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Pretty incredible news to hear during tough times

Source.

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2025 and we still don't have hairy women in movies. wild

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there is no Marxist idea that humans can be "perfected". what we believe is that people are a product of their environment. it's common for people to look at human behaviour in a modern capitalist economy and assume that people are inherently greedy, selfish, and callous, instead of identifying these as traits that are rewarded, or even made necessary, due to the way society is structured. a land owning peasant in 11th century England will develop a different world outlook from a gig worker today, and someone from a hunter gatherer community will have a different world outlook still, due to how different their day to day lives are. you don't want to be greedy in a community where the person you're letting starve might be needed to feed you when you're unwell

we don't want to be mechanical about this though and say that the structure of the economy determines how people learn to interact with the world entirely. while a large part of how we live is forced on us by the world we're born into, we're also able to create our own culture and proactively influence how people interact with the world. the changing structure of the economy will always have a huge sway on how society develops, but people are active agents in its development as well

all this is to say that when you structure society so that work is for the common good, and nobody is able to exploit the labour of others for private profit, you'll end up with culture and people who are much less greedy and selfish than today. even more so given that working people will finally be in charge of society and able to take the leading role in shaping its culture

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people love to take characters who are men and go "what if he was a prettyboy, what if he was a femboy, what if i drew art of him looking exactly like a woman?" and then look at you like you've grown a second head when you say "what if she was a trans woman?"

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Depuis que j'ai mon nouvel emploi, j'essaie de jouer le plus stealth possible, pour aussi longtemps que ça dure (comme ga, ça suffit les mauvaises expériences)...pour finalement voir que quelqu'un à carrément un sticker "jolin barrette, sors de mes bobettes" sur sa case...j'pense j'peux essayer d'arrêter de paranoyer sur ma barbe...j'pense chu plus safe que j'pense...

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“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

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There is like a kind of older way in which misogyny reproduces itself, where parents will tell their children to conform to gender norms in order to attract a partner. And often it is like a really distorted or hyperbolic version of gender norms that stem from a kind of representational neurosis. It is as though one believes that their child's best hope at love is in making themselves into a prefabrication that can be easily matched with any number of prefabrications.

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But no honestly y'all are only "invisible" when it comes to the specific topic of who is the largest talking point of conservatives. Y'all are the ones in leadership positions in queer communities meanwhile there's countless stories of transfems showing up to One to find they're the only transfem there. Y'all are the ones who dominate online queer spaces. Y'all are the ones who get interviewed by science shows looking to talk about trans hurt. Y'all are the ones who even GET to talk about your gender affirming care in public spaces because your body isn't deemed inherently sexual. Y'all's voices are the ones that get listened to when it comes to accusations of sexual abuse against us.

"Oh I can't benefit from male privilege because society doesn't see me as a man" DAMN LIKE what if there was some sort of magical community that was based on inherently seeing you as the gender you say they are like what would happen then?? Oh they must have MAGICALLY solved all gender issues to be able to do that so it wouldn't be a problem right? Fuck it takes one look at misogynistic gay men to see that the queer community is not magically immune to the patriarchy! You know? The queer community where a majority of trans men's male privilege over trans women are held within the context in?

But no tell me how underepresented and voiceless you feel because the media isn't making disgusting caricatures of you and your not the ones who the most vocally violent bigots are actively calling for the death of. I'll gladly trade

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i think we need to bring back calling people internet famous instead of calling them influencers like there needs to be something borderline derogatory injected back into it

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Feel old yet? Team Fortress 2 released in 1972

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I’ve decided that my 20s are actually age 25 - 35

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me when the fictional male character is a bit of an awkward loser

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infantry and adultery sound like they'd be opposites but they're in fact completely unrelated

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I'm going to be out of wifi for a whole week, next week, and i'm so not down for that shit...

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the world is a mess but at least we still have cunnilingus and spicy curry

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