting stuck on doing a bunch of short things in quick succession that disturb your sense of peace/makes your brain short-circuit

anyway that itself is an interesting discussion about a carrot versus the stick approach to getting people to engage with feminist theory but I won’t keep on with it. I do think feminists could benefit from becoming a little more pragmatic though

but I hope these clear class divisions at least make pro-sex work liberals who want to give a damn about other people pause for thought and consider whether the aims of being pro this industry are compatible with their ostensibly pro-trans politics. whatever brings people to see the light on this issue awomen 🙏

people are literally so evil I’m sorry I don’t think I’d ever be able to forgive the medical staff for putting me through something like that

obviously this is where acceptance and tolerance of difference by others comes into it, in that in order for autistic people to be spared the cognitive load and exhaustion of constant translation and monitoring, non-autistic people need to be aware that sometimes you will come across differently from how they expect, maybe even negatively by their norms, but they will either have to be open to asking you what you mean or else assuming your good intentions. but this requires a vulnerable conversation about you wanting to try and not mask so much and obviously it requires personal effort too

imo at least some of the time people don’t tell you because their intention isn’t for it to be fixed/they know they’re being unfair to you, but they just want you away from them and their group anyway. tough to swallow pill but some people simply don’t want to know neurodivergent people because they lack the skills to accommodate difference and/or are just nasty people tbh. not always the case obviously, but people who actually like you and care about the relationship they have with you will almost always give you the opportunity to explain something even if not immediately. I understand realising the former can suck though ♥️