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antis when it comes to respecting real people with real feelings instead of fictional characters with zero consciousness
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Source: reddit.com
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“cory booker is not actually accomplishing anything” I need you to stop being a pessimistic hag every second of ur life. u can be disillusioned. u can wish there was more done already. but this is SOMETHING!! he has broken the longest senate speech record and has been standing up for americans (and against a fascist racist oligarchy) for over 25 hours straight. hundreds of millions have and are watching him. HE is the news cycle. he is reading democratic and republican testimonies alike. people are hearing him, whether they chose to or are forced to!!!!!!! will it solve all our problems? no. but it is a Spark that will hopefully catch flame
Also, let's not forget, the record Senator Booker broke was that of Strom Thurmond in 1957, who was trying to filibuster the passage of the Civil Rights Act. A worthwhile historical moment in and of itself to beat that out
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The crazy thing about George Harrison is that you will see thousands of pictures of him where he looks absolutely stunning, like drop dead gorgeous, absolutely bewitching, and then you will read dozens and interviews and testimonies of people being like "George Harrison is so much more attractive in person, the pictures truly don’t do him justice" or like "being in the same room as him was an indescribable experience that no picture can compare to" or "the photos could never quite picture how intense his eyes are" …
And it’s like "oh okay so meeting him would have killed me, I would have just fucking died on the spot, direct eye contact with him would have made me crazy beyond repair, cool."
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sometimes you can tell when somebody who likes a ship just likes one of the characters and is simply using the other half as a vaguely ooc vehicle to make content for their fave which is whatever. not against the law. until the other half theyre using as a vehicle is YOUR fave. and then you want to explode them with your mind
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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
- the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
- taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
- at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
- 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
- it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
- it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
- you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
- young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
- there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
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you know the discourse is bad when seeing a post like "how you depict things in fiction matters" and you don't know if the op means "you can perpetuate bigoted rhetoric and harmfull stereotypes if you don't actively write avoid it" or "if you write incest and their heads don't explode at the end you actually want everyone to fuck their dads"
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So apparently an Australian woman was arrested for writing a dark romance novel about a guy who was attracted to his friends daughter since the girl was, like, three. There's no actual smut or nsfw stuff until the female character is 18. She's being charged for the content of the book, nothing else(as far as I'm aware), and they're labeling it as producing, possessing, and distributing child abuse material.
I can get feeling icked out by the content or the trope but, like, it's fiction. It's words on a page. So far there is zero reliable evidence that any real children were harmed or mentioned. And the book, as far as I know, doesn't even contain any actual explicit underage content. This kind of thing, and people celebrating her being arrested, is a slippery fucking slope. Jfc.
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Things it's okay to do because you don't find someone attractive:
- Refuse to date them or have sex with them.
- Refuse to let them touch you, or reserve certain types of touching for those who you find attractive.
- When choosing between hanging out with them or someone you find attractive, choose to hang out with the person you find attractive.
- Want your friend group to include people you find attractive.
- Put more effort into your connections with people you find attractive.
Things it's not okay to do because you don't find someone attractive:
- Tell them that you don't find them attractive when they're not doing something that requires them to be attractive.
- Treat them differently in professional settings.
- Expect them to be less visible in public.
- Treat them like they're objectively unattractive as opposed to just not attractive to you personally.
- Judge someone for finding them attractive.
- Recruit others into disliking them.
- Single them out. (For example, invite everyone to an event except them.)
- Expect them to be grateful for anyone showing interest in them and to never reject anyone.
- Strictly limit all of your social interactions to only people you find attractive.
- Allow people who you do find attractive to get away with abuse.
- Go out of your way to find something wrong with them so you can feel better about not being attracted to them.
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Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.
Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.
Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.
Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.