For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.
why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.
This is environmental storytelling
Always wanted to make one of these
don’t soft block me i will follow you again i’m not that bright
One my rules of thumb for callout posts is that if the reblogs are "Oh good, we are bullying these people now", in the sense of "I like having valid targets", the callouts are 100% bullshit and not even worth looking into.
All it/its users begin charging the beam
its always "believe women", unless they're trans or black or fat or disabled or mentally ill or
PLEASE TELL ME I DIDN'T GET SHADOWBANNED. WAILING. PLEASE TUMBLR
you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.
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if you have a couple of bucks to spare, consider throwing them to The Indian Residential School Survivor Society (IRSSS). they provide counseling and other forms of support to first nations people who are residential school survivors. this is a list of other charities that support first nations people, this list is a mix of charities and ways to learn more about first nation activism and history, and this is a link to a free online college course called Indigenous Canada
someone come clean my bong for me & then play with my hair
may america and israel crumble during my lifetime
can I say something too woke or no?
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things should be easier for trans women.
so long as we're back to social justice 101 on this stupid website, u need to be aware of the feedback loop that emerges from disproportionate scrutiny: any social group that is placed under extra scrutiny, regardless of the actual prevalence of any particular behaviour, will appear to engage in that behaviour more often.
you see this most blatantly with racialised groups (more cops in black neighbourhoods = more arrests in black neighbourhoods = "omg look at all the crime in these neighbourhoods!" = more cops in black neighbourhoods etc). even if the rate of crime is the same (putting to one side the criminalisation of poverty which is also an important related factor), one group gets away with it way more often and a new generation of racists is indoctrinated with the crime statistics which "prove" that some groups are simply more criminal in nature. we see a similar phenomenon online with particular groups (trans women being a huge example) being subjected to mass stalking, their every move documented by weirdos and broadcast as representative of the group as a whole.
tl;dr - overscrutinising groups based on existing bigotries creates a recurring feedback loop, reproducing those bigotries across generations and nominally justifying them. this is bad, and you need to remember that you are not immune to it.
Stop boymoding. Stop boymoding now. Get your tits out. Take estrogen. Dress how you long to. STOP BOYMODING
with 90-ghost getting terminated gone by days with no word on it id discourage us from posting about whatever cutesy thing tumblr does for april fool's which is right around the corner. april 1 is a really big day for engagement on tumblr
You ever think about the MOVE bombing and then think about the fact that so few US Americans even know that the MOVE bombing like. Happened.
Trans women are assigned gender out of convenience for those who wish to control or abuse us.
One moment, we're a woman who can be spoken over, overlooked, and ignored. The next, (often when we have the gall to stand up for ourselves) we're men who are violent angry and abusive.
We have so little control of our own identities, we're a third sex to twist and transform to your convenience. No wonder we're so often scapegoated.
YOU hate JK Rowling!
every few months we rehash egg discourse on here despite the explanations for how the systems at play effect misgendering a trans vs a cis person, despite people saying it wouldve helped them pre-transition if anybody had just made it clear it was an option, despite the kneejerk reactions of disgust being clear displays of transmisogyny and transphobia. we rehash egg discourse because somebody thinks theyre going to add a new perspective that hasnt been stated before, when in reality its been argued against time and time again. we rehash egg discourse because this website is obsessed with finding some consistent way to tear down trans women and trans fems in order to prop up their ideal gender non-conforming cisgender man who will never criticize how you feel or talk about him. it feels like banging your head on a fucking wall