COSMO! ☆

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

And a dumb little doodle under the cut

i come on here i dump my latest drawings and i leave💜

Gods Patience

The problem is that making jokes about a thing gradually desensitizes you to it, and eventually you start believing it unironically. That's why people rail on Dave Chappelle for his "comedy" and why making Holocaust jokes is a gateway to genuine Holocaust denial. Jokes reflect what you believe is and isn't to be taken seriously.

Of course, we couldn't literally kill all men, but the joke is built on the idea that punitive measures are preferable to rehabilitation, which is a cornerstone of fascist and fascist-adjacent idealogies. Once you start dehumanizing a whole group of people and calling them degenerates in some way, you open the door to corrupting your feminism with racism, classism, ableism/eugenics, exorsexism, etc. Saying "kill all men" the same way neo-Nazis say "gas the Jews" doesn't help anybody.