#Exhausting

[fandomsandfeminism]

That isn't at all what I said, and you fucking know that. And it's completely dishonest to engage with that strawman argument.

You have not provided any evidence at all that prisons reduce the number of rapes or any violent crimes in our society. You acknowledged, in fact, that prisons *dont* reduce crime.

In my FIRST reply to you today, I said-

Especially, *especially*, when you *presuppose* that any solution other than prison would automatically fail for your worst case scenario offender. I say counseling and community service and restraining orders, I say scheduled check ins or reparation hearings, and it doesn’t matter if that WOULD work for 99% of people, because you will say “well that wouldn’t work on DIDDY” and act like there’s not merit at all to the premise on a societal level.

But here you are, acting as though my argument is this grotesque cavalier dismissal of victims. That Im proposing that rapists have free reign to do whatever to whomever, when that is clearly and demonstrably not what I said from the very fucking begininng.

For what? Clout? Because you think it makes you look smart to agree with someone spouting such a transparently false strawman?

Gross. And disappointing.

[attackoneyebrows]

that's how we show love.

[moxyphinx]

CARLA GUGINO and GAITE JANSEN  📸 Alexandra Arnold

[upennmanuscripts]

For the first time, I blocked someone for yelling at me that I should be wearing gloves in a video. I'm just so tired of it. If you don't know what you're talking about... don't talk.

(this isn't something I plan to do regularly, but I am in a mood today, folks)

[beatlesandbards]

That's not pedantic. You're begging people to see a form of prejudice that gets completely ignored bc Christian=privileged, and in a culturally Christian (protestant) society like the US, it gets you eye rolls at best to suggest nuance beyond that.

Nevermind that fundamentalist evangelical groups drive the bigoted efforts so many non-religious folks define Christianity and Catholicism by; the more conservative it is, the more Catholic it is, right?

It's been socially acceptable to be anti-Catholic in this country since its founding, and that sentiment is sneaky and persistent. Sneaky enough that people completely forget things like the KKK attacking Catholics as well as people of color.

Yes, we have much bigger prejudice fish to fry, but we have also got a Lot to unpack about the cultural assumptions we've internalized and the inter-sect prejudice we've inherited.

Time for my periodic "most Christians in the US are not Catholic, half of Christians globally are not Catholic, and most of the things Tumblr users refer to as 'Catholic' in a pejorative sense are not unique to Catholicism and are often just as if not more prevalent in various Protestant denominations, I know I am being pedantic but I am begging people from predominantly Protestant societies to examine why they tend to assume the most socially harmful negatives about Christian cultures are uniquely Catholic features" post.

[disteal]

Me: man it’s kind of terrifying to live in the frontier of AI generated media. Like as if it wasn’t hard enough to navigate a hypernormalised late capitalism, already so full of misinformation it’s basically pure noise. Now there’s hundreds of cheap, dubiously sourced generators for everything from art to nudes to eerily accurate replicated voices. It’s not hard to imagine the worst case scenarios for any one of these, as it just makes existing fraud/scalping ludicrously easier, faster and more accessible, but on this scale? It seems inevitable that ai generated images overwhelm us to the point not trusting any images or videos you see of war, or a country, or a classical painting, or a historical event is a future that is rapidly approaching. And I especially don’t like how many of these data libraries are being managed and owned by nazis.

Some booger on tumblr: omfg the misinformation I can’t. Actually if you knew anything about ai you’d know the sprinkl.io and grimble engines are ethically trained and this is pure fearmongering. God it’s sad to see how much female hysteria exists on this website 🙄 hope you don’t wrap everyone else up in your period meltdown

[alloalouette]

7,239 hours reading, synthesizing, comparing, and summarizing academic research for two courses in a previous semester 😑

[joostpauze]

what it feels like being a part of the joost fandom at the moment

[femmesandhoney]

libfems are so stuck up their own asses about trans people being the center of everything that they cannot fathom when women center themselves in their analyses and perspectives. they think everything a woman writes must be about trans people or mocking trans people, it never crosses their mind women are writing about the female experience for the sake of writing about the female experience. the fact they constantly and automatically perceive women writing on the female experience as somehow anti trans or about trans people is insanity and shows how deluded they are about the world. the world does not revolve around you.

[blupoh]

[shopwitchvamp]

me the absolute first split second people are acting up in the shop

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Ah my darling, my double, my adored love, I may be changeable, foggy, capricious, tormented and stormy like the ocean, but you, my lightning, you are exhausting, as well as the Mediterranean.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 9, 1950 [#180]

[punchitmrsulu]

Everything about The Crow reboot looks amazing. Y’all are just annoying and bitter. Brandon’s legacy isn’t being tarnished, relax. In fact, I’d say it’s quite the contrary. It’s probably gonna get more people who haven’t seen the original and maybe don’t know about him to want to see it and bring him back into the spotlight.

[faircastle]

cersei when she just got rid of one young girl with the promise to grow into a beautiful woman just for another to show up at her doorstep: this game of whack-a-mole is fucking exhausting

[starbuck]

HATE when you find someone who’s into the same pair of characters as you and you’re like HELL yeah only to find out that they ONLY care about those two characters, to the exclusion of every other character and relationship the characters have.