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oh my goddddddddddd

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spoke deeply to me.

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Another fascinating moral dilemma from the philosophers of r/punk

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I was listening to the podcast Overheard this morning about women going to space. And it made me realize a language trick used to belittle women even when it seems like they’re praising women. Here it is:

In the episode, they’re talking about how women do on the physical tests that were used to screen the first class of male astronauts (these exams were done at the same time period). And it gets to one specific test: sensory depravation. In a sensory depravation scenario, males lasted 3 hours but there were women going to 10.5 hours - more than 3 times the length. And the podcast says: “This shows women were just as suitable as men” or “equal in suitability”. Something. But they were saying that, after showing that women were much better at this one text and passed the others, that they were equal to men. Equal? When you’re three times better?

Women’s achievements, no matter how significant, are used to say we’re /just/ as suitable as men /just/ as equal. No, we’re demonstrably better in this and so many other situations. Better! Language in this way shows that no matter how fucking Amazon a woman or women as a group are, we are stuck at achieving the consideration of equal to any given man or group of men and can never be considered better - even when we are.

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Poorly drawn Vulpix line

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how busy are you guys that you can't spend a few days sorting beetles?

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"if your anti-racist activism doesn't make space for the experiences of white people with adhd, then your anti-racist activism is bullshit and if u pretend it's intersectional you're a fucking clown"

"if your disability rights activism doesn't make space for veganism and able-bodied single mothers, then your disability rights activism is bullshit and if u pretend it's intersectional you're a fucking clown."

Notice how nobody says this because it's obviously fucking nonsense. Only when it's about liberating women do people feel emboldened to say "hey women if you ever think about advocating for yourselves, even in your own movement that you created, you're a shitty person and you should feel guilty and selfish." As if women don't receive the message to prioritize everyone (especially men) over themselves constantly from every corner of society.

The point of feminism is the liberation of women from men and male supremacy. It is not the uplifting of every downtrodden person in the world. That requires prioritizing women btw.

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if you’re supposedly so worried about games with lgbt characters getting banned, campaign to disassociate lgbt themes from rape and pedophilia, instead of campaigning to protect your access to games with rape and pedophilia. stop using us as a cover for your disgusting woman-hatred.

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anyone ever: from the get-go

me, nodding sagely: from the gecko…

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girls & gulls

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The dog saw the man beating his family and has correctly assessed "hey he beats the family".

W dog i love dogs now