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I agree except transgender is a real thing
I’m into politics because of people like you. I don’t want my children growing up with your ideals.
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My Gender is Baby Shark
And my pronouns are doo/doo/ doo/ doo doo /doo /doo/ doo doo /doo /doo/doo
Respect me!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!
A.K.A "I am a lazy immature adult who wants to act like an irresponsible child and have no repercussions AND get sympathy for acting like an out of control, spoiled 3 year old!! And no one can say shit because then you're ABLEIST SCUM!""
Things I wish I was allowed to do as an undiagnosed autistic person
-have a comfort item or two for when my environment is too over stimulating -show discomfort when something interferes with my sensory issues -stop talking when I’m too tired or over stimulated without being questioned/ridiculed -openly stim in public places -use echolalia when it’s hard for me to come up with words on my own (when I’m tired or upset) -ask for accommodations for my sensory issues -have a meltdown without being mocked/accused of seeking attention/called over dramatic -tell people I dislike the word r*tard because I am autistic -refuse being touched without being questioned or accused of being rude -wear ear defenders in public and in the car because it’s too loud -talk about my special interests as much as I want to
Feel free to add on
Time For My Death Sentence
I always wanted to share my thoughts on old shit. And since severals years have passed, I'm sure I (a ghost) can freely give unpopular opinions on things without getting noticed (I know I'm pressing my luck). Maybe not a minority reception, but small nonetheless. Alright, here goes the list:
1. I hate pineapple pizza. (Easy enough)
2. I can't stand SJWs. They make me think liberals are plain stupid and delusional (and I lean a bit more to the left). I can go on a long rant about them but I won't do it here. And plenty have already beaten me to it.
3. Fandoms are horrible (yeah yeah I know I shouldn't generalize but truly, the most vocal ones just ruin it for me)
4. Supernatural was good for the first 6 seasons. Afterwards it gotten repetitive, inconclusive, and irritating.
5. Big Bang Theory too, for 4 seasons. I hate when it turned into a Rom-Com like it's FRIENDS. I'm glad it's coming to an end (hopefully)
6. I love the high school musical trilogy, I don't care if it's corny or dumb.
7. Twilight doesn't deserve all the hate it got. It wasn't even that bad (except for Breaking Dawn, I can understand that)
8. I still very much enjoyed the second half of Death Note even after L's Death. I love Near and Mello (And Matt!).
9. Ah, My Goddess! is the best and only Rom Anime I ever enjoyed. Keichi and Belldandy are a wholesome couple.
10. I hate the Germany = HRE conspiracy in Hetalia. There, I said it! I always saw them as 2 different people. I'm also not a GerIta shipper. Oopsie.
11. Naruto Ending sucks ass, I'm sorry. It ended with shitty couples and cheap power-ups and Bigger Baddies (A Goddess WTF) and unresolved themes/problems and the LAST movie and emptiness and many more questions. All just for the spin-off Boruto.
12. Fire Emblem needs to get rid of avatars and waifus. It's getting ridiculous.
13. I like Young Justice (not a super fan), but I hate the time skips and overload of new characters. I love Wally(RIP?), but could care less about Spitfire, they're like my least favorite couple.
14. I hate the New 52 DCAU art style. Just, no.
15. With the exception of volumes 1-3, RWBY is utter trash.
16. Legend Of Korra was decent. Tho my only favs were Bolin, Varrick, and Tenzin.
17. I love Gotham, but I hated the mismatched rom drama and resurrecting dead people schtick.
18. I Despise Disney Remakes. They are all TERRIBLE.
19. Speaking of Disney, I MISS 2-d animation. Those were beautiful times.
20. Lyrical Rap Music with meaning is 10x better than that mumble shit.
21. I wasn't at all affected by Hughes' Death in FMA (I'm wading dangerous waters). I mean yeah, it was tragic, but I didn't cry or lost sleep over it.
22. I'm too late in the game to like or enjoy KPOP. BTS is alright tho.
23. Polar Express is the BEST Christmas film. I dgaf what anyone says.
24. I like Jason Todd's white tuff, regardless if it only lasted for about 2 issues. Keep doing your thing, Fanart.
25. If you look past the flaws, FF13 isn't that bad. I enjoyed it. Lightning was a good MC.
26. What's a girl gotta do to get some manly ukes/bottoms around here?! It's all just submissive, girly pretty boy content! (Sorry, inner Yaoi Gal talking)
27. Feminism is stupid. Just wanna put that out there.
28. Y'all need to stop making Bruce the bad guy/father in Batfam Fanfics.
29. Alice & Zouroku, After The Rain, Gakuen Babysitters, and Monster are such underrated animes. Different genres, but all so AMAZING.
30. Amber is my least favorite character from Darker Than Black. Change my mind!
31. Jason Griffith was the ideal voice of Sonic The Hedgehog for me. Nothing can prove me otherwise.
32. Katniss didn't deserve Peeta. He's too much of a sweetheart to have kids with that Skank.
33. Percy Jackson needs a TV series. The movies didn't do my treasure justice!
34. Since we're on Percy Jackson, wasn't much of a fan of Percebeth. I love them as separate characters. Together? Meh.
35. I prefer the original, female, flat-chested, in-depth, badass, beautiful Saber in the Fate Series. The other versions can't even compare.
36. Alice from Detroit: Become Human should've been a human girl instead of an android. The weight and beauty of Kara's story is lost, and via replays Alice just becomes a nuisance.
37. Rise Of The Guardians NEED a sequel.
38. Marvel is good at movies. DC is good at animation. That's my gospel truth and I'm sticking with it. Ultimate Spiderman and the Dark Knight Trilogy are the exceptions.
39. I never seen Steven Universe or BHA. Too overrated.
40. Pokemon: I Choose You was the worst Pokemon Movie I've seen. From the lack of Brock & Misty (And Team Rocket. Honestly, where did the original backstory went?) to Pikachu fuckin speaking for the first time.
41. Just because America is indeed not the best country in the world, doesn't mean all other countries are automatically better.
...I know there's more, but this is what I got from the top of my head. Respond however you like. I litted the fire, after all. Heh, it's probably a good conversation starter.
"Some Recent Unpopular Opinions"
So I thought I can add on to a post I made about my thoughts on shit a few months back since I haven't died yet. Here it is:
1. Dumbo. I thought I was gonna like Burton's Take on it until I saw the trailer focusing mostly on people. And then I saw the film. How horrendous. Had to rewatch the original to cleanse the experience away.
2. Noted above, I'm sick and tired of these Disney live-action remakes! Seriously, they change characters when it isn't necessary, have subpar acting, lazy/convoluted plots, annnnnnnd redirected focus. Not to mention earning brownie points for female empowerment or whatever you wanna call that shit. Aladdin is a prime example of this, and it's not even out yet; that's how predictable these remakes are gonna turn out. I hate how blindly most people support them just because of 'nostalgia' or agenda, as if they don't even respect the source material at all to even spot the numerous flaws. Ok, moving on.
3. Captain Marvel was meh and boring. I don't understand why people like it. Are you guys so desperate to have an empowering woman for a role model that you don't care how distasteful both the character and actress are? Jesus, we got Wonder Woman and Alita: better written characters from great stories. What the hell? At least convince me that you're not all just adolescent drones.
4. Anyone who's too lazy to do the research are automatically idiots in my eyes to even believe in the Leaving Neverland Documentary. I'm not gonna persuade ya to lean towards MJ's innocence (not gonna waste my breath). What I am gonna tell you is that if you too the time to get acquainted with Robson & Safechuck, their history and what others got to say about them, you might wake up from the sympathy trance and realize this is all a big joke. But I digress.
5. Everyone agrees that R. Kelly, according to hard-hitting evidence, is guilty. Yet Vic Mignogna, in which there's no substantial evidence but senseless slander, ridiculous allegations, and unfair consequences,...is also guilty. Why....just, why?
5. Guys, you need to fuckin shut up about Trump. It's becoming so redundant that I could really care less. If you're gonna make criticisms about the President, make it absent of emotions and provide factual arguments. Is that too much to ask?
6. The "US" film isn't as groundbreaking as people make it out to be.
7. The 'Descendents' films are stupid and soooo awful with its CGI. At least make them visually appealing.
8. I love The Joker, and I'm psyched about the film coming out on October. What I don't love are the Joker fangirls and the Joker haters; one side fantasizing and fetishizing the character and the other side wanting nothing more than to beat the shit out of him. Fangirls, actually learn about who you're idolizing, and haters, shut the fuck up with your virtue signalling and condemning people for liking him.
9. I'm sick of the victim mentality and the so-called white privilege. This is sooo annoying and unproductive. And whiny, definitely whiny. As a latino woman, this just makes me embarassed and disappointed.
10. Racism and Sexism aren't just toward African Americans or other minorities. It can also be towards White People, Straight People, and Men. Racism and Sexism can also be directed toward our very own. Stop saying "reverse-racism doesn't exist" - of course it doesn't, the term RACISM doesn't just apply to a few groups. Stop saying "Only men are sexists" - Women can also be SEXISTS, oh they so can. Just look at feminazis.
That is all. Couldn't do this any less insensitive. I'm digging my own grave here, but oh well. These things have just been bugging me for the last couple of months.
This had to happen at some point.
sjw on tumblr might as well be friends with FB’s evolvefest
https://www. facebook.com/evolvefestival
Why do u think Jewish people are so ignored by tumblr's social justice community? It really irks me
A few reasons:1. The belief that Jews are white. This comes with two corollaries: 1. Anti-semitism against White Jews doesn’t matter because they’re white. 2. Racism against Jews of Color matters, but anti-semitism doesn’t.
Case in point, this article in the Daily Dot which totally ignores the fact that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor.
Regardless of their varying cinematic quality, the X-Men movies have always been good at building this political allegory without becoming overly preachy. However, they’ve also been downright abysmal at acknowledging people who face this type of discrimination in real life. The only exception is Charles Xavier, who as a character with a physical disability is near-unique as a blockbuster movie protagonist.
If the Holocaust isn’t discrimination in real life, I don’t know what is. But Magneto’s “whiteness” somehow cancels that out.
2. Media Apathy. Despite Jews being the targets of 60% of the “anti-religious” hate crimes in the USA, mainstream news sources don’t report on it. And when they do report on it, it rarely gets much attention. I had to actively look for information about Frazier Glenn Miller’s trial. Half the sites covering the #BoycottStarWarsEpisode7 tag didn’t mention the anti-semitism targeting J.J. Abrams. Discussion of the Charlie Hebdo shootings tend to focus on whether or not Charlie Hebdo was Islamophobic, but pays at best lip service to the Hyper Cacher murders which were connected and deliberately targeted Jews at a Kosher Grocery store. Meanwhile half of all racist hate crimes in France target Jews who make up less than 1% of the population.
3. Confirmation Bias. There are Israel critics who try to take in all the valid information and make fair statements, but they are nowhere near common enough. There are others who have decided that any Jewish voice that disagrees with them on anything must be an evil Zionist Hasbranik working for the Mossad to destroy their precious bodily fluids. Any article or information about Jews suffering is distrusted because it might lend any credence at all to the notion that Israel exists to combat anti-semitism. Accepting the narrative that anti-semitism still exists means that they can no longer be 100% certain that Zionism is wrong in all instances, which means that they need to fight to keep that precious certainty. Most people don’t seem to want to put in the effort to listen to voices they’re trying to tune out in order to keep their sense of moral clarity. This is a pretty good article on confirmation bias and why it’s a problem. The way that internet communication works makes it easier for people to only hear the information they want to hear, while filtering out the information they don’t. Since there is some overlap between anti-anti-semitism and pro-Israel activism, many people tune out all anti-anti-semitism activism for fear of having their beliefs challenged, even though one can fight anti-semitism and still be anti-Israel. This fear is often so strong that anti-Israel activists are often willing to listen to NAZIS and KKK leaders before they will listen to Jews. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND.
4. Anti-Semitic Beliefs. Conscious or unconscious there are tons of anti-semitic ideas visible in the social justice movement. Many of them revolve around the ideas that Jews are all Rich and Jews control the Media. Those are stereotypes that aren’t true, but I’ve seen some people actually working backwards to make the case that, for example, Rupert Murdoch must be Jewish because he’s rich and is a major player in the media even though he is most definitely not Jewish. There is also a disproportionate focus on Jews who are rich and powerful and abusive like Sheldon Adelson while the Jewishness of anti-establishment figures like Naomi Klein is downplayed and ignored because she doesn’t play to stereotype. It’s also easier to tune out anti-semitism if you believe that Ashkenazim “aren’t real Jews” but Khazars which, even if that were true (which it most assuredly isn’t) wouldn’t rule out the fact that we were still murdered in the millions during the Holocaust for being Jews. But call anyone out on this and you’ll get a “anti-zionist not anti-semitic.” Again, they don’t want to risk having their confirmation bias exposed.5. A Poor Understanding of Jewish Peoplehood as it Relates to Diaspora and Race. Tumblr social justice tends to be built on Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Theory. But in practice, one gets the feeling that most users really only engage in these concepts to the point where they understand two categories within each context: White/PoC and Colonizer/Indigenous. Jews, being a diasporic people for centuries, don’t neatly fit into either category. Most of us have lived in countries where we were not considered “indigenous” due to exile. As a result, over the millenia we have blended with many of the local populations resulting in genetically and culturally related groups that wouldn’t be considered the same “race” today. Critical Race Theory largely describes Racial politics within the United States. Post-Colonial Theory doesn’t do a very good job of dealing with diasporic populations whose indigineity has been rendered unspeakably complex due to residing as a frequently unwanted minority in other countries for centuries. What happens then is that Jews are frequently refugees, kicked out of various countries because the majority populations decided they didn’t want us. So where then do we have indigenous rights when the majority of us have been a refugee people for centuries? The denial of a safe home for Jews is an issue that many on the tumblr left simply don’t want to acknowledge or reckon with. So they act like Jews fleeing Nazism in the 1930s are no different than European colonialists who were looking for people and resources to exploit. They ignore the various persecutions against Jews in the Soviet Union because Communism is a popular meme. They ignore the expulsions of the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa because they have a hard time calling non-White Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews “European Colonialists.” They frequently confuse Ethiopian Jewish Israeli Citizens with Eritrean Refugees because they don’t understand the fundamental and important differences between the two groups and they don’t want to put in the effort to learn about either so long as they can condemn Israel for something.
6. Fighting Anti-Semitism Isn’t Seen as “Cool”. Fighting anti-semitism isn’t going to get your posts thousands upon thousands of notes. You’re more likely to get those results posting Hitler’s home movies. People who are motivated by tumblr fame don’t see a lot of popular posts about anti-semitism and therefore don’t think it’s worth the effort to get involved. Notice that popular posts about anti-semitism tend to be piling on celebrities they hate for other reasons or stuff that is bashing Nazis because everyone hates Nazis because, among other things, they’re White Supremacists. But dealing with contemporary anti-semitism? Especially as it manifests itself so frequently in contemporary social justice circles? It’s more likely to lose you followers than win you any. And as much as people on tumblr like to pretend that they’re trendsetters and iconoclasts, they’ve merely selected a different avenue for their groupthink. True iconoclasts will fight for something when it’s unpopular. And if you read a bit of a dare in there, it was quite intentional.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/georgia-woman-accused-of-faking-cancer-to-get-15k-in-donations/
I am sure she would of been someone kiwifarms would stalk.
damn now I wish I was 23 again, and didn’t need to lie about cancer. when I get caught I’ll just lie about being severly disabled and megaqueer and call people a bigot when they hate what I did.
My relationship with SJWs is simillar to Christians, I don't necesarilly agree with them and their beliefs but I don't hate them coz of that.
Why can't people just agree to disagree?
the art of educating versus dragging
HELLO GOOD PEOPLE OF TUMBLR.
today we are going to talk about the art of educating versus the pointless art (can we even call it that?) of dragging, as the title suggests.
i’m glad to say that the generation of millennials are growing up each day more socially aware, accepting, and liberal than their predecessors. adults can mock us for ‘selfie culture’ all they’d like- it doesn’t erase the change we as a group of young minds are starting to demand. we understand things they do not and cannot as they are products of their time. black lives matter! support trans lives! inclusive feminism! and so much more!
yet while a large part of the millennials are educated in social instances, many of them are not. there are multiple ways to fight against ignorance in this day and age, like lobbying or protest, and smaller instances, like standing up for what you believe in when you see an idiot at your school in a meninist shirt or hear casual racism in conversations with people who are you friends. calling someone out is necessary; if no one tells them they’re wrong, how are they going to change?
but, as the title suggests, there is an art to it. when someone displays problematic behavior, you call them out because you want them to get educated. and if they respond positively, your job is done! but dragging them without telling them what they’ve done? how the hell are they supposed to learn?
granted, there are people who just can’t be saved from ~idiocy~. you have fuckboys who will continue to adorn meninist attire even after you rant about it’s damaging effects, or white kids that will never stop using the ‘n’ work no matter how much you insist that they, for the love of GOD, stop.
but certain peopled don’t know any better and want to learn. and while this doesn’t excuse their actions, helping them acknowledge how their behavior is harmful and then letting them know how to check themselves leads to a more educated society. here is how you can let someone know their behavior isn’t wrong without, you know, losing your shit (unless the shit deserves to be lost).
first off; name-calling and death threats? these things do nothing to advance a policy of equality and justice. no one is going to want to learn from someone that calls them a ‘slut that needs to kill themselves’ (i have seen this online!). as a feminist, i’m happy to say that i work my hardest to be inclusive towards all groups of women, whether that be WOC like myself or trans woman, gay woman, disabled woman, and anybody that identifies themselves as a woman! was i always like this? definitely not. i used to participate in a feminist culture that was very ‘white feminist’, which is ironic since i’m not even white. i talked about the right to wear shorts to school and how makeup isn’t made to impress men, or how cat-calling was a serious problem. yes- these things are feminist issues. but did i ever speak about the issues black women face in comparison to white women? how white women have advantages over say, an islamic women, when it comes to environments like the workplace. i never talked about trans women. and i participated in HEAVY slut shaming. how did i learn? i was educated. not dragged. educated. if 13 year old feminist me was told to kill myself because of my stupidity, i would not have wanted to get educated. i would have gotten annoyed and told everyone to piss off. that doesn’t mean i was right, or that i had the right to be mad, because being problematic obviously means there will be consequence. it’s just that rants, threats, and just blatant horrible behavior alienate people and do nothing to inspire people to listen or change perspective. the substance of your argument can be lost if you’re covering it up with threats and name calling. this doesn’t mean that you should coddle said problematic person. be strong and firm! they’re wrong and they should know that! but don’t make it a situation where it’s the end for them. it’s not game over. calling out is not striking out and let them know that they have the opportunity to become better.
so how do you call out a friend? let’s be real. while a lot of millennials are becoming more open minded and smarter in terms of social justice, there is still a huge group of them that use slurs and have senses of humor that basically depend on being racist. something i used to do whenever a guy i was friends with displayed problematic behavior was scream at him. “THAT IS SO RACIST/SEXIST/TRANSPHOBIC YOU PIECE OF TRASH HOW THE FUCK AM I FRIENDS WITH YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU ASSHOLE OH MY GOD” it just pissed me off to a point where i couldn’t even see past my anger. looking back on it, i know that my behavior literally did nothing to change anything. think about why you’re friends with someone. it’s because they’re good people right? and a good person is willing to listen to how they can improve if you let them know instead of attacking them and refusing to talk to them for the rest of your life (i am guilty of this behavior). i don’t want to criticize anyone who angrily responds to offensive language. it’s exhausting to constantly spoon feed education into the mouths of people that don’t have any qualms about throwing their ignorance at you and anger naturally will surface; but not everyone whose problematic is hopeless. see moments like these as moments of discussion; not THE ONE MOMENT WHERE EVERYTHING WAS OVER AND THE FRIENDSHIP CRUMBLED. you can’t live a life thinking that everyone in the world is as socially aware as you think YOU are.
and now let’s talk about my worst pet peeve in the world. you know what i hate? when someone who is obviously smart and educated is confronted with something they’ve said in the past, i want to roll my eyes until they fall out of their sockets and tumble into the ocean. if somebody has apologized for their behavior and made it OBVIOUS that they do not share the same beliefs as they did before, why bring it up and ‘drag’ them? isn’t that counterintuitive? you wanted them to educate themselves and they have- what is the point of continually penalizing them for behavior they displayed when they were a more unintelligent individual? a good example of someone growing from problematic behavior is the company warner brothers. they released a statement before airing their cartoons that read
“the cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. they may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were common place in american society. these depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. while the following does not represent the warner bros. view of today’s society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed”
to me, this is an adequate apology that shows clear understanding of the harmfulness of problematic behavior without making warner bros. the victim in the situation, something that a lot of people do when called out on problematic behavior. doesn’t it seem like a waste of time to then pull up screenshots of cartoons with racial prejudice in them and to then proceed to ‘drag’ warner brothers? i see this most often with celebrities. ashley frangipane, better known as halsey, used to run a harry styles blog on tumblr before she started killing the music industry and used to say some pretty bad things about taylor swift. it was typical slut shaming. but anybody who knows jack shit about halsey also knows that she is not that person today. as a mixed race bisexual woman in the music industry, she has done a lot to speak out about feminism and acceptance. she has apologized for the things she has said about taylor when she was 17 and dumb. but people like to pull up her old text posts about hating taylor or erase all the other work she’s done FOR social justice just because of her mistake. she doesn’t have that attitude anymore! those text posts do not represent her attitude today! this is why drag culture can be so harmful; it does NOTHING for equality and is basically just a way for someone to give themselves a tap on the back for feeling like they’ve done something to help a movement, when they’ve actually done squat.
educated peeps- spread as much knowledge as you can! just remember to do so in a way that actually, you know, spreads knowledge and not hate.
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I've read some critiques of the Soviet Union, particularly Czesław Miłosz's book: The Captive Mind. It seriously reminded me of my teenage years spent in SJW social groups in 2010's America. Although, in the year 2014, I wouldn't face government persecution for choosing to defect from a SJW group, but they tried to enact their own social controls similar to many cults.
I suppose it's also interesting how so many TRAs and troons are proponents of communist theory... but, at the same time, I don't think one has to uphold the communist label in order to trip over the same logical fallacies as they do.
It may provide an introduction point into the culture, however... through which the idea is then spread around, organically.
I believe this is a larger feature of "SJW" identity politics, but the popularity of troonism is how easy it is to identify as an "oppressed", underprivileged group. You can be a "butch lesbian trans woman" who doesn't shave "her" beard or take hrt because that's "gender normative to what a woman is". You can be a "femme gay" trans male drag queen, basically a straight girl in exaggerated makeup... and if someone questions this, they'll be accused of "attempting to reinstate gender norms", etc. Gender is a beautiful spectrum with infinite possibilities... which is cool when you're writing fantasy, but not so cool when you're faced with the reality of physiology and the social environments of our times.
It's also one thing to say "pregnant men and women", etc., inclusive language crap; it's another to deal with an angry person who thinks talking about these issues at all is diverting fire away from his much-more-important issues of being a delusional NEET with a shitty dating life. His issues might only affect 1-2% of the population, while women's issues affect 50% of all humans. So, should we put the lives of 50% on hold to cater entirely to the 1%?
Or maybe his issues are a part of a larger issue that affects much more than only "trans" people, but perhaps he doesn't want to acknowledge this. Grouping his issue as a uniquely "trans" issue validates his sense of importance. He's not like all those other crappy old cis men who can't get a date, she's traaaaaaansss! She's not just a girl getting turned down by gay guys! He's traaaaaaansss!!!
"What explains the generally aggressive approach to criticism on the part of defenders of gender identity theory? At least part of the answer seems to lie in the intellectual priors of gender identity theory, and specifically with the philosophical worldview of Butler. Butler thinks the categories of man and male, woman and female, are inevitably ‘exclusionary’; i.e. they prioritise certain restrictive ideals or stereotypes about what is natural and ‘right’ for men and women. So effectively on this view, whenever you try to assert that there’s such a thing as females or women, as a natural and pre-given category – for whatever reason – you are effectively ‘excluding’ socially marginalised people who don’t meet the implicit ideal and you should be criticised accordingly. A further influence in the background here is what is known in philosophy as ‘standpoint epistemology’. This is the idea that some forms of knowledge are socially situated, so that only if you are in a particular social situation are you able to easily acquire that kind of knowledge. The term originally comes from Marxism and the idea that oppressed people can have insight into two perspectives or ‘standpoints’ at once – their own and their oppressors’ – whereas oppressors can have only one perspective (their own). Since the workers are subject to bourgeois rules and a bourgeois worldview, they get insight into the bourgeoisie’s standpoint. Additionally, though, workers have intimate knowledge of their own socially situated standpoint, which the bourgeoisie lacks. This idea has been adopted by several social justice movements, including feminism, critical race theory and trans activism. As developed by trans activists, standpoint epistemology says there are special forms of standpoint-related knowledge about trans experience available only to trans people, not cis people. For instance, only trans people can properly understand the pernicious effects of ‘cis privilege’, and how it intersects with other forms of oppression to produce certain kinds of lived experience. As with some versions of feminism and critical race theory, when transmuted through popular culture this has quickly become the idea that only trans people can legitimately say anything about their own nature and interests including on philosophical matters of gender identity. Cis people, including feminists and lesbians, have nothing useful to contribute here. Their assumption that they do have something useful to contribute is a further manifestation of their unmerited privilege. In the words of trans philosopher Veronica Ivy, ‘cis folks’ – including TERFs – just need to ‘sit down and shut up’.
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It’s standard practice in philosophy and academia more generally to subject theories and their postulates to trenchant critique. Does a given theory explain the evidence well? Are there rival theories that might explain the evidence better? Does the theory help us explain and predict what people care about? Does it have other explanatory virtues such as simplicity, and is it a good fit with other existing productive theories? To rule these questions out as automatically ‘transphobic’ is potentially to give a free pass to bad theorising. As an academic I can’t responsibly do that, and others shouldn’t either. It is standard for academics to subject their work to rigorous critique by peers: papers get torn to shreds in seminars and referee reports, and experiments pored over to look for potentially confounding variables. And for good reason: history is littered with bad theories and empty theoretical concepts, from inner demons to bodily humours to phlogiston. There’s no reason to think there isn’t room for similar error here – in fact, there is extra reason to think there is, inasmuch as some (though not all) trans people so clearly desperately want gender identity theory to work, which might be affecting their neutrality. Many trans people assume – wrongly, as I will eventually argue – that the existence and recognition of their political and legal rights depends upon gender identity theory’s correctness. To critics who would say that, as a cis person, I am unacceptably encroaching on trans people’s accounts of their own lived experience by arguing about gender identity, I would first say: do they not assume that I, as a cis person, have a gender identity too? More importantly, I would add that I don’t believe the insights of standpoint epistemology, rehearsed earlier, take us anything like that far. It’s plausible to say, as standpoint epistemology does, that the workers can understand the concrete impact of bourgeois rules upon them better than the bourgeoisie do; and that by extrapolation, only trans people can really understand what it’s like to live as a trans person in a mostly cis world. But it’s a wild leap from there to saying that only trans people can legitimately comment on the philosophical nature and practical consequences – for everybody – of gender identity. As a lesbian and as a sex-nonconforming woman I too have skin in this game – not to mention as an academic who cares about ideas, and as a feminist who cares about other women. In any case, trans people reasonably disagree among themselves about gender identity. Trans people aren’t an intellectual monolith, and misaligned gender identity, understood as a general concept, is not something lived experience delivers straight to trans brains in a transparent and uninterpreted way. A final objection to all this might be: in the end, what does it really matter? Can’t we just give trans people a free pass on gender identity theory if it makes them happy? Am I not just playing abstract philosophical games with real people’s lives? Shouldn’t I try to be more kind? It will be the argument of much of this book that, unfortunately, the relatively uncontested prominence of gender identity theory in many circles matters very much, for trans and non-trans people alike. Its consequences are far from ‘abstract’. They do material harm to many, including to some trans people themselves. Trans people, and future trans activism, are better off without it. Gender identity theory doesn’t just say that gender identity exists, is fundamental to human beings, and should be legally and politically protected. It also says that biological sex is irrelevant and needs no such legal protection. In a straight fight between gender identity and sex, as it were, gender identity should win. So, I need to talk about sex.
-- excerpts from Chapter 1 of Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (full pdf)
This essay on the psychology of online rumor-millers and chain-letter senders reminds me of the aggressive SJW mindset:
"... apparently here was a most striking and satisfactory justification of a favorite theory of mine—to wit, that no occurrence is sole and solitary, but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before, and perhaps often." -- Mark Twain
the whole "gender identity" trend is so pathetic and annoying. a bunch of weirdos playing pretend. and yet they're treated like a terminal alzheimers patient like "just agree with everything they think is true, otherwise they'll be soooo distressed and its just not worth it to remind them of reality, it would be so cruel and pointless because their brain doesn't work" except instead of an old person who actually tragically can't understand reality anymore, they're some 22 year old with an amazon wishlist full of childrens toys and lube.
If men were treated like social treated women parody idea
I had a random thought What if so one made a parody of those If Men were treated like society treat women parody. With prostate cancer getting an awareness month, male Vienna of rape or abuse being taking seriously and men not being force to sign up for the draft.
Something something stop gun violence
I draw things like this because I'm American and Americans have guns on the brain, apparently
While I definitely understand not enjoying bad plotlines, there's still a pretty hefty gap between the kinds of people seen as heroes in comics and nerd culture and the world we live in. It trends toward white, heterosexual men. And that's just not the world we live in.
So people make a fuss. They want more stories with PoC characters, with women, with gay/lesbian/transgender people.
Sometimes the stories they get aren't as good as they could be. But that doesn't mean the diversity is the problem. The problem is the writing and the diversity is the straw man.
Nobody's thrilled with the idea of Nazi Captain America, but I haven't seen a lot of people calling to bring back Sam Wilson (Falcon, who had taken up the Captain America shield before this). Whereas if you cast Spider-Man as a Latino kid, all of a sudden people want Peter Parker back.
There are plenty of great writers who write diversity well. Just because we haven't been pleased with the results yet doesn't mean we throw out new ideas. Challenging yourself to write beyond your comfort zone is hard and scary. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop asking for it nor that it can't provide us with tremendous, emotionally charged pieces of fiction in the future.
Bunch of white straight dudes mock the need for “safe spaces” but flip their goddamn shit when minorities say stuff like “hey maybe we can be included in stuff like scifi/fantasy stuff”, saying stuff like “I PLAY GAMES/READ COMICS/BOOKS/WATCH MOVIES TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THIS PC CULTURE BULLSHIT, SO INCLUDING WOMEN OR LGBT OR POC IS JUST PUSHING AN AGENDA AND IT’S NOT FAIR TO US”…
… So who exactly is demanding that the entire world be THEIR “safe space” again?
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