I wish people realized that the people in their 20s currently speaking out against hypersexual internet culture aren’t doing it because we’re killjoys but because we were the first generation of people who grew up fully online and we can see the damage its done to us. If you can’t tell the difference between us and your puritanical conservative uncle then that’s on you!
Hi Neil! I hope you and your family are doing great. I wanted to know what is exactly going on with the #disneymustpay task force. I heard you were part of the task force, so I wondered whether you can explain the details to me? Thanks in advance!
Disney bought other companies, such as Fox. People had previously made licensed property for the companies they bought, like Star Wars comics and novels. Disney decided to stop paying these authors royalties on the licensed properties, while keeping their own royalties from other publishers, and keeping the entirety of the publishing revenues from what they published themselves. It’s wrong.
I just reblogged this w/ no comment but I actually do want to add: the rich are so good at/experienced with stealing from us, that they’ve created an entire system that has brainwashed you into not paying attention to/normalizing their theft. The last thing you need to do is defend them.
anyone else bothered by the slow disapearance of websites for kids and the integration of children into sites meant for adults. as a kid i spent most of my time online on websites like girlsgogames, club penguin, barbie.com, moshi monsters, etc. etc. now 7 year olds just use tiktok.
Hey btw, to cis people unfamiliar with this kind of thing:
If you accidentally deadname someone, handle it the same way you would if you’d accidentally called someone your dog’s name. Just a quick and casual “ah fuck sorry, that’s not your name” will do, this kind of shit happens and names are all registered in the same part of the brain.
You wouldn’t write someone a whole e-mail essay about how you feel and how you’d never actually mistake them for a dog. People understand, there’s no need to make it weird.
i mean, maybe this is my inner “survivor of child abuse” talking, but I am not going to tell abusive parents that they’re bad at bringing up their children without a bullet proof plan with regards to how I could protect my student from the emotional and physical backlash of that meeting.
Important thing to remember about intervening in abuse in general. Any actions taken by others to hold the abuser accountable WILL be taken out on the victim and not the person doing the confronting. Do not confront an abuser about their actions unless you know for absolute certain that you can protect their victim from the fallout.
The fact that cis women never seem to grasp that trans women have a different relationship with being addressed as “man/dude/bro” is endlessly worrying to me.
Like, I’m glad being called those words don’t make you literally want to tear your body apart or remind you of horribly traumatic events! I really am. That’s great for you. But for most of us trans women that is our reality. That’s our reaction to being addressed as those terms. So your continual reliance on the defense of “oh, I call everyone that!” is pretty myopic and inconsiderate.
And your other tired defense of “I use it in a gender-neutral way” falls flat too. You can’t use a word that’s explicitly a gendered term - literally the word “man” or “brother” in an ungendered way. It would be like me cooking a meal and saying that I use dairy milk in a vegan way - no matter how I say I’m using it, it’s still gonna make people sensitive to it sick.
Also, while some folks have told me that “dude is gender neutral,” I like to ask them if they have sex with dudes and the answer to that question generally reminds people that yes, this word is gendered, even if there are contexts in which it isn’t used that way. It is also a way to illustrate that the word has different meanings to different people.
Because if someone holds that dude is truly gender neutral, then yeah, we all (well if we partake in the act) have sex with dudes. But if it isn’t neutral to someone else, that has a whole different layer of meaning.
So even if you don’t want to be a considerate human and think of the feelings of trans women, then maybe at least ask yourself if you’d be offended if someone insisted you had sex with dudes and go in from there.
Then ask yourself why you want to be an asshole to trans women and do some reevaluating of your values.
John Scalzi once wrote a thing that has stuck with me: “when someone says you stepped on their foot, you get off their foot, you don’t argue whether you intended to step on their toes.”
Oh god this resonates so much. I don’t know how to communicate the emotions I felt being one of like 3 women in a class while all 20-30 guys around me made rape jokes and laughed and told me to lighten up when I complained, or talked about “what type of Asian is your favourite” like we were breeds of dog or cuts of meat, or hear the guy beside me say “who cares?” when the prof announced that the first woman had just won the fields medal, or even just the blatant staring when I walked into class like I was some kind of foreign object.
[ID: A tweet by dyke to watch out for, @dyke3watchout5, which reads: “It’s always "how do we get more women into math” and never “how do we get more misogynists out of math”. /end ID]
I once spent a summer working on research project in a chemistry lab at Harvard, and you know the biggest thing that stood out to me? The building I was working in had exactly 1/3 as many bathrooms for women as for men. It had clearly been built with no bathrooms for women at all, and had only reluctantly converted some of the men’s bathrooms to be for women after the fact. There was a seminar about “advancing women in STEM” on campus basically every week, and I fucking guarantee that not a single one of them did as much to advance women in STEM as my group’s PI, who declared about two days into the program that all women in the building should “feel free to use the men’s restrooms if they’re closer or less occupied, and men who are uncomfortable about that should consider how their female colleagues feel just existing in a building like this one”. Women aren’t mysterious creatures who need to be lured into the sciences with treats and special programs; they’re human beings, and the main things keeping them out of STEM fields are those fields utterly refusing to treat them as such.
They are smart enough to actually IDENTIFY new variants as they appear and TELL the rest of us about it. China & the US should follow that example! DUH!
There is no age limit on chronic pain. Just because you do not like to think about children being in pain does not mean they do not exist. They deserve to be believed and they deserve access to pain management.
I see (and agree with) your “you’re one bad month away from becoming homeless (so start redirecting your loyalty from billionaires to the working class)” and I raise you a “you’re one accident, one insect sting, one sudden mysterious illness, one virus from becoming permanently disabled (so start redirecting your sympathy from the able-bodied class to the disabled)”.
It’s nearly impossible for a person to reach old age and not be at least mildly disabled. Start caring about disability rights NOW.
Nope, they’d be too heavy. they’re a special blend of reinforced fiberglass which make them an absolute cunt to cut through and can’t crush them either.
They’re big fucking awful single use pieces of shit
Information changes fast and they’ve figured out how to recycle them.
