Author: peasantchick

clitcheese:

clitcheese:

tiny brain: playing a dragonborn to breathe fire

big brain: playing a dragonborn to be a member of a Proud Warrior Race like a fantasy klingon

galaxy brain: playing a dragonborn to lay eggs

interdimensional brain: playing any other race and still laying eggs because nothing in the books says you can’t

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

the-transfeminine-mystique:

the-transfeminine-mystique:

closet-keys:

I’m always a little baffled when liberals will see leftists doing something and object out of the fear that the right will “use it as justification” to do xyz oppressive shit.

because like… literally 100% of the time they already are doing that exact oppressive thing, and there’s centuries of evidence that they will just make up justification when they don’t find anything concrete to blame it on anyway

organizing to combat voter suppression isn’t the cause of voter suppression. 
organizing to prevent fascist groups from terrorizing communities isn’t the cause of fascism. 
advocating for the end of boarders isn’t the cause of the United States government deporting people 

I don’t understand how so many people have been convinced that any advocacy or organizing is the cause of oppression instead of the fight against it. How do you consistently mix up cause and effect this much? 

So much of liberal rhetoric is focused not on stopping or combatting what is happening, but instead on trying to get the referee to notice that the other side isnt playing fair so they’ll step in and put things back *~*the way they should be*~* and so a lot of the time when they say that the right would “use _____ as justification” for something, what they really mean on some level is “_______ could be said to provoke that response, and as soon as we do anything to provoke, we no longer have the moral high ground”

and of course there is no referee — there’s nobody standing outside the system who is empowered to step in and throw a flag when somebody is “cheating.” But they just can’t get past the illusion that if they point out enough times that the right is breaking laws or acting badly, then somebody (with the appropriate authority) will step in and do something about it

This is also the very real impulse lurking behind all of those joking posts on fb from liberals going like “damn I wish the queen would just take the US back” because the idea that the British royal family, the last body that controlled America from the outside, could step in and stop everything bad is much more appealing than the thought that if they want change they’re going to have to do the hard work of making it themselves

#that’s not even getting into how they totally ignore the atrocities perpetuated by the british crown#like a little genocide and imperialism doesn’t matter at least she doesn’t sound UNCOUTH on the television#when
ppl say shit like that it makes it clear they do not give a fuck abt
the actual oppression occurring just that the Cheeto Man™ is Rude (via)

diversehighfantasy:

tillthenexttimedoctor:

Has anyone read any – positive or negative – takes on “Rosa” by black fans or black writers? I‘d be interested in reading posts or articles (or seeing twitter threads or youtube videos) that aren’t just white people telling each other that the episode was great.

I thought it was a great episode, much more detailed and historically accurate than I expected. I do wish it had mentioned Claudette Colvin’s part of the story, as the one who ignighted the bus boycott with her previous, less peaceful, arrest and conviction.

I’ve read a lot of white criticism of the episode on Reddit and Twitter over the last couple days, and while many posts say they don’t like being spoon fed a story, an equal amount missed major points that shouldn’t have needed to have been even more spelled out. For example, Rosa was clearly portrayed as an activist in the inner circle of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr wasn’t at her house randomly because all Black people know each other – they were meeting.

And yet I keep seeing people complaining that Rosa was “misrepresented” because she was in reality an activist. Or that she was “chosen” as the face of the movement, as if she was a puppet and not an active participant herself. (Which really goes to show how nonblack people will twist information in order to put it in a bad light – a lot of people seem to think that because she was an activist, the whole thing was faked. That’s misrepresentation).

Another pain point I’ve seen is the time traveling villain, whose name I don’t even remember. Scruffy white guy sent back in time to stop the bus boycott. His motivation? Racism. So why are so many complaining he had no motivation? And why is racism considered a “boring” trait for a sci-fi villain? Especially since when I post about racism in media and fandom, people act like it’s the most over the top suggestion (because racism is something only Evil People do)? There’s nothing worse when someone thinks they’re being called racist, but when a mass murdering villain is openly racist, that’s not a good reason to be a villain.

I won’t even get into the people who wanted to “understand” the white space villain better. Or the ones who call him a dumb villain because he’s from the far future, and obviously racism wouldn’t be a thing in his time (or maybe racism is something that isn’t exclusive to the US in the ‘50s? Maybe it’s not just going to go away by itself over time?). Like, no stopping and thinking about the implications, just, no, there’s no racism in whatever future world this villain we just met came from.

Which, of course, goes hand in hand with complaints that Ryan and Yaz’s talk about the racism they’ve experienced in the present day UK was unnecessary and “heavy handed.” It was absolutely necessary for a British show exploring an American civil rights event to do that.

Anyway. Episode was great. A lot of the reactions, not so much.

ayellowbirds:

usbdongle:

cornerof5thandvermouth:

Make no mistake. Trans people, especially trans women, are the canary in the coal mine. If the United States government manages to pass legislation making it essentially illegal to be trans again, mark my words it WILL continue on up to sending us right back into McCarthyism and the “kill or imprison anything you disagree with or dislike” policies of the 1950s (not that that hasn’t already been happening under the radar, but it’s going to be More).

There really are people out there who are acting like suggesting genetic testing to “confirm the identity” of a group of people isn’t a wildly dangerous thing for a government to start doing. This is not a door that should be opened.

we’re not the canary. People already died in this mine, it’s unsafe, but those in charge keep sending us in. This government has already illegally incarcerated innocent people, made false arrests and annulled citizenship based on ethnicity, stolen children from loving parents and given them to white, straight, cisgender christians. This government has enacted and encouraged policies around identification, citizenship, proof of being who you say you are and a citizen of where you live, that are only enforced when the people enforcing them decide they don’t like your skin tone, religion, politics. This government has made every effort possible to ensure that the physically and mentally disabled and chronically ill citizens will die faster while also forcing us to thicken the wallets of those who want us gone. This government is doing its damnedest to erode religious protections except for Good Old Fashioned American Christianity, which is being granted privileges and special rights to discriminate against people who don’t fit its narrow view of morality. This government is making the richest people richer, and convincing the poorest people that it’s good for them by turning them against their best allies.

trans people, especially trans women, are not the canary. We’re not a distraction, either, in spite of what some other people are saying. We are yet another in a long list of groups threatened by an administration that pushes fascist policy after fascist policy. And if we’re going to be a metaphor, we should be the last straw.

hannigramgf:

bisexual women romantically and sexually love women. bisexual women love women not because of proximity to anyone else or because they’re trying to imitate, please, or fool anyone. bisexual women love women so much and so vastly and so infinitely and so differently and so immensely and that won’t change no matter how much anyone desperately wants to deny our love for women.