#oppressive thought

[universe-in-a-bottle]

An oppressive thought…

#art #drawing #pencil #thoughts #oppressive thought #intrusive thoughts #sad and tired #drawing moments #mental illness

[gayvampcentral]

I've seen a lot of posts (and reblogged/queued a few as you might've seen) abt the HP game recently which I'm assuming means it dropped? Anyway I don't want to put this in the tags of posts by jewish people as I don't want to add onto those even in tag form as a gentile and reblogging someone else's post that says to unfollow me if you support the game doesn't feel direct enough, so I'm making my own post for it:

Please unfollow/block me if you plan on playing this game.

Yes, pirating counts. I don't want you here. If you don't care about the safety of jewish people enough to do the bare minimum of not fucking playing this game then I'm begging you to reevaluate. If you still are into HP in the year 2023 then I don't know how to help you.

Hating nazis and terfs is not enough. You have to love transfem and jewish people more than you claim to hate their oppressors and that starts with shit like this. So once again: If you plan on playing this game because you still can't let go of a franchise the support of which directly harms the people you think you care about then never talk to or interact with me again please.

#I mean I think I've been clear enough with the choice of posts i reblog abt this but yeah. official statement i guess. #oppressed groups don't need you to hate their oppressor they need you to love them unapologetically #like i've gotten into arguments abt this game irl a couple of times and i'll do it again i just don't see how 'please care abt others' #is such a wild statement for some ppl #marshall's thoughts

[multi-lefaiye]

kinda idle curiosity thought.

queer artists/writers/oc creators: do you incorporate queerphobia into your original works and stories?

(to be clear: this is a *no judgment zone*. i'm asking about your personal preferences with your own work. also i can't stop non-queer folks from responding but i would genuinely love some other queer folks' perspectives here.)

#multi makes text posts #polls bullshit #also you can apply these kinds of thought processes to other forms of oppression as well #i'm focusing on this b/c it's what i'm familiar with #but yeah anyway

[fadedelegance]

It’s not women’s responsibility to coddle men. This isn’t 1950 for fuck’s sake.

I am ALWAYS tired when I come home from work, as well, but you know what? I don’t expect anyone else to have dinner ready for me. I scrounge around in the kitchen, or I pick up a frozen dinner and heat it up when I get home. The point is, I take care of my damned self BECAUSE I AM AN ADULT.

Both men AND women work long hours.

I know you’re tired, but fix your own goddamned dinner. You think your partner isn’t also tired? Why is it one party’s—usually the woman’s—responsibility to make dinner for the other when they come home from work after a long day? Why can’t they just relax after they make own individual dinner? What if your partner is still at work when you get home? Do you just sit around and pout until they come home and whine about them making dinner?

Be an adult and take care of your damned self. Or if you come home at similar times, share the responsibility. Cooking together could even be a source of bonding.

I can NOT with how society is regressing.

BTW, this is also an indictment of capitalism. People shouldn’t have to work that much so that they are coming home with barely even any energy to do things like make their own meals, only to barely stay afloat financially. I believe in the 6-hour work day, living wages and salaries, and a 4-day work week.

Archaic gender roles and capitalism are both putting strain on relationships—both romantic and familial. Hardly anyone has work-life balance anymore because all most people fucking do is work.

But this is about the 12th time this week I’ve thought “I hate men. I don’t have time for them and their sexist bullshit, nor do I have time for women who have internalized that sexist bullshit.”

God damn it, I’m tired.

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #sex based oppression #I’m not taking care of you like you’re a child #grow up please #internalized misogyny

[nonbinarymlm]

The thing is, most people (in the US and Western countries at least, that’s where my experience is from) have some forms of privilege some forms of oppression. This isn’t saying everyone is equally oppressed and privileged, but most people have privilege in at least one way and oppression in at least one way.

And if you experience oppression in some ways and privilege, it’s much easier to see your oppression then you privilege.

Privilege is largely invisible to those who have it. Oppression grates against you all the time. So it’s much easier to see the forms of oppression you experience then the forms of privilege.

That’s why it’s so important for us all to listen to each other and not play Oppression Olympics. You can face very real oppression that really affects your life, and still learn a lot from other people who face other forms of oppression that you don’t. We have to listen to each other. In the queer community especially I think this is important, because there’s so many different ways to be oppressed and to be privileged.

#oppression #privilege #lgbtq #intersectionality #inter community discussion #discussion #discourse #homophobia #transphobia #racism #classism #intersexism #etc etc #white queers #cis gays #male privilege #white privilege #able-bodied privilege #and many more #thoughts #loving queue

[pastelspindash]

a big chunk of sonic's friends (shadow, knuckles, blaze, silver, even amy in a certain light) originally being so devoted and loyal to their duty that despite their loyalty being respectable, it suffocates them and sets them back as a person and sonic, the embodiment of freedom, teaching them that while important, their duty doesn't have to define who they are as a person, that they're so much more than that, is just so. its good, man. he's taught so many people how to live for themselves and be their own person and help them let go of the oppression they've created for themselves without even realising

#how his friends oppress themselves and he sets them free from that by just being his silly old self #i will forever be thinking about this #its 3am #i adore these characters #gah #sonic thoughts #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #blaze the cat #knuckles the echidna #silver the hedgehog #sonic #sth fandom #sonic fandom

[alicentes]

I didn’t sit here for years tryna stay calm and silent while listening to your bad takes on gale (who grew up oppressed, in poverty and then witnessed his entire district getting wiped out then rightly went to fight in the rebellion because it was his inlg chance of tearing down the system the wanted him and his family dead) being a “terrorist war criminal who is single handedly responsible for killing innocent people including prim and who is the REAL villain of the hunger games” just for y’all to turn and start stanning and defending actual facist dictator and child trafficker Coriolanus Snow because you saw a young hot version of him.

#i actually do enjoy coryo as a villain and liked his origin story but people are really making excuses for him? and they know what he became #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #anti coriolanus snow #tbosas #like even in tbosas he shows that he is a sociopathic narissist. he tries to be good but those traits are still there and he embraced them #as for gale he was oppressed his entire life and lived in the poorest part of panem and resents the rich who were complicit in his suffering #the things he does for the resistance were things he thought was neccessary to win to end oppression #the other option was losing the rebellion and getting tortured killed and allowing snow to cause a lot more suffering #do i agree w everything he does? no because he is a character with flaws but i dont blame him one bit for decisions after the genocide of 12 #he has to live with the consequences of what happened during the war and what he had to do to survive #but he is not a bad person for fighting back and willing to kill to survive he also does not understand the toll it takes to have to kill #him and snow are the same age and they both choose survival but snow is choosing power for himself and restoring his families wealth #and gale is choosing to join the rebellion and willing to fight for the sake of the rest of his people and to put an end to the suffering #one creates an oppressive society and one is tearing down that society both do whatever it takes #wow i guess i have more thoughts on gales character than i originally thought and the comparisons with snow are interesting

[schnilf]

one of the things I really love about this game is that if you empower and support your friends (while! calling out their bs and not enabling) then they just MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION that is most ethical and/or best for them ON THEIR OWN and that is so!! good!!! IT IS SO GOOD!!! AAAAAHHHH

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH IT IS ALL ABOUT AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT AND BREAKING FREE FROM OPPRESSIVE FORCES AND PRESCRIBED VALUES CRIES #anyway #bg3 spoilers #bg3 ending #astarion #shadowheart #karlach #wyll #no need to even persuade anyone or call on ur authority or anything #I habe thoughts on that authority btw #And they are CRITICAL OF IT #like who tf makes u leader?? #anway that is for another day

[rueyam]

when the war is over // mine

#today i finally had time and energy to write something #about my thoughts which most of them are dedicated to the ongoing genocide/oppression that is happening in palestine #so i wanted to write something hopeful; because if there is one thing that the palestinians have tought us it is hope amidts calamities #this is a glimpse of hope inspired by the kind but resistant palestinians 🤍 #may Allah help them bless them and strengthen them #mine #my edit #musings

[hadeantaiga]

you do realize that your claims that sex-based oppression is real and that transmisogyny affects everyone are irreconcilable, right? They could both be false but they cannot both be true.

You don't understand how bigotry and oppression works if your think that's true.

A note: in this post, when I say sex-based oppression, this means anti-afab and anti-female sex-based oppression. Sex-based oppression is also known as sexism.

Anyone be affected by transmisogyny, AND, anyone can be a victim of sex-based oppression. Yes, that includes people who were assigned male at birth. It includes cis men! And it definitely includes trans women.

Afab people are the primary and intended demographic targets of sex-based oppression. They are what sexism is based on and who it was originally designed to oppress. They are the demographic most often affected by sexism. They are affected by sexism from the moment they're born. And! Some trans women are female, so they're also part of the intended demographic of victims of sex-based oppression too.

But the thing is, it doesn't actually matter what sex you are. A hate crime is based on the thoughts and intentions of the bigot, NOT the actual Identity of the victim. This means anyone can be affected by any form of bigotry.

Someone does not have to be disabled to be a victim of ableism. You don't have to be Jewish to be a victim of antisemitism. You don't have to be female or afab to be a victim of anti-afab sexism.

And you don't have to be an amab transfemme to be a victim of transmisogyny.

#you thought you had a gotcha anon #but you do not #sex based oppression #feminism #intersectional feminism #trans feminism #transmasc feminism #transmisogyny discussion

[yellow-yarrow]

tragic: anime that has interesting designs and solid animation has terribly stupid and weak plot

#just came across this one anime opening with anarchist magical girls and speedcore/breakcore in the intro #i read the synopsis and reviews #its about a world where otakus are oppressed and its not really funny or interesting. the girls are oversexualized of course #i thought it would be some avant-garde genre deconstructing thing and apparently its just an otakus wet dream #come on..... #(its called magical destroyers)

[problemnyatic]

"Trans men treat transfems like shit, trans women are so weird to transmascs-"

hey ive got an idea what if we all shut the fuck up and held hands and realized letting our dysphoria and trauma bleed out into how we treat others is something we all need to work on together and drawing lines in the sand and reinventing boys versus girls Queer Edition isn't gonna help any of us heal from the shit we're all going through in some form or another

#I'm so sick of this stupid discourse dog we're fuckin' family like it or not #we're not always gonna see eye to eye bc trans folks aren't a monolith but good lord i thought we left the oppression olympics in back 2015 #yeah sometimes we treat each other like shit #we still have more in common with each other than anyone the fuck else #kiss and make up. We have bigger fish to fry than fucking infighting. Humble the fuck out we have WORK to do

[tklbug]

i deserve!! to lotion a cute girl's feet!! and pretend im just zoning out while i figure out where all her twitchiest spots are!! that i'm not doing so right this minute is a crime !!!!

#tickle thoughts #ler thoughts #tword blog #im being OPPRESSED

[fadedelegance]

RARE ALL-FEMALE LINEUP TO ARGUE SUPREME COURT ABORTION PILL CASE

I want everyone to ponder that headline.

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #sex based oppression #abortion rights

[snekdood]

its so wild how we regressed and started thinking trans men just like dont experience any significant oppression. literally what world do you guys live in

#and do you even have any friends who are trans men #and do you ever let them talk about their issues without somehow downplaying them #i thought we were all on the same page that trans people across the board are oppressed for being trans #tf ever happened to that #i literally essentially have no community and yall always have a community like...... #but its just so easy 🥴 #you literally push trans men out who are actually vocal about our issues

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

still thinking about crowley's fall.

That one quote, more specifically. "How much trouble can I get into just for asking a few questions?"

It's very possible I'm overthinking it. But it still reminds me so much of art and censorship, I wrote a poem on it just now, and I just wanted to elaborate on that, on why I said that an answer is judgement but a question is justice.

Back in Ancient Greece, Plato tried to outlaw writers, the storytellers. For millennia, those in power have feared people in arts, because we're not just dealers in aesthetics, we're dealers in ideas. Even in times of war, poverty, censorship, songs were sung, paperbacks exchanged in dark alleyways, stories whispered and walls covered with graffiti.

When stories are created, the writers have to balance both opposing ideas in their head, no matter how vile or repugnant. To prove that the protagonist is strong, you can't have a weak antagonist. The opposing idea has to be as strong as the one that will win for the victory to be meaningful.

Art, and stories, aren't about being right. People say we find answers in art, and maybe for some that's true, but I think what is infinitely more important are the questions it raises.

Because what is braver, what is more shattering to the status quo, than to question it? To dare to ask what if, to present an alternative, to pull an idea up to the witness stand and cross-examine it?

That's why when we see censorship, we need to look deeper. Because if an idea is truly that 'right', it will survive even the most intense of questioning, and even sceptics will have to accept its veracity. Why, then, are people so afraid of stories that question? Maybe it is because deep down, they aren't convinced themselves. They don't believe that their idea will survive the cross-examination. They are trying to keep a lie in power over the truth.

And art isn't about finding that elusive truth, it's about daring to look the lies in their face and say, maybe, maybe you're wrong. I don't know, you don't know, nobody may ever know, but maybe.

Like the Serpent of Eden, whispering, presenting that alternative of dissent to Eve. Not coercing. Not forcing her hand. But telling her that there is an alternative, whether good or bad.

That's why the writers, the artists, the musicians, those from every walk of the arts, are journalists interviewing society. We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced.

It's not about the answers offered, and whether someone agrees with them or not. It's about the questions, and if people fear the questions, maybe think about why that is.

#good omens mascot #good omens #good omens fandom #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #crowley #neil gaiman #maggots #censorship #free speech #oppression #journalist #art #writing #thoughts about art #storytelling #serpent of eden #dissent #asking questions #dare to question things #okay? #don't stop asking questions #fall of man #adam and eve #ineffable fandom #ineffable demon