there are so many goddamn cults and scams that no one has faith that anyone is looking out for us anymore, which then perpetuates the problem. everything is meant to take whatever will and assets we have and squeeze them for someone else's benefit. it's a horrible and evil way to run a society.
working gig jobs is a scam and receiving the services of gig jobs is a scam and on both ends the chances of being able to reach a human being to confront with that fact is about the same as winning the lottery--which btw is somehow now less of a scam than ordering a smoothie
Also how many millions or billions of dollars have been spent to control and engineer our reactions to inequality and fascist police state tactics
The men of your family were very clear that a "good" woman, to them, was a woman forcibly stripped of her autonomy and agency by men, and that woman would only be valued as "good" if she catered her existence to their desires.
Lee Strasberg claimed Marilyn was one of the most talented students he'd worked with, and she cared deeply about human rights. Her life, however, was restricted by men who only approved of her as long as she erased herself and performed as the object of their fantasies. That abuse destroyed her.
I love the moss chickens!
I'm really excited for ~May, when the chicks are going to be in a kindergarten of sorts and will be running around and flapping, because they don't yet realize they're flightless birds. One of the most adorable sights on the planet!
ill tell you what helps with this tho, since starting transitioning ive actually started living in and inhabiting my body, caring how it looks, if it lives (and if i do). i want to shape it and feed it and water it well and no longer feel like a brain in a shitty jar i hate. being transmasc rocks
They want us malnourished: weak, tired, and distracted. This makes us easier to manipulate, overpower, and control.
I've always had a rounded, protruding belly. From my thinnest and unhappiest (when I'd call myself "a skeleton with tits"), to gaining weight when my living situation improved, the belly's remained constant. It feels right in proportion to the rest of me, which helps me care less about it.
Hustle Butter (tattoo ointment) works wonders for dry skin without being painful or making eczema worse.
I love women and want women to have autonomy over their bodies and they are criminalizing the very thought of such a thing
This part! There’s a weird pervasiveness of the GLP-1 discourse that mirrors AI discourse - it’s being forced ON us, rather than just existing. It’s inescapable, and for what? Why? Who is that for?
And like AI, it’s created a whole new permission structure for awful people to do awful things.
Fine motor skill issues make handwriting difficult/painful for me to sustain for long periods of time. Typing is also slow for me, but it's still easier for me to get my thoughts out closer to real-time with my brain.
Without that, I WOULD be worse off. I'm deeply concerned for the future.
I hate that wanting total agency over my thoughts, ideas, or creative impulses means that the current best practice for keeping them 100% safe from surveillance and theft is to NEVER act on them at all.
It's a calculated erasure of the mind to force cognitive dependence and penalize thought.
The slippages of this word have not been great! Making my classes more accessable has opened them up to surveillance and theft and I do not care for it!
I have seen this play out on IG. Normie lib wine moms sharing shit that’s just thinly veiled antisemitic conspiracies. And I think most don’t even realize it, because the language used is so coded.
The real and pressing question for the diaspora now is whether we're going to allow Israel to drag the rest of us down with them, and how we can possibly prevent it
Not thrilled about how reflexive hostility to Israel is becoming increasingly mainstream, in part because people have shown a notable inability to stop themselves from getting broadly antisemitic about it. But that horse has left the barn and it's largely Israel's fault
I am a man. I have the right to freedom and dignity just like anybody else.
100%
Throughout the antisemitism / antizionism debate, I have argued that antizionists need to be as supportive of the American-Jewish community as possible. Like a maximalist defense of Jewish people across the USA.
But no, that hasn’t happened. Instead, pure agit prop for maximalist-zionists.
I think a zionism that rejects liberal universalism as a possibility because that negotiation is somehow offensive or tenuous is using zionism as a mask for rejecting liberal universalism at best, or just bare ethnonationalism at worst.
And I think there's valid pushback that's like "well it's more than safety, it's the ability to foster a coherent community" and like, sure, that's valid, I think we can say that liberal universalism can and should be able to negotiate that.
Which of course is a coherent liberal universalist goal! Just phrased as "a pluralist society where everyone can live safely"
There are so many ways to do good. Small ways, just little daily things. Helping a stranger with something, helping a neighbor, a friend, listening, being present. Endless ways to improve things in quiet ways. And you never need to mention them. Just do them because they are good to do.
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
Of all the green flags you've shared about Vampire Fiance, THIS one is amazing. There's a genuine gentleness there, and I'm so glad you have that.
it’s actually classist to expect men to treat you with consideration,
Men 2,the Sequel to Men:
Okay, here's the pitch; you know bees?
i’ve decided to become a billionaire philanthropist. fifty billion dollars to whoever presents me with the best prototype for Men 2
