I want to put this into perspective for one second I am a 22 year old little girl. I don’t care what I write. Strong arming me blackshirts style is wildly inappropriate. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLkWEsg/

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The competition is steep, but I think modern border enforcement is the greatest evil of our time. Nothing reinforces wealth inequality, international AND domestic labour exploitation more, while also not being popularly contested in any meaningful way

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cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys

I recommend submitting a complaint.

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We kind of forget how many modern recreational activities and lifestyles and such are actually the middle-class modernized versions of whatever shit that the upper class of 1860-1910s UK and US basically playtested, often with a LARP element like romanticizing rural life and activities.

Learning that modern culture of camping and road trips in RVs is born out of what essentially amounts to a massive cultural appropriation of romanticized Romani culture by the Victorian British upper class who were LARPing as "caravan nomads". Like, I was ignorant, but also why am I not surprised?

It’s honestly pretty telling that two trans women who took opposite positions were harassed off this site. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, people just want to abuse us.

be normal about trans women challenge: eldritch incomprehensibility

Feminist theory that (sexualised) violence against women and minors is a (if not THE) central medium of subjectivation and socialization in heteronormative capitalist societies, and keeps this shitshow running is still undefeated.

I recently had to buy a new laptop as my old one gave up its ghost. I chose one that heavily markets Copilot--but I chose it based on specs and price, and then proceeded to run a script that deleted/disabled every single Windows AI feature (frees up a few gigs btw so I recommend it)

IMO a lot of ppl don't realise they are primed to see anything even remotely annoying/abrasive from a marginalised person as a Terrible Infraction from Who-Does-She-Think-She-Is It's not how you treat marginalised ppl you think are great--it's how you treat the ones you think are wrong or bad

It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide

Once you finally begin to recognize us first and foremost as women, this is really all you need to understand about us.

Can you sufficiently explain your principles, or are you afraid of confronting your ignorance?

Together, these episodes are a thesis on why we must strive to actually comprehend our ideological opponents and interrogate the consistency of our own principles. The Nationalist and patriarchal view of society is endemic everywhere---are you certain you've sufficiently unpacked them?

The Robinson episode, meanwhile, shows how the language of queer liberation and feminism can be perverted to these ends, and how the specter of transition as "medical mutilation" and patriarchal capitulation is advanced to further transmisogyny on putatively feminist grounds.

This understanding of why, precisely, the global reactionary wave is so fixated on trans people and trans womanhood particularly, is incredibly lacking amongst even many feminist commentators. Trans women are being made the face of a worldwide right-wing "common enemy" to retrench Nationalism.

Queerness is a betrayal---of the family, community, and Nation, a desertion of the imperative to "secure a future" for white or Hindu or Russian or anything hegemonic demographic of children. Giving citizens the freedom to exist outside of heterosexuality is tantamount to legalizing treason.

By making explicit how the position of the child under patriarchy is simply a parental investment, one that owes its parents heterosexuality and reproductive labor, we arrive at the logics underlying queer oppression, revealed as a kind of reproductive monomania fixated on preserving the in-group.

'Irreversible Damage' typifies this synthesis more readily than any succinct theory of intersectional transfeminism. It's why paying attention to how reactionaries construct their arguments and understanding their worldview is so vital to producing cogent feminist and leftist analyses.

Recently, I've been writing a great deal about Nationalism as a lens through which we can synthesize our understandings of racism, misogyny, and queer misogyny as interlinked mechanisms that advance a state's reproductive agenda, in the pursuit of reproducing its hierarchies.

Last month I released my personal account of conversion therapy; meanwhile, on Cracked Ivory, @taliabhatt.itch.io and I talked about two texts which document the GC and TERF approach to it respectively. Naturally, the former book--Shrier's screed--is WAY more popular.

Helpful hint: commodified sexuality has always been part of patriarchal societies, even the super-prudish ones you think can totally be fixed by fucking nastier.

Until we learn why generations of women keep swapping between "I hate restrictive modesty, I wanna be a liberated slut!" and "I hate extreme sexualization, I wish my boundaries could be respected and modesty sounds neat", we will not escape feminist samsara.

"if you say that you find something that makes me horny a bit weird you are literally Goebbels burning down the Institut Fur Sexualwafflemaker" tumblr socialisation has nuked your mind

I didn't click on that news clip of him exulting in how awesome his military strike is, and how no one can stop him if he does it anywhere else. It doesn't tell me anything I don't already know. Nationalism relies on a bedrock of patriarchy: the rule of the rapists.

May your sons meet the fate they deserve.

"I'm sorry, but spilling the blood of the undercastes is the only way for citizens of empire to overcome their moral impairment. Perhaps in another few massacres they'll finally understand browns are people too. Be patient---boys will be boys! They're just following orders, you know."

"fallen into the hands of a woman"

at what point is "america is a dying empire & will collapse in on its own weight in time" just wishful thinking for a rapture event that makes people actively passive and complacent and channel away efforts from doing things. there is no sign of stopping despite everything

It should not even be entertained the attack on Venezuela could've been in democratic or Venezuelan interests under any circumstances

War costs entirely too much to do it out of the goodness of your heart, and politicians typically have none to begin with. Let alone Trump

It should be patently obvious to everyone attacking Venezuela is not about Manduro/drugs/corruption. It's about seizing resources and dictator dick-measuring. If Manduro flopped belly-up for Trump, this wouldn't have happened There has never been a benevolent invasion.

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

The US "taking control" of Venezuela isn't gonna bring freedom or liberation to Venezuelans. It's only gonna bring more hardship, as evident by basically every recent US intervention. As evident by the clear statement that this is about stealing Venezuelan oil and resources.

Opposing US actions in Venezuela isn't about supporting the Venezuelan government, their dictatorship, or human rights violations. It's about the fact that the US doesn't care for Venezuelans (see: deportations for example). It's about the fact that this isn't about democracy.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Guy who has never opposed a foreign war supports another foreign war

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

The sheer cognitive dissonance it takes for USians to shriek "ACAB but the poor widdle imperial goons had no choice and respect the troops and and and" always belied such a rank, foul hypocrisy. Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.