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Please help Kenan and his family flee Gaza

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i like senshi pantyshots as much as the next guy but this whole "danmeshi fandom is progressive and feminist bc senshi is sexualised while marcille and falin are not" is getting annoying terf-y and gross there's plenty of smutty farcelle fanworks, there's plenty of eroticism in canon. the lack of gratuitous feteshisation is good yes, but "wlw ships are good bc they're sexless and pure" is a tired and bigoted take

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expand on ur "mental asylum Marxism shit" thing about children & grief?? from what you've said im pretty sure i will relate from my own experiences as a grieving child. also it sounds interesting!!

so i was thinking about how weird it is that, when a child has to deal with the death of a loved one, they say something like "no child should have to go through this! no child should have to even think about death!" which strikes me as weird because i was a child who dealt with the deaths of multiple close family members, very close together. the first was my great-grandmother, who i lived with and who was my best friend. death was never foreign to me (my mom has always been very death-positive on top of all that). grief was just part of my life like everything else was.

but i realized that its because people think childhood should not have any flaws. you should be 100% happy and fulfilled all the time. any time a child experiences anything painful, its bad. not "children should have access to love and support," but "children should not have basic life experiences because the idea of childhood being anything other than fluffy purity scares me."

because children in society are fundamentally not people. especially in a society structured around christian beliefs in natural law theory, that what is natural = what is good, healthy, and Divinely commanded. so on top of children being the property of adults, they are also forced to be the symbols of Nature. whatever is the most useful to whoever needs them. which means we built up this idea of children as tabula rasas, pureness incarnate. like a magic mirror where if we look into it, we'll be able to catch a glimpse of the true face of humanity. every single thing children do can be scrutinized for some grand truth about humans as a whole. and then, the ways children are treated also reflect how we think humanity should interact with its own nature.

example: the idea of humanity as inherently sinful and wicked, with that urge needing to be suppressed through state violence (hello hobbes) = the idea that children are annoying and shitty on purpose and need to be forced via punishment into being Good Citizens.

this is also why children cannot be trans, even though all trans people must prove that we were trans children. being queer must be unnatural; and even if not, its inherently sexual, and sexuality is dirty and bad. so children can't be trans, and they also can't read books on puberty until their parents decide when and what exactly they are allowed to learn. child victims of sexual assault only matter to the extent that they can be used as a symbol of a cultural threat; calling Jewish or trans people pedophiles means saying that they are foreigners attacking basic human nature, and indirectly, Divine command. if you aren't the right kind of victim, or when you inevitably reveal yourself to be A Person with complicated experiences and opinions, you are no longer of use to the agenda.

it sucks that bad things happen to anyone. aspects of youth can exacerbate the pain sometimes, but sometimes it does the reverse: I wish I could have spent more time with the family members I lost, but I know other people who are glad they loss family members young, because they weren't really hurt by it. I think the main thing is that, even sometimes when we talk about our past selves, we project this cultural idea of Child As Purity and ignore the actual person having the experience. when we "empathize" with children by projecting Purity onto them, we aren't actually connecting with them.

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"being distressed about an evil thought is what shows you're a good person" = bad, unhelpful, is not at all conducive to OCD recovery

"there's no such thing as a good or bad thought", "your thoughts do not define your morality", etc = good, helpful, acknowledges the fact that thoughtcrime isn't real

remember kids, implying that distress is what makes you a good person is NOT a good way to encourage people to build a life where they are able to learn to live alongside intrusive thoughts

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boycotting eurovision is not simply about israeli participation. you have to understand that, the presenting sponsor of eurovision is moroccan oil, an israeli brand. israel’s money is all over eurovision. i keep seeing people hoping for israel to be banned from participating, but lbr it’s never going to happen. i’ve seen people post evidence of israel having paid advertising telling people to vote for them etc. the whole show is israeli propaganda and i am begging you not to watch it and to keep your eyes on gaza tonight, keep your eyes on rafah

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So I watched Jacob Sharpe's new video "the strangest workouts on tik tok" (and this post is not about to be a dig at him; I like him and I generally appreciate his attitude in the video). There are clips shown of people working out in groups and the workouts are unorthodox activities like drumming, trampoline jumping, swinging in the air and so on, and the videos are captioned something like "white women will do anything to avoid a regular workout". First of all, I resent shaming people's exercise preferences regardless of who they are. It's inevitably harmful towards people who struggle with EDs and the like, and also - who fucking cares. I congratulate anyone who's found a form of exercise that's genuinely fun and enjoyable. The idea that working out should be super hard and painful and boring and some kind of heavy duty is pointless. Why not make stuff fun if it's an option? Why have your day suck more than it needs to? This is also Jacob's conclusion to the video. But also, I keep seeing "White women" used as a cop-out to shame people for the wildest things. Yes, the clips in the video show primarily white women, but is that really all there is to know? You know who might have trouble going to a regular gym and doing "regular" workouts? Disabled people. Fat people. Injured and chronically ill people. Neurodivergent and mentally ill people. Elderly people. Gender-nonconforming people. Because the exercises and equipment doesn't accommodate all bodies. Because of harassment, staring, rudeness, non-consensual filming. Because it feels unsafe or IS unsafe. And guess what, sometimes thin able-bodied neurotypical cis white women also feel unsafe at gyms. That's valid too. Like, by all means criticise white women when it's prudent. We frequently have it coming. But let's not use "white women" as an easy path to ignoring other oppressive structures in the world. Are you giving valid criticism? Are you doing meaningful satire? Poking harmless fun? Or are you actually shitting on people for no good reason, but you think it's okay because it's "white women"?

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I don't know if anyone asked this before but a gender bent would be so cool XD

Time to shoot my shot (I kinda suck at genderbends lol):

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hey reminder to continue boycotting eurovision and instead turn your eyes on gaza where the last media outlet al jazeera has just been shut down so that Israel can launch its attack on the most densely populated area in the world without scrutiny. Dont stop talking about Palestine

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Switching my language from “Israel is detaining Palestinians in the West Bank” to “Israel is abducting Palestinians in the West Bank” because that’s actually what’s happening. They are not detainees. They are hostages. Innocent Palestinians get taken from their homes randomly, held up in detention centers indefinitely, and subjected to the cruelest conditions on no basis other than “you might do something bad in the future, so we have a right to imprison you.” This is what Israel calls administrative detention—and through it they have managed to get away with kidnapping hundreds of innocent Palestinians.

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Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

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The language of the oppressor is the default.

We have better ways to describe these demonstrations. Once people learn why there are protesters, they will understand the conditions. Fear comes from ignorance.

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there’s such an unbelievable multitude of this type of (straight) woman who’s like “when he mentions a ‘she’ 😡🥺👀” “when he calls some girl his ‘friend’ 👀👀🔪” etc and this person is like a different species to me. this person is a space alien. this type of person makes me feel like amy adams in arrival

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Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

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lord the peasants are so loud today

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i think if you eat meat, you should at least think about what it means for animals to die for that and come to terms with it. i dont think its healthy, mentally, to only see these canned and plastic wrapped containers of meat removed from their context of once having been a living thing

i dont think you have to kill an animal yourself, but honestly for me the first time i killed a lobster before cooking it, i feel like that kinda gave me a better perspective on it. it made it more real. this living creature was gonna die so i could eat, and for that i had to kill it. it was fast, it was humane, i was thankful for it, but i killed it. i think more people should experience that. i was thankful for the animals that died so i could eat before but more so after

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BDS added this section to their boycott page and I think people really need to read it:

please remember, pushing unorganized boycotts without carefully fact-checking every company in the list can be actively HARMFUL to the boycott movement.