#everyone isnt against you

[melaninpov]

News Flash:

Not all melanated brothers who date outside of their community have self hatred. Not all dislike or disrespect melanated sisters. Not all have a preference that doesn’t include you. My husband has dated white women in the past. So what? He loves women period. Please stop projecting your insecurities.

The same women who clowned Majors for his afrocentric features are upset that his ex is white. Accusing him of being anti black when it is them exemplifing that anti behavior. Make it make sense!!

#personal rant #interracial dating #black love #melaninpov #afrocentric #afrocentrism #self love #spead love not hate #jonathan majors #not everything is about you #everyone isnt against you #love who you want #love who you love #stop judging #stop projecting

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed #to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other #and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against #antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive #(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god #and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal) #as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch #antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching #it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look'' #the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal #and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously?? #btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc

[grain-my-beloved]

Thinking about Grian being forced to fight his partner at the end of season one. Him being devastated, almost unable to do it, even though Scar betrayed him first. "I'm sorry". Him jumping off the cliff himself when it was done. "I don't feel good."

Grian being attacked repeatedly by his closest allies once they turned red in Last Life. Being cornered and nearly trap killed by Mumbo and Tim. Turning on them because they were turning on him first. The way he was so distraught to lose them. "My friend!"

Him killing Bigb inadvertently in Double Life. It wasn't on purpose per say. He wasn't thinking about it, he just wanted to get a kill, he needed to leave his mark on the season, because he was red, and that's what red names do. The way he didn't realize what he'd done until after the fact. "I am such a traitor."

And then finally Limited Life. Grian turning on Scar in the middle of a fight, literally stabbing him in the back in the heat of the finale, and not regretting it. "You gotta go."

#trafficblr #grian #something something the life series dissolves personal loyalties and standards #it isnt a grian thing #its an everyone thing #this game *forces* you against your friends #it pits you against the people you love most over and over #until fighting them doesn't hurt as much #until being betrayal doesn't hurt as much #for *either* party #because it's always like this #and it's noones fault #but there's always a winner and a loser #in any team #and at this point #everyone gets that #they *have* to get it.

[agapemoon]

i find very funny how everyone in the island knows that q!philza is really good at pvp, like even out of rp viewers from all communities know this, know how good he is bc it’s always implied. And then, there is fucking q!roier ….. silly q!roier who is secretly really good at pvp but is always goofing around bc he doesnt want anyone to think he is a “tryhard” so no one in the island and out of rp (besides q!spreen) knows that he is actually very fucking good at fighting and a nerd, he just never activates his tryhard mode bc why would he? Silly guy just wants to have fun and be silly, there is no need to take things seriously and he doesnt want to be taken seriously either …. bc once again, he’s just a lil guy being silly <3

#qsmp #roier #philza #spreen #like its funny bc im sure everyone thinks roier is not good at pvp as if he wasnt raised in highpixel since he was 13 alongside spreen #I dont think he can beat spreen though but spreen says roier is hard to fight when he plays seriously so yes even spreen agrees #correction: he won against spreen once dkxjdkxf #also ive seen tryhard-roier in action and yes all my hommies love tryhard-roier #is very cool to see him kill other players so fast and quick makes me proud. Is like ‘oh so spreen was right’ Ik it’s unexpected but #we (roiers community) know he is GOOD he just doesnt want to show it hes like shy or smth he doesnt want anyone to think he is a tryhard #he always says he is just ‘silly and funny moments roier’ and then he is at the finals of every single mc event with an amazing countkill #u all have no idea how much i want this server to push roier into his tryhard mode i MISS TRYHARD-ROIER #he only appears when he is caught up in the moment or when he is playing an event seriously and wants to WIN #HES A NERDDDDDDDD HE IS A CLOSETED NERDDDD !!! WHEN HE SAYS HE ISNT THAT GOOD HES LYING !!!!!! HES A LIAR !!!!! #YES IM EXPOSING MY STREAMER #HE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO MESSAGED CCS TO TELL THEM STARTEGIES TO WIN. IM TELLING YOU HES A NERD NERD NERD and i love him for that 😭💖 #if u guys dont believe me. Watch the vod of that day roier didnt log in after bobbys death and streamed on a sunday for a mc event #he killed three players in a row with a ton of lag. yes thats my streamer <3 #alessa's posts

[s0fter-sin]

i need a fic of soap bringing ghost home to his family for the holidays. his family’s always disapproved of everything; being queer, being in the military, being with ghost and it’s all over not a great time but they’re trying to pretend for the sake of the holiday. they get into it after dinner one night though and for once soap isn’t backing down, not when it’s ghost they’re attacking, when the power suddenly goes out. soap moves just in time for a shot to come through the window and he orders his family to get down

graves and what’s left of shadow company followed them to glasgow; it’s the first time they’ve been away from the 141 and they think it’ll be their best chance to take them out. johnny and simon are left behind as they become soap and ghost and soap’s childhood home becomes a battleground, his hysterical family who still think he can’t be that good of a soldier now civilians that he has to protect and get out in one piece

#its the full gambit of sisters with their partners and kids #all with respectable normal jobs and lives #then theres john still running around playing soldier and now shacking up with his commanding officer #soaps been quiet the entire time just gritting his teeth and letting them have go after go in the name of peace #ghosts been fuming the entire time but his own family trauma and not wanting to go against johnnys wishes keeps his mouth shut #and then that instant switch the second the bullet comes through the window #theyre sergeant mactavish and lieutenant ghost now and they dont give a single shit about anything butgetting out alive #‘we need to call the police!’ #‘call local pd who’re drunk off their arses and never fired their guns in their fucking lives yeah right’ #‘this isnt the time for you to play soldier’ #‘youre right. this isnt a game. its war and youre gonna shut the fuck up and let me get you outta this alive’ #ghost sneaks upstairs to get the hidden guns he brought and to get one of the kids whod been napping #soap stays to get everyone out of the way and watch out for hostiles #ghost slides him a sniper rifle and he takes out the sniper on the opposite roof and when he looks back at his family theyre #looking at him like theyve never seen him before #i just need soap whos been underestimated his entire life showing just how competent he really is #soapghost #ghostsoap #soap mactavish #soap cod #ghost cod #simon ghost riley #we’re a team. ghost team

[mrgaretcarter]

Honestly I think it would do us all well to go back to kinda cringy feminism again for a little bit idk cause I think maybe for some people the discourse somehow circled back around to supporting sexism just rebranded or whatever so its more aesthetic

#personal #instead of progressing the discourse into idk more inclusion of women of color and trans women #it went in the direction of like glorifying women being stupid and romanticizing beauty standarts #also weird centering of men all over again in feminism and in general for some reason #remember in the early 2010s when emma watson was like obliterated for that 'he for she' campaign #because it prioritized men in feminist discourse and then thats the exact direction where things went later on (and where it is currently) #people care more abt like 'haha this is my golden retriever bf he drinks respect women juice!' than about actual women speaking abt feminis #like being a feminist isnt about social change and women prioritizing each other its abt how dudes are hot when they do the bare minimum! #also have you noticed the rise in lesbophobia both in the sense of persecution of lesbians themselves #and of lesbians relationships and culture which other wlw are also part of (its giving lavender menace) #and also remember how we had the me too movement and then immediately after #everyone still fell for a smear campaing against a victim of domestic abuse? #anyway i would really love to get back to basics of like women should support each other! #and beauty standarts overwhelmingly negatively affect women and girls! #and we still need to incentivize girls to seek out intellectual pursuits especially in STEM and leadership roles! #because we continue to be underpresented in those fields and the only way to enact change is to bring our perspectives to those areas #instead of asking politely for guys to throw us a bone! #also stop acting like its cringe to openly and vocally center and prioritize women in every sphere of our lives possible! #and also maybe go back to actively trying to do that! and considering that a good thing!?? #because we're the ones who should have our backs most of all?? idk idk #also where are the teeth?? #why is everyone so afraid of being angry now??? #its like some people circled back to being afraid of being mistaken for man-hating or something #just for pointing out common sense aspects of oppression without adding an asterisk about how men suffer too! #i thought we all knew there is no such thing as reverse sexism!!! #idk!!! #and this isnt me condoning choice feminism many women are evil and actively work against their own interests #or antagonize other women to make themselves feel important such as terfs etc #but idk its like everyone internalized that 'well women can suck too' so hard that its become like #'*most* women suck and we dont even have to keep trying to empathize and prioritize each other and our issues anymore'

[reel-fear]

Just a little follow up on that last post but just in general I think one of the reasons I've really stopped caring for railing on the Playtime devs... Is just because it feels like so much of it is just speculative nonsense trying to make every single thing they do secretly evil or lazy or bad. Why isn't it enough to discuss the Actual bad things they did [the fact they used to run a shady content farm before doing game work, the fact they tried to sell lore to their fans via NFTs, etc] it's hard for me to engage with content that rightfully critiques that bc oftentimes they then spiral into speculative 'so now we have to tell you why this moment where an employee blinks in the game is code for the devs secretly stole all their code from Bendy and kill babies as a hobby'.

Which makes me turn off my brain and not want to take any other points they make seriously, bc like I said if you lie to me to try and convince me of your point, I'm not gonna take anything else you say seriously bc I won't know if it's true or just something you made up anymore.

It honestly feels like everyone just keeps making shit up bc Poppy Playtime used to be the internet punching bag but now that the NFTs thing isn't the hottest topic to discuss about it anymore we all just need a reason to make fun of it and the people who like it. Which just kinda feels like unfair cringe culture, because if our real problem is the devs being greedy and shady why isn't the same effort put into roasting similar devs like the Bendy team? We can't suddenly say 'well actually being a bit greedy isn't That bad' when it's a team we like instead of one we all decided is 'cringe n bad'.

#ramblez #I hope all this makes sense Im not saying u cant dislike the devs of any of these games #just that the double standards on display really drive me nuts #sure playtime co tried to sell nfts but kindly beast laid off almost all of its employees and tried to sell its fans at full price a game #made by two people in three weeks last minute #if being greedy and lazy is really as bad as the internet says it is why arent the bendy devs the internets punching bag too #you cant have that sort of obvious double standard and then still expect me to think you take that topic seriously #bc when you only bring it up in relation to devs you clearly have a bias against and dont bring it up against devs ur bias towards #its clear that the greediness isnt actually the problem you care abt at least thats how it reads to me #anyways both of these devs suck but I dont think that means everyone at playtime co is secretly evil and in on it #a lot of effort is clearly on display in the writing animation coding etc and we shouldnt pretend its all awful just bc the ceos suck #same way I only level a lot of my problems with bendy towards mike n mood and not every single person who works on the games #bc clearly someone at JDS and playtime co cares a lot about what theyre making and thats really nice to see #its just that the ceos keep fucking up the product esp when it comes to Bendy-

[sunnyvaiprion]

As a suggestion, I’d love to see more Vita from you, I adore how you snuck eyes in her hair… spooky! She’s such a menace huhu (Also I’m morally obligated to preach vitaseele, so there)

Really really love your art! whether it’s cute chibis or elaborate it’s very soft and shiny and I’m eating it. Nomnomnom.

— Phoebe

Oooh to be honest I'm so looking forward to everything Vita-related story has to offer in the future because I liked her a lot too! I'd draw her more if I wasnt always so... hyperfocused on one thing, let's put it that way. But today I feel like I cant let the preaching unanswered so

(Also thank you so much!!! I love knowing people pay attention to tiny things like that <3)

#sunnyreplies #sunnyart #honkai impact #vitaseele #seele vollerei #vita #tbh my take on vtsl would be somewhat toxic like #seele is already in a relationship and everyone knows it but #vita likes her and wants her for herself and wouldnt just sit back and do nothing about it #and she gets closer and closer to seele though a series of accidents and coincidences and otherwise things you cant blame her for #but when you put them all together its pretty suspicious #and seele cant really “fight back” against it either even though she sees where this is going because its not like anyone is getting hurt #and even begins questioning that she might enjoy this but at the same time isnt exactly ready to wave her current partner goodbye #veliona on the other hand is outright MAD because she does NOT approve of this haha silly girl selfishly pushing her agenda like that #but she also cant do anything openly because again vita isnt doing anything outright malicious not really #and she would look more like a bad guy than vita #and so the story continues

[aliceindaisychains999]

I forgot April Fool’s day was a holiday

#maddie speaks #its a bad holiday #i dont care if this makes me on the same level of some 40 year old mom who dances to ABBA and is a head member of the PTA #its boring or at least blah #i admit the most fun i ever did on this day #i april fooled my family by glueing googly eyes on all the containers in the fridge #it was silly and everyone had a good laugh #i think its my bad memories #when humor is used against you when you’re the joke its not funny #do not send anything to me that isnt a rick roll #or else I’m mailing you to Alcatraz via cargo ship

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #this is only like tangentially related to pharma honestly #not to compare blorbos to real life but like. it reminds me of this phenomenon where privileged ppl in privileged countries #will tell ppl living in zones of war and strife 'oh well if you don't like your gov so bad just revolt against them' #like oh yes tell me how easy it is to stand up against the threats of torture and death #surely the only reason people would want to avoid that is bc they're cowards or don't want to stand up for their beliefs #contrary to what nationalism would have ppl believe. 'wanting to not die' isn't a moral position #everyone wants to live. no one wants to die. it doesnt make you a bad person to be scared of dying #esp (going back to blorbo's) in a situation like pharma's where every option he had ended in death #the death of his patients or the death of everyone at delphi or his death personally #on top of the fact he's a noncombatant who hasn't been desensitized to violence/risking his own life #and is dealing with a trained group of killers that he can't possibly match on physical terms #so yeah actually i don't blame pharma for what he did #he made shitty decisions in a shitty situation but was ultimately a victim #also if you want to view the blackmail deal from a framework of abuse #it is also fucked up to basically tell someone they werent brave enough to just kill their accuser or ask for help #isnt the entire point of such situations that the victim is both powerless to stop the abuse #and too afraid of asking for help/thinks they cant ask for help. and thats why they dont just get out #idk sometimes the best moral judgement is to forgive someone or view it as 'complicated' #sometimes regardless of the good or evilness of their actions the best choice is to not make a judgement #or to err in favor of a forgiving/'i cant speak for your experience' judgement #anyways the fact is that the rosy fantasy of being a brave noble soldier who sacrifices for the cause #rarely stands up to reality where youre just terrified and powerless and dont know what to do #and suddenly the rosy glow of The Noble Cause isnt comforting in the prospect of horrible torturous death

[party-gilmore]

[not even through first page of dash on allotted brief lunch time tumblr break]

[absolutely fantastic post about Palestine and Palestinians persevering and living and don’t let your western media propaganda bias dehumanise them to you based on stereotypes about their people during this ongoing genocide perpetuated by the state of israel]

awesome awesome hell yeah cool yes reblo-

“so anyway yeah Death To Israel”

…it would’ve been so fucking easy.

to not immediately miss the entire subtext of your own damn post.

“Dissolve.” “Dismantle.” “Deconstruct.” “Topple.” “Overthrow.” or i don’t know, just fucking…

one of so many other words that explicitly and specifically describe a process of removing the authority and sovereign status of a nation/state and its radical, war criminal government and occupying military forces.

but no instead let’s go with Death just fucking kill them all wipe them out the same way they’re doing to Palestine because as we all know of course there’s no “citizens” in israel actively fighting and protesting and campaigning and being targeted by their own radical government for it. they’re all just exactly the same as the stereotype all the media making it out of israel shows - toxic, racist, inhuman, bullshit viral video/tiktok stars, who are all cheering and making jokes about it, and if you try to humanize israelis right now what are you a fucking zionist how DARE you not support Palestine?

and then these same folks will turn around and say “okay y’all STOP freaking out about retaliatory violence, NO ONE is saying freeing Palestine means theyre are gonna turn around and try to wipe israeli’s* out the same way, that’s making a LOT of incredibly harmful assumptions about them based on barbaric and fearmongering stereotypes ”

…in the same fucking breath they just said “death to israel.”

8 whole minutes in and that’s ALREADY enough social media for the day 🫥

#*’israeli’ in this case often notably used interchangeably with ‘jews’ #given the amount of people on here who still haven’t figured out that those are… two separate circles on the venn diagram #not the entire fucking middle bit #and let’s be clear i also don’t think genuine retaliatory violence is at this point a realistic fear or even if it WAS not a reason #AT ALL to continue this absolute atrocity against Palestine - i’m saying it’s hypocritical as FUCK to dismiss that fear when YOU YOURSELF #are… calling for their death… #and don’t try and be all fucking ‘it’s just hyperbole chill the fuck out’ 1) it’s probably fucking not first all - when people ‘joke’ about #shit like that they’re usually testing the waters to see if they can get away being serious about it. and 2) even if it IS genuinely just #a joking exaggeration 2.a) what the fuck is funny about that and #2.b) that is still going to enflame and embolden everyone around you that ISNT fucking joking #israel #palestine #free palestine #but for fucks sake stop buying into that Every Israeli Is Complicit - Their Deaths Don’t Matter bullshit

[diapause]

I need to just stop looking at the comments of any ig post on physical disability whether it's positive or otherwise because it is 99% "As someone with Aspergers-" this isn't ABOUT YOU!

#I'm autistic don't come for me #like some things are specific to physical disabilities. why are you giving your pov on someone talking about strangers pushing their chair+ #without permission #'ohhh im neurodivergent so I dont understand why you wouldnt be okay w this and im making that Your problemmm' #fucking learn and fucking shut up #like being autistic or having adhd isnt a free ableism pass that you can use against everyone else #'theyre just trying to help even though they kept going when you told them to stop you should just let people help!' #so you believe disabled people aren't allowed autonomy? oh wait unless they're your Particular brand of disabled #although tbh I think most people who specifically id as haveing aspergers Not autism probably see literally every single #other disabled person in existence as lesser to them lmao

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

ik realistically i never got a lot of love for jensen and bryce bc oh my god a queer pairing of color?????? fucking tragic i know but also i like to pretend its just bc they are too complex for the mere cishet choices player to understand 😌 

#no bc fr otherwise ill just be sad :') #on one hand i love laying everything on the line from day one #my first fic was a demiro bryce fic which scared off all the bryce romancers bc god forbid i go against the general consensus hc #and like sure i dont want them there if they cant appreciate or try to understand other hcs #but on the other hand like how fucking disappointing is that??? #like its just so fucking tragic #this fandom is such a non queer friendly place #and not usually in the literal bright red im queerphobic way #but in the small ways that are so obvious #to queer people but maybe not the rest #and idk i just.. miss a lot of the people that were here when i started ig?? #like ik im the one who bothered to stay this long but also like i just want people to enjoy media/hc bc theyre good??? #like not bc they fit a trope you like?? #idk im just wishing for something that isnt a thing here #and i Know it #but still #to have friends who love the characters i do would be so nice #just to gush about them yk #but the second i came here with a different hc it immediately set me too far apart from everyone else #and on one hand i Am annoyed #but on the other i just ignore it bc if i paid attention to it i might rip somebody's arm off #n e ways that was a nice mj ramble for you all youll never get it again

[twinvictim]

People that claim Nishiki was ever actually inferior to Kiryu are falling for Kazama propaganda lol also a lot of you don't actually like Nishiki I'm finding

#sorry Nishiki was objectively better at his job. kiryu has always been dog shit at ever job hes ever had #besides driving a taxi he was fine at that #but Kiryu was just the favorite so he got nepotism points #hes broke as fuck in y0 at least compared to Majima and Nishiki who are both very good at their jobs #like you can make more money as kiryu but as far as canon goes he has no money at the end of the game he sucks so hard #kiryu has ALWAYS gotten by on people hyping him up more than he deserves #Kashiwagi has to beg him to get a job after y2 in that rggo story #this isnt a hate kiryu post btw i love that kiryu is a shitty nepo baby honestly but when people insist he was good at being yakuza? no #Nishiki is good at things the deck is just literally always stacked against him #you cant have one without the other bc kiryu has 0 drive or goals and everyone thinks Nishiki sucks despite being better in skme ways #crimson tomes

[headless-horsepossum]

Making this it's own post so I don't hijack anyone else's lmao but: the answer to the question "why would you become a teacher if you hate children" (and the less-asked but just as important "why would you go into nursing if you hate sick people") is: they want to have absolute power over people, and teaching and nursing are some of the easiest ways to get it. The people it is easiest to get power over are children and sick people. That's why.

Teaching and nursing attract bullies because they give people power over other people, and they will attract more bullies as long as they continue to be underpaid, because hospitals and schools desperate to keep enough staff to keep running are a lot less likely to fire people unless they absolutely have to—and right now, it most hospitals and school districts, the teachers and nurses treating you and your kids like shit aren't actually breaking any rules, because the rules are there to make schools and hospitals easy to run, not to make them effective at treating patients or teaching students.

Also, to be clear, the actual solution to this is less "more good people need to agree to get treated like shit and paid fuckin' nothing until the good ones outnumber the bad;" that's nice, a good teacher or a good nurse makes a huge difference. But until we start paying teachers and nurses a living wage and giving them reasonable hours (so that maybe some normal people can work these jobs who aren't martyrs OR bullies but just like Normal People Doing Their Jobs) AND we make education more accessible to disabled and poor people (and less accessible to bullies) this is Not Going To Get Better.

#like. your teacher isnt screaming at you and reading out your grades in front of everyone and taking recess away #bc they think it will make you better at geometry. or whatever. #they are doing it because it makes them feel like a big man #and the american school system in particular #(intentional or not!) #is set up to make that like. not just excusable. the norm #bc its designed to run efficiently. and power tripping teachers (appear) efficient #with nurses i think its just such a shitty job #with shitty hours and shitty pay and shitty protections against abusive patients and doctors and administration #that nobody sticks with it unless they have a Real Compelling Reason To Do So #and one of the More Compelling Reasons. I think. is that you enjoy having power over people #.....anyway #delete later

[daimaoryu]

ppl keep saying that palestinians and pro-palestine people should talk about the rise of antisemitism but never say jack shit about the rise of hate crimes against palestinians. lol. lmao even. also palestinians in gaza and the west back are literally being bombed on the daily so like. sorry if those people and the families of those people are busy talking about that instead i guess

#bet these people dont give a fuck about islamophobia either #its just natural to them #you guys dont even realize the prejudice against muslims you have fuck off with your moral high horsing #← those are also the talking points of people talking about antisemitism. funny isnt it #how bigots dont care what you are as long as they benefit from hurting you #how they use the same tactics against everyone #you should be on the side of palestinians. not the country that keeps being backed militarily by the fucking united states #murdering people by the thousands. like holy shit?