I'm the kind of communist that just wants a spaceship.
pretty but broken
some asshole trashed my wetware
bipolar, adhd, autism, ocpd, cptsd, anxiety, panic
she/her
Real tired of seeing stuff about how ppl think the salvation army is bad bc theyre gay. Evangelism and missionary work are attempted cultural genocide. Full stop. Evangelism is violence. Full stop. “Charities” that tie their “help” to ATTEMPTED CULTURAL GENOCIDE are bad and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BAD! FRIENDLY FUCKING REMINDER
Also if you’re ok with groups like this until they start having visibly bad politics re: lgbt issues and not before, you badly need to examine your priorities!
I think some people (mostly cis straight guys) would fucking explode if they knew not all bisexual women want to date men. Bi people are valid no matter the gender of the person they date, but the point is, just because bi women are attracted to men it doesn’t mean they have to be with them, or that they can’t distrust them/feel uncomfortable around them. Some bi women may have never dated them at all. Men feel entitled to women’s bodies, especially if they are bi, and the idea bi women might not wanna date/have sex w them must make them feel under attack, just like they hate lesbians for not feeling attracted to men
Terfs this post is not for you and your bigoted beliefs
There are things slowing the progression towards the future. It’s our current society, it’s our schools, it’s our lack of want and desire to learn. It’s the way we are forced to learn.
If you introduce learning as a more upbeat and fun way of doing stuff, that’s how you engage people. Don’t introduce Shakespeare as classical works. Introduce Shakespeare as stories of tragedies and triumphs, stories of love and sorrow.
Introduce computer science as art not lines of code. Introduce engineering as a way to build from nothing not just mathematical equations.
Introduce math as building blocks, a way to engineering, architecture. Not as Sally had 3 apples. She ate two, How many apples does sally have. It’s pointless and stupid. If someone would have told me math will teach me how electricity works, how computer boards were built at a young age, I would have dedicated myself to learning math and physics. A lot of issues are also from with-holding information to people of young ages. A lot of issues are the way information is given.
All of this is a way to peek interest in current day society, a way to get kids more interested in learning. Keep things fun and interesting and there will be a desire to learn. Don’t shove kids behind a desk with paperwork, It’s boring and undesirable, its depressing. It’s hard to learn when things are boring and depressing.
deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
