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league of vriska's evil exes !!
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it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept
incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:
...we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic.
(emphasis mine)
"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."
This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.
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from James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work:
“A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing—at least not deliberately—to hide. This also means that a story resolves nothing. The resolution of a story must occur in us, with what we make of the questions with which the story leaves us. A plot, on the other hand, must come to a resolution, prove a point: a plot must answer all the questions which it pretends to pose.”
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ok seeing as we are posting cringe to ward off the twitter users (n dont get me wrong if the cringe wards them off i dont want them here) i am once again tapping the sign:
early tumblr culture was autistic. earnest weirdness is autistic. cringe culture is ableism. there is nothing inherently childish about being earnest or '''cringe'''; maybe you were a teenager in the early tumblr years but to assume everyone was is infantilising. we are weird and earnest here. if people being weird and earnest is off-putting to you may i suggest logging off instead of telling anyone about it
i do not want the irony-poisoned twitter users here specifically because of the irony-poisoning. we are weird and earnest here.
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imposter syndrome in autism is so….. im rotating it in my mind
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part of the reason people go years without knowing theyre autistic because they dont “act” autistic in front of other people is because theyve been so conditioned to repress their symptoms that they become unobservable, sometimes even to themselves. this is masking. its not a light switch that can be turned on and off again. its the gradual repression and punishment for acting anything but neurotypical and the construction of a new, more socially acceptable identity.
as time goes on and your most ‘offensive’ symptoms are ‘under control’ the only things that remain are the ones that only hurt you and the exhaustion. you cant even unwind fully in private because of the fear of being ‘wrong’. the reason so many autistic people struggle with identity is because we’ve literally been forced to abandon who we are at a core level and make one to appease the world. forced to act completely against our nature in order to… act more ‘natural’.
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the worst part of this is that theres no winning. you either show your symptoms/get diagnosed and face belittlement, infantilization, restrictions of freedom, or you mask, you hide away, and receive no support because no one believes you. no one understands how, when externally you SEEM so ‘competant’, you could be suffering so constantly. you either set yourself ablaze for the world to observe or spend the rest of your life tending burns no one else can see.
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once again making a post about how god saw and interacted with harrow pre-lobotomy and post-lyctorhood. we get no direct confirmation but i mean her eyes had to have been part yellow. had to have been. and god saw. wtf wtf why don’t we talk about this more
@deliverusfromsburb
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- I’m not convinced we’ve seen the last of Wake.
- BoE has Gideon’s body.
- Some BoE members have begun venerating it.
- We learned from Nonius that obsession can call ghosts.
- It’s easier to possess people you’re related to.
I am not connecting these dots but I am looking at them thoughtfully.
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Anonymous asked:
Is it possible that Sollux's self aggrandizing and self-loathing tendencies are reflections of LE in the same way that Karkat's is linked to the cherubs? The explosion he has at CD could also be foreshadowing of Caliborn's relationship to Calliope, as this incessant "polite" voice in his head that he has to get rid of.
Yeah, trying to remove voices from your head (and extending that notion to the narration itself) is something they have in common. That and the heterochromia. I think you can find points of commonality between LE and just about any troll tbh.
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Horses…
A mystery that no one thought was a mystery and didn’t even really need solving:
Hence Zebruh enslaving lowbloods, hence Horuss’s “Trigger sounds like a wonderful name for a hoofbeast”…
We’ve been talking about “ninja sword” as a coded N-word that slips out and kills a crow (the classically black animal) and HIC (the HNIC), about “Calliope” as a slur (relative to Caliborn) that’s supposed to return him to his chains (instead of roaming the Planet of the Apes), and about Jack Noir as a “black guy” (relative to Karkat’s race envy, which accounts for some of his mistreatment of Gamzee)… I wonder if John riding the slime pogo like a horse and attacking a bunch of (“black”) imps likewise functions as a weird racial slip, encoding a retributive fantasy. Or even if the original trauma of falling off the pogo-horse alludes to a lost sense of mastery…
“Nickered” goddammit. Vile slurs omitted indeed.
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been sleeping on the best pairing all this time…
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Fantastic how, from a BOE perspective, Gideon the Ninth is a straight forward gothic horror tragedy. Gideon is the daughter of their heroic commander, trapped and raised by monsters for eighteen years but never submitting to them. Until Canaan House. Where she lets down her guard, allows herself to feel compassion for a monster, and the monster corrupts her, uses her, and then destroys her
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ianthe is the only living lyctor who hasn’t done any of the following:
1) been romantically involved with a dead body
2) fucked god
3) consumed the soul of someone she actually loved
and additionally ianthe has DIRECTLY been responsible of saving the life of:
- camilla hect
- gideon nav
- harrowhark nonagesimus
- god (and by proxy, the whole nine houses)
in any other book series we could probably mark her down as a protagonist but all of this is negated by the fact that ianthe is just totally, completely, unforgivably and unapologetically AWFUL and a girlbossing, gaslighting, gatekeeping BITCH