Mostly Void.

Ok but when you say "restorative justice" do you mean "hegemonic power structures need to provide ways for people who've done bad things to reintegrate into society" or do you mean "you, personally, someone with no hegemonic power whatsoever, need to keep forgiving people who've hurt you forever" because those are like. Pretty different.

the sex binary is socially constructed and not actually descriptive of any biological truth. you know that, right? it's important to me that you know that

i know people can be a little overzealous in describing political backslides ("this used to be the feminism website!!!" etc.) but it's disturbing to me how much incredulity i've gotten from other trans people as of late just for, like, saying that "biological woman" is neither a real category nor a phrase that should ever leave your mouth uncritically

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 🤷🏽‍♀️

image: reply. "You ate with this one + why are we ignoring that white MEN's tears are not only rewarded but also constantly used to justify and sentimentalizs imperialism and genocide? *flashback to thousands of "veteran homecoming" videos I had to watch on Facebook as a kid*" end ID.

"if there's a revolution disabled people might die" wow so glad thats not happening right now.

i just dont think communists are going to cut power to hospitals while on the other hand private equity might and quite literally "america" and its collaborators will bomb a childrens hospital

flanagan's crimes are many and varied but at this point his insistence on taking material explicitly critical of family structures (sometimes including portrayal of intense abuse) and adapting it into stories about The Beauty Of The Nuclear Family is all but indistinguishable from an entirely conservative project

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

washing dishes is evil because you go "oh fuck there's so many dishes this is gonna take foreverrr" and then you enter the dish abyss and emerge with your abdomen somehow covered in water and your hands all wrinky and then you look at the clock and what felt like half an hour was actually 10 minutes

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

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.

on a related note i think everyone has to get a lot more normal about nudity in general. specifically nudity of people you are not attracted to sexually. it’s one of those american taboos i find really frustrating. I grew up being casually nude a lot as a child, skinnydipping and playing with friends and going in saunas. Always around safe adults i trusted and friends i knew well. and now as an adult, i don’t care at all if i see someone nude. And like i will mention this to people and they’ll act like it was weird or it’s weird that i don’t give a fuck if someone i’m close to walks around the house naked when i’m around but it’s really just that nudity around someone else does not equal wanting to fuck them and in many, many, many other cultures it’s not seen as taboo at all? It’s a consent thing, of course. I’m not asking anyone to be okay with someone exposing themselves to you if that’s not what you want. but i wish people were more open to the idea of nonsexual nudity in general because it’s really not that weird to see your friend’s tits and not want to fuck them. its literally normal