#liberal ideas

[wronggalaxy]

I wish people would stop choosing one thing to make them look liberal and then ignoring not just everything else, but also the truth about that one thing.

For example: people talk alot about non-white not being drawn/painted/etc very often, especially by white people, which is very true and something we DO need to talk about. But then you have certain people who talk about that on the surface level without meaning it or doing anything else anti-racist.

I just saw a post talking about black people in art works(OP did nothing wrong to be clear, they aren't the type I'm talking about, their post just triggered me thinking about this), or more accurately the lack of them, and it reminded me of the time a few months ago someone got Mad, capital 'm', at me because none of my art features a non-white person. Ignoring the fact, a fact they knew to be clear, that I don't make that kind of art.

Example of my type of art: right now I'm making a sculpture(I believe that's the right word) by gluing old medicine cups and a picture I colored of Christmas candy similar to what my elementary school gave us every winter and sales papers from my nearest Food City and such to a shoe box as a representation of what it's like to be a disabled, impoverished, teenager.

My art features 0 humans, MAYBE myself, but I haven't done anything like that since kindergarten. The closest thing to a person I've made were a brain, a finger, and a couple eyes out of clay. The only one of those that were explicitly white was the finger, and it was based on the coal miners I see all the time(I live in Eastern Kentucky), so it HAD to be white(though you couldn't half tell under all the 'blood' and 'dirt' and 'coal dust').

To make it worse, she was white, I am not.

#racisim #racism #mixed race #semi rant #art #art tumblr #small artist #native american #cherokee #white people #anti racism #liberal ideas #leftist #leftism #socalism #socialist #disability #disabled #impoverished #poverty #growing up poor #eastern kentucky

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Liberals get so mad whenever victims of violence say they can't to peace-and-love their way out of oppression

They'd literally rather people stay under the heel of the state if they can't magic their way out of deadly oppression with smiles and flowers in the barrels of the enemy's guns. Fascists and Nazis have already made up their minds about what they want, and they will take action to make it happen.

But so called 'pacifist' libs will spit on you and call you stupid and barabaric if you dare harm the person already set on the death of you and your family. How dare you not sit there and die like a dog in the name of all important Civility??

They get so mad when you tell them no amount of bake sales and 'spread joy' signs will stop a right wing extremist. They would rather you die in the name of this 'Civility' the enemy never had in the first place.

"But violence fuels violence" yes. That's why you shouldn't oppress people, because they will fight back. That's how that works. Sorry the fight for freedom hurts your feelings.

#liberal ideas #politics #vote #leftist

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[o0kawaii0o]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING 🗣🗣🗣

#fun fact: luffy's bday shares the same date as Liberation Day in my country #had the sudden idea to implement a halo in luffy art #and as his strawhat #idk but I found that very big brain of myself #there even was this quote about the sun god! will share that in a reblog later! #I was actually planning to draw stuff of other series (e.g. st/ardew) but loof's bday was suddenly here #it's not really proper bday themed art but the opportunity to merge my initial idea with this was right there #also experimented a little bit more in this one #rambling as always #monkey d luffy #one piece #op #o0kawaii0o

[scottguy]

Teamwork. Selfishness accomplishes nothing. (Ask Bernie Sanders! 'US not ME')

#liberal ideas

[theclaygolem]

I saw the face of God and He was smiling real big!!!

#one piece #op #monkey d. luffy #if u have seen this TOO BAD u see it again #gear 5 makes me insane u have no idea #luff the god of liberation???? i could seriously talk about it for hours #i dunno much about kinning but i kin this man i think #oda doesnt deserve to have this character be his #one piece spoilers #as a precaution i guess??

[news-folds]

Why the Left Is Learning to Love the Military

Why the Left Is Learning to Love the Military

In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Harlem’s Riverside Church to a crowd of thousands that flowed out the door as far as 120th Street. King publicly condemned the Vietnam War because it had “broken and eviscerated” the civil-rights and anti-poverty movements at home. The American government was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Read: Martin Luther King Jr. on the…

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#active service members #America’s role #America’s warriors #American government #American Left #American war crimes #civil rights #day shove Trump #Defense hawks #Donald Trump #Ernest Hemingway’s novel #Fox News host Laura Ingraham #george floyd #George Orwell #great deal #greatest purveyor of violence #Green Party #leftist fringe #LGBTQ soldiers #liberal ideas #Martin Luther King Jr. #military leaders #Military Times #military-industrial complex #package of arms #phalanx of generals #Praetorian Guard #Pride parade #progressive critics #progressives

[lylahammar]

I’m so happy I’m fat 🥰 I love grabbing substantial handfuls of my tummy and feeling its comforting weight 💕 I love shaking my body around and feeling myself jiggle like pudding 💖 I feel really sexy when I wear bodycon outfits and fill them out, or let my fat rolls peek under my crop tops ❤️‍🔥 I love that my my body is a comfortable place for my girlfriend to lay, and that I can carefully squash the lights outta her when she wants pressure 💘 I love that my body fat keeps me warm when the power goes out during a winter storm and our house gets down to 32 degrees inside 💗 I’m so glad that I got over my teenage obsession with staying skinny and grew into a fat and happy adult 😊

#lyla's talking again #it took me a looong time to reach this point but I genuinely love it and so glad I did #being fat is the best #really sucks for ppl who concern themselves with avoiding fatness 😬 hope you get over it soon 💔 #for the record I know I used a lotta cute and like 'hug shaped' adjacent language in this #but that's only okay when fat ppl say it about themselves don't u skinny ppl get any ideas #fat positvity #fat liberation #tw ED mention

[whetstonefires]

Hey you said something about the my hero academia creator being unhinged about sexism, do you mind explaining?

I tried to write like, a thorough explanation of this and it just got longer and longer and longer and I have not touched this series in actual years and yet I've still got all these receipts a;lkjk;lfasd.

So rather than trying to build the whole massive case, here's a pared-down version. It's normal to have sexism in media, and shounen manga especially. Everyone does it. The level and mode and intentionality and so forth all vary, but of course it's there.

What's not normal is to have lots of varied and interesting female characters with discernible inner lives, and on-page discussion of how sexism is systemic and unjust and holds them back in specific ways, and then also deliberately make consistent sexist writing decisions even where they don't arise naturally from the flow of the narrative.

Horikoshi is actively interested in gender and sexism, he's aware of them in a way you rarely see outside of the context of, you know, fighting sexism. He is hung up on the thorny issue of what women are worth and deserve and how power and respect ties into it. He genuinely wants, I think, to have Good Female Characters, and not be (seen as) A Sexist Guy!

But. He doesn't actually want to fight sexism. He displays a lot of woman-oriented anxieties, and one of the many churning paddlewheels in his head seems to be that he knows intellectually that morally sexism is bad, but emotionally he really feels like it ought to probably be at least partly correct.

There are so many things I could cite, and maybe I'll get into some of them later, but the crowning item that highlights how the pattern is 1) at least partly conscious and deliberate and 2) about Horikoshi's own weird hangups rather than simply cynical market play, is Mineta Minoru.

The writer has stated Mineta is his favorite character. Mineta is also designed to be hated--that is, he is a particularly elaborate instantiation of a character archetype normally deployed to soak up audience contempt and (by being gross and shameless and unattractive and 'unthreatening') make it possible to include a range of sexual gratification elements into the narrative that would compromise the main characters' reputations as heroic and deserving, if they were the actors.

Good Guys don't grope girls' tits and run away snickering in triumph, after all. Non-losers don't focus intense effort around successfully stealing someone's panties. Nice Girls don't let themselves be seen half-dressed. And so forth. You need an underwear gremlin for that. So, in anime and manga, longstanding though declining tradition of including such a gremlin, for authorial deniability.

Horikoshi definitely uses him straight for this purpose, looping in Kaminari as needed to make a bit work. And yet he has Feelings about the archetype itself.

The passages dedicated to the vindication of Mineta, then, and the author's statements about him, let us understand that Horikoshi identifies with the figure of the underwear gremlin. He understands the underwear gremlin as a defining exemplar of male sexuality, at least if you are not hot, and finds the attached contempt and hostility to be a dehumanizing attack on all uh.

Incels, basically.

It's not fair to write Mineta off just because he's unattractive and horny (and commits sexual harassment). Doesn't he have a mind? Doesn't he have dreams? Doesn't he have human potential?

So what's going on with Horikoshi and gender, as far as I can figure out, is that he knows damn well that women are people and are treated unjustly by sexist society, but however.

He also understands the institutions of sexism as something protecting him and people like him from life being nebulously yet definitively Worse, and therefore wants to see them upheld.

So you get this really bizarre handling of gender where obviously women's rights good and women cool, women can be Strong, and the compulsory sexualization imposed by the industry isn't them or the author, and so forth.

But also it's very important that in the world he controls, women never win anything important or Count too much, and that jokes at their expense that disrupt the internal logic of their characters are always fair game, that women asked about sexism on TV will promptly get into catfights amongst themselves, and they are understood always in terms of their sexual and romantic interests and value, and sexual assertiveness and failures to perform femininity well enough are used to code them as dangerous and irrational, and that the sexy costumes are requisite and will never be subverted or rebelled against--at most they might be circumnavigated via leaning into cute appeal.

And that Yaoyorozu Momo, who converts her body fat into physical objects, is being frivolous when she wants to use money to buy things instead (rather than as sensibly moderating her Quirk use) and is never encouraged to eat as much as possible at every opportunity to put on weight and even shown being embarrassed by hunger (even though Quirk overuse gives symptoms that suggest she's been stripping the lipids out of her cell walls or nervous system to keep fighting) and always, no matter how many Things she has made, has huge big round boobies.

#ask #hoc est meum #beastenraged #bnha #sexism #i think i got the main points here #just getting lost in the weeds of subsidiary arguments and supporting evidence was destroying me #i don't need to do those this is fandom on the internet #and not even a serious level of that #meta #mineta minoru #yaoyorozu momo #honestly psychologically pretty interesting #it's like he keeps saying 'look i know sexism bad but I Need It' #someone tell him that the patriarchy is exploiting him too and we can all achieve liberation together #this is the same mechanism that upholds white supremacy among the poor #'my life is so bad already the idea of liberating those below me and having to share the crumbs with them is horrific' #ESPECIALLY if i know they're worthy and lots of them are better than me #injustice is the only thing keeping my head above water! #he's also fishing for vindication ofc #but it's wild to see how he'll put in the groundwork that would let him do something gender-egalitarian with his themes #and then opt not to #despite having done the hard part already #idk how much that's making a statement and how much it's just 'this Feels Right' #but as a pattern it murdered me

[wazzi2ya]

Angel Dust, stealing the stage in Cannibal Town: Alright, sickos, my friend Charlie here told me you like a good show, so I'm here to deliver the most pussy-popping, toe-curling, pillow-biting routine any of youse have ever seen in your vintage postcard looking ass lives.

Cannibals: ...

Charlie: ...

Alastor: ...

Rosie: ...

Everyone: ...

Susan: ...I like this guy.

#liberal use of youse here i guess it fits angel??? italian american brooklynite?? #i just found the idea hilarious. susan liking the most unlikely person to be of her taste lmao #she appreciates his moxie. a performer to the core #he proceeds to deliver an 18+ comedy routine that has her on the floor laughing #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel susan #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin hotel rosie

[hannahvardit]

so luxurious

#my brain has effectively been taken over by one (1) long boi #i love his revealing little costume #plunging neck AND backlines?? #little briefs that almost certainly mean our boy is getting regular bikini waxes? #this is the future liberals want #sure he could be “using his powers to manipulate hair growth” but that is not as funny as bikini waxes and is therefore a less good idea #plastic man #patrick eel o'brian #dc comcis

[felidaefatigue]

I designed this poster with the intention of making limited edition linocut prints* but I also wanted to make the digital version available for free download for anyone who might wish to use it for posters, signs and the like. So here that is

*which I have, and am in the process of finishing to make available with a donation match process but i haVENT figured that out yet. stalk my insta to keep up on that if you want one.

#cat scratches #liberation #anarchy #poster idea #protest poster #listen im not sayin u should or shouldnt do anything specific but we do love all natural wheat paste glues in this household #actually im more partial to rice paste cause papermaking BUT HEY #free palestine #trans rights #free congo #free sudan

[averlym]

fairest of the fair

#hi! im alive and back and etc. #six the musical #six the musical fanart #katherine howard #thinking of that post going 'i think eventually you become the person you needed most' and like maybe that's the thing with my art #this started out as a redraw and <improvement meme> i think i've finally reached the stage where i'm making the things that my younger self #aspired to create. like i can do this now! i've reached That level of technical skill! tiny me would be so proud. it's very gratifying #redraw from august this year actually. i've made a surprising amount of improvement HAHA maybe it was the adamandi stuff getting me #back into digital rendering. i think that obsession has quietly slipped away but yknow. one never truly leaves a fandom. just less intensit #also speaking of old fandoms! we're back with the six stuff haha. as of writing i'm in the midst of blog revamp- figuring out how to chill #multifandom status doesn't mean ditch all the old stuff ! but i do feel much freer and less stressed. i think hiatus has been good for me #notes on this piece particularly: redraw about cutting hair and thinking of the lyric above. also lowkey &j ref + pinterest poem excerpts #of female suffering. and maybe a dash of amanda heng let's walk inspo. this work is really just full of contradictions.. #1. the mirror and cutting hair as an act of self liberation 2. the & is part of the lyric but also a nod to &j (in another iteration it was #pink but the white looked better) and like. &j is really all !!! girl power!!! etc. and i was like hmmmm. also matching pink shiny aes #3. the frame as a cage; the mirror as a self reflection idea (ie. saville's propped insp) but also as a sign of vanity. 4. sparkly costume #and pretty pose- read one too many poems about women feeling like they have to be pretty even in their suffering. something i wanted to #explore. and also in 5. the show itself... all you wanna do is. despite all the dancing and pink and sparkly the content of the song is #darker. and even though it's a story of her suffering it's still presented as a shiny fun pop song and ajshdhfhfh ok... 6. the lyrics fall #outside the frame. sort of a caught inbetween. sort of a trapped in the narrative and yet #within the frame it's all. vaguely handwavy breaking free vibes. like i said contradictions? #7. cutting off the long ponytail vs the pull my hair lyric at the end. yeah #8. the blocked off & looks a bit like scissors. positioned to cut right at the neck #anyways yeah irl remains hectic! but if i get around to more doodles they'll appear here :)

[eternallog]

All of us, fellow travellers

#one piece #monkey d luffy #op fanart #gear 5 luffy #sun god nika #everything's kinda horrible right now #and one piece is not just really really good rn but also #an important work with very relevant ideas about the world we live on #might not seem much #but i hope this art can bring you a little comfort and hope #drums of liberation my people

[bees-with-swords]

I love how Discworld's mentor characters are all deeply flawed actually. Tired of old people having everything right, I love how these ones set up the next generation with room to grow and be idealistic, even if the mentors themselves are deeply rooted in the old practices of the system they've already changed so much. Pratchett really said we should revere our elders but also seek to push past their limits

#thinking abt jackrum AND Vimes AND granny Weatherwax #they all make great progress #but also facilitate the younger generation to make further progress #even if they don't fully understand what the next phase of progress entails. they are helping the kids get there gdi #it reminds me a lot of the elders in my life #who can't fully disentangle my naiveté from my aspirations #there's confusion #everyone deals with new frontiers and new ideas differently #but the best mentors will encourage you to push on even if the type of liberation they fought for is mostly already won #cause they aren't built for the next step but you could be #discworld

[visenyaism]

have to get ahead of the dunk and egg show starting production and get in on whatever dumb insane joke we are doing about aerion brightflame in 3 years. marxist feminist is overplayed accelerationist is too easy. francis fukuyama end of history neoliberal it is

#asoiaf #The idea of running around doing jigsaw villain shit at all times and in your head being a rational liberal is really funny