the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe

Additional context because I know the radfems are going to get their hands on this and love it:

It's not just about hating men.

It's a political statement and protest for equality that specifically seeks to eliminate the way the way Korean women are used, abused, discarded within the patriarchy by their own refusal to participate in any of it or associate with anyone who benefits from it.

It's very specifically about Demanding equality from men in power by refusing to take part in the patriarchy and challenging the way it perceives women.

It's becoming a topic in the west now and so I wanted to add all this context with the addendum that this is NOT an inherently transphobic movement. It's also completely autonomous meaning there is no "leader" of it.

Each person will have their own reasons and method of participating in this movement. Anyone can join or be part of it. Yes this includes radfems and TERFs so when they eventually try to co-opt this movement as their own let's remember that they don't speak for all feminists and theyre definitely NOT the voice of oppressed Korean women who started this, and as such have No reason to put themselves in the spotlight of this movement. And we have no reason to let them.

The post above is incredible because it's actually just literally what allies of trans-exclusionary radical feminists say in South Korea when they're trying to show that they're not exterminationists about trans people while still saying that TERFs' behaviors towards trans women should be excused. For someone who is vehemently against TERFs, or so they say, the responder above has essentially ceded every ground that Korean "neutral" feminists have ceded in half a decade in one tumblr post.

For instance, Lee Nayoung's "Theorizing Sexuality and Feminist Sexual Politics: Development and Encounter of Feminism and Queer Theory" essentially also says that radical feminism is not about hating men, and that Queer Theorists (including transfeminists) should simply make up and hold hands with the same people who called for their extermination in the cademic space.

Lee hyomin's "Radical Reconstruction of Feminist Politics: Focusing on the Critical Analysis of 'TERF' in South Korea" essentially lists out every grievances that South Korean women have (and these are all, for the record, valid grievances), but come to the conclusion that even though TERFs are wrong, since South Korean women have it so hard, transgender people must excuse the fact that these women find comfort in radical feminism and really really need their female-only space that they enforce with violence against transgender women. But hey, Lee at least leaves open the possibility that when TERFs are ready, they should embrace intersectionality and join hands with trans women!

Yoon Jiyoung's "The Revolutionary Turning Point of Feminism Crisis: Is it Possible Radical Queer Feminism?" also essentially says that radical feminists aren't the face of Korean feminism and there should be a synthesis on queer, radical feminism.

Jeong Seunghwa's "Saving Radical Femnism from Queerphobia: Opinion on Alliance between Feminists and Queer Activists," straight up says that refusing to ally with queer activists is not the same as queer hate, and that "cisgender" as a construct is an oxymoronic concept within transfeminist theory, so wanting cisgender women to have a space for them only (once again, enforced with state violence, which necessarily invites cisgender men's violence upon transgender women) is not an inherently transphobic wish (her words; not mine; it's as nonsensical in Korean as it reads in English).

All the poster above has done, without knowing, is recycle these thinly-veiled trans exclusionary radical feminists' exact talking points. Somehow, this is supposed to be allyship for trans people and logic that this movement is not trans-exclusionary, but, like, South Korean feminist movement has had a huge issue with queerphobia, especially transmisogyny, for decades. Sure, 4B movement might not have a leader, but I (and other trans women in South Korea) have been very vocal about how trans women are actively, with violence, pushed out of activist spaces for women's liberation in Korea, including pamphlets handed out by organizers of rallies to report "men disguised as women" so that they can be "ejected" from rallies. These people might not be leaders of the movement, but they did organize the rallies where people gathered to protest under the same cause, and their resounding answer was that trans women, especially ones that haven't had bottom surgery, are not allowed!

If an organization whose in-person activism that includes this policy is "NOT an inherently transphobic movement," then Japan's far-right Liberal Democratic Party's policy on transgender people and their gender marker change (until a recent supreme court ruling) is not an inherently transphobic policy, despite the fact that an international community of trans healthcare providers have the policy akin to a genocidal policy.

There are transfeminists (such as Ruin) that exist in South Korea, and they do find allies with cis feminists, but these cis feminists, by virtue of working with transfeminists, are also pushed into a niche. This is all something that any LGBT+ South Korean person (let alone a trans South Korean person) that's tried to get involved in feminist activism can tell you, but apparently, for someone who wants to center the voices of the oppressed, the poster above couldn't even find a single South Korean LGBT+ person to ask about this.

This person has made up a version of South Korean bourgeoisie feminism that does not exist in real life because to yankees, South Korea is not a place to be seriously examined; it is an ideal of anti-whatever they want to project themselves onto, whether they're reactionary or otherwise, and this is by design! South Korea is a puppet state designed by the U.S. ruling class to be a symbol of whatever they want it to be, and they've propped up no less than 50 years of bloody far-right dictators that killed communists with little to no pushback and subsequent 20 (almost 30) more years of bourgeoisie "democratic" state that still crushes its most marginalized under its heels.

For this yankee who wants to "decolonize" the "left," they can't even decolonize the extreme reactionary ways in which they interact with the neocolony of a rotting corpse of an empire that they live in. This is what catchphrase-based, feel-good, "it sounds true" way of engaging with the world that doesn't study (or worse, actively shies away from) the material reality gets you.

help me

We can't begin to have a serious conversation about community building until y'all a) put your masks back on and b) get comfortable with saying hello to strangers that come into your job...

IDK man I was raised to thank cashiers, thank the bus driver, nod to my elders, hold open doors, seek to be mindful and thoughtful at all times, I cannot relate to y'all and I NEED, desperately need y'all to start relating to ME!

it was a lose-lose for non usamericans anyway. but i feel for everyone plain and regular that's gonna have their life be living hell for the next four years. leave your house more and seek out your own community and build your own collaborative space with your closest neighbours and look out for each other as the paradigms shift. theres nothing youll need more than understanding and generosity and solidarity & nothing youll regret about extending them to the regular people youll live around for the next four years

Guardian angel Komaeda update from op

i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote 'they seem comfy in there.' i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

Something you should always remember about every single person you see on this site is that they are a tumblr user. They are the kind of person who uses tumblr

My wife's favorite sleep noise app is the kind that lets you mix different noises, one of which is a snoring shih tzu, and she loves to create soundscapes that imply the dog is in imminent danger

It'll be like

*music box playing*

*dog snoring*

*the sound of a crackling fire slowly fades in, getting louder and louder as the dog continues to snore*

The other night I was taking a bath while her bluetooth speaker sat innocently nearby, when she decided to aid my relaxation by providing her favorite soundscape, Dog Engulfed In Housefire

Okay since this is getting like a thousand notes an hour let me clear up some common misconceptions:

1) she is doing this on purpose, as she turns up the volume on the fire she yells things like "oh no he's still sleeping get him out of there!"

2) she is not falling asleep to this. Her preference for actual sleeping is just rain noises. She does this exclusively to torment me/make me laugh/amuse herself before bed

Kristoffer Zetterstrand (Swedish, 1973) - Skull on Fire (2010)

average aging Tumblr adult active here since 2014 when they scroll past werewolf boyfriend posts in the year of our lord 2024

okay I was googling the runtime for Crimson Peak and for some reason it suggested an article called "why Crimson Peak is one of Guillermo del Toro's most underrated films" and—

"the moral lesson that del Toro wants us to understand from his narrative: that love can make people go mad"

THAT'S your take away from Crimson Peak????? that's what you think the moral lesson is? REALLY?!

sorry but.... Crimson Peak, the movie in which the eponymous Victorian Estate is literally sinking into the clay mine from which the family made its once-great fortune, clay that is blood red and seeping through the white snow???? Crimson Peak, in which a formerly wealthy English aristocrat and his sister prey on the fortune of a woman from a former British colony, plotting to convince her to invest her family's money into a machine that will re-enliven the economy and production that made the great fortune they have since lost, and then kill her, something the film reveals they have done multiple times before???

y'all think del Toro made a movie about how love can make people go mad??? does his historically incisive cinematic explorations of class and colonialism mean NOTHING to you?????

this is the OPENING SCENE OF THE MOVIE

every time I get notes on my post this is how I feel

That one Series of Unfortunate Events quote

[ID: A Mob Psycho 100 comic. Muraki gestures to Sakurai, who's glaring and surrounded by an ominous red-black aura while holding up a sword, and says, "You must understand-- he had a terrible childhood." Mob stares at him, dead-eyed, and replies, "Yes, I understand. I'm having a terrible childhood right now." Reigen is lying twisted behind him in the Family Guy Death pose. End ID]

Cute date idea