#the difference is the racism and ableism

[creature-wizard]

Quite hypocritical to think of yourself as being dragonkin(and not being able to prove it so we have to simply accept it) but criticise people who think they are from a different planet or star system ( aka ' starseeds ')

I see someone didn't even bother to read what I've actually said on the subject before sending off an angry anon. How classy. 🤣

I have stated multiple times that believing oneself to be an alien being isn't the problem. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with being alienkin.

The issue with starseeds is the racism, colonialism, cultural appropriation, and genocide that the entire idea is built on and enables. The issue is the way people are being told that being a starseed means that they have special wisdom and a special mission to convert others to New Age ideology. The issue is that they're being told that they know more about Indigenous spiritual traditions than actual Indigenous people do. The issue is the way this ideology is ultimately tied into far right conspiracy theories. I don't care if people are alienkin. I do care if they go around telling other people that Jewish people are actually blood drinking aliens, because that's blood libel and total bullshit.

Furthermore, the concept of starseeds is being used to deny the reality of autism and ADHD in people who aren't even otherkin. Children are being denied access to care and resources that could actually help them, and are being told that they have a special mission to save the world instead. These people are being harmed by this.

So a thing is, when I tell people that I'm dragonkin, I don't try to impose any kind of special meaning or significance upon it. I don't tell people that me being dragonkin means they have give to special weight to my unverified personal gnosis, believe in reincarnation, or even believe that being "dragonkin" is anything other than a purely psychological phenomenon. I don't use it to act like it gives me special insight or an inroad into cultures and spiritual traditions I'm not part of. I don't spin conspiracy theories to explain my experiences or the relative lack of literature on non-human identities.

If you can't tell the difference between what I'm claiming and doing, and what New Agers are claiming and doing, that's a you problem. And do I suggest actually reading my pinned post before talking out of your ass again.

#answered #starseed #starseeds #otherkin #the difference is the racism and ableism #starseeds are inherently racist and ableist #otherkin are not #alienkin are cool and valid #starseeds is new age bs #learn the difference

[autistic-sidestep]

someone remind me to write up my fh disability theory reading meta at some point

#ive got something. it's gonna overlap a bunch with the transhumanism theme and discuss ortegas internalised ableism #alongside the allegories of the enhanced for disability + racism/disability/poverty/queerness (cigs inherent queerness of fh post is inspo) #mostly started with thinking abt the parallels between sura and ortega and how they choose to deal with their disability #some similar and some wildly different #i love that so much of the cast is disabled and in such a variety of ways #owl lost her legs during the nanosurge and ortegas highly experimental mods let them walk again and enhance their agility/strength #+ other things (at Extreme cost.) #chen is multiply disabled with the multiple amputations and the gut issues #argents got the nanovore stuff and chronic pain #sidestep is autistic coded! also the paingate being broken can be an allegory for chronic pain/fatigue. no longer being able to push through #like they used to. #ramblings #fh meta

[queerplatonicpositivity]

I think it's really interesting and important to think about and talk about the solidarity between groups that experience different forms of oppression.

Neurodivergent people and physically disabled people can both experience ableism, but it can look different. People find out about some of my mental health diagnoses and decide they wouldn't trust me with children (regardless of how I actually act) or they wouldn't date me or hire me. But this can be different than some of the opression I face as a cane user, when people assume I am faking being disabled or that I only use a cane because I'm fat (the intersection of ableism and fatphobia). And yet they're still connected.

We also see this in racism -- there are specific and unique kinds of racism that different groups experience. For example, an Asian person in a non-Asian majority country being asked, "No, where are you really from?" is different than a Black person being followed around a store because they are Black, but these things are still connected.

We also see this in religion and spirituality -- for example, antisemitism is real and important to acknowledge, and so is islamophobia. For example, Jewish people being targeted with violence while trying to come together in houses of worship is different than people seeing a Sikh person and assuming they're Muslim and therefore a terrorist, but these things are still connected.

The discrimination and oppression I face as a bi person is different than the discrimination and oppression I face as a genderqueer person, and both of those are different than the discrimination and oppression I face as a demi aroace person, but they're also all still connected.

We see this with transphobia -- there are specific and unique kinds of transphobia that transfeminine people face and that transmasculine people face. We see this in the kinds of stereotypes we come across about each group, and the kinds of hate crimes that are committed, and the challenges each group faces when trying to date, have sex, get access to health care, or just go out to buy groceries. These things are different, but they're also still connected.

We see this with so many different things that I can't begin to cover here. And we see that many people are part of multiple communities affected by several of these forms of oppression at the same time.

Talking about this requires thoughtfulness, nuance, and balance. True solidarity requires us to be able to be aware of the different ways that we face oppression, to be cognizant and respectful of the differences, but to also resist the urge to position these differences in some sort of persistent hierarchy.

Harsha Walia says this more eloquently than I can:

"I think allies and accomplices have become identities in and of themselves, when in fact they are meant to be verbs—to signify ways of being and of doing, of relationship and relationality. It is impossible for any one person to be ‘an ally’ because we all carry multitudes of experiences and oppressions and privileges. Most people are simultaneously oppressed and simultaneously privileged, and even those are always specific and contextual.My paid work is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country. Unsurprisingly, this is a disproportionately racialized neighbourhood but there are many older cisgender white men. A straight white cisgender man who is homeless faces a harsher material reality than me on a daily basis—with minimal to no access to food, shelter, health care, or income. Reductively, one would say that I have class privilege in relationship to him. But it goes beyond that. Even taking into account that I might be able to count off more forms of oppression, the entirety of my material reality is more secure.For me that is where intersectionality falls short; it has become a static analysis and one of fixed categories that leads to oppressed/ally dichotomies. Anti-oppression analysis becomes rigid in its categorizations when the question becomes who is more oppressed, rather than engaging in a dialogue of how oppression, which is relational and contextual, is specifically manifesting. Oppression develops a strange quantifiable logic, a commodity that can be stocked up on. This isn’t to say I don’t believe in anti-oppression allyship, but rather that I question its reductionism in place of a fluid, contextual and relational practice."

Harsha Walia, “Dismantle & Transform: On Abolition, Decolonization, & Insurgent Politics”

#op #oppression #oppression olympics #ableism #racism #antisemitism #islamophobia #biphobia #exorsexism #discrimination #quote #Harsha Walia #allyship #intersectionality #am I the only one who remembers when people used to tag discrimination against mental health as saneism? #we have always been looking for ways to talk about the discrimination we face #we have always faced discrimination that manifests in different ways #we have always tried to find ways to honor our shared struggles but also articulate the ways our struggles can be different

[vakarians-babe]

fandom attention span when it comes to BNFs being racist is literally shorter than that of a goldfish

#people still platforming dalishous/raysoffrost after they compared bds to nazis + doubled down on karlach's asian features being eurocentric #if someone acts like an authority on something people will literally just grovel at their feet for approval #BNFs need to go extinct theyre the new fandom moms #even if people apologize for things like racism or ableism they then go on to repeat those things in different fonts or by failing to retir #the characters made in racist or ableist tropes #if you keep gaining clout and notes on something after you've apologized that its problematic #then your apology means nothing

[ikarwawa]

It's so very important to me that when people throw around the terms TME and TMA that they understand that TMA =/= only transfeminine people.

The terms TMA and TME were created to because AGAB doesn't fully cover the lived experiences of the variety of trans, nonbinary, and intersex people. It's explicitly NOT meant to be AMAB = TMA and AFAB = TME. Not everyone AMAB who is nonbinary is transfeminine. Nonbinary people of any AGAB can be targeted by transmisogyny depending on their transitioning experience. Intersex people don't have to be CAMAB to be targeted by transmisogyny.

And that's not even broaching how race and transphobia intersect.

#transmisogyny is such a touchy topic #yes its supposed to be this specific form of oppression against trans women #but transphobia is inherently rooted in racism and ableism its the same oppression now shifted onto a more societally appropriate target #thats why misogynoir and transmisogyny often show up in the same exact ways but with different intended targets #TME/TMA was created ti discuss that disparity and now people just (incorrectly) use it as AGAB 2.0 #dollie rambles #trans #transgender

[hyumjim]

Not that you’re not right about covid etc but I’m not entirely sure what point A has to do with point B

#i guess this is very straightforwardly ‘why do people care about racism and not ableism’ #which. yannow. not true. but also #it’s just such a nothingburger comparison like it just makes absolutely no sense #its like 2 different posts entirely. u went from A to Z here #and idk what tv show this is even talkin about btw. race swaps characters???

[litres-of-cocaine]

okay as much as i agree that groups under the lgbtq+ umbrella are stigmatised by other people in the community please be so fr and stop calling it ‘double discrimination’ you just want to say ‘monosexual privilege’ but are aware people get kind of mad about that

#queer discourse #to clarify this isn’t about ableism racism sexism transphobia etc exhibited by people within the community #it’s more about the presentation of stigma witin the community as a disparate and equal thing to bigotry coming from outside the community #like it’s all coming from the same place guys just being wielded by other oppressed people #like lesbians do not represent a unique evil to bi women and vice versa #or trans men exhibiting transmisogny is not a result of their transmasculinity it’s white supremacy and patriarchy #it’s not a sign that these groups of people are your enemy #(disclaimer: this is completely online problem no one under the age of 14 genuinely seems to push this irl as their brains aren’t rotting) #and i’m not saying that bigotry from other queer people should be ignored bcs NO we need to be pulling each other up #but framing it as a ‘double’ discrimination instead of the same goddamn thing is just saying you’ve got it worse than everybody else #if someone attacked me for liking coffee and then a different person /also/ attacked me for liking coffee that’s not double discrimination. #that’s the same type of discrimination done by different people #we are a goddamn community force the internet leeches OUT of your brain don’t let them take you alive #it’ll suck the joy out of everything #this is largely in response to a long as text post that had some great points but this glaring welt of online behaviour in the middle of it #i’m also aware no one is going to read this i just can’t be arsed to waste any real life person’s time in discussing it #godspeed campers

[llycaons]

the good omens/homestuck poll notes are so funny. bite each other's dicks off

#they both fucking suck. for different reasons #but seeing either fan pretend like they're better than the other is so fucking funny #you literally like homestuck. or you literally like good omens tv show. CLOWNS THE BOTH OF YOU #also hs uses 'ironic' racism and ableism and gomens is faux progressive while being homophobic so there's no moral high ground imo #cor.txt

[martyrbat]

playing an ongoing game called ‘learn whats acceptable to say in someones tags or get blocked’. a lot of you are losing.

#i know i can be cringe or annoying but like. theres a difference between joking on something vs fucking insulting someone you dont know #is this person talking about something they enjoy that you dont? filter the tag and post content and go on with your day #if theyre too annoying then just unfollow for a bit and check back later even #is this person a fan of a character you hate?? put it on your own post instead of coming onto someones account to bitch in their tags #you are literally insulting a real life person over a fictional character. over a show. over a comic. what is wrong with you. #unless the thing they like is actively rooted in real life hate (racism sexism misogyny ableism transphobia etc) that will reflect #and cause real life harm then it literally doesn't fucking matter if you disagree with someone. #youre not making me want to read and consider your opinion about something i literally consume for fun and because haha autism s/i #by calling me an idiot or by saying how i (a disabled person) am ‘braindead’ because i have a different opinion or whatever. #youre just being mean because you feel like you have an excuse to pretend youre superior to someone #like idk how to break it to you but dick grayson isnt going to suck your dick despite you insulting a real person over him lmao. #anyways. im going to block you if you insult me. im going to block you if you see my post on something i like thats harmless and tell me #how much you personally hate it or disagree. i dont care. make your own post because now you cant make it on mine. #and my anon is temporarily off (sorry shy mutuals </3) because a lot of ppl dont have common decency on what's okay to say or demand lol

[bieddiediaz]

do you ever see such bad characterisation of characters you love that you almost can't help yourself from going to op's face and yelling YOU. ARE. WRONG. but since you are a respectable member of fandom you have to turn off your phone and go scream into a pillow

#just to be clear this is. about different characterisations. not racism/sexism/ableism etc #isha talks #fandom

[doppelnatur]

to a certain degree i don't think there is such a thing as purely internalized and internally directed bias. i don't think directing bias at yourself is morally much better than directing it at others it's just a lot harder to stop. that said, as soon as your self cruelty begins to affect anyone else it's just cruelty. a gay man being homophobic is not any more justifiable than a heterosexual man. then again, maybe this entire way of thinking shows a lack of compassion for myself and is a form of bias.

#Idk I'm being mean to myself about capacity and ability stuff. #I'm. Very aware I still hold a lot of ableism. I really really try treating others with kindness and like noticing when something is an #Ableist impulse and seeing it looking at it and letting it go. And I think I usually do a good job. I do. But it's so much harder when it's #It's me and there's no other expert on my experience and my normality than me and I just don't trust me to. Actually know what's going on #Idk I think ableism is the most active unlearning I'm having to do. With both racism and queerphobia it was very gradual #Fatphobia I feel like i never really like. Took in. Idk why and obviously there's some just straight up misinformation that I'm correcting #But that's all so different #Learning about ableism was such a huge thing for me and it helped me let go of so much self loathing and all that all at once #And to also just be kinder to the people in my life. Like significantly. I think I'd be an absolute pos if not for the autistic community #But like. I feel like I've hit a plateau and there's just. Part of this belief system that's just. My character at this point and I don't #I don't know that I'll ever be able to get over it and I think it makes me a bad person or at least a worse person like. In an unfixable wa #Maybe I need to think of myself like the world. Where I don't think an ideal utopia can be built but that just means we have to keep trying #And get as close as possible and watch all the lik e easy fail points carefully and mend and repair. #Like part of the reason I could let go of self hate is just that I genuinely became a significantly better person #Not just the internalized ableism part but the external butt they're the same kind of anyways right #Idek it's 1am

[fiapple]

you all are very stupid. and by “you all” i mean the camp that thinks affirming people with bodies that are stigmatized as attractive, & framing attractiveness as a factor that should be unimportant on a societal level are two mutually-exclusive lines of thinking.

“populations who have bodies that are in some way marginalized, particularly fatter people, physically disabled people, people of colour, &/or transgender people are consistently framed as unattractive in the eyes of the world at large due to social bigotry, often leading to mental health & self-confidence issues- not infrequently in intergenerational cycles- along with a slew of other issues on a personal & social level, thus there is value in creating spaces where they can feel attractive & find confidence in their appearance in a way wider society denies them.”

&

“physical attractiveness should not be the end-all-be-all of someone’s political praxis, moreover we should be consistently questioning what societies, subcultures, & social-groups frame as attractive & why. along with that, we should question the ways we hold attractiveness up in society, & the ethics of it’s influence on our behaviour to ourselves and others as a way to dismantle the bigoted standards entangled in what we currently have in place, and to question the validity of a society in which physical attractiveness is a contributor to positive or negative outcomes for people in any form.”

are takes that can & should coexist, i think.

#like. they are rooted in the same issue but they are ultimately targeting different aspects of that issue on different levels. and i don’t #think everyone gets that. they should though. #fatphobia #ableism #racism #transphobia #but bonus points to: #body neutrality #body positivity #be stupid in my notes about any of these groups & it won’t be entertained i will literally just block you. #highposting

[spite-and-waffles]

Hating female characters and ones of colour because your male one is a poor woobie is pathetic actually. I assure you, your conventionally attractive abled white cis man is not more disenfranchised in the narrative than literally anyone else. Your preferences don't exist in a vacuum. Please interrogate your systemic biases and their implications.

#if you make this post about shipping discourse I am going come and egg your house #none of you demons understand the difference between systemic and interpersonal #and how one actually affects the other #misogyny #classism #racism #queerphobia #ableism #fandom wankery #dcu #dc comics #batfamily #spite waffle

[archivist-the-knight]

speaking of animal facts i am cookign up a project about like. if the world was inhabited by animal/human hybribs. i know that sounds basic as all hell but holy shit ive been cooking why did they let me near the stovetop

#eden mrraps. #oc tag #its basically combining human habits with animal habits and working out how a society with millions of different kinds of animal types woul #exist. like how they'd interact with each other how their lifecycles would work what would modern today society be like for them ect #its basically an excuse for worldbuilding and my spintrest in psychology and animals. theres also aliens btw #theres a lot of themes of not only community and finding to love yourself through the reflection of others eyes but also. big theme of #racism and ableism and how it can heavily affect people and the person's family. its. insane #feel free to ask me more about it its been on my mind hence why im talking so much about it

[aholotte]

only time I’ll say this but seeing people use “freak” to describe someone in a negative way like “oh [insert good faith identity here] are freaks” makes me physically sick. people who say stuff like that have absolutely no regard for history and how people of color, people with physical deformities, and lgbt people were seen as “freaks” like that’s borderline eugenics talk right there. and it especially stings whenever I see a fellow marginalized person going “freaks dni” do you even hear yourself? how would YOU like it if someone called YOU a freak in that way?

#please NEVER call people ‘freaks’ in my presence #not as in ‘health freak’ or ‘freak in the sheets’ #but freak as in ‘let’s ostracize this person for being different’ #ableism #lgbtq #lgbt #I hate the queer community on TikTok and Twitter #they perpetuate this shit #queerphobia #scientific racism

[politics-not-my-thing]

The Tiktok trend of making skits where being nice to the weird kids saved you from a school shooting was fucked up on so many levels

It trivialised and made into a joke school shootings, it took this horrifying instance and turned it into something to laugh at and it was disgusting

Second, it said that all weird kids were the problem, not these specific mass murders, not these horrendous excuses for human beings who wished death on their fellow classmates, but all weird kids, because being nice to a weird kid once could save you from being murdered

It ignored that most kids who are bullied, labelled as weird and socially ostracized, don't wish death on their fellows, let alone intend to kill them, you have made us hate ourselves far more than we could ever hate you, and you have the audacity to act like we're dangerous

You don't get to do that

You don't get to demonise an entire category of already incredibly marginalised people

You don't get to blame us for the actions of mass murders

And you don't get to say that you can protect yourself from mass shootings by being nice to the weird kids

We deserve compassion but not because you painted us as mass murderers

You don't get to shift the focus away from the genuinely violent, the actual threats to society, the ones who wish violence on others, and get a power trip from taking lives

On to the random weird kid who just wants to live, without being demonised, without being bullied, without being made to feel like everyone would be happier when they're gone, that the world would be a better place without us

Nobody deserves to feel like that

And you don't get to conflate the abuse of weird kids with the issue of school shootings

We are not your scapegoats

#tw school shooting #scapegoat #ableism #neurotypicalism #discrimination #classism #antisemitism #racism #colourism #just all types of discrimination #because anyone who is different in anyway could be torn apart for it