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ultralaser

@ultralaser / ultralaser.tumblr.com

peak hatemail [ choosy moms choose gif ] long and prosper, baby
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timemachineyeah

I think the thing that drives me the most batshit about the medical fatphobia conversation is that the burden of proof feels so exactly backwards. Just from an obvious best practices standpoint???

Things like intentional malnourishment, intentionally incapacitating vital organs through surgery, denial of potentially lifesaving medical care until those things are done, etc.

Those are all pretty extreme. The kinds of things it feels like a “first do no harm” system should have a lot of solid evidence for before recommending or implementing them.

But they’re so bog standard and accepted and everyone from doctors to your own family will look at you like you’re a flat-earther when you suggest maybe we shouldn’t be defaulting to that.

#healthcare#fatphobia#gatekeeping
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coochienojutsu

Just a heads up, AO3 deleted one of my original works because someone reported it for “not being fanwork” despite original work being a “fandom” with over 35k fics.

“Under Section IV. of the Terms of Service, which you agreed to when opening your account, prompt requests, prompt lists, squee posts, notices about meetups, non-fanwork fiction or nonfiction, fic searches, rec lists, letters to other users, reactions to episodes, blog or Tumblr-appropriate posts, and other ephemeral content (i.e. content meant to be temporary), are not allowed to be uploaded on the Archive of Our Own.”

If you have multiple original works on AO3, you very well could be permanently suspended for violating the terms of service.

Be careful.

I have no fucking clue, especially since they hired people to wrangle the tags, meaning that they’re well aware that original work is an option

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softnocturne

IS this true? D: AO3 what the heck?

Here’s the email I got, so yeah, it is true

Can everyone reblog this? AO3 has been dealing with a lot of abuse in their invite system, and if they’re cracking down on other areas like original works, this could affect a lot of writers.

#ao3#gatekeeping#fandom#nihilism
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whovianfeminism
Anonymous asked:

The doctor will never be a woman. There are plenty of women in the show that are admirable role models. I think you're just full ofsh it. Stop pushing your american views onto Doctor Who, a BRITISH show, with BRITISH values. It's unbelievable how obnoxious and hypocritical feminists are, especially you third-wave feminists. Always spouting "equal rights" but, "Can't hit me, cause I'm a girl!" You probably won't respond to this because you know I'm right and the whovianfeminism stance is weak.

whovianfeminism answered:

This was so beautiful that I had to put it up on my wall and examine it as if it were an exquisite piece of art. 

"Manpain" by Anonymous

Above we have a quintessential example of early 21st Century prose by an aggrieved man. The author of this piece is unknown, but we can surmise by his inability to properly say “shit” to a woman and his assurance that he likes “admirable” female characters that he is most likely a “Nice Guy.”

The anonymous author employs deliberate obtuseness in order to provoke a reaction from his audience. Notice how he pretends no British individual supports the idea of a woman portraying the Doctor, despite clear evidence to the contrary, even amongst actors who have portrayed the titular character on the show. Then there is the stunning self-centeredness regarding his perception of third wave feminism; he is only interested in equality it grants him the “right” to hit the women whose arguments make him so incoherently angry that he is unable to rationally reply.

His final challenge attempts to trap the reader. Do we respond and grant him the audience and validation he so desperately seeks, or do we ignore him and let him believe he has won? But perhaps we have a third option: to turn the focus back on him and examine how his comments display his deep insecurity in his own sense of masculinity, something he feels can only be reclaimed by challenging a girl on the internet to a fight and preemptively declaring victory because he fears he cannot engage with her on an intellectual level.

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a work of goddamn art oh my god

#literally screaming#p/redditors#fake geek boys#misogyny#gaslighting#gatekeeping#doctor who
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gyzym
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culturedmama

Because nothing says “recovery and healing” like vengeful hate, rage and bitterness.

Please.

The description of “surviving” this gives is just another form of victimhood.  One in which the “survivor” continues to be eaten up inside and internalizes the abuse in a way that hollows them out and imprisons them for life unless they can let it go. Don’t mistake anger for healing, and please do not interpret bitterness and rage as strength.  It’s just another form of living death, and letting the abuser “win.”  The abused can only TRULY live when they reach a place of forgiveness and compassion: when the thought of the person no longer moves them to tears OR anger, but instead mercy.  

When you are strong enough to reach out your hand in compassion to your abuser and look them in the eye without fear of being hurt, THEN you can call yourself a survivor. THEN you will have triumphed over darkness and evil. 

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gyzym

I’m going to put my response to this under a cut, because it’s absolutely the angriest I have ever been on the internet and y’all following me don’t need to be forced to interact with that! Above the cut, I’d like to offer two things. The first is that I will be refraining from posting anything on either LBD or abuse & related topics for a nice long while, because there’s a healthy level of anger and then there’s what happens when someone I’ve never spoken to informs me that I don’t get to call myself a survivor! Secondly, and more importantly: while I was indeed talking in my original post about a handful of specific methods through which a character on a YouTube show could portray the aftermath of abuse in what I personally think would be a more empowering way, in real life? There a thousand, a hundred thousand, right way to be a survivor, and every one of them revolves around what makes you feel healthy and solid and whole. Don’t let anybody tell you different; so long as you’re not hurting yourself or others, however you get through this shit is just fine. <3

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#tone argument#civics#infrastructure#gatekeeping#rape culture#victim blaming
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a couple of years from now there’s going to be a bunch of little girls who love tauriel bc she’s the only girl in the hobbitses, and they’re going to have her action figures and posters and everything, and then they’re going to read the book, and she won’t be in it. and neither will galadriel. or //any women at all//. later they’ll grow up and find an army of dudes who hate tauriel ‘bc she wasn’t in the book’ (though nobody seemed to have a problem when legolas showed up at the battle of five armies) and it won’t quite be the same as going from liking animated teen titans starfire* and then reading ‘red hood and the outlaws’? but you get the idea. this is one part of the ramp-up to lotr that i’d hoped we wouldn’t have to relive, though now i’m not sure why. *(probably closer to the generation raised on animated jlu seeing ryan reynolds and asking ‘why did they cast some white dude as john stewart?’)

#tauriel#sexy sexism#misogyny#geek privilege#gatekeeping#pdd#pushback#the hobbit#team bilbo#arwen#lotr#team frodo#starfire#john stewart#gl#jlu#teen titans#young justice
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theuntitledmag
What does it mean to be a young Woman of Color studying the lives and work of dead white men? What does it mean to watch your best friend start shouting in a crowded bar on the lower east side because she can’t take one fucking class on Latin American art history and you both know, you know you’re supposed to be studying at the best university in the world? What does it mean to tokenize the work of People of Color—Frida reduced to sensuality, Basquiat just a savage made noble by New York City? What does it mean to sit in seminar and realize with a strange and sinking feeling that you are only one of two Women of Color in the room?

The Ivory Tower Doesn’t Yet Have a Room for Brown Girls « The Ellipses Project (via theuntitledmag)

i LOVE this. hooray larissa!

(via wordsandturds)

#white supremacy#white mythology#elitism#gatekeeping
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treedance
How to Succeed in Journalism when You Can't Afford an Internship
www.randomhouse.ca

An essay about money, class, determination and whether journalism is becoming a glamor industry.

Via Random House (Canada):

To be a writer in this market requires not only money, but a concept of “work” that is most easily gained from privilege. It requires a sense of entitlement, the ability to network and self-promote without seeing yourself as an arrogant, schmoozing blowhard. And it requires you to think of working for free—at an internship, say, or on one of those gratis assignments that seem to be everywhere now—as an opportunity rather than an insult or a scam.
This is no longer an industry that rewards working-class values, in other words, and I underestimated how hard it would be to shuck them. It still seems strange to me that people work, unpaid, without a guaranteed job at the end. And I haven’t reconciled myself with the central irony here: that journalism, ostensibly a populist endeavour, is becoming a rarefied practice best suited, both financially and psychologically, to the well-off.

Alexandra Kimball, How to Succeed in Journalism when You Can’t Afford an Internship.

#alexandra kimball#elitism#gatekeeping#journalism#the new robber barons
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discoverynews

good grammar is hot.

good grammar is a bullshit idea made up to shit on people who don’t fit into some arbitrary standard (which is usually rich, white, and smugly intolerable)

get fucked discovery news

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ultralaser

WOOOOO PRESCRIPTIVISM.

a couple of these i wasn't super familiar with //because it only matters to assholes//.  stop judging people because they used the wrong word.  not everyone went to finishing school, not everyone speaks english natively, not everyone writes professionally.

BAD GRAMMAR IS WHERE THE EXCITING LANGUAGE COMES FROM ANYWAYS.

Source: dailyinfographic.com
#language fascism#elitism#gatekeeping#prescriptivism#pdd#protest#tumblr junior high
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