Notice: If you are doing a true crime podcast do not: -incorporate "dad jokes" into it. -adopt a light and cheerful tone.Especially Please try to avoid giggling while you are discussing someone being murdered. Don't know why people think there's an audience for this but I hate it. Show respect.

Rowling has really been sucked from "moderate GC" five years ago to fully Alex Jones levels of not only transphobia but racist misogynoir against cis women. I suppose none of the stuff she said 5 years ago was sincere but it's still sad to see. You really need to be careful what hate does to you.

The majority are lazy but it's not that they like Trump. Fascism won because many couldn't be bothered to go push a button to stop it. He doesn't have a big mandate. Most do not like him. (75+ million liking him is still way too many though)

Pierre is another online right-wing troll somehow elevated to a position of power like Trump. His "ideology" is something you would expect to read in bad Youtube comments written by 12-year olds

Love watching the right wing brain malfunction when the ISIS supporting domestic terrorist also happens to be a huge Trump supporter. Yeah, turns out you guys and ISIS agree on a lot of stuff.

best analogy I heard for male (or female) socialization that wasn't just bioessentialism/original sin of gender is to compare it to music. If we're born male in this society we all hear the music intended for us? Do we hate it&avoid ever listening to it by choice or love it?Individual variation.

best analogy I heard for male (or female) socialization that wasn't just bioessentialism/original sin of gender is to compare it to music. If we're born male in this society we all hear the music intended for us? Do we hate it&avoid ever listening to it by choice or love it?Individual variation.

Every time people accuse me of being an Evil Radfem Who Thinks Men Are Innately Evil, it's just so ironic. No, I'm an evil radfem who knows cis men can be better and disavow misogny, and most choose not to bother. That's worse.

it's obvious cis men have male socialization but misogyny is not socialization it is a choice. It's an extremely reductive view to treat human beings like computers with operating systems determined by gametes produced we are a product of both our socialization and our choices.

Of course my favourite new year's song even though hoping for a pretty good year this year seems insanely optimistic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8a...

🏳️‍⚧️Transitioning is a form of self awareness, not just because we may have hated ourselves before. But because we loved ourselves enough to be happy for the remainder of our lives🏳️‍⚧️

"Meritocracy" is when we are ruled by a failed reality TV host who is a rapist and his band of misfits apparently. Also, yeah it's hilarious that Knowles accidentally says something intelligent and agrees with what the real "radical left" has been saying forever

I swear if I'd had to pick one silly movie to actually seem like a documentary predicting the future in hindsight "Red Dawn" is never the one I would have picked but here we are...

The point I am making, I suppose, is that if you have critiques of radical feminism you should make them. Based on the things radical feminists have actually theorised and your critiques of that. Rather than because you see transphobes described as TERFs and make assumptions about radfem from that.

At the risk of getting cancelled, I do find flatly writing off the entirety of "radical feminism" based on how it has been misused by GCs to be essentially as juvenile as decrying the whole concept of "communism" by pointing to the Soviet Union.

Yes but it's important to emphasize that this isn't a "flaw" in neoliberalism it's the *point* of neoliberalism. It isn't meant to create an economy which benefits everyone. Up until 1980 or so we were making steady improvement (though far from perfect) and then things fell off a cliff *by design*

I mean, you can't say she's wrong...

"Autism is a superpower!" Super powers don’t make you constantly think about what you're saying incase you say something wrong and have a meltdown when people are speaking loudly.

We need to start calling people like O'Leary "Vichy Conservatives" Sadly that is a lot of their party.

and did the same with "liberal" and "socialist" before that and people on the center-left just put their tails between their legs and act like they're right about these things being bad or too extreme. More people need to stand up for what we believe in ffs.Don't let fascists control the narrative

Have to plug my fav. version of this from one of my favourite bands and cool to know the original is 🇺🇦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3I...

I've struggled so much with this and in the end I don't know if it even matters. There's so much about "biology" we can change now. If you need to cling to chromosomes or fucking gametes produced to establish your D&D alignment system it's such a myopic viewpoint.Better to just let people be.

if you're a self described "good man" but you get super-defensive when the actions of "bad men " are called out and take it as a personal affront you need to think how your own attitudes contribute to misogynistic culture.

100% would be killed in a targeted strike by Israel while tending to the poor and displaced at a Palestinian hospital or dragged off to an IDF prison camp and tortured first. They'd call him a terrorist of course.

Zionists honestly believe that the world allows Israel to exist in the form it does because of something written in the Bible and not because it is a giant American military base in the Middle East with a state attached.

Zionism and Russkiy Mir BS is the same thing with a different skin : - "Palestine isn't real because it used to have a different name. We can do what we want to them". "Ukraine is fake because it used to be part of the USSR. We can do what we want to them." *bangs head against wall*

This is part of a long thread (whole thread is quite good) My take here is that trans men directly threaten the patriarchy by saying "man" is not an innate category of privilege while trans women indirectly threaten it by still undermining these patriarchal categories (and same for NBs)

The Catholic Church has a history of siding with fascism while trying to sort of hypocritically wash their hands of it. I guess Francis is in that tradition.

in case you didn't know the racist undertones in the "what is a woman?" "we can always tell!" crowd

WTF happened to "dress as you please", Ms. Rowling and "I'd gladly march for trans rights"? Now it's "if you wear the wrong thing in my eyes you're the same as a serial killer and you shouldn't be around kids" You're not being critical of gender you're enforcing it

(Read the whole thread it's very insightful)

Watch this if you still have doubts that what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide. They're proud of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWyv...

Morons complaining about critical race theory show why critical race theory is needed Morons complaining about radical feminism or patriarchy theory show why radical feminism is needed. Morons complaining about wokeness show why wokeness (in the African American English sense) is needed. etc.

AfD are Neo-Nazi terrorists and only like-minded Neo-Nazi terrorists "support" them. Please let's normalize calling them what they are.

Just the MuskRAT having a normal one supporting Putin's Temu-brand German Nazis.

Beautifully expressed I think for me there is some of "the personal is political" here. Mainly it is about personal self-discovery but the idea that it gives the middle finger to the whole gender system which hurts so many people is appealing as well. I'm still a gender abolitionist at heart.

true and important and people perceived as male are often so shamed for displaying any kind of femininity.It's easy to be judgemental especially of younger people who don't always have the maturity to express things appropriately. I have been trying to work on that.

yeah it's sad to see men on the left use misogynistic or homophobic language to "ironically" shame men on the right when there are so many legitimate things you can make fun of those men for. it just reinforces the idea that being gay or "feminine" as a male is something bad.

I know people use this terminology without much thought to what it actually means but "far right radical feminist" makes about as much sense as "far right communist"

and left-wing people (mostly) aren't idiotic racist misogynists. You CANNOT adopt the MAGA/Tea Party message to the left by changing around a few words.

Just a PSA that if you don't support 🇺🇦🇵🇸 you support imperialism and genocide in some form and are morally inconsistent. It's the same fight.

I used to kind of take these people seriously until I realized what they were. They aren't "criticizing the teachings" outside of a few out of context quotes you could do with any religion that has been around for thousands of years. Most Islamophobes are just racists

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

I think one of the more interesting traits of humans, tho admittedly disturbing, is the ability to hide truth from ourselves. Doing so is painful, causing agitation to the conscience and intuition. It is hopeful, but naïve, to imagine the necessary reaction to this is to do right. Not the case.

Takes me right back to a much happier time...So beautiful (most of their stuff is) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoZ...

I asked over and over to be able to take mom's pain from her onto myself. She passed last night and at least has no more pain while my (emotional) pain is tearing me up.Not so much angry at the reality of death than the cruel disease that took everything from her. Cherish the ones you love always.

yeah this..."I'll just be gender nonconforming the right way and that will solve these feelings"

Something, something, the price of eggs...

This combined with what they are doing to Ukraine is why I have no patience for Putin's simps. They're not trying to create a "multi-polar world" they're just EVIL.,

I hate even the word "acceptance". Or at least we need another one where you fucking hate what life has given you but you stumble along anyway because there's just no choice. I would be using that word a lot right now. Both about politics and personal stuff