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sobbing at these texts I received this morning

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They're inventing a type of guy who kind of doesn't want to be here and they're calling it the Me

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Never have I seen someone's idea of misogyny so fucked as when they come at trans men to say that "men and people aligning themselves with maleness have a responsibility to understand the potential they have to hurt women." No one else has that responsibility or potential, apparently. It blossomed within you the moment you decided to call yourself a man.

It fucking bothers me how misogyny has been watered down into "individual men oppressing individual women." It's not a societal problem that literally every one of us internalizes. It's not something weaponized against anyone perceived as a woman or even too feminine. It's the default state of people who identify as men.

If they can even admit that women can internalize misogyny, or weaponize it to empower themselves, or that men can also be targeted, it's not as bad I mean different (and barely worth mentioning).

Are we actually concerned with societal misogyny or do we want to pretend there's a singular Source so we don't have to think about it. Wait don't answer that.

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you there, adult! quickly! explain why children are a socially vulnerable class of people without defaulting to "they are stupid and their brains don't work"

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There’s a lot of very blatant horrifying Fascist Shit going down and coming out every day. There’s stuff I would normally be screaming about as loudly as possible. Like this:

Because in my day, we called them “transit camps pending deportation to the East for labor.”

I’m burnt out from the book writing process, and I’m struggling to grapple with all the very fucking Holocaust-Esque shit which is/going to be coming out of the Trump Administration, and all the incitement to violence historians will face from his supporters when we speak out.

This is going to be/already is very bad, and I need to build my strength and resilience.

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this may just get added to the pile of thoughts half written but I’ve been thinking a lot recently abt “redemption” as a concept and 2 of my favorite takes on redemption in fiction - Shadow Weaver (SPOP); Viren (TDP); and a third that while some ppl find controversial, I really enjoy - Zephia FE Engage.

Each of these three have different goals, the characters themselves take different views on their actions, the characters around them perceive them differently, and they tell different stories to the audience. But I also think they utilize a lot of similar qualities, although the implement them very differently.

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in my documence. straight up “writing it”. and by “it”, haha, let’s justr say. Words certainly

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This is where we are. Anti-trans pogroms have begun and the community is living in fear. Things are so bad that some of us are unable to live anymore.

Where is the left? Where are our allies?

#TDoR2024

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"harmful gay stereotypes" and it's a feminine man

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Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

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Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11

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everyone keeps talking about men being radicalized etc etc but no one mentioning the elephant in the room that majority of white women voted for trump too

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Genuinely, what happened to “feminism is for everyone”?

That’s the feminism I grew up with: encouraging people to recognize that fighting sexism and restrictive gender roles helps folks of every gender. We’d push back on the idea that feminists hate men, pointing to inclusive feminist literature and how many men are feminists.

Now, there are so many people insisting that the solution to patriarchy is to openly hate and ostracize men no matter what. Why? What is the benefit? It’s certainly not effective in fighting oppressive structures to exclude half the population from your cause on the basis of immutable traits. It may feel cathartic to say horrible things about men and try to punish them for your frustrations with patriarchy. But the only actual effect I see is the increasing right-wing radicalization of young men, who are being told that the left hates them for the way they were born and presented with an abundance of proof that it’s true.

Why are we going back to treating men and women as different species? It doesn’t fix things to say “well women are the good gender and men are the bad one” this time. If you sincerely want to dismantle sexism, you’re going to have to unpack and let go of all sex and gender essentialism—even that which considers women inherently pure and men inherently immoral.

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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

~ Howard Zinn

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Bringing this back for Ace Awareness Week and the fact Phineas and Ferb is getting another season