Forwarded from 🎄kvir-anarkiistaj memeoj 🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (Aradia Arfari)
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Forwarded from Basic Fucking Kindness
men loneliness, patriarchy, society
"i think the moment i was disillusioned about life was when i was maybe 7 years old and realized the reason all my friends had become assholes was because boys arent allowed to have any physical contact that isnt fighting
my parents were hippie feminists so my brother and i could play clapping games and sleep in puppy piles and give eachother weird hairdos, but all the 'normal' boys just up and stopped knowing how to touch anyone without hitting sometime betweeen kindergarten and first grade
and my little kid mind briefly saw the vastness of life stretching out in front of all of us, and all the hugs everyone would need and not get, and for a moment i was just like
maybe life is not such a good idea after all
[...]
i strongly suspect that a lot of str8 dude feelings of entitlement to women's bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they're allowed to have"
"i think the moment i was disillusioned about life was when i was maybe 7 years old and realized the reason all my friends had become assholes was because boys arent allowed to have any physical contact that isnt fighting
my parents were hippie feminists so my brother and i could play clapping games and sleep in puppy piles and give eachother weird hairdos, but all the 'normal' boys just up and stopped knowing how to touch anyone without hitting sometime betweeen kindergarten and first grade
and my little kid mind briefly saw the vastness of life stretching out in front of all of us, and all the hugs everyone would need and not get, and for a moment i was just like
maybe life is not such a good idea after all
[...]
i strongly suspect that a lot of str8 dude feelings of entitlement to women's bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they're allowed to have"
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Forwarded from Proudly Pointless (Clair 💜)
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Forwarded from The 15th International Vore Brigade (18+) (Tyulki (She/Her))
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Forwarded from Basic Fucking Kindness
activism, politics, social, digital
"a little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you're in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you cant possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you're being radicalized, and not in the good way.
if the solution to your problems sounds like "we need a blank slate" its a lie. there are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is "burn it all down and let god/fate/history sort it out"
thats not problem solving. its barely catharsis, in practice. it doesnt just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
put the apocalypse down, and back aways slowly.
real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to "us good, them evil; kill them."
"a little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you're in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you cant possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you're being radicalized, and not in the good way.
if the solution to your problems sounds like "we need a blank slate" its a lie. there are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is "burn it all down and let god/fate/history sort it out"
thats not problem solving. its barely catharsis, in practice. it doesnt just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
put the apocalypse down, and back aways slowly.
real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to "us good, them evil; kill them."
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