#marginalization

[pansexualdemic]

[intersexfairy]

with how we're all aware of how toxic masculinity leads men/boys to harass, assault, and abuse other men/boys, you'd think the fact they can be harmed by patriarchy and misogyny wouldn't be a controversial statment. *especially* marginalized men. but alas, many people have taken the "identity" in identity politics so literally, they just end up ignoring and reinforcing the harmful things they claim to be against.

also if you think the pain of the men harmed by toxic masculinity isn't a big deal because they're men... that is. that is literally you believing in toxic masculinity. like i thought we all knew part of toxic masculinity is that men shouldn't feel pain, they shouldn't cry, they can't ask for help or be truly hurt, etc. etc. and if they do any of these things, then they're not real men and not only deserve to be emasculated, but deserve to suffer. you just switched it to they are real men so they deserve to suffer.

and even though again, this is extra harmful for marginalized men, i shouldn't have to say that for you to care. if you only give support to people harmed by these systems when you think deserve it, you're always going to end up propping these systems up at some point. maybe you should stop that.

also. to any man reading this who feels like their pain doesn't matter: it does. you deserve to exist in a world where you're safe to be yourself and feel emotions, and get genuine protection and support. we all need to exist in that world. none of us deserve this hell.

[detectivechen]

How do you feel about being an alternate juror?

JURY DUTY (2023) 1x02 "Opening Arguments"

[alethianightsong]

"The prince with a thousand enemies" quote hits different when you're marginalized

The full quote is like 80% despair and 20% hope. Basically, God says to the semi-divine Prince of Rabbits "everything in this world wants to catch and kill you. But while you are powerless, you are not helpless. Run fast, hide well, warn and help others like you and you will never be erased from this earth." El-ahrairah is not given weapons but tools to help him and his people survive (claws to dig havens, ears to listen, legs to run, feet to thump and warn). And despite how hard it is for him to survive, despite all his enemies, he is still noble, admirable and possessing dignity. He is a Prince.

[crazycatsiren]

Just because you've never personally experienced something, doesn't mean it doesn't happen often.

Just because something has never happened to you, doesn't mean it hasn't happened to a lot of people a lot of times. Doesn't mean all those people are all lying or making stuff up or complaining about nothing.

Your experience is not universal. You don't get to invalidate other people's experiences based on what you've seen or not seen. Maybe you're just lucky, ever thought about that?

[textk4kira]

Csigender, straight aces exist and can date, have sex, get married, be homophobic, be transphobic. They are cisheteronormative. Bisexuals can't ever be straight and experience homophobia even when passing as straight. Cisgender, straight aces are literally straight and comparing bisexuals to straight people is BIPHOBIC.

HSSD has an exception for asexuals. HSSD is the SUDDEN loss of sexual attraction that CAUSES DISTRESS and is used primarily to diagnose men with erectile dysfunction. It is not conversion therapy to be prescribed viagra. Secondly, cisgender straight aces have not alwaysbeen included iin the LGBT community. In AVEN, people were exrperssing disgust at David Jay lumping aces in the community back in the early 2000s. So

No, excluding people is not a form of marginalization. Are women marginalized BY LGBT PEOPLE for excluding them from LGBT resourcse? No. Cisgender, straight aces are not marginalized by LGBT peopel for being excluded. Religious trauma is not an LGBT specific issue. You ahve still yet to list a single LGBT specific resource cisgender, straight people need.

LGBT support is not an LGBT resource. Feminists are allied wth the LGBT community but are not inherently a part of it. Cisgender,straight women still aren't queer just because theyre allied. You have yet to name a SINGLE tangible resource cisgender, straight aces need from Lesbian Gay Bi Trans people that they do not get from the ace community or aro community

No, address it. Do you think cisgender straight women who are not ace deserve LGBT resources if they are raped for not being sexually attracted to their rapist?

I'm literally trans. Comparing the exclusion of CISGENDER straight peple to that of trans poeple is transphobic.

Hello anon,

I have already addressed the points you made previously, and I will not waste time addressing you further. I will be turning off anonymous asks, for the time being.

If you would like to perpetuate ace/arophobia, you should have enough courage to do so off anon.

I am only posting this to highlight the ace/arophobia that exists within the lgbtqia+ community.

Sincerely,

A disabled, trans gray-aroace person.

[neuroticboyfriend]

people don't have to be good in order to be allowed to exist. i say people "deserve" things a lot not because you need to be moral to have it, but because you need it - just because you exist. just because you're here. your rights, your wellbeing - you need that because you're alive, and that's all there fucking is to it. you need support. shelter. safety. care. love, if you want it. because without your wants and needs met, you suffer and you die.

i say people "deserve" these things, because despite what i just said, this society puts conditions on marginalized people's mere right to life. and they're wrong. they're fucking wrong.

[zozoubbb]

one thing that gets me about the sexualization of specifically marginalized women, is that we are always so sexualized that it gets to a point were we are not even seem as human beings. our bodies are the only thing that is valuable, our only worth. the patriarchy puts us on a place that the closer we have to being perceived as human is our sexualization, how attractive we are for the male gaze ( and if you arent considered attractive by society's standarts, then you arent even seem as human, as person). so it gets me so fucking sad when i see people saying that black women are the sexiest race and then proceed to say a bunch of racial stereotypes, when people say lesbians are hot and then proceed to treat us like predators ( specially if you are a butch lesbian, or a lesbian who isnt white). when people fetishize trans women but would never publicily assume a relationship with one or even be associated with one. its like we are so sexy and hot and attractive, but not enough for you to humanize us, for you to value our voices and respect us.

[starfishinthedistance]

One time in therapy I was talking about how I feel like I have no purpose in life and my (white cis straight abled woman) therapist said "Oh your purpose is to educate people! You've taught me so much about social problems and you're so articulate!"

And I get what she was going for, but I wish privileged people understood that educating is goddamn exhausting, and we have no choice but to be good at it. If I could make sure that I'd never have to educate anyone on anything again I totally would.

Systemic oppression is such a complicated thing to explain to people, and that's not even mentioning all the people you have to debate who are arguing in bad faith because they want you and everyone like you to literally die. You have to remain calm as they call you slur after slur, or bring up shitty talking points that have been debunked a million times, or call for genocide, or use logical fallacies, or victimize themselves, or misinterpret sources all while they act like they're oh so superior to you. Because otherwise you lose credibility in the eyes of everyone else, because no-one likes an angry leftist. Of course they don't lose credibility for doing all of those things though.

Even to the most patient and kind people who want to be educated, having to detail the violence and prejudice that you face in every aspect of your life that you will most likely have to keep facing until your death sucks. It makes you depressed and hopeless. And you can see how it sucks the joy out of life when you have to educate multiple people basically every day.

Having my purpose in life be that would be an actual nightmare. I would never go through with living a life like that. It would be a miserable, exhausting life filled with panic attacks and death threats. I tried to explain that to my therapist but she didn't get it and persisted that "it's a good thing!!"

I never wanted to educate her anyway. I had to because I needed to talk about how my marginalization effects my mental health, and she needed to fully understand the issues to be able to help me properly. I shouldn't need to be wasting time in my therapy sessions that I pay for with my own money explaining that yes, these hateful beliefs are getting made into laws, yes that does actually effect me, and no, these aren't new things, there's a long and intense history here. No I can't just ignore it. Yes it is actually harmful to say or do that. No it isn't speculation that these things lead to violence, yes it has happened before.

This isn't to shade my therapist or other people with privilege, I just wish people understood that educating people isn't this super fun thing that we've gotten good at because we just love doing it so much! It's exhausting, it sucks, and most of us absolutely hate it. But we need to do it, otherwise people remain complacent in violence against us.

Marginalized people don't educate for the fun of it, we educate because we have no choice.

[plushipaws]

Ok go offfff

(Book is by Devon Price)

[intersexfairy]

privilege is something bestowed upon you by an outside force; it's not something to feel guilty for. you can't control how other people treat you. but using that privilege to help others is something you do have power over.

that means taking that privilege and not just turning it into a weapon against oppression, but into a tool to support those harmed. you have the power to speak up and take action. you have the power to uplift the voices of people facing oppression. you even have the power to step back and take care of yourself, which allows you to better help others.

that kind of power isn't something to feel guilty over. and even when you're wrong, guilt helps no one. it just makes you feel bad. it can drive you to make other people carry the burden of your guilt. it harms your ability to be there for others, and the cause at large.

lay down the guilt, pick up your power, and use it to make all of our lives better. mind you, that includes your own; when marginalized people are free, all of us are.

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Other Pride Flag

Othered: someone who belongs to the socially subordinate category of the Other.

Within LGBT+ perspective, people represented by the plus in the acronym are usually considered the "others" (it can be a reclaimed slur), but queer people as a whole can be othered, as well as any sociopolitically marginalized people as anomie in biopolitics.

Otherness, othering and alterity are also conceptualized in philosophy and psychology. Similar to subalternization in postcolonial studies and critical theory.

[apenitentialprayer]

And why does it always have to be people like me who have to sacrifice, why are we always the ones who have to make concessions when something has to be conceded, why always me who has to bite her tongue, why?

Paulina Escobar (Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, Act III, Scene II)

Death and the Maiden appears in English at a moment when humanity is undergoing extraordinary changes, when there is great hope for the future and great confusion about what that future may bring. In the current debate, little is being heard from the submerged zone of our species who live far from the centers of power but are often near the quick center of suffering where ethical choices determine the immediate shape of things to be postponed.

Ariel Dorfman, Afterword to Death and the Maiden

[balestrem]

I think what is so interesting about marginalised groups of people is how they often times form groups that devalue individualism or competition and instead go for a form of collectivism and cooperation instead. Because in western societies individualism and competition is praised and often rewarded, while it often does a lot of damage to humans who are inherently social beings. The queer community, feminist movements (esp. intersectional feminism!), POC groups they all gather in a sort of community, a broader understanding of family, values and ideas. Looking at how people thrive in such safer spaces in communities is proof how community and cooperation is what’s beneficial to humans in general and it helps a society to grow. What I think is important, is that everybody starts to build a community around cooperation and love, in order for us to be able to heal from this capitalist hell. In order to move forward I think we need to stop pitting us against each other and instead create a world where we understand ourselves as a collective which is striving for change, peace, love, equity, kindness, respect and so much more.

[monriatitans]

LITERACY QUOTE OF THE DAY

Thursday, April 25, 2024

“The gulf between science and education has been harmful. A look at the science reveals that the methods commonly used to teach children are inconsistent with basic facts about human cognition and development and so make learning to read more difficult than it should be. They inadvertently place many children at risk for reading failure. They discriminate against poorer children who could have become successful readers. Many children who do manage to learn to read under these conditions wind up disinterested in the activity. In short, what happens in classrooms isn’t adequate for many children, and this shows in the quality of this country’s literacy achievement. Reading is under pressure for other reasons, but educational theories and practices may accelerate its marginalization.” – Mark Seidenberg

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[bumpytoad]

I don't judge based on appearances, or based on anything that the majority tends to react to fearfully without much thought. On the contrary, I am fascinated by anything different. It offends me when others can't get past the superficial. It hurts me. It makes me feel very unhappy and even greatly distressed when others dismiss the things that I care about on a deep level and are actually comforting to me by saying they’re "too scary" as if that means there's nothing more to them that is of any value and I should stop liking them. I really feel hurt when the things I care about, love and like a lot, connect to/connect with and identify with and as are wrongfully regarded as "evil" and "hideous." I don't have negative visceral gut reactions to things that are different. I don't get repulsed or afraid or distrustful just on the basis of someone or something being different. I don't see things as "too garish" or distasteful, either, just based on being visually "loud" and exuberant in their creativity. I don't see the things most tend to regard as being "extreme" (as though there's anything wrong with that) as being "too much." I consider "extreme" to be a relative term. I don't reject anyone or feel harshly towards anyone based on appearances, and it's the same with interests and Dark things. I don't see "ugly," or "scary," or "weird" as in bad. I generally see the things that others view as ugly and scary and weird as beautiful and wholesome and fascinating. I don't want to associate with those who judge based on appearances. I would never want to be friends with them unless they are willing to learn to be open-minded, or unlearn their harmful biases. I wouldn't want to be exposed to those judgmental individuals trying to influence me to be and think like them as though I'm naive if I don't or that there must be something terribly wrong with me. I can't tolerate any of the cruelties and biases that for most humans are just considered "normal." I can't and I won't. They just don't make any sense to me, and all they end up doing is harming the innocent folks and lifeforms who just happen to be different or misunderstood. Life isn't what it used to be when those primitive responses were more essential to survival. Those who are different in appearance are generally not a threat at all -- rather, we are most often the ones being severely victimized.