Fun little pattern I put together.The mentality that has lead people to dismiss genocide in favor of a hope that they will not recieve consequences from the incoming administration feels very similar to the mentality that tells a teen or young adult that if someone at a party starts to OD you should scatter to avoid getting in trouble. I had always considered that issue to be a result of failed parenting (and I still do), but it is also a result of a failed culture. Culture of individualism. Culture of selfishness. Culture of dehumanizing and commanding. Culture of punishment….
On My Bull****
Actual word vomit lol
Hot take. The idea that lesbianism=decentering men (and of course not a lesbian=centers men) is actually just centering men in how you percieve women and sexuality. If you’re turning everything into a scale of how much other people focus on men, you have actually not shifted your focus away from men in any meaningful way. This feels like just more gold star gay bullshit but with feminist language for decoration….
Hadn’t posted this before because I was gonna wait till I had some long, deep piece. But if I get to that I’ll say it again. There were people quite literally saying that Kehlani speaking about Palestine meant we all needed to stream all their music, buy all their concert tickets, etc. But when a small business sells something that will donate all profits instead of all revenue to Palestine folks said even taking just enough to keep yourselves running was theft and taking advantage. Like, I’m sorry. Imperialism got you. Capitalism got your ass and now you are its watchdog….
Maybe some day, I’ll talk more about this, but American Dad is so good at showing “nice guys” that still stay deeply, but subversively misogynistic. Won’t do much about it now, cause I feel that would require me to make an assessment on if they do that intentionally or if that’s the creator’s bias….
Class reductionists are a frustrating group. The whole idea that race, gender, sexuality, etc are secondary to the Real struggle of ✨Working Class✨ is point blank ignorant but it also erases several classes of people whose relationships with the labor system are not addressed by the needs of ✨The Working Class✨ An obvious one is the disbled. But it also does not include the slave labor of prisoners or people being exploited abroad. They things needed for those groups to experience equality from our system are extremely different than what the US lower middle class needs. But you’d have to talk about…