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herenortherenearnorfar · 3 years

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Thanks @aipilosse for the tag! My AO3 account (this one at least) is a bit less curated than most. I’ve been using it since the age of 16 and have gone through the requisite teenage interests and then some so some of these answer will be a blast from the past.

How many works do you have on AO3?

What’s your total AO3 word count?

Just over 500k

How many fandoms have you written for and what a they?

According to the drop down menu, 27! A lot of them are overlaps but I’ve still covered a lot of ground over the years. Niche YA, children’s movies, non-niche bestselling YA, Star Wars, anime. A few things I’m still interested in, a few I’m not. Sometimes I get a little embarrassed that there’s a paper trail of all my old fascinations but it is nice to have an archeological record of the last few years.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

For It Shines Bright and Never Changes, a 90k Kubo and the Two Strings AU from 2016-2018. My longest and most popular story. I’m actually proud of the planning that went into it.

Aftermath of an Announcement, a frankly kind of shoddily written Steven Universe fic that I remember writing at midnight on the couch outside my bedroom in England. Inexplicably recommended on TvTropes, which might explain the ridiculously disproportionate attention it got?

Regina, a decent little SvTFoE story that got some very good abandoned artwork. Thoroughly disproven bu the rest of the show, I think? I never finished watching it.

The Most Valuable Resource. Probably what my Silm friends know me from! Sauron and baby Celebrimbor in Angband at the very beginning of the first age. I fell in love with writing Sauron in this, he’s a rather delightful awful.

Obsidian Sister, more cartoons, more sibling relationship drama, lots of hopeful worldbuilding for something that I kind of lost interest in. A good read on review though.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I love comments and getting replies to them so I always try to respond. My only regret is that it can sometimes take me too long to get people their responses. @everyone I am sorry!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Probably my most recent one? I do tend to lean towards canon compliant vignettes when I’m bored and those can be bittersweet at best but not outright tragic. In most stories there’s a seed of hope, however deeply buried it is.

Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

No crossovers that I can recall. Keep in mind that I’ve forgotten a good portion of that 75 fic backlog.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

A few times but it was mostly confusing? I simply didn’t know what to do with it. It’s like being handed a dead lizard by a cat, yes, you’re very proud of this but I’m not sure where it’s supposed to go.

I did once spend several paragraphs defending Elwing in the comments of a story I’d written about Elwing.

Do you write smut? if so what kind?

Not attached to this fake internet identity I don’t.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes, one of them showed up on Wattpad once? I only found out because I was googling a nice fic rec someone wrote for the same story. In the end I didn’t do anything about it. Maybe my entire oeuvre is on Wattpad but I doubt it because I stopped writing Avengers fanfic a very long time ago.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Several of my Silm fics have been translated into Russian. It’s a privilege every time and I love going and seeing the final result!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. Used to do a bit of silly RP when I was younger but it’s not quite the same.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Hmm, I like Silvergifting quite a lot but I have a weak spot for trios. They feel more harmonic. Eonwë/Elwing/Eärendil is probably my favorite Silm ship, for example, though I’ve only written the one story for them. If we’re talking favorite of all time then I suppose we’d have to go back to the basics. Nancy Drew/Bess/George.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Often by the time I exert the energy to put something down on paper I’m already pretty committed to finishing it? A lot of my drafting goes on in my head so I only have a few WIPs in type from the past year and only one that I think I can discard as abandoned. It’s a Micheal and Sasha Magnus Archives Spirally self delusion and dreams story.

What are your writing strengths?

Decent worldbuilding and turn of phrase? I know I can make a sentence hit, which is good. And I am quite proud of some of my backstory work and research, including some hard scrabble conlang despite my absolute lack of a linguistics background

What are your writing weaknesses?

Too bogged down by melodrama, too many runon sentences, poor grammatical skills. Also I struggle a lot with giving characters distinct speaking voices; they all end up sounding like me which is no good. I’d like to be better at descriptions as well.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I swap my standards around depending on the feeling of the story and the concepts I’m trying to convey to the reader. Fëa might work for a short specialist one-shot about Gondorian scholars discussing elven concepts but then in a story from Celebrimbor’s perspective I’d use the more generic “soul”. Formality, familiarity, ease of access to lay Tolkien readers, the perspective of the characters and what their “native tongue” is keeping in mind that most of the Silm+ is designed as a translation. There are lots of factors. Same goes for a story with terms in Chinese or another extant language.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

On this account? A book about teens and magic. Online? The 39 Clues, a co-written boook series for middle grade children. Ever as a human being? It depends on if you count when I was very small and would lead my sisters in games where I was Aragorn niece and we were fighting at the Battle of Pelennor Fields.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I’m fond of The Thousand Stories, for all that it’s experimental and indulgent. It was a chance to really explore stories about stories and what else is fan fiction for?

It looks like just about everyone else has been hit so @ameliarating and @feanorianethicsdepartment do feel welcome to take a swing if you’re so inclined.

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laufire · 3 years

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Ridiculous question and i'm okay with it if you answer in private (please!!). What do you think of the fans who are shipping a ship just because they are hating a character and want to hurt the others fans? I see that in so many fandoms and, to be honest with you, i think it's incredibly sad to this kind of behavior online especially because a show is supposed to reunite all of us. I remember people starting to ship murven because they refused the idea of bellamy/raven or memori and were hating on emori and on her fans. It's something i will never understand, the way people turn something positive to something very toxic.

I call (and seen others call) this "convenience shipping", and it's one of those petty things about fandom that manages to disproportionately annoy me LMAO.

It happens when shippers find a particular character or pairing threatening to their OTP, so they must be removed or separated at all costs. BC shippers definitely found Braven and Memori threatening LOL, as well as other ships like Becho (the first one and the latter, for obvious reasons; Memori, simply because it had a narrative potency they felt their ship was supposed to be entitled to, not some secondary one that came late to the party xD).

It annoys me so much because I find it so damn insincere. They would NEVER admit their reasons, they would never admit that they ARE threatened, because that's admiting defeat. So instead they fake (sometimes even fooling themselves, I'm sure) for other ships. Other ships that might actually have genuine fans, or good narrative beats, or actual rarepair potential!! And I end up feeling like they're tainting them with this bullshit.

Murven is a good example because, even if it's not my ship, it's a dynamic I love, that I find fascinating, and that could've had potential. And instead of that being appreciated, the tags were full of people that came from this place. It was never as obvious to me as it was when Raven comforted Murphy in s6, and the BC fandom went up in arms about her not judging him for his alliance with Josephine as harshly as she "judged" Clarke for uh......... getting her and her LI tortured and her friends almost killed, or something like that. As if those could be compared from Raven's perspective lmao. At that moment, so-called Murven shippers who would have been focused on their pairing getting a nice scene instead HATED ON THEM and made frankly insulting comments towards these characters they apparently loved so much. Suuuuuuure.

And btw, this phenomenon bothers me EVEN MORE when it's done with femslash ships. These is more common when shippers want a female character removed from the equation, so they will half-heartedly pair her with another, maybe parrot a few lines about how they'd be so cute!!! or some trite headcanons, even have them as the irrelevant side-pairing on some fic, and call it a day.

I always find myself way, way too bothered about it; it feels personal in a way that it shouldn't, because of my own relationships with woman and my relationship to my attraction to women. Like they're cheapening something I've found so uplifting, so dazzling. ¬¬

#daisytachi #replies #talking to the void #my thoughts #bitter lau tag #t100 thoughts #fandom nonsense #t100 fandom problems #the 100 #murven #convenience shipping #shipping #femslash

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ceasarslegion · 3 years

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This poem's really stuck with me since I first read it, and unfortunately I can't find it right now, but it goes something like "the child expects the world to be fair and just, and gets upset when it is not. And the child is right." Obviously, I'm super paraphrasing it, but I can't dig it up for the life of me right now

And this other concept has really stuck with me, as well. When I was watching Abigail Thorn's coming out video, Rhys talked about how you are simultaneously every past version of yourself at once, including your child self.

I've been getting a lot more targeted harassment since around when Elliot Page came out. Obviously, it's not his fault at all, it's the TERFs and run of the mill transphobes and the politicians screaming trans panic who took that and ran with it, which is disgusting and deplorable how they turned something so amazing for transmascs like me into another rehash of "wE'rE lOsInG aLl OuR dAuGhTeRs!!"

I mean, shit. It wasn't even that long ago when that stupid transphobic book came out that was titled something like "the gender panic plagueing our daughters" or whatever the fuck.

Plus there's so much community infighting lately because so many of y'all really do view oppression as a pokemon type damage chart instead of realizing that multiple things can be true at once, ie transfems and transmascs are both oppressed in different ways, so stop acting like either wanting recognition is ever taking anything away from the other. Other oppressed people are not your goddamn enemy

I don't know, I just... it's not even all the big things that are getting to me lately. It's the little things. Like when I've made it clear multiple times that I'm not comfortable being referred to as anything feminine, even slang. I try to be polite about it, say "please don't call me queen, or girl, or sis, it makes me very uncomfortable because of how hard I've fought to have my masculinity recognized" and people take it personally. People act like I'm calling femininity a bad thing, or that I'm making a totally unrealistic expectation of them, when I just said that I, personally, don't like this thing, so please don't do it to me, personally.

I think a good example would be a while back. I've gone by the nickname Dames since I first picked my name. It came pretty naturally from my high school friends, and I thought it was nice, I liked it, so I naturally kept it IRL and tagged all my personal posts with it. And evidentally my longer followers like it too, because I always get asks where people refer to me as Dames. That's me to all of you, right? It's a major indicator of the guy behind this weird internet facade tens of thousands of y'all saw some value in following. And good on him for only having followers on the one social media where that counts absolutely jack shit for, am I right?

I'm bound to get anon hate with numbers like that, it's expected, I'm not usually vexed by it. 9/10 times I just block and move on or find a way to make it funny, but a while back I got one that really kinda... stung. Mostly because it felt so targeted. Like, the others are usually just people trying to tell me what to post on my own blog or some shit about how my latest shitpost making the rounds sucks, but no one's ever gone for the nickname before this person. Not a single anon has ever told me that my nickname is shit, especially not with such targeted phrasing as "girl if you dont STOP calling yourself dames i refuse". I ended up making fun of them on here if y'all were here for it but it really kinda got to me in reality.

And I know what most people would say: "dont feed the trolls" "dont engage" "just block and move on" but I do have a few criticisms of that mentality. For one, it puts the onus on the person getting harassed to be the bigger person without ever addressing why the internet makes these people feel like this shit is acceptable, or how to fix that. To be clear, I don't know how to fix it, I just know it's a serious problem that disproportionately affects marginalized people online, especially those of us who have a bit of a platform to speak of and are therefore more visible, so it should be discussed more instead of just chalking it up to the lawless internet.

Second, on a more individual level, what the fuck has to be wrong with someone to actively go and figure out whats important to someone's sense of identity and then shit on it to them? I assume it was to get a rise out of me which I didn't really give them in the moment before I blocked them, but the total lack of acknowledgement of another person and the cold, calculating callousness is what does it for me.

I still go by Dames, but sometimes it gets to me. Like what if it is stupid? What if everyone does hate it? I didn't have these thoughts before I got that targeted harassment for no real reason than existing in a way this person found worthy of ridicule.

I think it goes back to what I was talking about before. The child part of me remembers how strong his sense of morality was, and how angry and betrayed he felt when things were unfair or unjust, or people were shitty to each other for no reason. He expects people to be better, to acknowledge that other people are people and to respect each other even on a platform as lawless as the internet. He's the part of me that's so hurt when this thing happens. And others always tell him that he's just naive, he shouldn't have responded, don't feed the trolls, etc etc without ever asking WHY this environment exists in the first place. It's not his fault for being hurt, that's a natural reaction, it's the bully's fault for kicking someone who's been systemically downed in one of the few places he comes for refuge and feels validated by.

The child is angry, the child says that people should be just and the world should be fair, and people say that the child is naive, but the child is right.

#my thoughts are very jumbled tonight i wanted to get them down somewhere #so thats what this is #shut up dames

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gateauxes · 3 years

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the war on gender terror

At this point in my life, the presence of mostly-white liberal feminism is inescapable. While I'm excited to see more people taking baby steps to a radical analysis, largely I am frustrated. On the other hand, involuntary exposure to popular feminism is the reason why I'm noticing a trend in it. Here's my report from where I'm standing: the liberal feminists don't know it, but reactionaries are trying to scare them.

Reactionary feminist projects begin the same way as any other reactionary project - concern trolling liberals over topics at arms' length from the main goals of exclusion and domination. With regard to reactionary feminists the progression of topics are well-known: women's sports & 'human trafficking', then domestic violence shelters & kinky porn, then policing gender-segregated bathrooms, defunding trans healthcare, and opposing sex work of any kind. I've been watching a pessimistic thread emerge in liberal feminist (and radical!) circles which I believe has been pushed into place by reactionary feminists. This bio-pessimism places women into a perpetual state of victimhood that can never truly end due to the essential rapacious nature of men. If this seems like the same shit the second-wave lesbian separatists were peddling, that's because it is. What I want to question is how today's essentialist pessimism differs from its initial appearance.

RADFEMS ARE OBSESSED WITH DICK

Reactionary feminists have not dispensed with a religious-conservative perspective on the power of the penis - and by extension they imagine women identically to how the rest of the right views women. The penis, apparently, is the mechanism by which rape becomes possible. Therefore, any engagement with a person with a penis is a grave risk. Vulnerability is a mistake if you might be dealing with a rapist. The MeToo movement activated an enormous public forum about how incredibly prevalent the violence is, but I now see it used as a tool for re-framing this prevalence as a biological reality. (MeToo, even without being used as a tool, was ineffective at acknowledging that violence is perpetrated by all sorts of people). An explosion of survivors talking openly about violence as an unacceptable status quo has been infiltrated by reactionary feminists who whisper that this is the fate of all women, always. The new bio-law absorbs the third wave's progress in acknowledging diversity of experience - right up to the point where it would be forced to note that sexual nature, like categories of racially-dictated nature, is a myth.

This pessimism rooted in the power of the penis is hypervigilance beyond a realistic assessment of risk. (I also blame true crime podcasts and the media in general) This is not the careful awareness of one's surroundings which comes naturally to many of us. What I'm describing is avoiding going out at all, because of statistics on sexual violence which may not even reflect the risks in the neighbourhood. This, for instance, is purchasing and insuring a vehicle for the express purpose of avoiding public transit. I frequently notice that popular discussion of domestic violence neglects to mention the disproportion of violence toward people with disabilities, asserting that all of us have identical risk. Ultimately, this is the justification for a culture of exclusion as the only recourse to the ever-present threat of men. The fortress must be defended, and the enemy could be anywhere.

BUT HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET LAID?

I do not want love or children, so my interest in sex is purely recreational. I have been told this is not in line with my female nature - I stand before you deviant and happy. However, anyone attracted to men must grapple with the contradiction of desire and very real risks. I support caution, and even precaution. My concern is with a bio-law that requires a baseline of suspicion if one is to survive, the assumption that one is always a moment away from violence. To be explicit, how am I supposed to have fun when I am letting the enemy penetrate my figurative fortress?

I think this is why kink is such a problem for reactionary feminists. The only way to make the horror of sleeping with the enemy worse is to find that some people like to confront, satirize, and role play the power dynamic. To choose recreational pain or literal bondage flies in the face of the notion that a woman’s lot is to be in constant pain, and to tolerate penetration as a miserable necessity. The reactionary feminist must sleep with one eye open, aware that her biology has already sealed her fate, and mitigate vulnerability by excluding the threat, since she can’t defend herself (biologically speaking). This is why trans women can’t stay at the domestic violence shelter, this is why you should worry for your life if your boyfriend watches kinky porn. As with vanilla dating, there are true risks - and reasonable precautions. But kink is about play with vulnerability - there is no room for play under the martial law of bio-pessimism. By hijacking post-MeToo popular feminism, reactionaries can reinsert the bone-chilling suggestion that it’s all rape, all the time. All the men want kinky sex, because it’s the closest they can come to hurting women the way they secretly wish to. According to this logic, the only way to safely navigate the risk is constant surveillance of men, the self, and any woman who could be a traitor. He’d better not be watching kinky porn, you’d better not be watching kinky porn, and the women in the kinky porn are either hapless victims or remorseless collaborators. Once we have arrived at this point, it’s obvious why the next step is a crusade against any pornography, and a mission to ensure that kink is understood as something men want and women tolerate.

How can reactionary feminists get this done? By linking the prevalence of trauma with the increased visibility of alternative sexuality & gender, from kink-at-pride to polyamory to transcending assigned gender. They ask, do you feel uncomfortable when you see all this change? We’ve all been traumatized - who do these people think they are, flaunting a lifestyle that feels wrong to feminists like you? You should trust your gut, they urge. Perform a little more vigilance to be sure you’re safe. If you find yourself unable to open a dating app or sit next to a man on the bus without feeling deep dread and revulsion, that’s vigilance, and realistic given the state of things. Any - and most - men mean women harm.

REDPILLS AND RADFEMS BELIEVE THE SAME SHIT

Incels hate women, reactionary feminists love a certain kind of woman. This distinction is relevant, especially since incels pose a physical threat to women in general whereas reactionary feminists only attack trans people, black athletes, sex workers, the wrong kind of queers, kinksters, child athletes... Despite their own active hostility toward many types of women, reactionary feminists hold up incels/redpillers/the far right as evidence of the threat that all women live under. There is no doubt that women face misogynist and antifeminist violence. Reactionary feminists are are far from the only ones highlighting this. What’s worth investigating are the given reasons that a target is vulnerable, and what should be done to mitigate risk in the future. In these, an incel and a reactionary feminist are in perfect harmony. Instead of a realistic assessment of risk at an individual level, or an assessment of group dynamics that allowed a survivor-victim to fall through the cracks, both parties will insist that all women are simply unsafe at all times. This notion suits a reactionary feminist’s goal of closed-rank suspicion, and an incel’s dream of terrified submission. This perspective neglects to really ask why things turned out the way they did, because that’s not the point. Whether women are innately inferior or innately vulnerable, we must travel in flocks if we want to survive. The reactionary feminist offers herself as the shepherd, having assured the flock that the enemy is close at hand. Women cannot, of course, be a pack of wolves. Members of a wolf pack work cooperatively but diverge at will.

THE WAR ON GENDER TERROR

The cumulative effect of this mindset and focus is a miserable hypervigilance, which is further hostile to any who are not miserable and vigilant. We know this scrutiny well from living inside a war on terror, which resulted in a vast expansion of state power to exclude, surveil, and punish. Because they have not abandoned their desire to dominate, reactionary feminists would like to do the same along the lines of gender law. Exclusion requires a concrete set of criteria by which a person can be marked acceptable or unacceptable, and there is trouble when a person shifts between the two. Whether you’re an immigration agent or an officer of the gender police, you’ve got to demonize those who shift, and shifting itself. Special attention should be paid to possible ulterior motives. At the overt end, this looks like the myth of the predatory trans woman and the slavery-complicit sex worker. However, these will not be widely accepted until the audience is made nervous by less ridiculous threats with a basis in reality. Sex trafficking is real, and pickup artists really do share tips online about how to pick up, manipulate, and coerce women. However, alarmist chain-mail suggesting that ‘gang members’ are stealing women off the street via box trucks does not reflect reality, but rather supposes that the threat could be any construction worker or labourer with a truck. Given the way people of colour are disproportionately represented in blue-collar work, the implications of this racially-biased hypervigilance should be obvious. The rapid dissemination of information (true or false) online is useful when stoking fear of ulterior motives. Genuine desire to spread a message that could save another woman fuels the sharing of partially-true and emotionally charged statements. Given the existence of incel and pickup artist subcultures, it seems believable that most men could have consumed advice on how to covertly film during sex, or remove a condom without being noticed. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant - the thing to do is be cautious. No matter how they seem, anyone could be concealing their motives. It begins to make sense to suspect a male social worker, or police bathrooms. Furthermore, failure to agree to this assessment of risk is evidence of insufficient solidarity with the rest of the female sex. Solidarity is imperative, given the horrors made visible by feminists who just want to protect women. Inaction could suggest complicity, and asking for a source on a claim is indicative that one does not believe victims. An avalanche of scorn awaits those who ask questions out of turn. the terror cannot end until the defenses are fortified and the infiltrators exposed. As footage of atrocities is replayed during news coverage of foreign occupations, the danger inherent in womanhood must be grimly acknowledged when we consider stepping out into the world.

WHAT IS MY POINT?

Reactionary feminists cling to the second-wave notion of sex and gender as stable categories by which most oppression can be measured. For reactionary feminist strategies to be accepted by a popular feminism informed by intersectionality, popular feminists must at least partially believe in the inherent vulnerability of women or the base instincts of men. While this sentiment was more readily at hand during the second wave of feminism, third wave feminism resists homogenizing by sex, race, or class. While white liberal/popular feminism has an embarrassing tendency to acknowledge intersectionality only out of politeness and/or use it as a cudgel, even performative acknowledgement is a ward against overt essentialist dogma. For this reason, reactionary feminists must harness movements like MeToo, incel attacks, and further misconstrue actual misogynist violence to encourage hypervigilance against terror. The war on gender terror perverts the desire to confront diverse facets of misogyny into the pursuit of covert internal threats. The war compels commitment to defending the home front. A feeling of perpetual vulnerability is the perfect environment for the proliferation of exclusionary strategy. We must feel our goodness and our weakness to the core. Fully enjoying relationships with men, sexual diversity, and private moments of peace are collateral in pursuit of remaining ever-vigilant.

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gtgrandom · 3 years

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Money Hei/st is NOT Feminist

Oof. I just watched half of season one of Money Hei/st (la Casa de Pape//) and had to shut it off due to the sexist undercurrent within the writing. (It’s so obviously written by a Spanish man oml - and that’s coming from a Hispanic woman).

This show has some amazing virtues, such as the production value, the cinematography, the music, the plot structure, and the acting. But I was sick to my stomach watching them attempt to appeal to feminists while reinforcing harmful, misogynistic stereotypes.

1) Victimhood. Every SINGLE woman on this show is a victim in some way - and no, it’s not just the ones held captive by a sociopath. We have the teenager whose nudes get posted online by the guy she was with, Raquel’s long spiel about being abused and how it’s a man’s world, Nairobi gives a long ass speech about being abandoned by her man to raise her son alone, Monica being pregnant with a man who doesn’t know if he’s willing to be with her, the wife this man cheated on with Monica, Tokyo being slut-shamed for her hookup and constantly overpowered by her male teammates (and much worse, later down the road), the women Berlin harasses and assaults, etc.

It’s okay to have one or two feminist issues brought up in the narrative - especially if they tie into the plot - but a true feminist story will depict women on the same level as men, as equals, as partners. Not victims to their actions in every way, shape, and form. Not hateful toward the opposite sex.

2) Overemotional women. The lead women are both emotionally compromised in the most important jobs of their lives, and their emotions lead to recklessness and poor decisions, not empathy or leadership. They lose their minds over men, and sex, and love. Because women are too emotional and can’t be trusted with positions of power...apparently. These characters all act so STUPID around their love interests it’s frustrating as hell. It’s just validating opinions that women can’t run for office or fight on the front lines because of their hormones 😷

3) The (disproportionate) sexualization of female characters. I get it; this is a thriller with a male target audience - sex and nudity is inevitable. But women are constantly in their underwear, sexually harassed, or objectified at the most inappropriate times. I literally had to shut off the television during the “sexy fantasy sleepover” between the two girl friends. Like how out of touch with reality can straight men be??? Gross, gross, gross. At least be fair about it and give us a bunch of naked dudes playing rugby, or something equally as ridiculous. Jesus.

4) The anti abortion episode. I honestly wouldn’t have cared so much, given the Hispanic influence, except the life lesson came from a MAN telling a woman why she should have her baby, and withholding her abortion pill while he did so. The power imbalance is unreal.

5) Tokyo. She’s your classic fierce, “strong female character,” who’s built up her walls due to past trauma, but is somehow still extremely attractive and lovable and sexy to all the male characters. And to complete the male fantasy, she’s down to sleep with someone 15 years her junior...because he’s just that good 🙄 she’s also obligated to return his feelings when he throws a tantrum about getting married...for some reason

6) Berlin. I don’t need to elaborate on this. He’s clearly the villain, so I’ll cut the writers some slack. But when he hates on women and talks about their vaginas after childbirth and touches young women without consequence - or reprimand - from the rest of our protagonists, I take issue with what the narrative is trying to say. You don’t need to paint morality in black and white for your viewers, but there should be some kind of force acting against him. Too often he’s portrayed in this cool and “sexy” light, and it’s disturbing.

Final notes

Once I noticed the patterns in the writing, I could no longer enjoy the story. I was literally nauseous by the time I stopped watching.

If you’re a man, you probably won’t feel offended by anything in this show (my boyfriend was shooketh when I pointed out the problematic themes, RIP), but if you’re a woman who’s had to deal with men’s bullshit all your life, from being harassed to underestimated to discriminated against, proceed with caution.

#pro feminism #feminist shows #strong female protagonist #writing women #controversial #anti money heist #anti la casa de papel

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scotfem · 3 years

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Ooooh my god. Read the whole thing it's mind boggling and written by a TRA that doesn't actually know what oppression is

Last month, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon posted a heartfelt video statement online.

She said that she would make a stance to address transphobia in her party, outlining that it ‘is wrong and we must treat it with the zero tolerance we treat racism or homophobia.’

I – like many other Scottish National Party members who left in January – watched in tears.

Yet, I fear that Sturgeon’s words have come too late to undo the SNP’s slide into becoming one of the most concerning hubs of transphobia in Scotland.

When I, a non-binary person, joined the SNP In February 2019, the party felt like a beacon of hope. Scotland had a great LGBTQ+ equalities rating, and Nicola herself, as a life-long feminist and LGBTQ+ ally, was a role model I held in deep respect.

But at just three months in, I felt first-hand the party’s disregard for the safety and wellbeing of trans people.

After I appeared in a short social media video for the SNP’s official student wing, I became the focus of a disproportionately large hate campaign launched by anti-trans activists online. They pored over screenshots of my body shared over Mumsnet, mocking my features, which they found unfeminine.

As I watched the party fail to act as the same activists who attacked me sent thank you cards to SNP politicians like Joanna Cherry for her opposition to trans rights, I never took it upon myself to report what had happened. I was aware of other complaints that had received no response.

That was until I came to a crisis point in 2020 when I was subjected to coordinated, planned abuse by anti-trans activists at a branch meeting I had been invited to.

The leaked branch meeting minutes were seen by The Herald describing, ‘At one point photocopies of men taken from the internet were passed with the comments that they had all been convicted of predatory and paedophilic behaviour against women and girls while self-identifying as women’.

In shock at their actions, I did not look at them all but one picture stood out to me, of a well-known UK trans public figure.

This trans woman had experienced abuse online for her appearance not fitting the patriarchal ideal of what ‘woman’ looks like. Yet they compared her to convicted rapists and paedophiles, just for being who she is.

I couldn’t help but compare it to what happened to me over the SNP Student video; the sheer disgust at our bodies – objects to be ridiculed.

As the night went on that room devolved into a den of transphobia. The minutes detail that anti-trans activists ‘shouted comments of men getting access to women/girls in toilets and changing rooms and raping them and the infiltration of LGBT information in primary schools encouraging children to identify as gay or trans.’

I was too scared to say anything although the branch executive apologised for these activists’ actions and ushered me to safety; it took me three months to summon up the courage to talk publicly about it.

And my fear was justified. Six months after I formally complained, nothing was done. I felt hurt and betrayed when I did not receive the support I should have been able to expect.

I emailed the new National Secretary Stewart Stevenson MSP, setting my intention to leave unless an update on my complaint was provided within two weeks.

He said nothing. And so, I left.

The sad part is many other instances go unreported due to the survivors being too scared to come forward out of fear of harassment. I was not the first trans person to come forward about being abused in the SNP.

Emma Cuthbertson, the former convenor for the party’s official LGBTQ+ wing, said she sent ‘at least 21 complaints’ outlining instances of transphobic abuse she received from other party members to SNP HQ, the national secretary and even Sturgeon herself. She said no one responded and subsequently left to join the Scottish Greens.

The rumbles of bigotry and party inaction came to a crescendo on Tuesday January 26, the day before Holocaust Memorial Day, as prominent SNP MP Joanna Cherry appeared to defend an anti-trans activist whose Twitter account has been suspended for violating its ‘hateful conduct’ policy.

Cherry tweeted claiming that ‘Twitter moderation policies are a violation of #FreeSpeech & your hateful conduct policy does not protect women…As a Member of Parliament I’m calling you out on your sexism & your #HumanRights violations’, which was to me insinuating that sexism led to the account being banned rather than acknowledging the discriminatory remarks aimed at trans and Jewish people.

Last week, the SNP had a reshuffle and dropped Cherry from the front bench – Anne McLaughlin MP has been appointed instead as the party’s spokeswoman on justice and immigration.

Recently, Justice Minister Humza Yousaf submitted highly controversial proposals to the Hate Crime Bill, which seems to enshrine in law the demand of anti-trans activists to be exempt from hate crime regulations when criticising trans people’s identities.

This accumulation of stories shared over social media, to significant outrage, meant it was understandable that a sliver of recognition from Sturgeon in her video was enough to make mytears start.

Watching her was like having two years of fear and silence finally be put into words. I cried out of pain, mourning and exhaustion because I feel this has come too late to heal the harm done to trans people both inside and outwith the party.

At this time, I don’t think the SNP support trans people on our road to an equal and inclusive independent Scotland at all. Trans healthcare was already at crisis levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Now, waiting times are at such severe levels that some trans people wait up tothree years just for their first appointment at a Gender Identity Clinic.

Trans women are experiencing an epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, including domestic and sexual abuse from their partners.

I’ve watched as close friends’ lives have been ruined by these problems, but they seem of little interest to a party in which the mere mention of trans rights acts as a lightning rod for amplifying transphobia, and distracts from the mission of independence. Trans people are tired of having to ‘wheesht for Indy’ (‘wheest’ meaning hush).

It’s a horrible situation. Young people joined the SNP out of hope for a new Scotland and now many are regretting that decision.

Sturgeon has promised change and I believe her to be an ally but until change happens, I cannot see the SNP as a safe space for already marginalised trans people.

The onus is on all of our allies to pressure the SNP leadership to launch an independent, external review of its transphobic culture, with a focus on many ignored instances of discrimination and abuse, before a generation of its activists are lost.

‘We hope our efforts will reaffirm the status of the SNP as great supporters of the LGBT+ movement. The door remains open for Teddy, other trans people and trans allies, should they wish to re-join the party at any time.’

Joanna Cherry QC MP said: ‘I am not aware of anyone in the SNP who wants to undermine the rights of Trans people. As a lesbian, a feminist and a veteran of the struggles for equality I believe that everyone deserves equal protection under the law and I am very proud of the fact that in Scotland we have very good rights-based protections for Trans people.

‘There is currently a debate about changing the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland. Some people have advocated for a policy of self-identification of gender. In response Women have raised legitimate concerns about the impact on their sex-based rights enshrined under the Equalities Act. It is concerning that in this area it is difficult to express a viewpoint without being labelled a transphobe. The Scottish Government’s proposed amendment to the draft Hate Crime bill was designed to ensure that people who wish to discuss women’s sex-based rights would be protected from charges of transphobic hate crime. Without such protections Scotland will end up in breach of Article 10 ECHR which protects the right of free speech.‘

-End of article-

You read that right folx, this idiot is actually saying that women being able to congregate and speak about issues that affect us is hate speech and wants it to be enshrined in law. The trans movement couldn't be any more anti-woman if they tried

#scottish radfem #terfs do interact #terfs do touch #libfems dni #radical feminism

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I'm exhausted. How long do you think current cancel culture will last? I'm genuinely afraid to publish any of my fiction because it's chock full of everything antis hate. Can an author get in legal trouble (obscenity laws or such) if antis use successful enough spin to make a book look predatory? Online harassment in itself is bad enough. Imagine actual fines or jail time if there's a judge who's an anti sympathizer.

Short answer: Legally, they can’t do anything to you in the United States. That is why anti influence is expressed online, where they have soft power and the ability to convince decision-makers to drop your book. It’s still astroturfed outrage, but when publishers are weak-willed enough to believe online outrage will make a book too risky to publish, the results are insanely disproportionate to whatever the supposed offense was. It is a scary time because people convince themselves what they’re doing is morally justified, even though they are directly interfering with business relationships that have nothing to do with them. They are using what’s known as a heckler’s veto, which says what matters most is not your ability to speak but someone else’s deep desire that you don’t. It’s a mob, pure and simple, and no amount of dressing it up as people being interested in “accountability,” or “diversity,” or “antifascism” makes it any different.

Now, I think a lot of this will stop when people push back through lawsuits. I’m not saying there’s a sure chance of winning every case, but I think you can argue that 1.) targeted blackballing by customers can rise to the level of tortious interference in a contract or 2.) a publisher’s reasoning for backing out of a contract can be shown to be a kind of libel, if they accuse you of holding racist views for writing about a non-Western culture, or something. Not a legal expert, but pushback like this builds, and the best way to guarantee that corporations act responsibly is to threaten them with lawsuits. The entire HR industry is built around preemptively imposing trainings just so they can point to them and say, “See? We’re not sexist.” Why shouldn’t you also be able to pressure publishers to agree to clauses in their contracts that ensure they will commit to your book once they’ve bought it, and not back out because some nerd you don’t know read your book and didn’t like it? That’s simply not something you can control and shouldn’t impact their decision to publish.

What would be even better, though, is for authors to start standing up for each other and stop tying up so much of their identity into only talking to people they agree with. Canceling a book by an unpublished author who wrote about a culture outside her own is stifling to creativity, not only because it’s bad for an individual author who is “canceled” but because it says human experience cannot be shared or understood beyond what we ourselves experience. Making this argument in any other circumstance would sound ridiculous; I have not committed crimes that my characters have, I have not grown up as they have, I have not experienced any of it. To say I can’t bring the same level of empathy and curiosity to someone of a different race or sexuality than me further Otherizes the very people who are underrepresented. In order to bring a full range of experiences into our stories, we have to accept that writers might not always do a good job.

I think a lot of this has to do with wildly clashing worldviews, some of which is just kind of gaining ground because people haven’t actively thought through their arguments. But on the academic plane, we’ve had postmodern and critical theory percolating for years, and the fundamentals of those theories are that language is power, and that the world can be forced to change by using good language. There is no such thing as neutrality, there is not a real right to free speech because words are harmful and are so powerful that people are just going to passively receive them as true without a second thought. That’s why you see people asking readers to interrogate why they REALLY like a certain trope, as if at the bottom of their interest is some need to hold onto a status quo rife with sexism, racism, pedophilia apologia, and abuse. It never occurs to them that words do not create these problems. They take the idea that language is somewhat malleable and take it to such an extreme that we can never express an impure thought, because speaking it may empower it. It prioritizes the need to control others and their reactions over the ability to freely talk about the world as it is and how it can be improved. Instead, we short-circuit the whole process of discussion about works of art to go for the easiest option: getting people to shut up. It’s both a convenient option and one that academics have spent years arguing is morally good. You have to see through that. Free expression protects us from, say, government interference, but it also protects us from having bad, untested ideas implemented without pushback. I consider identitarian issues (you must experience sexual assault to write about it (TO COPE), you must be black to write for black voices, you must be wary of ever casting a villain in a positive light lest some REAL villain gain power from it (???)) to be bad, untested ideas -- WELL ACTUALLY THEY HAVE BEEN TESTED AND IT ALWAYS ENDS BADLY, citation: history -- and I am making the argument that we should stop tolerating it even when it comes from people without hard, government power behind them. It discourages healthy conversations about how to write people well. It allows the loudest, angriest voices to prevail by giving them veto power. And it frightens authors everywhere who self-censor rather than face that mob head-on even when they have done absolutely nothing wrong.

Like, LORD, remember when people celebrated Banned Books Week? Book cliques want to keep adding to the list and think they’re really doing something new, huh.

#i wrote a lot #but i just hate to hear this from other writers #people really think the anti culture is confined to fandom?#ha ha #no it's killing everything it touches and the backlash can't happen soon enough #Anonymous

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“You know, you’d think I’d be used to you staring at T.J. from a distance, and yet, here I am,” Buffy said, sitting down across Cyrus in the lunchroom with her tray. Marty, T.J., and Jonah were all standing together, talking about whatever dumbass plan the dumbass trio were going to do. They were catching up after Marty and Jonah went to relatives’ houses and T.J. was a camp counselor, and so Cyrus hadn’t seen T.J. in four months, even if they wrote to each other (which Cyrus thought that the letter writing process was undeniably romantic).

“There are new developments Buffy,” he said, not tearing his eyes away, slowly eating the tater tots from the cafeteria, which totally aren’t the same as baby taters. “Very new developments for me to find out on the first day of school! It’s almost cruel, you know.”

“T.J. didn’t have internet or data, and he didn’t arrive back home until really late last night,” She said. “There really wasn’t a way for him to show you that until now.”

“He still hasn’t officially. We haven’t had any classes together. This is hitting me full force. And on the first day of school!”

T.J. looked around and when his eyes landed on Cyrus, he smiled and waved happily, and Cyrus smiled and waved back.

“I think it looks good,” Buffy said as T.J. came and grabbed a tray, picking up an extra muffin before sliding in next Cyrus and placing the muffin on his lunch tray.

“Hey Underdog, notice anything...new?” T.J. stroked the hair on his chin. That’s right, hair! T.J. Kippen had a small beard growing on his face.

“The werewolf attempting to break free?” Cyrus asked.

“You don’t like it?” T.J. looked a little wounded and Cyrus sighed.

“No, trust me, that is not what is going through my mind right now,” he said. “It looks ridiculously good on you.” And it did. It accented his strong jawline and it made Cyrus feel even more like a sack of potatoes than he did before. “You are now even hotter than usual.”

“You flatter me,” he said with a laugh and a nudge. “So you don’t hate it.”

“I suppose I’ll have to deal with dating a Calvin Klein model,” Cyrus joked and T.J. took his hand and gave it a squeeze, and they held hands throughout lunch.

____________

“So how do you really feel about T.J.’s beard?” Buffy asked later at Cyrus’s locker.

“What do you mean?” He asked, changing books and looking at her.

“You want me to pretend I didn’t see what I saw at lunch?” She raised an eyebrow. “You were not thrilled at the beard.”

“I...do think he looks hot with it,” he said. “And that’s the absolute honest truth because guys plus a beard equals instant hotness! Like, that plus the amount he works out and how much basketball and baseball he plays, he can literally become an Abercrombie and Fitch model! And then there’s me, the eternal baby face who is barely cute enough for Gap Kids.”

“Come on Cy, you’re not a baby face.”

“I am a man, and not an inch of hair will grace my smooth, hairless chin,” he said. “And I will not know the pure hotness that is that beard on my face unless I guy a dumb Halloween beard,” he sighed. “Also, T.J. grew that in four months! It’s how grown up he is compared to me.”

“Cyrus...some things here have nothing to do with the beard, do they?” Buffy asked.

He sighed. “I sometimes wonder...does he really like me the same way I like him? Like...really like me? Or is there a chance he’s dating me because I’m the only other out gay guy at our school?”

“Cyrus, that’s absolutely...well...preposterous!” Buffy said. “He was so head over heels with you from first sight,” she said, putting a hand on his arm. “Remember the muffin? He started off mean towards me and you were there. Then he was a little standoffish when you said you couldn’t get a muffin...and three seconds later, he’s smiling at you, the first smile I saw out of him, by the way, and touching your shoulder and standing up for you...and you were the best friend of his worst enemy.”

“That’s just because he was always secretly a good person,” Cyrus said.

“You were pouting on the swings and you two immediately started bonding even though I hated his guts more than ever?”

“Okay...I’m not saying he doesn’t like me,” Cyrus said. “I’m saying maybe it’s disproportionate, or at least it will be when he realizes that he’s dating an actual baby tater instead of like...a proper guy.”

“Cyrus, stop being ridiculous. The heavens have parted and given you your soulmate, and then had your soulmate become a trophy boyfriend by becoming even hotter,” she joked.

“I’m not sure I’m one hundred percent with you, but I get it,” he said. “And T.J. is much much more than a trophy boyfriend. His hotness and sportball-ness are only wonderful accents to the canvas of a person that he is.”

“Yeah...only dating because you’re the only out gay people,” she chuckled. “I’ll say one last thing,” she said, starting to walk to basketball practice. “He looked back first.”

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“You’ve been pretty quiet,” T.J. said, dipping a baby tater in mayonnaise, and actively ignoring the look of disgust Cyrus gave him. They already had the ‘mayonnaise is a valid dipping sauce’ debate several times. “Very uncharacteristic of you.”

“What if I was losing my voice?”

“You’d give me a sign language online dictionary and still make me follow along,” he chuckled. “You want to actually tell me what’s bothering you?”

He sighed and stuffed another baby tater in his mouth dipping it in ‘the respectable dipping sauce’ that was ketchup. “You’re too hot.”

“Thank you?”

“You’re too hot to be dating the human embodiment of this,” he held up a baby tater before eating it. “And the beard just makes it more apparent.”

“Cyrus, are you saying that me just being too lazy to shave in a shitty shower in a summer camp has made me too attractive for you?” He said with a little laugh.

“Yup. You’re officially out of my league,” Cyrus sighed and slumped back, but frowned and snapped his head when he heard T.J. throw his head back and start laughing. “Okay, I’m starting to feel a little insulted…”

“No! No!” T.J. wiped a tear. “Cyrus...you’re the one that’s out of my league!”

“Okay, you don’t have to humor me…”

“Cyrus, you’re beloved by everyone. People like me *because* of you. You...you know how to look inside people and find what makes them good and bring it out for everyone else to see, and well...you make people better. It’s absolutely amazing,” he said, taking Cyrus’s hand. “And maybe this heart is my hope of potentially reaching your league in another category.”

Cyrus was trying, and failing, to fight his blush. “You can’t just do that,” he said with a giggle.

“Do what?”

“That! Be so...unpromptedly romantic. That’s my job in this relationship,” he said and T.J. laughed again and got out of his side of the booth and then decided to slide in right next to Cyrus, putting his arm around him.

“Maybe I wanted to try something, underdog,” he said looking down and smiling.

“Okay, but you can’t be tall, hot, athletic, and romantic to the level of Shakespeare himself. Something has to be mine.”

“You’re Cyrus, everything about you is yours,” T.J. said. “Which is why I was so damn nervous taking your hand on Andi’s bench.”

“Really?”

“Yeah...you know, in a way it was nice that it was the opposite. You were so...comfortable in your position. You knew everything that was going on in your head, you were at absolute peace. Meanwhile I’m shaking and sweating and I felt like I couldn’t even hold your hand,” he said. “I liked it that I was the nervous one for a change. Handholding was my somersault.”

“Well, somersaults are my somersault,” Cyrus said.. “Something you helped me out with...like you help me out with so much…” Cyrus took T.J.’s hand and linked their fingers together while they got closer together. “And you’re pretty amazing T.J.”

“You’re more than amazing Cyrus.”

“Okay, I want to change my answer!”

T.J. smiled and leaned in and kissed Cyrus happily, and pulled away to see Cyrus with a cute wince. “What is it?”

“I kissed a cactus…”

“Cyrus!”

“You’re prickly! My prickly boyfriend!” He laughed. “My succulent boy!”

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Buffy arrived at school the next day and saw T.J. completely clean shaven. “Whoa...what happened? I thought you liked the beard.”

“I did, made me look more mature,” he chuckled. “But it’ll grow back. No worries.”

“Why didn you shave it off?” She asked, walking with him to the cafeteria for early breakfast. “Did Cyrus not like it.”

“No, he liked it,” he said. “Aesthetically he loved it, said I looked hot with it.”

“So….?” She stared at him until Cyrus arrived and stopped shocked.

“You’re no longer my cactus boy!” And Buffy immediately understood. T.J. smiled and shrugged.

“I can grow it again later if I want to. But now…” he kissed him again. “Smooth like honey.”

“If it’s sticky, I’m calling you bumblebee.”

T.J. looked over and spied the maple syrup dispenser in the cafeteria and Cyrus immediately seized his boyfriend’s arm. “I’d rather have a not-so-scary-basketball-boyfriend, though.”

#andi mack #tyrus #ambi #cyrus goodman #jamber #jandi #muffy #tj kippen #amber #buffy

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ispeakintripleentendres · 4 years

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CS1007 final exam/assessment. Call it what you want, i found resources online, and it's over and done with. Nightmare course. The pressure. The over expectations. The lack of guidance - teaching/examples. Ridiculous.

The weightlessness now. The emptiness. No more having to carve out weekend/monday evenings hearing stupid nicolas erring and umming over basic concepts and barely explaining complex ones. Then sitting around during class barely doing anything significant.

No more hanging around, waiting to see if the CS1007 class will get scheduled, at what time, how long. No more sitting in front of the screen just listening to other people work while they understand better what we're meant to be doing and i don't because i don't get french nuances. No more random importing/experimenting w unfamiliar libraries we barely have any idea how to manipulate as assignments w no debriefings after. No more fkn graphiques. No more unfamiliar syntax that we have to grapple/struggle/wrestle with for a disproportionate amount of time....

No more 8+3 to 8+5 hour long work days/classes/assignments/meetings. No more. Breathing room. Learning space. Again. Yes. I'll miss it, definitely. It was reminiscent of uni (where i was SUPPOSED to live like this but didn't) and high school (where i had to live like this because the material wasn't well explained, and also could afford to do so because i had mummy and papa taking care of things...). I love-hated it. Would i wanna do it again? No at this intensity, but yes. With more/better guidance.

But most importantly i now have time again. For sleep, exercise, bootcamp stuff, sololearn, reading.

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like you have a good point with your post, but claiming sjws dont send death threats is kinda.... fake... i use to mod on a sjw blog, and while alot of sjws ive meet have good intentions.... some take those good intentions to an extreme my dude.

look first of all let’s get this idea that there’s a real group of people called The SJWs out of our head, okay? That’s fake. That’s a made-up category of people. It’s a fictitious strawman made up by people who hate minorities who find it easier to paint their critics as unreasonable zealots than to actually formulate a coherent argument in favor of their idiotic ideology. You might as well talk about how a lot of vampires or werewolves take things to an extreme. If you think “SJW” is a real type of person, then you’ve fallen for some pretty blatant trollbait because that’s not a real thing, it’s a made-up boogeyman like “feminazis.”

So I don’t need to claim that SJWs don’t send death threats because SJWs do about the same amount of things as leprechauns and unicorns. If someone claims that an SJW sent them a death threat, I find it about as believable as someone claiming a Chupacabra crashed their car– the fact that their car has crashed, or that cars sometimes crash in general, is not the aspect whose credibility I’m calling into question. What I doubt is who or what did it.

When someone gets anon messages that’s like “RAARGH YOU’RE RACIST AND I’M GONNA KILL YOU” after doing something that’s pretty objectively racist, and then they spend the rest of the night lamenting the fact that they received death threats from the SJWs? 99% of the time they sent those messages to themselves to make themselves look like the victim of disproportionate cyberbullying instead of the perpetrator of a racist act, and the other 1% of the time it’s some troll pretending to be an “SJW” because they think it’s funny and they hope that other people will see it and think “ohhhh those SJWs are bad, look at them sending death threats to this poor defenseless blackface cosplayer who did nothing to deserve this.”

It’s really transparent and kind of pathetic, like, we all know you’re doing this, it’s blatantly obvious, just like how when someone does something racist and then posts a long crytyping post about how they’re trash and they should just die and that everyone’s being mean to them, basically nobody falls for it and we can all tell that this person is putting on a little show in the hopes of making their critics sound ableist for calling out their racism. It’s almost sad to watch them try to pull these moves because truly only the most ridiculously gullible people on earth could possibly fall for them. Like, if you actually genuinely believe any of this nonsense, I’ve got a bridge in new york and a pig in a bag to sell you and the email address of a deposed Nigerian Prince who just needs your credit card information to get all his money safely out of Nigeria and into your bank account.

Now, I’m not saying no one with progressive politics has ever threatened to kill someone online due to an ideological disagreement. Refer back to the chupacabra crashing the car I referred to earlier. I believe the person got a death threat, and I believe it’s possible they genuinely believe it was a chupacabra, but I’m also going to make fun of that person a little bit for believing in chupacabras or thinking that one would somehow benefit from crashing their car.

I am saying that “SJWs” are a sock puppet boogeyman, and that most of the people who believe that such a group exists are either the ones creating the trollbait or the ones who’ve fallen for it, sometimes both, and when someone receives things like death threats and suicide bait from “the SJWs” the majority of the time it’s either more trollbait or that person sending shit to themselves anonymously to win back some sympathy in a situation where they were pretty objectively wrong.

#Anonymous #I promise you've never met any SJWs for the same reason you've never met any time lords #they don't exist and if you think you've met one then someone is lying to you

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loudlytransparenttrash · 7 years

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12 Wacky Things The Left Mistakes For Oppression

1. Black men are disproportionately being incarcerated

Maybe that’s because black men are disproportionately committing the most crime and murder? Despite making up just 13 percent of the population, blacks have been committing 52 percent of homicides in the United States for 30 years. In the other categories of violent crime such as rape, robbery and aggravated assault, blacks consistently committed a staggering disproportion of the total (40 percent while making up just 13 percent of the population) in 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. The murder rate among blacks is similar to the rates in some of the most violent third-world nations. No other racial or ethnic group comes close. Note that for 20 to 24-year-olds, the murder rate committed by blacks (109.4/100,000) is 17 times higher than the rate for whites (6.4/100,000). Among 15 to 19-year-olds, it is over 20 times higher. The average for all ages is 13 times higher. The media have relentlessly fanned the flames of racial hatred while engaging in a systematic pattern of misinformation and blatant suppression of facts surrounding the perpetrators and victims of crime. As a result, so-called “criminal justice reform” is now being proposed to release a ton of black criminals from prisons, supposedly to “make amends” for the unjust “mass incarceration” of black men. The vast majority of blacks in prison are there because of violent crime and mostly against black people. Ordinary black people cannot afford to go along with the liberal agenda that calls for undermining police authority over black criminals, they are still criminals regardless of their skin color. That agenda only makes for more black crime victims. The black incarceration rate isn’t racism, it is simply a sad but accurate reflection of the horrific black crime rate. It’s your own fault.

2. Some women don’t have high paying jobs

These young women either have taken woke intersectional feminist genderqueer majors which resembles less of a qualification in anything useful and more of a retarded child’s participation certificate. Or they have actually chosen happiness and personal fulfilment over frantically comparing their wage slips to every man they meet. Despite the fact that young women flock to these pointless and low paying courses, young women are still earning more than young men after graduating. Girls are getting better grades from kindergarten to university, they are being accepted into college more, they are being handed grants and scholarships simply for being women, they take home 57 percent of university degrees and they are dominating in many STEM fields plus they are twice as likely to be hired. If there is a biased structure in play favoring one gender over another, women are not on the losing end. The problem we have is once women are hired, they usually lack the motivation, competitiveness and win-at-all-cost mindset it takes to rise up the corporate ladder. Women also tend to work less hours, they don’t want to do overtime, they don’t want to take their work home with them and if the job involves danger, difficulty or physical labor, regardless if it offers high wages, they will turn it down. Feminists only reference the highest paying males of Fortune 500 companies as evidence of their “oppression” but these men are examples of working 90 hour weeks and not having a life away from work and making the worst partners and parents imaginable. If you don’t want a family, you don’t want to study a real major, and you don’t want to work hard but you still want to blame “the patriarchy” when you are broke and miserable, it’s your own fault.

3. Islamophobia

Islamophobia is not a real thing, it’s just a term pushed by Islamists in order to export Islamic blasphemy laws to the West. This word is nothing more than a thought-terminating tool conceived in the bowels of the Muslim Brotherhood for the purpose of silencing critics. Every religion, ideology or idea is allowed to be subjected to criticism without turning those critics into people suffering from a phobia - except for Islam. Islamophobia is classic political correctness. You don’t have to deal with the substance of arguments against the oppression and human rights atrocities celebrated under this barbaric seventh-century ideology or the fundamentals within the Quran and Hadiths which are the driving force behind Islamic extremism, all you have to do is label critics a cluster of “Islamophobes” and the argument is over. As this lie prevails, we become infinitely more vulnerable to Islamic terrorism and sickening Islamic practices because we are afraid to talk about them and it prevents us from being honest about the danger we are faced with. People have become too scared to report radicalization, police have become too scared to investigate mass Muslim rape gangs grooming and abusing young girls, women have become too scared to report their rape when it’s committed by a migrant. All because we don’t want to be “Islamophobic.” It requires that no one speak ill of Islam or say anything that might put a frown upon a Muslim, if so then we are accused of spreading hate and being responsible for radicalizing and pushing these Muslims to terrorism but in reality it’s to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws onto the West, easing us into getting used to Sharia law. Ten years ago we could never have imagined British citizens being sent to prison for writing a criticism of Islam on a personal social media account but today it is illegal blasphemy and we are now being arrested for it. Brushing off Islam’s primitive religious fundamentals and pretending they are harmless and cute all because the majority of those who believe in them aren’t white is not progressive, it is not being tolerant, it is being submissive and dumb. If you believe your backwards religion is beyond criticism and your beliefs can’t hold up to basic scrutiny, it’s your own fault.

4. Immigrants are being deported

No. Illegal immigrants are being deported. I know the left have popularized the crazy idea that once somebody illegally breaks into our home, they are to be rewarded with citizenship, protection and handouts but that’s not how immigration works, this is not the immigration you say our country was built on and you know it. This country was built on legal immigration, and the ones who made it through learned the language and assimilated while bringing a ton of jobs with them. Legal immigrants are as safe from ICE as the President so let’s stop pretending that every immigrant is living in fear. I read children of Italian immigrants from the 60′s are “scared” of being deported - give me a break and learn the difference between legal and illegal, fucking morons. When you break the law, you do not get rewarded, that is not progressivism, that is stupidity. Today’s scenario is 15 million illegals ridiculing those who played by the rules. Illegal immigrants should have no expectations that their lives here should be the same as those who are legal citizens. These people are here illegally, they are aliens, they are not “dreamers.” By lumping together illegal and legal immigrants, the “let them all stay” folks are vigorously trying to muddy the water so the actual issue, illegal immigration, gets lost in the process. Though people are waking up and are finally putting border security before caring about being called bigots. If you cheat the system, sneak into a country illegally and you get caught and your ass is sent back, it’s your own fault.

5. Women live in a “rape culture”

Feminists describe our society as a “rape culture” where violence against women is so normal, it’s invisible. Films, magazines, fashion, books, music, humor, even kids toys according to the feminist activists cooperate in conveying the message that women are there to be used, abused and exploited. Recently, rape culture theory has migrated from the lonely corners of the feminist sphere into the mainstream. Obama’s admin asserted that we need to combat campus rape by changing “a culture of passivity and tolerance in this country, which too often allows this type of violence to persist.” Tolerance for rape? Really? The 1 in 5 myth is just that. A myth. It comes from this 2007 Campus Sexual Assault study. In the study itself, the researchers make it clear that the research consisted of students from just two universities. There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S and the research was confined to just two of them. It was a basic online survey that took 15 minutes to complete, it was anonymous, no one’s claims were verified and any affirmative answer to questions such as “have you ever had sex while intoxicated” was marked as rape. Even the study authors have since come out and explicitly stated that it is “inappropriate” to use their survey to make the claim that 1 in 5 women are being raped. Even the nation’s largest and most influential anti-sexual violence organization rejects the idea that culture as opposed to the actions of individuals is responsible for rape. RAINN urged Obama’s White House to “remain focused on the true cause of the problem” and explained “In the last few years, there has been an unfortunate trend towards blaming “rape culture” for the extensive problem of sexual violence on campus. It is important not to lose sight of a simple fact: Rape is caused not by cultural factors but by the conscious decisions of a small percentage of the community to commit a violent crime.” RAINN is especially critical of the idea that we need to focus on teaching boys not to rape, the hallmark of feminist activism. “No one would deny that we should teach boys to respect women. But by and large this is already happening. By the time men reach college, most students have been exposed to 18 years of prevention messages, in one form or another. The vast majority of men absorb these messages and view rape as the horrific crime that it is. So efforts to address rape need to focus on the very small portion of the population that has proven itself immune to years of prevention messages. They should not vilify the average guy.”

6. Nobody wants to have sex with trans people

These “transphobic” people aren’t gay. I’m sorry to break it to you but we know the difference between a woman and a guy in a wig and we know the difference between a man and a girl with a buzzcut. Mutilating what’s between your legs makes no difference either. No amount of repeating ‘it’s all just a silly social construct’ will change biological facts and the nature of human attraction. We all support your right to live your life in any way you please but you cannot expect everyone to just go along with what’s inside your head especially when it comes to preferring who we want to have sex with, because uh you know, that should always be our choice. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to feel that you are in the wrong body but this does not mean that people should feel obligated to have sex with the gender that you “feel” when all they see is the gender you are. You are not being discriminated against, people should be allowed to be as picky as they want when it comes to who’s dick they let inside of them. To be discriminated against, one needs to be denied something without a valid reason and it seems like having a cock hanging between your legs when a straight guy is expecting pussy is a whole lot of reason to not to have sex with you. Do we call gay men misogynists for not having sex with women? Do we call lesbians man-hatin… forget that one. I get it, you’re desperate for love, you’re desperate for affection, aren’t we all? But manipulating and shaming people into having sex with you is pretty fucked up. It’s not your fault that you suffer from dysphoria but if you believe it makes you entitled to shame people into having sex with you, it’s your own fault.

7. Women can’t walk alone at night without feeling scared

Name one person apart from maybe Thor who isn’t vulnerable to violent crime if they walk home alone at two in the morning. Men make up the large majority of all victims of violent crime, everything from threats to robbery, assault and murder so if anyone should feel afraid of walking alone at night, it’s guys. Except men aren’t being told the responsibility for their own safety falls to everyone else but themselves. The responsibility does not fall onto every man to keep you safe from your own actions, the responsibility remains with you and your decision to be stupid enough to put yourself in such a vulnerable situation. If a white man walks around at night alone and he gets robbed by a black person, would we say it’s every black person’s job to make sure it never happens again to another white person? Would we tell black children not to grow up to be robbers? So why do feminists insist on ‘reprogramming’ young boys and ‘rewiring their brains’ to teach them a crime they already know is wrong is wrong? Feminists instruct women to be scared and suspicious of every man that looks at them or they cross paths with but the idea that scary boogeymen are jumping out from behind bushes to rape women as they walk to their cars is a myth. Almost all rapes are committed by someone known to the victim so being scared and suspicious of random males on the street is an irrational and sexist paranoia perpetuated by feminism’s false rape statistics and anti-male campaigning. If you want to walk home alone late at night dressed like a slut, drunk and lacking all self-awareness, it’s your own fault.

8. Black people are shot by police officers

Let’s be clear, by far more whites are shot by police than blacks. Although I don’t pick and choose when to consider demographics so it’s true, black people are more likely to be shot but for the same reasons black people are more likely to be incarcerated, this comes directly back to the black crime rates we talked about earlier. When you commit the most crime, you are going to have the most confrontations with police and thanks to black culture’s anti-police and thug mentality, most young black people don’t know how to properly react to the police which is a recipe for disaster. Police don’t patrol black neighborhoods for the fun of it, they go where the most crime happens and the astronomical black crime rate warrants such police presence. In almost every case Black Lives Matter have rioted over, their martyr has either been armed, attacking the officer, ignoring demands or resisting arrest. Hands up don’t shoot is a myth. What’s also a myth is the idea that white police officers have declared open season on black innocents. How many white cops have been responsible for shooting a BLM darling? Practically none. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers, these are facts. Police are also more likely to be killed by blacks than to kill unarmed blacks. In 2013 alone, 49,851 officers were assaulted with firearms, knives and other weapons. On average, 150 police officers have been killed in the line of duty every year. These include being shot, stabbed, strangled or beaten. Of the several hundred officers feloniously killed in the past decade, 46 percent of the perpetrators were black, despite them representing only 13 percent of the population. Do we call this a black war against the police? Blacks are 18.5 times more likely to shoot and kill a police officer than an unarmed black person being shot by an officer himself. If anyone’s life is consistently in danger, it’s the cops. If you commit crime, you attack a cop or you resist arrest, it’s your own fault.

9. The Pink Tax

Feminists say that they’re being discriminated against for being women because products advertised to women are sometimes more expensive than products advertised to men, even though they’re exactly the same product. So, if they’re exactly the same, then why the fuck aren’t you buying the cheaper option? These “pink” products and services are only more expensive because companies know women are the only ones gullible enough to pay for a pink razor with a naked goddess on it and believe it’s better than the boring cheap brown razor alternative next to it that men will buy. The same thing applies for health foods, they’re usually priced higher because they know creepy vegan people and health fanatics are dumb enough to fork out cash for sundried pumpkin seeds and cabbage juice. The same thing applies with make up and beauty products, you slap a label on them that tells us it hasn’t been tested on a pig and people are willing to pay triple the price. The same thing happens with sports team merchandise and clothing and footwear, men’s versions are usually more expensive than women’s because they know men are dumb enough to pay whatever it costs to wear their favorite team’s gear around. Women are not exclusive to this targeting, if you’re dumb enough to pay for the more expensive option then sellers will remain smart enough to continue to charge you for it. An even more ludicrous tantrum feminists are having is about women having to pay more for certain services. They complain how mistreated they are because women get charged more to get a hair cut, even though on average women have more fucking hair to wash, cut and dry and men aren’t exactly lining up to get highlights, curls and extensions now are they. Listen ladies, it’s not rocket science, it’s simple business that keeps our economy as one of the strongest in the world. As I said, if you’re dumb enough to pay for it then it’s your own fault.

10. Transgender suicides

People who become so convinced they are something they’re not and resort to mutilating their genitals and hormonal development to make what’s inside their minds a reality have mental health issues? Who’d thunk!? Again, this is what happens when we pretend this is normal behavior and go along with it, we pump them with drugs and cut their tits off instead of actually helping them deal with their mental disorder in a humane and responsible manner. If someone came to a doctor and asked him to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because it just felt “wrong” for the arm to be there, should the doctor do it? This isn’t an idle question because this does happen with a mental illness called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). People who have it feel as if they’re not supposed to have a certain body part, like an arm or leg. Doctors won’t remove a healthy body part, so some of these poor deluded people crush, mangle, burn, or otherwise deliberately destroy their own arms or legs in order to get a surgeon to slice them off. This raises a question: Are surgeons who refuse to remove healthy limbs from people with BIID doing them a service because they’re mentally ill or are they denying them their civil rights? Is BIID going to be the next mental disorder we are shamed into normalizing and accepting? When children who reported transgender feelings were tracked without medical or surgical treatment at both Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic, 70%-80% of them spontaneously lost those feelings. Imagine removing your genitals and realizing that it didn’t make any difference or worse yet, that it was a HUGE MISTAKE. Nobody wants to talk about the suicide and depression of trans people once they have realized it was all a mistake. Nobody is denying that transgendered people face a high risk of suicide, but it’s not because people aren’t using the correct pronouns, it’s because they are suffering from a mental disorder so for as long as we enable their suicide and depression by hacking their bodies and filling them with drugs instead of providing real and effective help, it’s your own fault.

11. Blacks still waiting for slavery reparations

Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African Americans and most people around the world including white people. Only 6 percent of African slaves were taken to North America, most slave imports were overwhelmingly taken to South America and the Caribbean. In 1830 there were almost 4000 black people who owned around 13 thousand black slaves. Are reparations to be paid by the descendants of Africans, South Americans and Arabs too? Or are we just going to keep pretending whites are to blame for slavery? Only a tiny fraction of whites owned a tiny fraction of the slaves so expecting every white person 200 years later to provide a black guy with a free sandwich or gift him a job for being black makes zero sense. The claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only whites have benefited from slavery. If slave labor created wealth for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black Americans as well. Black buying power is expected to reach $1.2 trillion this year, and $1.4 trillion by 2020. That is so much combined spending power that it would make black America one of the largest economies in the world in terms of gross domestic product, the size of Mexico based on world bank data. Black people earning $75,000 or more per year are growing faster in size and influence than whites in all income groups above $60,000. American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of up to fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from which their ancestors originated. Is it time to check that little thing called privilege? No evidence-based attempt has been made to prove that living individuals have been adversely affected by a slave system that was ended over 150 years ago. But there is plenty of evidence that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than any lingering after-effects of a system that was abolished 150 years before most of Black Lives Matter members were even born. Reparations were meant as payments to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, Japanese Americans and African American victims of racial experiments in Tuskegee, or racial outrages in Rosewood and Oklahoma City. But in each case, the recipients of reparations were the immediate family or direct victims of injury caused by injustice. It’s never been about giving free shit to black people a century or two later and neither should it ever be. That’s just trying to rip off the system and it’s your own fault.

12. Black people are held back by white privilege

White privilege has become one of the favorite arguments of BLM and pandering guilt-riddled liberals who like to make excuses for the fact that black Americans struggle to keep up. The concept of white privilege is also a favorite weapon for those who make their living stirring up racial discord by saying that to be anything but white in America is to be handicapped by default. For those who wish to exploit an entire demographic of people for political benefit, the idea of white privilege has great appeal. However, there are a number of problems with the fundamental premise of white privilege. One factor that tends to undermine the premise of white privilege is that poor whites face every one of the same challenges that poor blacks and poor people of all races face, it would be easier to make a case for wealth privilege in America than white privilege. If that’s the case, white people still wouldn’t be the privileged group as all socio-economic indicators show Asian Americans come out far on top. This being the case, all Americans would do well to consider why it is that Asian Americans as a group do so much better on basic socio-economic indicators than white, black, and Hispanic Americans. There may be something worth learning from such an exercise. What Asian Americans have proven is that privilege in America is based not on race but on merit. People of any race can succeed in America if they emulate the approach of Asian Americans: take education seriously, develop a positive work ethic, obey the rules, respect the laws, and stay together as families. There is no escaping the fact that education and family structure play huge roles in determining the success or failure of various racial and ethnic groups. This plays a greater role in the difference between white and black success than automatically throwing a blanket over the entire white race. There are many issues within the black community that need to be fixed by themselves, acknowledging these issues is the first step as we all too often want to ignore them and expect whites to make the change. You cannot lack education, work ethic, family structure and respect for law and then go on to expect equal success and opportunity, it’s not plausible and it’s your own fault.

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The Real Hack Is In The Doing.

http://tinyurl.com/y6d37237 I had a coaching call with a client recently and it was a trainwreck. I’m trying to get them to create content and they keep peering into the future. Instead of creating content they’re obsessed with: Sales Funnels When to monetize How to convert inquiries into customers What camera to use when filming videos Writing a whitepaper I told them this: “Screw all of that. The key to success is in the doing.” Your Ideas change over time. When I first started blogging in 2014, I was doing interviews with entrepreneurs and turning them into blog posts. I had no idea what I was doing or even why I was doing it. The blog posts sucked and sounded like press releases. I hated the process. None of the blog posts got any engagement at all. Hearing entrepreneurs talk about raising money and selling widgets was boring to me. Then, one night at around 8 pm I wrote a blog post about changing my life. It was all the lessons I learned from studying personal development and it was nothing more than a brain fart. It took about 45 minutes to write and was published with spelling and grammar errors all the way through it. This post got shared 84,000 times on Facebook alone. All of a sudden, through focusing on the doing, I found something I liked. “What starts as an idea changes over time and you’ll never predict where things will end up. Trust in the process” Your beliefs change too. I told my coaching client that his beliefs would change too. What he believes right now will change in the future. This will shape his creative side and his content most of all. “Trying to predict where you’ll be in the future is like trying to predict when you’re going to die - it’s impossible to know” My beliefs initially about what I was doing came from a very self-centered view of the world that was all about the cliché version of success. I thought the nice car, suit, house and bikini babe was what mattered. Pretty quickly, as I produced lots of content and began reading, after not touching a book for more than ten years, I saw a different side. My beliefs about the world changed and the idea of money went to last place. Add on a couple of near-death experiences like a cancer scare and my beliefs are now completely different. I’m no longer trying to figure out how to suck out as much value from the world as I can for my own benefit. What I do daily is about a purpose far bigger than myself. I told my coaching client this story because I believed the same was true for him. He’s trying to impact people’s lives by getting them to fall in love with the work they do. Whenever he starts talking about this topic, I feel inspired. I told him that I say no to so many clients because I don’t believe in what they do. I believe in what he does and that’s why I’m obsessed with getting him to focus on the doing. You learn as you go. People have this obsession with the idea that you have to do a course, be mentored, study for years (insert excuse) before you can start doing what you love. This is a ridiculous idea and I challenge you to a duel if you think this way. As you continue the doing aspect of what you love, you’ll learn at the same time. Even if you’re not conscious about the learning side, the doing will reveal way more than waiting for accreditation, permission or a mentor’s approval to proceed ever will. Everything I know about social media, blogging, inspiring people and entrepreneurship came from the doing. Yes, there was deliberate learning along the way but that was always a distant second to the doing itself. Consuming vs. creating. My coaching client also suffered from the battle that is consuming vs. creating. He spent too much time watching what everyone else was doing and he didn’t spend enough time creating his own art. He’s currently posting one video a week and I told him that’s not enough. He has it within him to do at least one video a day if he quits consuming everybody else’s content. He also told me that he feels the need to respond to every comment he gets on social media. I told him this is nuts!!! You cannot respond to every comment or email you get online. This time is better spent creating than it is pumping up your ego with “thank you’s” and “yes I know I’m so smart.” The tools change. I started blogging on WordPress and now I do most things on Medium and LinkedIn. If I’d become too obsessed with the tools, then I would have wasted the time I could have been spending refining my craft. All the tools you use to execute on doing what you love will change, so treat them secondary to creating your unique art. You can’t preplan the doing 9 times out of 10. Your best work is often done when you’re spontaneous. For example, today is a public holiday in Australia and I wouldn’t normally write on a Wednesday. I felt inspired this morning though, so I decided to jump on the computer and do some creating. Some of my best work (if I look at the stats) has been done on public days and times when I didn’t plan to create anything. Over planning is a trap you need to avoid if you want to get down to the doing which produces results. The doing is the hardest part. The reason why many of you reading this are so obsessed with mentors, education, online courses and consuming someone else’s content is because all of these things are easy. The doing is the hardest part. Being creative takes up all of your energy and putting your work out there to be judged is hard on your ego. “Creating truly inspiring work takes every ounce of your emotions. You need flow states, time, resources and the belief that you’re enough to do the doing” What stops us from the doing is either procrastination or fear. These two evils prevent you from the doing without you often realizing. My coaching client wants to make a massive impact and he’s scared that he doesn’t have the ability. As his coach, I know he does and I’ve seen it. The battle that exists in your mind daily is whether you should be doing the doing or settling for something easier (often this looks like the same thing but it’s not!). Spending time doing the very thing that is hard, is how you leapfrog everyone else that never gets what they want and never lives a fulfilled life. How do you win so frequently? That’s what my coaching client asked me. He wanted to know how I produce so much content and have so many people watching online. I told him the truth: I just spend as much time as I can doing the doing. Everything else seems to take care of itself when I embrace this simple hack. You must become obsessed with the doing. Spend a disproportionate amount of time doing the doing and you’ll produce the results that are 10X of what you think you’re capable of. Are you ready to win? 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