#standpoint

[i4m4schol4r]

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“Part 8 | Standpoint Theory is an EXCELLENT perspective to better understand the need to centeral position, 2,898

marginalized voices. #antiracism #antiracist #standpoint #feminism #intersectionality”

[senyoahedor]

JUDGMENT CALL

even if it were just two of us left in the world, i imagine that i would stop interacting with a counterpart always inclined to view anything that i say or do through the worst possible lens. i imagine that i would also stop interacting with a counterpart always inclined to view anything that i say or do through the best possible lens.

these scenarios are two extremes, and a dynamic evaluation of trustworthiness is rendered impossible under both of these conditions. the former scenario takes trustworthiness to be perfectly absent, and the latter scenario takes it to be perfectly present. interaction under both of these conditions would be pointless.

i mean, i would find it pointless to interact with anyone who always found my trustworthiness level to be zero, at one extreme, or who always found my trustworthiness level to be infinite, at the other extreme. nothing could be changed between us through interaction. nothing constructive would be at stake between us even if we were to interact.

my own trustworthiness level as to myself isn’t zero nor infinite. myself with myself, i operate within zones of trustworthiness between zero and infinity. i am not always operating within a healthy and productive zone of trustworthiness, myself with myself. i fluctuate, myself with myself. i can get too low on myself sometimes, and i can get too high on myself othertimes.

moreover, healthy and productive zones of trustworthiness aren’t at fixed points. healthy and productive zones of trustworthiness, myself with myself, haven’t been at fixed points over the course of my life to date. i expect, as i gain more and more knowledge and experience, i will keep advancing and retreating where healthy and productive zones of trustworthiness, myself with myself, are.

myself with others, i expect anyone who interacts with me in any consequential way to question my trustworthiness in good faith, just as i question their trustworthiness in good faith. good faith interactions might just be the type between counterparts willing and able to interact with each other within correspondingly healthy and productive zones of trustworthiness.

i am not able to have good faith interactions with everyone. i may not have always realized the fact, but i will never be able to have good faith interactions with everyone because i cannot be within the same zone of trustworthiness with everyone.

i cannot share the same background of knowledge and experience as everyone. my particular contexts of knowledge and experience cannot be acknowledged by everyone, and i cannot acknowledge everyone’s particular contexts. there isn’t enough opportunity and grace to do so.

trustworthiness is a finite resource, even if a renewable resource. expend it wisely.

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[wormspoodle]

he's brought a friend

[legayllyblonde]

so that new official valentine's art, huh...

[carlyraejepsans]

it works really well for his design in general so it could be completely unrelated, but I do wonder if the choice to give gerson's sprite such a visible tail is also something that ties into Susie's arc with him. We know she hides hers because she's built up a very aloof persona to protect herself and her feelings, and her tail betrays a lot of the emotions she tries to hide. meanwhile gerson's entire plotline in chapter 4 is centered on poking at her irony poisoning and encouraging her earnestness as a creative/storyteller by wearing her heart on her sleeve.

[hinamie]

i fear i can never date a man bc none of them will ever be makoto tachibana

[inkskinned]

okay i almost never address the very small amount of internet fame i have. and sometimes yes it sucks. people often repost my work, or clip it out of context, or flat-out steal it. but like it can be very funny. once a follower dm'd me to say a guy on hinge was pretending to be "inkskinned", and actually had even started his own insta. when she said "i've followed her for years i don't think you're her", he said - actually r.i.d is like seven people, we just made those initials up. (rude). when i found his insta and messaged him, he begged me to just lie and say he was r.i.d because "it's hard for men to date."

once someone said she should be allowed to plagiarize my work because she was a body-positive influencer and that if i "made a big deal" about this and "got her cancelled", i would be doing damage to my own community and i was never "actually" an ally.

i bear these things with the aura of a martyr, the way my catholic father raised me to. i message privately. i handle things quietly and quickly. i do not complain because i am very, very, very, very blessed and i know that. mercy and gentleness literally pour out of me every morning when i wake up, and then i have to mop the floors for how very Good i am.

however today is the first time i have ever had a very specific problem that neither requires me to correct this person nor throw them to the dogs but is somehow worse than years of hatemail, reddit thread death threats, and pinterest reposts:

someone quoted me and just got it, like, a little wrong.

[mumblesplash]

i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers

you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.

AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character

see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.

mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.

[tearlessrain]

kind of wild how much fiction still treats torture as something that objectively works when every study has shown that it does not work at all and is possibly the least effective way to get correct information

[senyoahedor]

LIMINALITY

i am aware, as i swim against the current, i expend energy and time, and i forego certainty.

what shapes my sensibilities? i say, what shapes others' sensibilities?

what effect we effect isn't the point. what effect we effect matters, but not to us, in a sense, because we are what matters to us, being us in the capacity of us. we can't reduce ourselves, being us, to what effect we effect. we are reason enough, all on our own, as cause to be as we care to be.

there will always be uncertainty for us who swim against the current, and if we must assure ourselves of precisely what we can't assure ourselves of, then we must do nothing but just the work towards…

as a matter of science and faith, i assert there is an abundant abundance of approaches toward…

have i been evasive? i have been evasive.

[lilybug-02]

Limited clothing options. True story.

[humming-fly]

(The most impressive thing here isn't that Rouge and Shadow didn't know they shared a birthday it's that Amy Did)

Last week I saw a lot of those "Happy Birthday Shadow" posts but didn't see any for Rouge despite the fact that based on character debut dates they actually have the same exact birthday, a fact I personally find extremely funny especially given how unlikely I think either of them is to ever notice it

[snallyghaster]

hivewing design, now with approximately 400% more bug

[supine-ly]

something something Jason was doomed the moment his mother named him

[fluentisonus]

everybody's a theatre nerd on here until it's time to appreciate that comedy as a medium is just as rich & fascinating & culturally important as tragedy