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look at that face, of course he hasn't

cat will lie down and try to sleep in the middle of your workspace while you're trying to work, and he will get mad at you for moving his paws and tail, and cat will start pushing your tools with his paws because ohhhhh you're disturbing his sleeeeeep, and this is the only place in the house where cat can sleeeeeeep

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these people are acting like acknowledging that black men are oppressed somehow takes away from the struggles women face

as if only one group can be "truly" oppressed or like it's one or the other when. it's both.

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

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You are never letting a WIP rot. You are doing it a service. Your WIP is a sourdough starter and the five words you wrote that one day were all it needed to sustain itself. It will bubble and be ready when you are.

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open rp

“Feh.. It’s me, Inuyasha, the half-demon. I can defeat every demon who crosses my path. You think you can take me?”

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i should learn how to levitate a copper sphere

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Wedding night

(Part 1) (Part 2)

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i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

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"That's a made-up word" Buddy I have terrible news about every word in every language ever

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I promise I'm really smart it's just all my best thoughts get lost in The Fog

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that dog is very gnorf

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...secret fourth thing

not ignoring you not replying to you but a secret third thing

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Hey, can we move forward as a society and not shame people for asking questions about media? I'm glad you understood all the subtle cues in that one song, or the implication of that one line in that film, not some of us didn't catch it and we aren't stupid for not noticing it. It means we were engrosed in other parts of the film.

I completely missed the implications of that Tobey MaGuire Spiderman scene where his bully comes up to Parker after Ben's death and even when Parker slammed him against the lockers his first words were "Feels good doesn't it" and what that could imply about the character.

How hard is it for some of you to be just generally responsive? "I like that Spiderman" > "Oh cool I did too! Did you catch the extra symbolism in that bully scene?" "Nah tell me more!"

Media is meant to be shared and discussed, and part of that discussion is teaching. We all grab on to different unique things. You might understand what the character implications of a line were, and I was focusing on the setting details the director for visual cues.

We have been conditioned that if we don't understand media it's a personal failing but also that talking about deeper meanings in media is bad and shameful.

More broadly, stop shaming people for asking questions. Stop assuming questions are asked in bad faith all the time. Stop assuming people won't like your tidbit of info.

Humans like to learn, it just has to be done with respect and consideration, not superiority. Name one teacher you liked (not that was good, that you liked) that acted better than you, the student, for not knowing as if that was not the entire reason you were there

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

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I noticed you have tagged posts ableist language on posts which I haven’t noticed the ableist language in. Sometimes in further reflection I can see why you have added that tag, and sometimes not. If you’ve ever got the time/inclination, could you explain some of the more nuanced ableist language usages?

sure thing! (and obviously, trigger warning for ableist language to follow)

I know many may feel I take a pretty radical stance, but i've studied enough linguistics to know how powerful the words we use can be, even when we don't intend it in that way. so I use the ableist language tag for when people are not being ableist but are using language which reinforces ableism. this can get a bit tricky as the people who are the subjects of ableist terms may often identify with or reclaim those terms, like calling someone a cripple is ableist, but many people self-identify as cripples, like the cripple punk movement.

I think they generally fall in three categories:

intelligence: stupid, idiot, moron, etc. intelligence and iq are not real, they're eugenicist myths and insulting people's intelligence only feeds these myths and serves the ruling class. build solidarity by seeing everyone as your equal. there is no moral value to having received a better or worse education than someone else. also many of these terms come directly from eugenics, such as their classifications of types or degrees of autism.

diagnoses: psycho, dumb, schizo, bipolar etc. these are real health conditions and i shouldn't have to explain why using them as insults is deeply offensive.

saneism: insane, crazy, mad, etc. the sane/insane dichotomy, if it was ever helpful, which I doubt, has been outdated for generations. there is no medical diagnosis of 'insane', there are hundreds of mental health conditions and an infinite number of combinations which we are barely beginning to understand. but none of them have or convey a moral value. using them as insults only stigmatizes those of us who have them, to the benefit of the ruling class and detriment of solidarity.

even if you are skeptical or attached to this language I'd challenge you to try not using it. you'll find it improves your vocabulary and your speaking and writing skills. not just that but it will deepen how you think about your fellow humans.