#Invisible Oppression

[bat-in-the-machine]

Today, to celebrate Pride, I want to tell you something I was just forcibly reminded of: If a company makes an accommodation available in just one state, it's only doing so because it's mandated by that state. The company is making a conscious choice to exclude the rest of its customers.

If, for example, the accommodation is adding a preferred name and pronouns to the customer's records, that conscious choice to exclude requires additional code to be written to enforce that exclusion.

Anyway, I'm mad at my work today for reasons.

Congrats to New York, tho.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Nervosa - Invisible Oppression

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[itellmyselfsecrets]

Some call women's segregation into low-paid work a choice. But it's a funny kind of choice when there is no realistic option other than the children not being cared for and the housework not getting done. In any case, fifty year's worth of US census data has proven that when women join an industry in high numbers, that industry attracts lower pay and loses 'prestige’, suggesting that low-paid work chooses women rather than the other way around. This choice-that-isn't-a-choice is making women poor…Women earn between 31% and 75% less than men over their lifetimes.

This all leaves women facing extreme poverty in their old age, in part because they simply can't afford to save for it. - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

[ninakaina]

innie tumblr would be crazy ms helly would NOT take kindly to being told she has privilege over the gemmas

[frogs-in3-hills]

it's nice and all, genuinely, for people to say that they empathize with the asexual community and acknowledge the basic existence of ace people, but like, the validity of asexuality has never been the focal point of discourse within the queer community. obv it's not like that was never a part of the "discussion", but queer aphobes have always been chiefly concerned with the encroachment of asexuality into queer spaces, and whether or not we "deserve" to be a part of the queer community at large. which is, of course, a ridiculous line of questioning: aces and aros experience documented (if under-reported), meaningful discrimination and oppression through pathologization and a lack of/limited access to the material benefits of nuclear family & romantic partnership*, among other mechanisms. even barring that, the framework of asexual and aromantic oppression is for sure distinct from that of other queer identities, but the sheer number of ways the ace community's goals intersect with the goals of the queer community overall lends more than enough justification for us to acknowledge them as deeply interconnected. whether you're chill about aces simply choosing to identify as such in your vicinity is not actually that relevant to the equation

*to be clear, it's not exactly that aces are prevented from entering these beneficial relationships that makes it oppressive, it's the fact that being excluded from them makes it tangibly harder to exist in society. we should question why there are social/governmental/financial incentives to participate in institutions like marriage in the first place

[queertations]

"Are we going to sit around and wait for every group to point out their own invisibility to us?"

The Natural Next Step: Including Transgender in Our Movement by Naomi Tucker (Anything That Moves iss. 4)

[osokasstuff]

when marginalized group says "we experience erasure" and society replies with "no you don't! you're just rare/less visible/decentralized and separated from each other/less interesting/etc." it's literally a description of erasure.

even if said group actually is [pt: is] statistically rare (and this statistics isn't understated because of erasure), remember that there's approximately 8 billion people. even 0.01% (1 per 10,000) is 800 thousand people. which is a lot. even small percentages become huge numbers when the total is 8 fucking billion [pt: 8 fucking billion]. (and even if there are only couple of individuals, or even only one individual with such experience in the world, they still deserve to be seen).

erasure as oppressive tool works exactly like this. make everyone believe that marginalized group is actually very small and rare, so there's no need to take their existence into account. make the group less visible and when this group is brought up, say something like "so, they're not here. we shouldn't take them into account because they're not here. we don't make harm them because they're not here to be harmed." (let's drop the fact that they're probably not here because you haven't taken them into account). make the group decentralized and separated to make them less visible/invisible. make the group seem not interesting so other people wouldn't want to learn about them because it's boring.

erasure and invisibility extend to themselves as well.

[syzygyblvd]

this pride month let's understand that making assumptions about a person based on their gender is bad, even if that gender is male.

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“What may seem objective can actually be highly male biased…Worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture. And if that culture is as male-biased as ours is, it can’t help but be biased against women. By default…The presumption that what is male is universal is a direct consequence of the gender data gap. Whiteness and maleness can only go without saying because most other identities never get said at all. But male universality is also a cause of the gender data gap: because women aren’t seen and aren’t remembered, because male data makes up the majority of what we know, what is male comes to be seen as universal. It leads to the positioning of women, half the global population, as a minority. With a niche identity, and a subjective point of view. In such a framing, women are set up to be forgettable. Ignorable. Dispensable - from culture, from history, from data. And so, women become invisible.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

[philosophybitmaps]

[vulturesawake]

Always sucks when you see a great post and then they ruin it with a bad take. Many such cases!

[marenmagdalene]

Have been once again in a state of terrible financial anxiety and after some profound inner searching have come to the conclusion that it's really because I can't afford the switch 2 (I would like the switch 2). wouldn't wish this zelda gaymer life on anyone

[battledeer]

Shaking other online trans people by the shoulders!! Trans masc and nonbinary invisibility is by design!! It’s part of the oppression!! If you don’t notice a group of people exist, it’s that much easier to pretend they aren’t victims!! That’s how erasure works that’s why it exists!!