i think the single funniest thing on the planet is the fact that his mother did a Reddit AMA ages ago, well before the current man versus bear debate, and when asked the same question, chose the bear
A man on TikTok got mad when women kept choosing “bear” in “What would you prefer to see when you’re by yourself, a man or bear in the woods” and he was like “well my mommy got attacked by a bear and survived then wrote a book about it which is why you choosing bear hurts my feelings :(“ and everyone’s stitching it like, my mom was literally murdered by a man and he responds like, “I hope one day people will stop being so mean and taking the worst from strangers :((((. What about MY mommy who survived the bear attack.”
there's been a conversation on TikTok about whether women would rather be trapped in a forest with a bear or a man. i have yet to see any woman say man, while many men are furious about that. this poem really spoke to me
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in a car talking with her staffers about legislation and casually scrolling through her X mentions when she saw the photo. It was the end of February, and after spending most of the week in D.C., she was looking forward to flying down to Orlando to see her mom after a work event. But everything left her mind once she saw the picture: a digitally altered image of someone forcing her to put her mouth on their genitals. Adrenaline coursed through her, and her first thought was “I need to get this off my screen.” She closed out of it, shaken.
“There’s a shock to seeing images of yourself that someone could think are real,” the congresswoman tells me. It’s a few days after she saw the disturbing deepfake, and we’re waiting for our food in a corner booth of a retro-style diner in Queens, New York, near her neighborhood. She’s friendly and animated throughout our conversation, maintaining eye contact and passionately responding to my questions. When she tells me this story, though, she slows down, takes more pauses and plays with the delicate rings on her right hand. “As a survivor of physical sexual assault, it adds a level of dysregulation,” she says. “It resurfaces trauma, while I’m trying to — in the middle of a fucking meeting.”
The violent picture stayed in Ocasio-Cortez’s head all day.
“There are certain images that don’t leave a person, they can’t leave a person,” she says. “It’s not a question of mental strength or fortitude — this is about neuroscience and our biology.” She tells me about scientific reports she’s read about how it’s difficult for our brains to separate visceral images on a phone from reality, even if we know they are fake. “It’s not as imaginary as people want to make it seem. It has real, real effects not just on the people that are victimized by it, but on the people who see it and consume it.”
“And once you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it,” Ocasio-Cortez says. “It parallels the same exact intention of physical rape and sexual assault, [which] is about power, domination, and humiliation. Deepfakes are absolutely a way of digitizing violent humiliation against other people.”
I love music by straight women that is moving and genius and profound but you can tell the guy shes talking about is literally not ensouled and shes fucking completely imagining 95% of what shes talking about. I love your beautiful mind angel
wow, it's almost as if sexuality is based off of sex. who would've thought
as a trans guy using queer dating apps, something I've noticed a lot is profiles saying "straight man seeking women or trans men" and "lesbian seeking women or trans men" like. by definition you are not attracted to men, so either you're not the sexuality you say you are, or you equate trans men to women. ough.