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Why are streaming services these days all named shit like Fubi and Hehu and lala

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something something still teasing this connection out but: ever since I read alithia zamantakis’ book and encountered the phrase subordinate masculinities, I realized that I’d come across something like the concept ages ago when my therapist recommended I read resmaa menakem to help support me while I unpacked a lot of entrenched epigenetic trauma. the thing that comes up over and over and over again in his work is, more or less: that in america, the only model of a human being is a straight white able-bodied sane man with normative genitals who owns property. everything else is below that— not a true human being and also subordinate to true human beings.

alithia zamantakis also referenced the idea of street cred with regards to cis gender care and maintenance, and emphasized how cis people perpetually objectify and use other people to build and maintain their own desired gendered states— they use trans women to prove they’re real women or real men, they use trans men to prove they’re real men or women, they use other cis people to do it, they use anyone they feel is subordinate to them to build their genders like sandcastles from one high tide to the next. this likewise feels connected to the julia serano concept of derivatization— the act of seeing other people as objectified derivatives of our own thoughts and desires. subordinated masculinities are there to be used in the true technological sense for the purposes of providing gender affirmination for others. When you tear down a subordinated person (what resmaa menakem says is not the model of a real human being in a culture like ours) it makes your gender more real, it velveteen rabbits you into a more secure state of gender for however long the sandcastle of street cred stays standing.

this is not the same thing as a hatred for or antipathy towards masculinity!

a subordinated man— a man of color, a disabled man, a gay man, a gender nonconforming man, an impotent man, a poor man— is a failed man, not a real man, and real men and real women and even other subordinated people can become more real through his continued devaluation and subordination, all in service to patriarchy, which is working exactly as intended to serve and protect the true and only model of humanity: the straight white able-bodied sane man.

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Source

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I am a man of constant sorrow.

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anarchists OWNED: completely forgot to define the central idea of their entire worldview. "we didn't know anyone was going to ask us what 'freedom' means. please send me to the forced labor camps for reeducation," says official spokeswoman of Anarchism, LLC., a Fortune 500 company

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and why isn't there a cunt roach? why are there only cock roaches?

here's my plan: insect vaginoplasty

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also like it's a little goofy to talk about it like "stolen valor" but there really will always be something bone-deep fucking obnoxious about people who go on and on about being a Pervert and liking Yucky Kinks and Freak Sex in reference to werewolf dick or puppy play or "force masc" but then turn around and start losing their minds when a transfem calls her girlfriend "sister." you're no pervert. a pervert has respect for the silence that is the foundation of creativity

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From The Criterion Collection's 4k Edition of Bound (1996) Featuring an Essay by McKenzie Wark

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hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right

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i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least

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when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”