#Trade Agenda

[slavhew]

i reread this scene and i could just. picture it. so vividly.

[onmebackmush]

MORE NEWSIES TWEETS RAHHH (pt. 3)

my brain is full of nothing but little dancing newsboys on twitter

part 1 part 2

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[tanoraqui]

(re: this post)

Broke:

Legolas: The world is flat

Gimli: What?

WOKE:

some random Man at a bar in Minas Tirith: Is it true that the world is flat for elves?

Legolas: What? No. The world is round. It USED to be flat, but then Aragorn’s ancestors fucked up so bad that it was turned round.

Gimli: What?!

Legolas: Shit, don’t tell Aragorn I said it like that. Don’t tell Elrond I said it like that! It’s just, the earthquakes knocked down some really great redwoods in the northwest—I never knew them, but my dad says they were very wise, and he still holds a bit of a grudge.

Gimli: I only have more questions now.

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

You know what still bothers me about the end of season 5?

We still have no idea what exactly is it that Gabriel wished for AND we have no idea what he used to pay for his wish

All we know is that a wish was made and were then shown a scene of an idyllic alleged (dare I say even eerie?) utopia, in which he is deemed a hero and the entire world, his son included, has seemingly forgotten about every wrong he has committed.

A world everyone appears to be happy and serene, the heroes of Paris able to have fun as there is no occasion for them to need to step in. A world where fast progress is able to occur without any consequences being brought up. A world where Adrien is apparently happy and is “blessedly” unaware of all the things that Gabriel has kept from him, and hasn’t caught on to anything being amiss

How the only thing that appears to have been taken away from Gabriel was possibly his life, which was something he was mere hours from losing anyway. And regardless of whether or not this was a real sacrifice, it seems to pale in comparison to what he potentially wished into existence

It just feels to me like there is a subtle ticking going on in the background, counting down to the eventual explosion of this unstable wish

[slythereen]

hey christian horner do you remember how you were talking about mclaren forcing daniel to alter his own driving style little by little and destroying his talent and how heinous they were to do such a thing and thank god rbr saved him. remember that

anyway totally unrelated: wouldn’t it be great if charles leclerc didn’t have to fight his car every week

[seedlessmuffins]

the combination anti-canada and anti-west coast biases in the nhl combine to make the canucks, and therefore canucks players, to be criminally overlooked by hockey writers, analysts, and influencers but we aren't ready for that conversation.

[lazaruspiss]

Now I want Slade and Dick pampering Talia 😭

RIGHT?? i need them to treat her right. she deserves to have a nice time For Once. give her the romance she needs!!!

Dick would v much be the pampering fussy type. she needs to let him do smth nice for her or he'll like, die. hand kisses and roses and thoughtful gifts babeyy. Slade's a bit more of tsundere type. like he doesnt seem super romantic but he has reserved a private dining hall bc he saw she was feeling a little down. "dont read into it tho its not like i like u." but hes doing the whole 9 yards of over the top romantic gestures. do u see my vision.

(sidenote: they r the full poly triangle 2 me. they all do weird shit to show they care about each other bc they r in Love do u hear me??)

[mobblespsycho100]

thinkin abt topaz from an indigenous perspective also is SOOO

RIGHT. RIGHT 😭😭😭 SHE MAKES ME SO... AUGH

[dispatchdcu]

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[stromer]

who else up thinkin' about the toffoli/caufield father-sonism "i miss dad" of it all and what this will mean moving forward with new teammate jhugh????

[awesomecooperlove]

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[lettucedloophole]

despite being a tirf, tirf spaces do have a tendency to be terfy as a result of incomplete deradicalization (thus, internalized terfism) & the general ignorance every space but especially feminist spaces have to transfeminism & transmisogyny.

so, i don't mean to challenge that, though i will say personally that part of the reason i became a terf is because radical feminism was so much more effective than liberal feminism, & puts women + gender-marginalized people first in their own activism-- something every other branch of feminism (particularly marxist, & sometimes intersectional) has difficulty doing. and since i wasn't introduced to trans-inclusive radical feminism, & was often told it was impossible, i kept going on that route despite my doubts.

anyways,

terfism only affect trans women: it doesn't, but i don't see the problem in this being the defining characteristic of terfism as trans women stand to lose the most. it should be known that it's also generally transphobic, misogynistic, and often racist + antisemitic, but i firmly believe that trans women being hurt should be enough to pull you from the space. faulting radical feminism in itself as irreparably evil (rather than deeply flawed) leads to a loss of its greater insights (which are helpful to trans women too) & tends to demonize feminism in general, as the second wave is where feminism took shape en masse beyond just votes.

the meaning of womanhood: gender is a social construct created by the patriarchy. sex is an extension of gender, making them both fictions of the patriarchy. this means that there is no way to define womanhood without the patriarchy, as that would be either gender essentialism (gender comes from your Soul, not society, and girls & boys just pop out of the womb liking pink & blue) or bioessentialism (your sex is your gender, or only sex matters, i.e. terfism.) the ultimate goal of non-bioessentialistic radical feminism is to abolish gender (& by extension, sex), so that everyone is just a person who can do whatever they want with no coercion or oppression. this necessitates the destruction of the concepts of man & woman, though this is of course a centuries long effort... they'll continue to exist in the meantime.

women are endangered by men, especially in relationships: this is just... a fact. women face a lot of dv, 90% of the perpatrators of rape are men, 80%+ of violent crime is commited by men, and women need spaces without men, like female shelters and female bathrooms, so that they'll be safe when they're vulnerable. trans, gnc & non-white women should of course be included in these spaces as women, and trans / other gender-marginalized men (i.e. gnc or gay men) should have access to these spaces when they need them. but the destruction of these spaces would equate to leaving gender-marginalized groups in a free-for-all. for example, the reason trans women use bathrooms is not only because it matches their gender, but first and foremost, it is for safety.

socialization: yes, men & women are socialized differently. the alternative to this theory is believing men are more violent and women more timid just because they are born that way, which is bioessentialism. this doesn't mean socialization is stagnant or as simple as 'male' & 'female', and it certainly does not mean trans women are male socialized. intersectionality must be taken into account, and socialization is a lifelong process which may shift over time. it not only matters how the world sees you, but how you see yourself. terfs bastardize the concept with their simplified application.

relationships & sex with men: again, it's just a fact that relationships with women are safer than ones with men. does this mean "always perfect & without abuse"? no. but, this study shows bisexual women have the highest rate of abuse (followed by lesbians, then straight women) & reveals that 89.5% of that abuse was done by men. about 80% of bi women are in relationships with men, so this adds up. meanwhile, a third of dv against lesbians was committed by men, leaving lesbian relationships with the lowest rate of abuse. i don't understand how you mean to argue against facts.

prostitution: you often hear in radical feminist spaces, "coerced sex is rape", particularly in relation to prostitution or sex work. the thing is, adding money into the equation makes it likely that a sex worker is more likely to have sex with someone (the client, john, punter) they would otherwise not have sex with. money is then, by definition, acting as a coercive factor which tampers with or outright violates consent. the ideal would be that you have enough money to live without work, and then you can have sex with whoever you want without a want or need for money making you do something you'd rather not want to do sexually. this is why sex work is inherently unethical. does this mean every sex worker is a survival sex worker who hates what they do? no, i'm happy for the sex workers who are not suffering and are in a good enough financial situation to make their own choices without coercion. but honestly, what kind of fucking feminist movement focuses on the minority of privileged women above the majority of disprivileged women & gender minorities in sex work? these are old studies, but they show most prostituted people want to leave prostitution but can't, and have a history of rape, homelessness, drug abuse, csa, and etcetera. these are vulnerable people, many of which entered the industry as minors, and yet no one thinks trauma & financial coercion may have a part to play for them? no one thinks they're as important to speak of as the minority who are enjoying themselves? by the way, brothels do not fix financial coercion, and having a class of destitute women & gender minorities readily, sexually available for cis men does not help with cis male sexual entitlement. do people think woc and trans women are disproportionately present in prostitution because it's a good job? read this passage; (dworkin was also a sex worker, btw!)

lesbians are the most oppressed: some certified "i hate lesbians because a couple were mean to me online" vibes there lol

"women hate their bodies, cursed to reproduce and have sex with men": it's just like, so strange to see feminist critique of patriarchy being taken as a negative? yeah, women are taught to hate our bodies. yeah, afab people are pressured into pregnancy. and yes, women are pressured into having sex with men, even when we don't want to. and yes, this will continue until the patriarchy is destroyed. it's not all sunshine & rainbows when speaking of oppression. does obfuscating the truth help us in any real way?

this is a lot so i'm going to stop here. i feel like this gives at least, a basic idea for why i disagree with other points that i didn't specifically address. and i didn't specifically address some points because i agree with them; i just don't agree that they're exclusive or inherent to radical feminism.

while a vast majority of this is present in terf spaces, some of this falls into general conservativism or a strawman of trans women's points about transmisogyny. for example, "femininity is oppressed as well as women-- masculinity is rewarded." you can pass this off as conservative, but it's also similar to one of serano's points in whipping girl (and obviously, it wasn't applied in a conservative manner there.)

i don't necessarily agree either-- both femininity attached to anyone & masculinity attached to women or gender-marginalized people are stigmatized, but i suppose me bringing this up is just to say i'm not aware on what op's beliefs are, so this response may hit on some of the wrong points. i hope this is helpful, though.

It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".

TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.

Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.

I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.

If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.

As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.

When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.

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