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i think a lot of liberals need to confront the fact that they don’t actually believe everyone should have basic human rights. a homeless person could call me every slur under the sun and i would still want them to have housing, food, etc. the belief that everyone is entitled to basic human rights should not hinge on whether you “like” someone or not. at that point the entire ideology crumbles.

there's been discussion about the way human bodies have shaped themselves to the demands of the machines it's surrounded by;

it's so heinous how that same process is at work in the mind - how seemingly instantaneously whole huge complexes of experience have just ceased to exist

how insidious were phrases like "web ready", and how devastating in their ongoing consequences. Wells' distinction between eloi and morlock has been rendered more clearly.

Intolerance and anxiety have certainly become outrageously proportioned to every single other adjective of life in webbed cultures

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

Hello friends, supporters, and EveryTumblr, Today I have tragic news I want to share with you. We started our day with new evacuation orders for our displacement area 💔 This will be the 13th time of evacuating and fleeing from a real danger with my family, and everytime is harder than the previous one I almost can take my breaths, to bear a new displacement!!! Even the tents are worn out and cannot be dismantled and installed in a new place!! I really feel suffocated from this situation, and need your support to start over in a new place I appeal to the whole world to hear my and my family's mournful cry in Gaza. We need the helping hand that reaches out to wipe our tears and build a bridge to safety

We are really tired. I am making a great effort to convey my voice to you, and your donation is not a simple thing, it is a chance of new survival for my family Amplify me by reblogging and donate if you can, please 🙏🏻

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Every time a celebrity's abusive behavior comes out I understand why people are upset, especially those who have interacted with them or considered them important. But for anyone out there, it's important to remember that most people who are abused suffer at the hands of someone they know who isn't famous. A relative, friend, coworker, someone like that.

I think that these celebrity abuse cases can make us forget that sometimes. These powerful people are monsters, larger than life, this could never happen to us or those we know, and so on.

Keep an eye out for warning signs and do your best to support friends who are/might be in situations like that. Have local domestic violence hotlines in your phone, let your loved ones know they can crash at your place if they need to.

medical literature about intersex people be like "there are problems that can be caused by forcing surgery on babies. luckily we are solving this by forcing surgery on even younger babies. it is vital that this baby CANNOT be left alone to develop normally. here is our 36 step guide on which surgeries you should force on which babies. also some people have said that forcing surgeries on babies might be "harmful" so consider that too I guess"

and the paper is from 2024 and it's tiny sliver of acknowledgement of decades of intersex activism is considered modern. truly the state of intersex healthcare is fucking dire. worse than you are thinking.

1906-1975

Relevant as it's ever been.

Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud and angry about the new "deception as to sex" guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don't disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth to sexual partners.

This is particularly going to harm trans and intersex sex workers, who often have a higher number of sexual partners who we might keep our trans or intersex identity from for our safety.

This guidance will put trans women into men's prisons with sex offenders for the "crime" of having consensual sex without declaring that they're trans first.

This guidance will put trans men into prison, likely in isolation, for the "crime" of having consensual sex without declaring that they're trans first.

This guidance will put intersex people into prison for the "crime" of having consensual sex without declaring that they're intersex first.

The British press is sweeping this under the rug. It will devastate so many trans and intersex people's lives. I need everyone else to share their rage because I'm scared and devastated for myself and those I love and I can't be screaming all on my own.

This gives the cis sexual partners of trans and intersex people so much power over them because unless you disclose it in writing (through a text message or something) it'll be your word against theirs and the court will not side with transgender or intersex individuals.

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Mohammed reached out to me to share this on my tumblr account. Mohammed already lost so many family members due to the war in Gaza and is desperate to keep his wife (Manal) and their children safe.

His own tumblr account: @save-mohamed-family

Recently Mohammed was told by the director of the hospital that his family can evacuate if they raise enough money by January. He is so close to raising enough money, but time is essential now!

This is a vital chance for Mohammed to get his family to safety that he doesn't want to miss out on. He needs our support now more then ever!

Mohammed needs to reach as many people as he can in a short amount of time who are able to emphasize with his situation and donate (even just 5 dollar/euro's) or at least share his story urgently now!

Only 5 days remain fo Mohamed to get enough donations to get out of Gaza with his children and his wife who needs to get treatment in the hospital for uterine cancer.

If you're able to donate anything or if you can only share this post to reach more people, now is the time to do so!

I am worried for Mohammed and his family. Tomorrow the date to travel out of Gaza arrives and their campaign has only reached half of the financial requirements. Mohammeds wife needs to be treated for cancer in the hospital in egypt. Only if the Al Manasra family can collect enough money they are offered a chance to travel and remain together.

I know there's plenty of campaigns that need support, but I really hope you won't look past this one today, because the chance to leave Gaza together as a family is really urgent right now.

What they need most right now is to reach as many people as possible right now to get more then a handful of donations. The more people you can share this with the higher the chance of reaching this goal. So please especially if you have a good amount of followers, consider supporting this campaign.

another $1,000 to this campaign would radically alter the conditions of this family’s approaching travel date.

I want to anounce that the evacuation date has been delayed by 3 days giving Mohammed a rare chance to collect more donations so his family might make it out of Gaza together and his wife is able to get treatment!

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@ezrazone has a Q and A posted about this situation for more information:

https://www.tumblr.com/ezrazone/769338223721938944/faq-regarding-the-al-manasra-familys-campaign?source=share

really fucking praying for this ceasefire man please please

every morning i wake up and hope that the day will come where the US and israel are punished severely for this

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for the last fucking time, tiktok getting banned is BAD. this is a huge free speech concern. it's rooted in sinophobia. and it will set a really bad precedent that allows the government to ban any platform that doesn't let them control the media narrative

the leftism bare minimum of fucking democracy leaving peoples bodies when a platform they don't personally like is on the chopping block

Also the law itself only uses tiktok as an example and allows America to force pretty much any ***Websites*** to close shop in America unless they sell said website To America. It's continuing their plan to control all media their citizens intake and increases their influence on the media other countries intake as well