#everything is so terf and white supremacist

[badolmen]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but obsessing over and labeling every aspect of your human experience isn’t healthy or productive or conducive to the human nature of growth and change.

Free blocklist in the notes <3 have you considered that you may be a part of the problem?

#ra speaks #personal #real bean talk #but like. if you want to use labels for everything that’s great - fandom labels/preference labels/etc. are all well and good #IF if they make you feel happy and supported by a community of similar people #BUT if that ‘community’ of ‘similar people’ is so rigid and self canibalizing that you don’t feel like you can drop that label #without risking retaliation…that’s not good or healthy and you need to drop everything and run #I’ve seen it in vegetarian circles and hunting clubs and fitness trainers #I’ve seen it in fandom ship communities. I’ve seen it in sports team fans. if you are genuinely afraid/anxious abt the reactions #‘your people’ will have if you either aren’t constantly hyper vigilant to confront ‘the others’ #or lose interest or change your opinions #thats not a community that’s a culture of fear and violence that’s going to chew you up and shred you to bits because that’s all it knows #sorry I saw some fandom wank on my dash and it was like. oh you people actually treat this silly stuff with extreme paranoia #like a full on dogwhistles and ‘xyz but STEALTH signals’ kinda stuff you normally see for like. terfs and white supremacists. #but for the most vanilla and not that rare shipping pair in a mid tier fandom #this wasn’t some small post either it had 2k+ notes like 👀 have you maybe considered taking a step back and reevaluate your choices #t*rfs if you even look at this I am throwing you in one of those terrifying boat rides they have at carnivals #labels like ‘gender critical’ in your bio mean you ascribe to the predatory label groups I’ve described in my tags #if you bother to read my tags this isn’t about queer labels specifically I didn’t even mention them bc there are already posts abt that #microlabels and other labels are good if they make you feel good but have the choice to not use them or change them if you change #love light and lignification <3

[snekdood]

i think ppl need to make more content emphasizing the relationship between white supremacy and the oppression of women. bc maybe. just maybe. all this shit w/ nazis siding with terfs and videos/articles about the connections between white supremacy and their oppression will make them snap out of it.

#i would but im not nearly educated on this stuff enough #i do what i can #ok now @ terfs. think about it for a second. if the white supremacists are siding with terfs. do you reaaallly think they're invested in #protecting women? #the terfs i mean. do you really think terfs are invested in protecting women when its nazis who are the most sympathetic to their message? #are you really gonna sit here and say 'the trans menace' is such a bigger threat and so much more important that you need to link arms #with nazis to eliminate people for *checks notes* wanting to be them fucking selves as they feel on the inside? #what ever happened to 'be whatever you want' #whatever happened to 'women can do everything men can do' #bc if you see me as a woman. why in tf cant i become a man if i can do everything they can do? #and if women can do everything men can do- y'know. the common feminist understanding you terfs seem to fail to remember- #then why in tf are yall so scared about the supposed 'men' in your sports? #aside from the fact that trans girls on e are evenly matched with you already in sports. ignoring that scientific fact for a second to play #around in your reality. how are you gonna call yourself a feminist if you dont think you're actually GENUINELY evenly matched? #even though the science literally says you're evenly matched. how are you a feminist and think women can do 'everything men can do' but #cant actually compete in a few instances actually #like you're not a feminist. you're a conservative. thats a conservative belief. any limiting beliefs about what women can do #is a conservative belief. #'women can do everything men can do except for when i feel specifically weak against them' fuck off

[homesickhalfling]

I wanna go to Pride

But I don't wanna get shot

So

⚖

#happy pride 🌈 #the world is a scary place #im finally out and single and ready to mingle #but white supremacists and terfs wanna ruin everything for everyone #so now im scared to be gay again #great

[decolonize-the-left]

I've noticed a rise in radfems/TERFs in feminism tags and more specifically trying to rebrand as The Real Feminism or True Feminism since it's "for the girlies" or whatever.

I am begging you all to help me bury them.

Because as a teen who grew up during the peak of exclusionary "bi/pan/aces aren't vaild" and "kill all men" era where the concept of misandry THRIVED I'm telling you this feels extremely similar.

And radfem/terf ideology got mainstream from those sentiments being so popular and so easy to tap into. It was framed as being righteous since men were oppressors.

"Women are good and men are just mean oppressors! Look at everything they've done!" is such a common sentiment in those circles.

It also completely lacks critical feminist thought.

And we're STILL dealing with the affects of it over a decade later.

.....So let's talk about JKR since she's currently the Figurehead and favorite of the movement that's trying to rewrite feminist history.

It's 2023. It's a year before a US election where Project 2025 and Trump would happily create a road for trans and queer folks to be imprisoned if not worse.

Which is I'm sure why JKR has been photographed and interacting with multiple members from The Heritage Foundation, people whove spoken for them, and people who attended theyre meetings. She even enjoyed watching Magdalen, who who she credits for becoming a TERF.

But do you know who Magdalen is? Or what else she was saying? What about any of the other people in the photo? Do you know the scope of what JKR was internalizing and how bad it was? Do you know she has ties to conservative anti-abortion groups?

Do you know what The Heritage Foundation? Probably not and they're the worst so let me tell you why it's such a huge red flag for her and other so-called TERFs and radfems to be associated with them.

Because I can tell you right now she heard a lot of things from those people and there is no fucking way in hell that it was just about queer people or just some sex-specific concerns. And it wasn't just passive bigotry.

Anyone who doesn't conform to the idea of a white, straight nuclear family (re: single mothers, leftists, immigrants, gay couples, etc) is made out to be an enemy of the state.

Anyone they can justify as a "national threat." Yes, they call us all a national threat on their site, their book, and the pamphlets they pass out to politicians. The details are listed on their website including the Mandate For Leadership which is their instruction guide for the next president.

I'm not exaggerating when I say it calls for genocide, prison camps, and eugenic cleansing.

Several people in that photo don't even support abortion, a basic women's rights that JKR claims to care about deeply.

JKR was consuming white supremacist dogma under the guise of feminism.

And she's not willing to admit or correct it which is where the problem lies. She won't even admit to herself that she was fooled or that it's bad or hypocritical.

My concern is that she is not the only person who's fallen for it and there are more everyday.

So it's very important to me y'all learn how to filter out what Actual Feminism is in this age where literal fascism is attempting to take its place.

Firstly,

Real, actual feminism will be welcoming to EVERYONE

Because the patriarchy doesn't only affect women or cis people or white women and it's an insult to every previous feminist icon to say otherwise.

Feminists have been fighting for decades to unite people under the concept that Patriarchy is a system that will be brought down with allyship and solidarity.

They've been fighting so hard and so long to prove that everyone deserves the same rights as men.

That women are just as capable as men and shouldn't be stopped from entering fields of study and sports dominated by men. They've been fighting to prove that women are just as capable and smart as any man is, that men would benefit from it dismantling patriarchy too.

Women fought side by side with the queer community to get Roe v Wade passed in 1973. You know why? Because despite what radfems and TERFs will tell you trans women benefit from protecting and standing up for bodily autonomy.

Do not let bigots tear drive a wedge between two groups that experience gender based oppression and would benefit from the same exact rights.

We have changed history together and they're terrified we'll do it again.

A screenshot from the largest feminist organization active right now, The National Organization of Women.

Notice how the T is included. They even posted this video two years ago when LGBT and specifically trans rights started really coming under attack in 2022.

Trans women are women.

Trans men are men.

ALL women deserve rights.

Every gender deserves equality and fairness.

And feminism is for all of us or it is for none of us.

Because nobody deserves to be treated the way patriarchy treats us.

#feminism #feminist #equality #gender #trans rights are womens rights are human rights #trans rights #womens rights #human rights #intersectional feminism #solidarity #leftist

[thesituation]

like i’m not gonna recommend scrolling terf & radfem blogs while blocking them cause that is how a lot of them get their claws into you but im very very firm in my belief and so i do scroll thru them to block who they reblog from and who reblogs from them etc., basically scorched earth blocking the whole circle of them, and in doing so i’ve seen and dissected pretty much everything there is to know about their ideology. almost everything they say is said in the same way a fox news presenter would give information; they give you as little factual information as possible and rely on appeals to kneejerk emotion and prejudice to “prove” their point, and the whole thing falls apart with any amount of skepticism. approaching it from a neutral place where you really think about what they’re saying and how they’re trying to convince you of this belief leaves absolutely no doubt that they’re just another arm of conservatism, which is why they are so comfortable rubbing shoulders with christian fascists and white supremacists. terf ideology is like the slightly more liberal little sister of regular christian conservatism

#and i’ve seen a LOT of fox news! hours and hours! not willingly but still. #it’s really fucking helpful to study the other side neutrally and come to an opinion from there. not in a ‘hear them out🤝’ way but in a #‘know thy enemy’ way. understand how they think and you will come out the other end more firm in your belief than before #.txt

[johannestevans]

do you know of any accounts around that center more uhhhh diverse understandings of gender? or just being trans? it some times feels like when i cast a wider net or just look out of accounts I'm familiar with, i suddenly don't exist? and not to be dramatic but that over some time it's beginning to isolate me from my trans identity.

LIKE I'll leave accounts i feel comfortable and seen in and just a little taste of what ill see is;

hurtful generalization that can only be true if your white/perisex/abled/nt.

Critic of a demographic of trans people YOU fit into that would only apply if you were white/perisex/abled/nt.

Angry post that make it clear that op only manages to talk to white/perisex/nt people.

trans meme; hope your white/perisex/abled/nt.

"Everyone had THAT phase :)"(White supremacist/Terf)

"Oh well Black trans wome-!!!!") ["Boy i sure hope this isn't tokenization!!!!"] [*clicks Through to profile*] [*op proceeds never mentions a black trans person again*][*cat looking at camera from green text meme**tokenizing*]

and i bring up intersex and disabled ppl but I only have to deal with being a Black trans person, and not to give the game away(of what this ask really is) i guess but like thats SOOOO worrying, it implies either that 1) there are not enough POC/intersex/disabled/neurodivergent trans ppl to meaningfully incorporate into the theory/jokes/positivity or 2) The greater online trans community does not think their perspective is meaningful in the first place.

(and then to actually give the game away) This IS lowkey a Whine post, but also i enjoy your blog 1) anything you wanna add? and 2) the posts on trans ppl you interact with make me feel seen not only in marginalizations that affect me but also those that affect people i have made community with.

p.s. this is long srry, i woke up downed the last of some radioactively blue drink than sat down to write this ask

I feel you! It sucks so fucking hard I think when like... you're intellectually aware that a lot of these perspectives - perspectives that just are the norm and the reality for so many people - just aren't taken into account by a lot of "mainstream" accounts, and that that's largely to do with whiteness as a culture (as in: a desire to sublimate and dominate any outsider culture or minority, either rendering it a commodity or rendering it invisible) and white supremacy, and all of the other bigotries that fold into that white-centric and anglo-centric view.

I don't know that I have a huge number of recs in terms of individual accounts - obviously I love @thewarmvoid, Salem always brings so much nuance and consideration to everything Salem does, whilst at the same time fucking battling off constant lynch mobs and bullshit; I don't know if fae're on Tumblr, but Anonsee Maytrix has a lot of class analyses and posts on Twitter and BlueSky; @spacelazarwolf posts a lot of different Jewish trans perspectives, and obviously I'm speaking from my own perspective of Jewish transmasculinity, but I find that a lot of different Jewish understandings of transness and gender stand out to me as critiquing a lot of the status quo around gender and sex; Idris at @bijoumikhawal is a long-time mutual of mine and they always not just have the best fucking analysis and takes of faer own but also curate such interesting and in-depth analysis from different perspectives and bloggers, from a huge variety of cultures and perspectives, especially from Egypt and other North African countries and regions; @xoxoviva posts a lot of great stuff, especially like, good meta on different shows and comics; @mamapluto posts and brings in a lot of Native American and different indigenous perspectives that I always love and appreciate seeing on my dash.

I unfortunately have a terrible memory for usernames and names, so whenever people ask me for recs like this I have a few people off the top of my head, and then I'm basically just left linking the people who are most recently in my notifs where I go, "oh, yeah, this person rocks", but I think that's because over time I've followed such a huge variety of people and I really enjoy connecting with different people and seeing such wildly different perspectives on one thing or other, whether that's in the analysis they post themselves, or just the people and communities they follow and are connected with, and what they then share on their own blogs.

I hope there are a few recs in here that suit what you're looking for and bring a bit more joy onto your timeline and a sense of being seen and reflected, Anon!

#musings #anonymous

[tjmystic]

Before I say anything else, let me be clear that I support trans, nonbinary, and otherwise queer people. I support and want to validate the ways that they choose to present themselves and the things they need to make themselves feel like humans instead of weird dolls that someone slapped a gender onto arbitrarily. This is not a TERF post, I'm not interested in anything TERFs have to say.

Now, with that out of the way, I'm going to do a "woe is me, poor little privileged person" thing, and I'm well aware that it's going to sound dumb, but this blog is basically a virtual diary at this point, and, if you followed me, you signed up to sneak into my room with little flashlights and creep through the pages.

It is SO difficult to hold so-called "normal" or mainstream identities when, in large part, you don't want to have a community with any of the people who also hold such identities. And not just because of them. It's also because of people who are deemed transversive or abnormal. I recognize that this is a purely online problem and that most people who don't match the norm have to hide themselves away in fear lest they be attacked, but I'm not really interested in meeting or doing things with anyone in person, so virtual interaction is what I do. And because I reject everything fascist, white supremacist, evangelical, and misogynistic, most of my curated online experience is very queer. Usually, that's great. I'm not queer myself, but I usually feel like I have more in common with queer people than I do with other cis straights.

But not always.

Here's an example. I get that a lot of people hate the gender binary and find it oppressive. I completely agree that arbitrary gender roles are stupid. I also understand that gender isn't completely binary because, otherwise, nonbinary and agender people wouldn't exist. But people lose me when they say they want to abolish gender entirely. I am a woman and I like being a woman and I have always identified as either a girl or a woman. (Discounting one day when I was 4 and tried drawing hair on my chest with my mom's mascara because I COMPLETELY missed the point of Mulan and thought it meant you couldn't do cool stuff if you were or looked like a girl. My mom clarified things for me.) Taking that away from me would be taking away a big part of who I am and how I define myself. I don't even like the idea of anyone ever asking me about my pronouns, because the idea that someone couldn't be able to tell at first glance that I'm a woman makes me feel gross. Not because being anything besides a woman is gross, but because me being seen as anything other than what I am is. I already feel unsexy and ugly and unattractive on a daily basis, being mistaken for anything but a woman would just make that even worse.

On a similar note, I'm a monogamous person. I like the idea that other people have so much love to give that they don't want to be confined to a single romantic pairing. Sometimes. But, most of the time, hearing people openly describe their relationship goals with terms like, "I don't want to limit myself to one person" and, "It's stupid to think that one person can fulfill all of your emotional needs" is deeply depressing for me. It plants that seed of reminder that even people I think I have a kinship with would never think I'm enough in a relationship, that they would eventually get bored of me and want more because I just can't do it for them on my own. That is devastating to me.

Final example: I'm Christian. Literally no one needs me to explain why Christians are pretty much always the bad guys. Even I have a tendency to cringe away from or otherwise dismiss anyone who calls themselves Christian or talks about Jesus because I know the behaviors and attitudes associated with my religion. But it's still my religion. And seeing people call all religions cults, say we should do away with religion entirely, or claim that religion is the main source of people wanting to murder each other makes me want to bash my head against a wall.

But it doesn't feel like there's an alternative. I'm not talking to people who want to oppress or even murder trans and other queer people. I'm not participating in anything with people who think that enforced monogamy is a good thing. I don't actually see any kinship between myself and predominantly white nationalists who use Jesus as an excuse to do whatever the fuck they want. But it sometimes feels like the only alternative to that is being stuck in a weird "other" box.

I'm not expecting a reward for doing the bare minimum of rejecting the stupid and cruel parts of society. I'm not comparing my "struggle" or whatever to the genuine fear of assault and death that queer people have to deal with on a daily basis. It would just be nice if there was any kind of community that doesn't want to kill or hurt people but is also cool with liking some of the societal constructs we've been born with.

#no idea how to tag this #queer #queer community #anti terf

[generalchelseamayhem]

Really beginning to loathe the way one of the battlegrounds of trans people vs. TERFs is "arguing which Wrong Side MRAs are on"

Trans people and their allies seem to think MRAs are allied with TERFs because TERFs have been known to hang around with Tories, Evangelical think-tanks, and White Supremacists, all of which are indicative of MRAs for reasons I find non-obvious. Like, if you're going to go down that route, you could at least point out where the offending White Supremacist has said anything about men's rights. Even for grifting purposes.

Meanwhile, TERFs seem to think MRAs are allied with trans people (going so far as to call them TRAs just for the acronym association) because, uh, all the laws trans people are fighting for will somehow make it easier for men to rape women, which is something they assume MRAs really want, for reasons I again find non-obvious.

And look, I'm not going to No True Scotsman MRAs, there's probably people out there on both sides of the discussion, and a few people remaining neutral besides. All I can really do is give my personal philosophy of men's rights.

I always start with "men are flawed, and varied, and important". Everything else flows downstream of that. If you can't accept one of those premises, I'm afraid we will not see eye-to-eye. One of the first and most important things that comes after is that men should, fundamentally, be given the freedom to be who they want to be, so long as they are not hurting anyone. That encompasses a wide range of things, but important inclusions in that for the purposes of this discussion are full bodily autonomy over the self, and freedom from expectations of behaviour based on gender.

The reasons given for why MRAs are on the wrong side every time seem fundamentally incompatible with these philosophies, and, if I'm perfectly honest, any functional philosophy of men's rights I can imagine (that isn't just grifting).

Like, okay, trans people think we're on the TERFs' side, and sure, I'm not going to deny that there are probably transphobic MRAs out there. But, if you look at the rationale TERFs, the foundation of their beliefs is most often that all men are evil, and these trans people are just more men trying to be evil in a particularly insidious way.

And yes, this is absolutely a conservative belief, so I can see how conservative men would ally with women who hate them! This is a tactic that religious fundamentalists have used for CENTURIES to suppress the freedoms of women. Even when they are men, they say "all men are evil, so don't go out on your own", or "all men are evil, so wear this special modesty clothing so that you shan't tempt them", or "all men are evil, so save your virginity until a marriage which has been blessed by God". This works because, when you accept this belief, you accept their authority and any doctrines around ensuring your safety that they put out.

But, it's kinda fundamentally incompatible with men's rights activism in any coherent form! Religions will take the hit of "making women fear men" because they typically don't care. But seeing men as evil is specifically something MRAs don't want, and so it makes no sense to ally with TERFs while the belief that all men are evil is their driving force. Like, there's no benefit! Hating trans people is objectionable, but hating trans people for explicitly TERF reasons is actively self-destructive.

Meanwhile, TERFs think we're on the trans people's side because any victory for them is an attack on women's rights, which... alright, fine. I can't dispute it because you're looking at human rights as though it's pie. That's a common thing among radfems, tbh. Once upon a time MRAs were shut down on the basis that victories for feminism were bad for them. Silly men, don't you know that rights aren't pie, and more for women doesn't mean less for you? Now the script is inverted, with radfems viewing every single concession to the idea that men have issues as an attack on women's rights.

I'd love to convince you that I don't, in fact, love to rape women, and want women to be as unsafe in public spaces as possible, but I know nothing I say will get through. I can only say that I've never wanted to rape someone, but I've never looked at the women's toilet door and considered it a greater obstacle to raping women than my own unwillingness to rape. I certainly don't think of intruding upon the space inside the door as a greater crime than rape.

Nah. The reason I break in favour of trans rights is not just because I have friends who are trans, but the trans rights worldview is generally compatible with my philosophy of men's rights. (Apart from the fact that they often/usually hate men's rights activists, but to be fair, they're hardly unique.) I quite like the idea of being just who you are without apology, without caring what other people say you "should" be. I think breaking down the rules that define gender roles in society is a very important thing for everyone.

And, on a purely self-interested level, it is poignant and heartbreaking to hear trans men's accounts of what their lives are like, now that they're living as men.

#MRA #TERF #trans

[kittygirl-puppy]

about me

first of all this blog is 18+ ONLY!!! have your age in your bio or pinned to your account or else i will block you

hi! you can call me just about any pet name you’d like (some of my favorites are puppy, kitten, princess, baby, etc)

i am 23 years old, bisexual, she/her, single, and a virgin >.<

mostly a sub but i have my dom moments occasionally

asks/anons are encouraged! feel free to ask me things, send me a challenge/dare, confess something you’ve thought about me, tell me what you’d do to me, or just come say hi!

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i am a student and i work so i might disappear for days at a time!

everything on my page is consensual!!! consent is absolutely CRUCIAL!!

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[burntlikethesun]

I was that kid who knew harry potter off by heart and spent my time not reading them casting flipendo on gnomes and collecting bertie botts beans and chocolate frog cards on the family PC... I'm who this Hogwarts Legacy game was designed for, and the part of my brain that would have once been all over it, is dead. no positive emotions, no desire to go near it, in fact everything to do with that game and franchise now makes me feel miserable.

so I don't understand people, not the right wingers or the TERFs, the normal people, who claim to be progressive, who are like 'uh i'm gonna buy it but feel bad about it/donate to a cause', when that money is going towards someone who is throwing bundles of £50k at anti-trans lawsuits against charities every month, and setting up people to be dogpiled, and promoting women who agree with her on one issue while also being anti abortion/homophobic/Nazi adjacent white supremacists, who call gay men groomers.

People who have followed me for the 11 years I've been on here will know I spent my teenage and young adult years defending her honour against unfair criticism but the minute she unmasked herself my love I've had for this series since I was 5 evaporated. Why hasn't it become tainted for you? I see the word Hufflepuff or Expelliarmus and my mind just associates it with harm now, it's pavlovian.

[thtfailedartist]

Introducing myself (again)

I'm Arsen, I use He/Him pronouns

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[almostdefinitelydying]

Hi hope you are doing well, I'm a bit backward when it comes to some of the jargon but for fear of being stupid what is the post all about TERFs mean. I read it twice and I still don't know and I feel it's good to keep up with things if I can.

no worries mate :) and I'm doing well, thanks for asking. I hope you are too :)

essentially, terfs are "radical feminists" (fake feminists really, because they are often more aligned with alt right / neo nazis / white supremacists in their ideology).

they believe that trans people aren't "real", and that there's a conspiracy of a "trans agenda" out to erase womanhood or some such nonsense.. basically they believe in something called bioessentialism, that there are only two genders, and that anyone who says different are lying or insane. they think that gender is strictly tied to what sort of genitals you have, and that trans women are just "men in dresses" who are out to "prey on innocent women", and they think trans men are "confused little girls" who betray their womanhood by wanting to be "evil men", and that we mutilate ourselves by transitioning into who we really are.

they've been around since forever, sadly, and even more distressing they've had a big influence by spreading their misinformation and hate among very young queer people who don't know any better and may be vulnerable because of isolation.

in the US you can see the effects very clearly in the anti trans politics being thrown around, and it's been spreading here in Europe and in Australia too.. globally to be honest.. it's pretty grim.

they also use a lot of code words to disguise what they really mean so that people who aren't already up to speed might be fooled into falling for their bullshit. by cloaking everything behind "feminism" they appeal a lot to younger women or people who might not be aware enough to have thought things through.

and like the alt right and their ilk, they are best to be avoided when possible. there's no talking to people who are convinced your very existence is on par with being the devil.

this is a very crude and over simplified explanation of course, but I hope it helps in clearing up some confusion. I know these things aren't very easy to get into if you've never heard about it before, and it can all be very overwhelming at first. but you've proven to be a very sensible person, so I'm sure you'll be up to speed in no time ^^

oh and terf is short for: trans exclusionary radical feminist

#mutuals #answers #asks #terfs

[elio-monroe]

i really wish people would have just listened to trans women and other queer people years ago when they were telling you calling everything abuse or pedophilia isn't going to end well for all the lgbts.

like im a nobody, so nobody listens to me when bad shit happens. i get a little hope when someone who has more of a platform than me actually either talks about the issue or something similiar (that they've also gone through). like, "yes maybe people will listen! because they said they would listen if i was [x identity] and now [x identity] is talking about it!" but then they don't listen.... and like im left confused because i thought this was the special marginalized identity you saw as the judge if something is actually a serious hate crime or not? but then they just listen to terfs or white supremacist anyways and ignore the person speaking out.

sorry if this is kinda a word salad. its just so frustrating when you have a marginalized identity, go through something awful, and then are told that it doesn't count because you aren't actually this other marginalized identity. and then when finally that one identity that they picked out actually goes through the same thing i did, all i see are people quickly accusing the victim of actually being the abuser or the bad guy or whatever. and it makes me so mad. like it really makes you feel like nothing is going to change and no matter what happens to you no one is going to care

[decolonize-the-left]

Thinking about Project2025 and how it's at every level and branch of government. How entire cities are now under their thumb.

How Biden is saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" while calling Cop City protesters terrorists for not wanting a more deadly police force to be trained. But didn't stand with rail workers when they demanded better treatment when it was freezing and trains were being derailed.

How an epidemic on par with HIV ravaged the globe and Biden allowed pharma companies to exploit the world with price tags after promising it'd be public access.

Thinking about how in all this Israel and the USA are said to test tactics and weapons on Palestine.

How the USA stands with Zionists and how many people have told me, a native American, that Palestinians are in the wrong.

How the last 75 years don't matter. Only the last 2 weeks.

And real fucking talk?

For all the "progress" liberals pretend we made how are we here?

Americans and several of the Allied countries would not hesitate to conduct Manifest Destiny 2.0 and have blatantly stated as much.

Americans are saying things that my great grandmother heard about reservations and then later about native liberation. They're saying things the pilgrims told us before that. We're animals. Savages. That we are to blame. That when we die out it'll be because we didn't fight hard enough. That we don't deserve to even be here.

And you know what, I would hope this post would reach some of them but I genuinely feel as if liberals are as far gone as MAGAs are.

They will read this and just go and on and on about how bad the other guy is.

How justified they are to keep voting blue. Just like MAGA's whine until their privileged lives being "ruined" by "woke lies" justified them voting for Trump. Just like Israel is justified. Like every fucking war criminal ever has been.

BUT

I implore you to STOP trying to fucking justify everything! Nobody fucking cares about the reasons you use to support a genocidal war monger who's legacy before this was signing one of the most racially marginalizing bills in US history.

How about you try justifying taking a fucking risk, instead?

People in Palestine are being bombed every fucking day and you want to twiddle your thumbs about NOT voting for the guy who said it was okay and for what? Because your life might not be as comfortable as it is right now? That's your concern from your home with a roof?

Call me a fucking conspiracist but I haven't been wrong yet: Biden is a fucking Project2025 plant. And him and Hillary both have done nothing but make the democrats more and more conservative by catering to the "centrist" votes for decades.

Now we're here. They've compromised so much and want to look so "fair" that a genocide is being paid for on American tax dollars and what are liberals tellings us, what are they saying? ITS JUSTIFIED???? AND TO VOTE FOR BIDEN AGAIN

Y'all are so worried about everyone voting blue to avoid republican fascists that you don't even CARE how bad the people youre voting in are. You haven't even noticed the fascists you put in office yourselves.

You forgot your boundaries.

And isn't it funny how rad/fems and TERFs got mainstream around the same time? You know, the white supremacists based ideology that seeped into the mainstream because nobody was critically consuming or gatekeeping what was "empowering to women" for fear of being 'cancelled'?

Why? Cuz if you hate them you hate women. Just like if you criticize america then you're an anti-american Russian/spy/plant. Like if you support Palestine then you hate Jewish people. If support BLM then you obviously hate white people.

And that's it, isn't it. That's what it all boils down to.

White supremacists are and have been manipulating & gaslighting us en masse.

You know your friends that learned to gaslight an audience with therapy speak? The one that makes you afraid to call them out cuz they're better with words than you and could just as easily turn everyone against you if they use enough buzzwords?

That's the tactics white supremacists are using.

"I must be quiet so I don't say something wrong and look like a bigot" "if I speak, I may say the wrong things" "I may say the right thing the wrong way"

They have made you AFRAID to speak against genocide!!! Wake the fuck up!!!!

They aren't event trying to hide it! The IDF made a post that straight up says "you are an anti-Semite if you speak against Israel"

WHICH IS JUST STRAIGHT UP UNTRUE!! So may Jewish people have come forward against Israel and against Zionism and to support Palestine!

Israel's government is Zionist and that is not an inherently Jewish trait! Making you you believe otherwise is part of the propaganda and manipulation so you Stop speaking up. You can support Jewish people and Palestinians both.

Israel and the USA want you to believe that it is one or the other and that's not true.

The only people who benefit from trying to make you choose between which humans get to live are the white supremacists who cheer when this rhetoric starts to normalize conversation about which people are more worthy of living than another.

You have been gaslit into supporting genocide.

Gaslit into going down a white supremacist pipeline.

Gaslit into giving your silent consent.

Snap out of it.

#liberals #democrats #usa #current events #real talk #biden #pelosi #congress #analysis #USA politics #politics #democracy #free palestine #bernie sanders #cornel west #claudia de la cruz #leftists #reblog #decolonization #lgbt #capitalism #Ojibwe #native american #solidarity

[latineslytherin]

What I hate the most about the Hogwarts Legacy "controversy" is how people just come in guns blazing and calling anyone in the facility names. It pisses me off that I have been shunned from places that I belong to (I am Queer and poured of it, even though I usually don't make it a big deal), by people who are either "alleys" or (what seems to be) the loud minority.

"You should stop trying to be 'one of the good ones', they will never like you regardless!" I don't. I literally could not care less what Scruch McDuck and her little minions think of me. I have been an avid gamer for over 15 years by now, I like HP it's as simple as that!

"Wow, you really hate yourself that much, huh?" No, I honestly don't. I just don't make my enjoyment of a game dependent on the moral high-ground of whom ever the fuck worked on it/the IP belongs too. By that logic, I can say bye-bye to pretty much the whole industry. Blizzard is arguably worse, but somehow, I've never seen them go and boycott Overwatch... I wonder why?

"Stop speaking for all of us!" I don't... they seem to do! Like, everything I say is strictly out of my perspective, everything my queer friends (who are also going to buy this, mind you) say is strictly out of their perspective, but every time I go online and see people talk about these kinds of things it comes out of a place of total authority, yes, as if they are speaking for all of us!

Listen, I do not care if anyone doesn't or does buy it. I congratulate people who are standing their ground on, what is for them, a line they don't wish to cross. The only problem I have is that some of them seem to have come to the conclusion that, because they don't like it, nobody is allowed to, and that ain't it chif. I am sick and tired of going online, hoping to see some people be excited with me, getting some actual news on the game, and getting slam-dunked 0.01 second after that for the navity to think that I could actually have something nice or in formative once in a while.

Sorry for this. It has been coming a while now, and that last aks just me down. 😓

OH MY GOD the "stop trying to be one of the good ones" Like my dude... that doesn't really exist - or isn't something of a conscious effort anyone does. It's just called knowing how to educate people back from places of bigotry by understanding that most people end up there through ignorance - and you have to approach/engage them by understanding where they are coming from - by putting yourself in their shoes. It's sort of the same problem I have with people who say BiPOC/Queer people shouldn't have to do the emotional labor to teach people. I get so angry because If we don't - the white supremacist/terfs sure as fuck will and they'll seem friendly about it and have an easier time of it because the alternative is angry easy-to-offend people who won't take like five minutes to go "okay hold on I'm busy but these blogs/articles/websites I know of are a good start. come back to me if you have questions and don't worry about your phrasing, I get it - you don't know what you don't know."(Sorry wow ranted there)

Anyway yeah everything you said. It's sad that we can't just be allowed to be excited for a game without people attacking us.

#asks #hogwarts legacy

[womenfrommars]

After literally devouring lots of theirs works, I oftentimes caught myself feeling a certain resistance to read feminist works of POC women and I feel really bad about it. I have this feeling that there's a huge (and valid) resentment about what prominent white authors wrote and published on feminist matters. As a white woman from an underdeveloped country, I could never connect with feminist canons as Betty Friedan's, it just doesn't resonate with the reality of women around me. I thought black writers and feminist writers from the post-colonial world would fit more, but there's something about them that bothers me a lot. bell hooks, for instance, wrote that white women did more bad to the existence of black women than black men. She also claims black men don't benefit from the patriarchy. And it revolts me, because in my country black men are right there murdering black women, abandoning their kids. Doing everything the average white men would do. How come white women can be worse than black men? It's extremely disturbing and infuriating that some white women center feminism around themselves and exclude black women from their social analysis, but is this the same as to say white women are WORSE to black women compared do what men do?? Reading hooks I felt like she patronizes black men for the sole purpose of being black, as if sex based violence is restricted to white men. Also, when black men spread misogynistic statements towards white women, I see lots of black female authors rationalizing it and it's so frustrating, cause black men will care about black men only and that's it. They're man, they're part of patriarchy. It's delusional to think there isn't misogy in afro-centered relationships. And then we have authors like Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí claiming sexism and misogynistic societies are a product of colonialism, as if black African societies were paradise for women. But didn't Gerda Lerner wrote that the first glimpses of patriarchy come from Mesopotamian societies? Why act as if black African tribes were never oppressive to those born female? Why this mental gymnastics? For what purpose would they erase the sex-based violence of their peers? To prove what point? As these works spread among queer-loving feminists, I see lots of other works flourishing the idea that most shit that happens to black women are solely white women's fault. That white women are all TERFs and white supremacists. It's valid and pertinent to point out the inadequacy of works like Friedan's to speak for the universal experienced of all women, not even white women from the global south relate to the written realities of white American women, but sometimes I feel like POC feminist authors use their power and works to spill over all their hatred towards white oppression on... Women. Meanwhile, white men are safe and sound. While reading hooks, it feels to me there's this message that says how wonderful and necessary is to build black solidarity among black men and black women, but that black women can never trust white women. What's the purpose of it? So they can connect over their experiences on racism, but could never bond with white women in the basis of shared sex-based oppression? As if colonization was a white woman's endeavor... Sorry if this ask makes no sense, but I'm tired of POC women always vomiting their vitriolic hatred towards colonialism and racism on white women as if we're monoliths, as if patriarchy doesn't affect us, as if we can't be submitted to other forms of oppression, like poverty and capacitism. As if we're only white women with no other identity. As if we're all static creatures that rule the world, responsible for all their demises, incapable of bonding through our shared sex-based experiences of oppression. As if what white men did centuries ago - colonialism - is our fault. It pissed me off how color is all that matters for people that proudly flaunt around about intersectionality... I'm tired of being perceived as a potential enemy all the time.

>As a white woman from an underdeveloped country, I could never connect with feminist canons as Betty Friedan's, it just doesn't resonate with the reality of women around me.

I don't think those works necessarily claim to be representative of ''the'' female experience though? It just encapsulates a common female experience from a certain geographical area and period of time

>bell hooks, for instance, wrote that white women did more bad to the existence of black women than black men. She also claims black men don't benefit from the patriarchy.

I've never read Hooks but I'd imagine she was writing from an American point of view and did not necessarily claim this was universally true for every country in the world

>Why act as if black African tribes were never oppressive to those born female? Why this mental gymnastics?

I'm not sure if we even know that much about pre-colonial history because I imagine some of that history is lost, but yes some authors are dead-set on imagining that everything was sunshine and butterflies before colonialism. Maybe it's a form of national or cultural pride, who knows

>Sorry if this ask makes no sense, but I'm tired of POC women always vomiting their vitriolic hatred towards colonialism and racism on white women as if we're monoliths, as if patriarchy doesn't affect us, as if we can't be submitted to other forms of oppression, like poverty and capacitism.

You have to understand when woke people use the word ''white'' they are using it as a modern equivalent to ''WASP''. They straight-up don't even consider all the white people from Eastern Europe whose countries never colonised any land, and who were not even considered white during Nazi occupation. Some Americans even admit that to them, the phrase ''white people have no culture'' means ''white Americans have no culture''

>It pissed me off how color is all that matters for people that proudly flaunt around about intersectionality...

If their intersectionality doesn't focus on women, then it's not feminism