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i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim
I think about this old tweet...a LOT
:> other bird comics about tumblr posts are on my blog under #omagpies
original post by @cauchys-special-boy here:
Fellas, is it gay to think about your bestie while having sex with a beautiful lesbian? Asking for Will Graham.
Shepherd of Lost Souls
Since I've been finally properly doing a Deadfire playthrough and also got back into art, doing something for my favorite companion felt appropriate. I really love her storyline!
every sunday i tell my liberal father that i'm off to go get another sex change. he tells me "yass monarch slay". but in reality i go to church to study the teachings of the lord. if my liberal father knew this i would be disowned. this is joe biden's america
The entire concept of and social enshrinement of "physician assisted suicide" is bizarre. It's taking something that is so easy that idiots can do it with random objects, and both the indigent and the elite are very capable of acquiring quantities of drugs sufficient to pleasantly achieve (killing yourself) and making it socially palatable to the middle class by involving the medical industrial complex.
It's one of the few areas where I tend to be against the "progressive" position (another, and much more tenuously, would be surrogate pregnancy). Physician assisted suicide is just too ripe for abuse (especially in a world with economic inequality but not exclusively there) and has, in practice, basically been used as eugenics against the disabled.
I've been trying for awhile to work out exactly how to word this. I'm an antizionist Jew who is currently feeling very alienated from Judaism due to the occupation of Gaza and the widespread support said occupation has among Jews. That said...
Your support for Jews cannot be contingent on said Jews being antizionists. Most Jews support Medinat Yisrael. They may or may not be okay with the occupation of Gaza and they may or may not be okay with the war crimes Israel is committing but... this should not, must not, affect your opposition to antisemitism.
It cannot be said often enough: the main driver of Zionism among Diaspora Jews is antisemitism. Making your support of Jews contingent on their antizionism, in their minds, only further justifies the need for a Jewish state.
Antisemitism doesn't stop being wrong just because it's happening to Jews who support--or refuse to condemn--Israel.
But also? Just from a pragmatic perspective? If you want Diaspora Jews to stop supporting Israel you need to ensure that we can be safe outside of it.
I'm 25 years old and no one told me being ambidextrous wasn't normal? I thought me and everyone else was just out of practice with their submissive hand? But apparently most people straight up can't do shit with it? Like at all?? My stepdad can barely eat cornflakes with his right hand and I'm out here swapping on accident?
I’ve never heard someone refer to their non-dominant hand as their “submissive” hand, like I guess that is the opposite of dominant but my chronically online self can’t stop thinking about it like. You’ve beaten the other hand into submission.
My left hand just likes being gagged and bound as my right forces it to call it "mistress" idk what's so weird about that
Boys being boys….dangling….much to Odo’s chagrin
im sorry do you actually believe misandry is a thing?
it is my opinion as an intersectional feminist that misandry does not exist in the form of a genuine axis of oppression under cisheteropatriarchal white supremacy, no. misandry does not exist in the same fashion that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, or etc. exist.
however, 'misandry' does exist in the form of a network of behavior that mocks men in a manner that boils down the behavior of men in general to biological/sociological gender essentialism, and ultimately undermines intersectional feminism. misandry, by this definition, exists as a system of beliefs that drastically oversimplify men and those often perceived as men, and the issues they face.
many people are comfortable mistreating men under the guise of feminism, of mocking men and people they perceive as men in ways that completely contradict their body positivity or any other beliefs that are applied to the 'good' or 'more oppressed' genders.
for example, Betty the 'feminist' sees someone who's walking down the street who she thinks is a man. she sees that he has a patchy beard and is wearing unfashionable clothes, and is out of shape. betty laughs at how little men have to try in order to be accepted in society, she mocks his appearance to her friend. betty's friend points out that the stranger might not be a man based on their appearance, that that person may be closeted trans, or may be nonbinary, or any other non-man identities. betty, remembering the rules of feminism, considering the stranger might not be a man, walks back her remarks and says that the stranger can look however they want.
it is crucial to acknowledge first and foremost that this kind of mockery is bad because it can and often is displaced onto people who aren't men; people who are the victim of cisheteropatriarchal society. but it is, by the same token, not okay to treat a man like that either. men are still people, and basic mockery isn't helping anyone.
it's like pop-cultural feminism has decided that men, (or people wrongly seen as men, that's a whole other can of worms) are some sort of category of people that concepts like respect, body positivity, and other general feminist principles don't apply to. because men are the bad guys. i can't think of anything less intersectional than this behavior.
to say nothing of how the (mis)identification of men as a blanket oppressor class (and thus open season for ridicule and mistreatment) completely disregards any sort of class consciousness or understanding of the effect racism has on like, a fuckload of men.
it is important, if not one of the prime goals of intersectional feminism, to acknowledge the way cisheteropatriarchal systems favor men, and to hold men accountable for harmful behaviors that these systems support and encourages (rape culture, etc). but it is needlessly reductive to target men as the sole perpetrators of these wrongs, and pointless to think that bashing them in this way is going to help anyone ever.
@katisconfused extremely good addition, this post is much better for it. thank you
Imagine, if you will, that you hate someone so much that you want to violently kill them but anytime you would harm them, the harm happens to you instead.
Well, it does not hurt to punch a doll. So you make a doll that resembles your rival. You kick its head off and you caress it's cheek because it's the only outlet you have to attack this person.
Imagine that your resentment builds and builds but it has nowhere to go because you can't release those frustrations. So you sublimate them. You convert your violent obsession into a sexual obsession. We are talking real horseshoe theory shit with sex and violence.
Imagine this person really just does not give a shit about you. So not only are you fantasizing about fighting them when you have sex with your girlfriend, they don't acknowledge you. What is one to do? Obviously stand outside their house and smoke while one spies on them.
You are down so bad and also majorly depressed so your fantasies involve begging them to kill you and that's what makes them fall in love with you. You think this is normal.
Surely it's impossible to imagine being this pathetic. But it's real. This is Spike Buffyvampire. They really wrote a character like this.
I still have two and a half seasons of this loser. I think this show was made specifically for me
going forward i will only consume problematic media
and well, let's jusr say,, uncritically too
Before Axis of Awesome did the four chords song, there was the Pachelbel Rant
OH MY GOD I NEEDED THIS
For the chronically anxious and/or otherwise mentally ill:
This is not a screamer, jumpscare, or any other kind of horror link I don’t know the name of. It will not cause you to question reality and as far as I’m aware, there is no reason it should cause any kind of hallucinations or psychosis. I don’t want to spoil the surprise because it’s DELIGHTFUL but I am happy to tell you it’s very sweet and gentle and also great lowkey stress relief. This is a cinnamon roll link appropriate for all ages (yes, all the way down to babies) and you will enjoy it if you click it. ❤️
This makes me so happy
Do healing spells increase cancer risks ? Specifically, the spells that boost your own body's ability to heal itself. Your asking it to create a bunch of cells in a short span of time.
new dark fantasy setting that's just the forgotten realms with more cancer
