I learned today that it’s estimated that about ½ of 1% of the world’s population identifies as Jewish
And I know that there’s estimates that something like 1% of the human population is asexual
So that means that while there are fewer people in the world who practice Judaism than there are asexuals, there are legitimately still people out there who don’t think aces exist and that just fucking blows my mind
baruchobramowitz
…what
goytears
?????????
mermgayd
posts like this that use the size of our population as a rhetorical device always amaze me bc like. do u. do u know. do u know why there r so few of us. do u know why that is
rubyfruitjumble
I feel like maybe…. there were a lot of us… before something happened. like, a historical event, what was it called
hellnrage43
Nobody thinks you don’t exist, OP. You’re just not oppressed in the way you want to be. Nobody gives a shit whether or not you want to have sex.
Now might be a good time to do some reading on antisemitism and how you can stop being part of the problem.
i need everyone to stop and think before they compare themselves to populations that experienced slavery or genocide. it’s just that no one cares about asexuals after you reference the Holocaust. i don’t make the rules 🤷🏾♀️
Everyone knows there’s a huge correlation between violence at home and violence against strangers, and even so a third of wife-beating cops in Florida are still walking around with a badge and a gun. – Unbelievable s1e05
There’s one problem with the idea of firing 40% of male cops. Suddenly you are missing 40% of the male cops. That doesn’t really strike me as an insignificant number.
If you found out 40% of the city’s firefighters were also arsonists, would you still be paying them to stay on as firefighters? Or would you assume a firefighter that starts fires on a regular basis might actually be making your city less safe.
A cop that beats his wife, aka asserts his control over her through violence, is the same cop that gets passed from city to city, leaving a wake of expensive excessive force lawsuits in his wake. He’s not one of the “good guys”.
Gentle reminder to myself that radfeminism shouldn’t be the sole basis for building a community. Having been in this space for a few years I’ve come to terms with the fact that oppression on the basis of sex does not mean people will be empathetic and caring towards other oppressed groups or people in general. It doesn’t stop people from being homophobic, anti-semitic or ableist, etc. Because radfeminism gets you labeled a bigot it’s often easier to agree with your group or not speak up about issues in order to avoid exclusion. But when your online community gets to that point, it has become toxic. And choosing to leave it, for me particularly, has been an eye opener. The past few months I have moved forward and made big life changes and realized how much of a negative drain I had been feeling constantly. Having to convince people to have some basic empathy and understanding for others was exhausting. Reminding people that the existence of other experiences and cultural understandings is not some sort of challenge to your own was disheartening. Trying and failing to not be tone policed while doing so was just the nail in the coffin. It’s great to have a space where radfems can come together, but being a radfem in and of itself is simply not enough — we should be good people too. Community shouldn’t drain and depress you or hold you back.
can we talk about blackface and the trans movement? I would like to hear you expand on your thoughts because I (white) don't really see the issue with comparing drag to blackface. they're both instances of someone dressing up to mock an oppressed group for fun. trans people are a little different, at least white people don't usually claim to actually be black. I feel like they're fairly comparable and it's a comparison I have used irl with people when trying to convey my thoughts to a layperson
sure. so, blackface is mocking traits associated with and innate to black ppl. black ppl aren’t raised to darken their skin or curl their hair, they just tend to exist with brown (or darker) skin and afro-textured hair. blackface involves imitating those traits and then mocking black people while wearing those imitations.
drag queens are men dressing up in feminine clothing, being flamboyant, and sometimes using breast prosthetics. many argue the breast prosthetics and the extreme padding are offensive which makes sense as it’s often an extreme caricature of women’s actual forms and often also sexualised. but then there’s drag queens who don’t wear any of that and are mainly just men in a shit tonne of makeup and feminine clothing. so drag can literally exist and be without actually mocking any of the innate traits of being female, blackface cannot. drag is often gnc men taking femininity to the extreme, blackface is purely just non-black ppl (saying this bc even some poc have partaken in blackface in their respective countries) mocking black ppl’s traits, drawing on big red lips or white lips, wearing afro wigs, and painting themselves black. blackface cannot possibly be separated from the mockery of black people. drag can be and has been. here’s an example of a queen who doesn’t use breast prosthetics or padding:
when we argue the mere act of being a gnc man performing in extreme femininity is automatically the same as blackface, we’re also implying femininity is innate to women and that it’s exclusive to women. OR we’re arguing drag has to include the misogynistic aspects to be drag.
beyond that, white people were literally celebrated for putting on blackface. they’d gain a lot of fame and money for it. blackface was used to even fuel the hatred of and stereotypes against black people. black people were often not even seen as human and blackface was an extension of that. on the other hand, drag queens, being gnc gay males, were often ostracised. many have faced homelessness, extreme abuse, and hate crimes for being what is visibly a gnc male. it is only a recent, and quite western liberal phenomena, that they’re being celebrated as anything other than perverts.
now, i don’t think drag is flawless. i also don’t think it’s inherently bad. i think that a lot of drag is misogynistic and people make good points when they say it’s not a man’s place to make fun of gender roles placed on women via extreme femininity and mockery of femininity. there’s also another good point about drag’s links to minstrel shows. however, i don’t think that drag and misogyny are inseparable the way blackface and racism is. and white people doing blackface were the privileged majority mocking the minority. drag being specifically a gnc gay male thing was never celebrated the same way and was for a lot of history not at all accepted. men were not rewarded for being gnc, in fact being gnc made them a clear target of homophobic attacks and often led to them being killed or hate crimed. it’s just… v different to me lol and honestly too many black ppl have taken issue with this comparison for me to be like “but ur wrong they’re the same :/” when a man wearing the dress will never be exactly the same as a white man painting himself black
y’all done drug another group into this who wasn’t part of it in the first place. you did nothing here but insult disabled people and look foolish doing it. this is what i mean by we’re losing our humanity. so pressed to hurt one person, you used a slur against a whole community. stop, you foolish. do better
this reads different when you got your first period at 10. the average age is 12 to start a period but it can be anywhere from 10-16 so basically this tweet is also talking about children. little girls. you’re making jokes about being inside of young girls.
the US is living in this really weird time where Nazism and increasing far right ideology is mainstream. I feel like when I look at other countries, they are also facing extremism and far right ideology. every day I am watching millions of americans choose violence, choose racism, sexism, or a lovely combo of misogynoir. every day i watch as they bend over backwards to justify it because they don’t want to listen to anyone who is different from them. i see the rebound of homophobia sweeping the country or the way everyone has to push back at the slightest hint of inclusivity. the mermaid is black, why do they shove gay characters down our throats, on and on and on. it is utterly depressing to watch half my country say that members at an LGBTQ club had it coming. it feels like we’re going backwards not forwards. i watch demographics vote against their own best interest simply because they hate the other side more. usually based on lies. America as a country is sorely lacking in empathy. it’s also lacking in some basic critical thinking skills. at some point maybe we’ll starting caring for one another versus tearing each other down for opinions or experiences that harm no one. maybe we’ll learn to advocate for one another. as an American, I feel concerned about the future of my country. i also feel incredibly worried about the future of other people’s countries should American leadership stop holding on to its thin charade of democracy and human decency. i feel like we’re losing our humanity day by day
seeing women even jokingly saying they’d donate their uterus really shows how little information there is about women’s reproductive systems. The uterus is not just a baby machine. Even if you never have children, your uterus has other functions like hormone regulation and just keeping your other organs in place.
Having your tubes tied is also a gigantic question mark. Some people get it done and are fine. Others get it and their reproductive systems get set on fire. Cancer, hormonal issues, bladder issues, menstruation issues, etc.
Our reproductive system really doesn’t like to be messed with.
menalez
damn
radical-coffeeclub
Wow turns out women’s internal organs have actual purpose for our health and don’t just exist as a baby machine
kendallandherstuff
My grandma had her uterus removed because of cancer that would have otherwise killed her. 20 years later and she has had more organs move out of place or prolapse than I can count. The amount of hospital trips, pain, experimental procedures that have only worsened her life. The uterus isn’t just there to make babies.
i also blame doctors (and laypeople) who respond to women and girls who express a desire to remove these organs solely with pleas about their reproductive capacity
i had a biology professor who told a story about a woman who got tens of thousands of dollars for donating her eggs and i was like “that sounds amazing!” and she was like “not so fast, that woman later in life learned that they took so many eggs that she could no longer have children”
only years later did i learn about how the barrage of hormones given to women for this procedure affects the body and how risky any surgery is to one’s life.
i thought of my reproductive organs as something my body was housing that i never needed, that could only cause me discomfort and pain or even force me into pregnancy. no one i spoke to about me disregard for these organs or my wish to not have them ever said a word about my own health. they told me i might change my mind and want children later.
I’ve seen a lot of posts recently cautioning against marriage or advocating to avoid it. And I’m not really going to touch on that at all because it’s up to each individual radfem to do what’s best for her. However, I’m coming up on 1 full year of marriage and couldn’t be happier. In reality, many radfems are bisexual het-partnered or straight. And since not everyone chooses the single life or desires it, I figured I’d put out there that it’s worth talking about how you have a relationship with a man as a radfem. How do you date? What are the red flags? What are the things that make you feel comfortable in your choice of partner? Why participate in such a patriarchal tradition? How do you reconcile it? I just feel like it’s a conversation worth having. And of course my asks are open for questions/debate — anonymous or not.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
this is my post. do you know how it feels to have this be your post? do you understand the guilt i have to live with knowing this is my post? the weight on my soul as the decade popped into prominence with spanish flu … 2 !
do you know how it feels, heritageposts? are any of these heritage posts your own or are you just a curator of human misery? do you know how it feels to live knowing that of anything i’ve ever made, anything i’ve ever said, this has been seen by most people, and this will probably remain the case until i die? for this to be my legacy? can you relate? can you empathize?
but do you want to know the worst part? the absolute worst part of all of this?
we haven’t even brought back art deco into mainstream prominence. sickening
i HATE when they try to guilt-trip black women who speak against trans ideology by saying “we’re fighting the same fight! black women JUST got granted their womanhood. so obviously we should let men call themselves women too!” it’s so fucking racist and stupid. i hate these people so much
they have to go extra hard for black women because they need to maintain the illusion that gender shit is a POC ideology and people who don't buy in are racist. the whole bit falls apart when the noncompliant women can't just be called nazis
Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.
Can I just also say, in addition to all this, that I’m still pissed off about the fact that Joe DiMaggio swooped in and gave Marilyn a Christian funeral before her Rabbi could return from a trip overseas? ‘Cause that shit is fucked up.
So many men who claimed to be in love with her, and not one could fucking respect her wishes, even in death.
“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”” — Marilyn Monroe
Also:
As one of the biggest Ella Fitzgerald fans, she literally helped desegregate her performances. Ella was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race.
Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg (Source: dmvnessa)
ALSO:
In August 1956, Monroe began filming The Prince and the Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier staring and directing. The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe. He angered her with the patronizing statement “All you have to do is be sexy” and his attempts to get her to replicate Vivien Leigh’s interpretation.
She became pregnant and miscarried during the production, which heavily worsened her depression and increased her drug abuse.
A L S O , I will never forget watching a documentary about her once and, speaking about her marriage with Arthur Miller, the narrator said, verbatim: “America’s Brain had married America’s Body”. Like, literally, because he was a famous writer, he was entitled to personhood; she, being an actress, and a beautiful woman, was reduced to being “a body”. I have never been more enraged with her portrayal in the media. If you want to be dismissive of her, literally come for you.
She was also chronically ill her whole life: she suffered from endometriosis with pain so debilitating that a clause was written into her contracts accounting for the days when she would not physically be able to work during her periods.
She was on courses of strong medication, had invasive surgery to try and limit the damage caused, and despite trying for a baby numerous times, suffered many miscarriages because of her condition. The miscarriages especially sent her into deep depression, since she desperately wanted to be a mother.
There is speculation that the condition may have been one of the triggers in her drug dependency as well, because when you have endo, you will take whatever you can to stop. it. hurting.
Marilyn Monroe was smart and strong as hell in a world that saw her as a sexy doll and nothing more.
Marilyn was a founding member of the Hollywood branch of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and had lifelong left-wing political views with a particular emphasis on racial equality. She formed her own independent production company that survived for several years and earned a credit as an executive producer on several films. Additionally, she was not only concerned for workers rights, she acted for them, using her own fame to stop staff being unfairly sacked from several of her films. She was a loyal, kind woman and her early death remains a great tragedy. Worse still, as OP notes, is the co-opting of her image by exactly the sort of people she would have loathed in life.
often horror will ask the question “what if there was a strange man outside your door?” and my answer is Well i would not like that very much. real life is like this, too
I don't think it is a coincidence that tons of white people started using some variation of they pronouns after BLM went mainstream in summer 2020. White people had to confront their privilege en masse, and adopting a gender identity was a way for them to avoid blame for their role in white supremacy and act like they face the same oppression as black people. This is especially true when you think about how many white TRAs say that transphobia has roots in racism and reframe every racial justice issue as a trans issue.
PREACH 👏🏾The amount of white they/thems I met during protests was unreal. talking bout “all us oppressed folks gotta stick together”. BRO. A black man was choked to death live on camera by cops. Your mom calls you “he”, our struggles are not the same. You can have empathy without comparing. It’s embarrassing when they do
You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.
