#again not to say im not struggling right now

[the-damndest--creature]

I dont think that means they think men deserve it more or are more important than women, I think they're just like...straight lol. And enjoy male company (most of the time). I really dont think the strength of sexual draw can be understated. Its basically like asking straight women to overcome their deepest, most ingrained evolutionary instinct and drive, embedded into every strand of DNA. Humans are just furry animals after all. And on a more human level, that means giving up on romantic or sexual fulfillment, or having that life partner. You can absolutely love your friends to death but Im sorry, I dont believe that it'll ever be the same satisfaction. Not having a life partner is huge socially, too. Many wont have female support or struggle with female connection. Its just a huge thing to completely give up when youre young, and I wish blackpill/separatist types acknowledged that more- that no, its not easy at all for hetero women. Still possible of course, and I guess the argument is that its way worth it/necessary for female liberation.

Fair enough :)

Well I define womens liberation mostly in legal terms of having equal rights and reduction of violent crime/justice for crime against women. Men are 50% of the population and will most likely always exist as long as humans exist, unfortunately. I dont see how we would ever eradicate them, so the only paths are trying to find a way to co-exist or cut them off as best you can, but unless we create a whole women-only society, theyre still always gunna be around you. In some hypothetical world where theres mens-only and womens-only lands, men will always invade us and 'steal' us... I just dont believe that they would stop until they did, or that we would be able to keep them out for long. Not that thats reason to not try to separate as much as possible..., its just, seems pointless, impossible in reality. Do you think all oppressed should just separate from their oppressors? Like black people from white, like some support for various reasons? If we all just kept dividing like that...would we reach world peace. Highly doubt that. Im just thinking aloud at this point lol, but I just dont think total separation can be achieved like that. Id love to be proven wrong. So then we can only do half-separation, with men still having to be around us in day to day life even if not in our personal lives. Unless we live in a forest or something.

>"Again, I'm asking you to not shield yourself with examples like Afghanistan women, or something. I'm talking about women that can separate from men but choose not to."

I understand, I wont do that. I hate when people purposefully misunderstand someones argument.

>"So I'm just not sure what do you mean by "when the more women are free..." because many women can be free right now, they just don't want to."

I meant like when all the women in Afghanistan, India, parts of Africa-women in the worst conditions of misogyny currently- are 'freed'/in much better conditions. The more 'freed' women there are, I hope that the easier to will get to free the rest of them, and have a snowball/acceleration affect that I think most social movements have?

How are you defining being freed? (in modern western, not extremes like Afghanistan). Cuz most women dont define freedom as having no males in their lives, they dont want that, they just want to stop being hurt by them.

>"Women can choose to choose each other, other women and their daughters even in Afghanistan, by the way."

Well yes I guess so, as much as they can. I guess their only choices are to cling to each other or be brainwashed. Both are horrors.

>I meant that you still have to associate with men, at least a little, when they're your coworkers, boss, or something like that. Men are always gunna be around you in society. I guess Im just saying- complete separation seems realistically impossible, so its now just a debate of degree of separation.

>Its not a non-action if you already have men you love in your life, you already have relationships with them, live with them.

>"I reiterate my point - women can do whatever they want, but actions have consequences. It's just… life."

Cant argue with that.

Well I may or may not reply again but this was an interesting conversation so thank you for having a polite conversation with me! I do see your perspective even if I still dont fully agree.

Breaking News: @radfemcroatia completes her very first cognizant statement, "I am not a feminist".

"I get irrationally angry when i see women supporting women"

"Women are equally responsible for being raped and oppressed for thousands of years"

"Normie women"

This doesn't sound like a radical feminist, this sounds like an Andrew Tate supporter. tell me what your blog has done to support women?

In the entire time your blog has existed, you never supported a woman once. you never outright CRITICSED a MAN. You only used men as a comparison for why you hate other women.

you have dedicated your time here to sending death threats to women you deem "less feminist". Multiple at that.

You are an unstable, woman-hating incel and you have no place here.

and the most disgusting repost in all of radblr.

You're blaming women for their rape? do you not understand that?

nvm.. it appears you do

It shouldn't have to be said.: You are not a radical feminist if you think that the patriarchy is the fault of the oppressed.

You take every step backwards to defend men. If a woman was raped, it's "what was she wearing", "she let him in" "why was she with him"

and if all else fails, its "well a women out there somewhere birthed the rapist"

not only that, but you're a bioessentialist too

You say women are cock slaves and then say this?

And on top of that, this sentence is funny because YOU DO say it was imposed on us by aliens, by posting not just once, but 3 times, a WordPress article that says women are biologically inferior and neutralized by method of probing. You inact purity culture to an extent that you say sex causes "intellectual disabilities" in women, which you agree, apparently, is highly saturated. Not only do you blame women for getting raped, you blame them for getting pregnant?

50 million women are sex trafficked, and that doesn't account for the 50% of all women that live in a location where they legally cannot access the same freedom of a man without his permission. almost 25% of women live in areas where the age of consent is prepubescent. in areas where woman cannot own guns, cannot travel, cannot LEAVE without being harassed, nonetheless killed. the next time you talk about how it's "womans fault" for "letting men in" or for "getting raped by someone's son" or for "not starting a revolution because they're too lazy" i want you to think of this image

think of the fact that the GOVERNMENT did this to a 6 year old for saying "no", and think about how that shaped her for the rest of her life.

I wouldn't be surprised if you don't, because you CANT think, judging by who you follow

What does it take u to understand that being separatist does not equate to blaming women for their systemic rape? I can tell youre rich white and privileged and most of all STUPID for even considering the thought that women are responsible for the patriarchy.

did you not know that women get raped so they can be decapitated? 11000 deaths like these a month

Have you tried speak to a Muslim women before? a woman who believes she will go to hell if she disobeys, a women who legally can get raped and beat by her husband, who can legally, own sex slaves?

Where is your female revolution? all you have done is cut support for them. You're a net negative in this community and if i didnt know any better, id say you're a neonazi tate fan.

[gothgarbageboy]

hi kinda personal stuff this may get long (old post below)

i was contemplating not posting this but i wont tag it and most probably nobody will see so doesn't matter also it's my blog i do what i want but i was scrolling through older stuff on my blog to appropriately tag them and saw this, it is getting me thinking. at 6 am. waking up from a restless sleep. lmfao.

it was most definitely not "healthier" keeping it to myself. i only said that so i don't worry people. anxiety is one hell of a bitch and to say i don't struggle right now and am not actively fighting this mindset i've drilled into my head all my life for no reason, it would be a lie. but man i'm glad it's not as bad as it was. not even a few years back i did this shit so often, even when (or especially when) i had a bigger following. this one was even worded way more nicely than other times i did it. idk why there's just this intense shame w making and posting any sort of art or just saying things in general or being seen. i used to always delete everything on my profile n go "yea everything i make is shit please unfollow me" and started sharing less and less art and feeling like my entire self worth was hanging on by how i felt about my art. even when i made something i felt looked good i'd think "surely i'm overlooking how bad this actually is" n i did this for YEARS... and for what. it did nothing, just upset my friends. idk, i still fight this actively but it's bizarre and also a relief to see that i've made progress. i don't think making bad art should be this big of a deal anyway, even if i make the worst shit known to man and everyone hates it, so what? no really what happens? its always been this hypothetical of "someone out there is gonna despise this secretly and i need to see it from their point of view whether or not they actually exist, just in case." i cant believe millions of years of evolution led to this. are we forreal. i still delete stuff sometimes but it doesnt feel like its as much of a big deal. yea like i'll make and post dogshit art, and? okay, and? there's always this delete this "OR ELSE" but i have got to realize there's nothing after that. or else what? nothing. just the or else is scary, it shouldn't be. i will be cringe that is a promise. more in tags lol

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[ozsvessalius]

also on the topic of the show treating mental illness poorly.

as a system, other tai's treatment also really disappoints me.

like, again, this is a situation where they have this golden opportunity to represent a heavily stigmatized disorder that is heavily misrepresented due to being misunderstood in a way that stands against our common portrayals.

but no, instead, AGAIN, she's apparently just simply evil. truly "other". deserving of being ostracized and separated from the "real" taissa bc she "isn't" her. she isn't the "real" love of van's life, despite her being the reason that taissa even reunited with van in the damn first place, and being the one trying her best to keep them safely away from the rest of the group in the domestic bliss they never got to have together.

she doesn't even get the damn humanity of being given her own fucking name. not even a fucking shitty nickname like "dirt" bc she ate dirt when tai was fucking starving to death in a desperate attempt to keep her alive!!

no, she's just "other tai". EVIL tai. unworthy of anything at all bc she's just EVIL and an enemy to the REAL, GOOD tai.

fuck off, man. fully entirely Fuck Off.

other tai could've very easily been a truly (and i mean this with FULL sincerity) groundbreaking representation of dissociative identity disorder(s). because, at least personally for my system's experience & from discussions we've shared w other systems, it's not uncommon for the first impression of alters to automatically be negative. protectors can be interpreted as persecutors for doing the hard shit that nobody else in the system wants to do/can handle doing, but it still has to be done to survive. to move forward. to truly heal.

other tai has numerous moments like that, where she takes over solely because tai can't bring herself to do something hard. or when tai is truly at the end of her desperate rope, other tai comes in to make sure they make it out alive.

there was setup there for them, instead of a two second clip of tai just throwing other tai aside, to have a genuine moment together. maybe they duke it out at first, but in the end, other tai says something like "i was just trying to protect us, and her (van). i just wanted to keep us alive." and tai realizes all along she's been misconstruing her and her actions, and they make peace with each other, and sharing a body.

we wouldn't even need to address anything again after that. it would wrap it up nicely enough that it wouldn't matter "which tai" was fronting, bc they both accept that they, together, are taissa.

but no, instead, oh she's just fucking evil. and needed to be "conquered" through being beat down like some fucking supervillain, and the "real", "good" tai is triumphant. and van died just to bring "real", "good" tai back. when again, she was only even with tai as an adult in the first place BECAUSE of other tai??????????

TOMATO!! TOMATO!! BOOOOOOOOOOO

we can humanize and sympathize with fucking cannibalism but wilderness forbid mentally ill people are seen as human beings who deserve love, understanding, compassion and sympathy.

[non-un-topo]

More cishet observations from the past month at work:

- They really fucking buzz off of the TERF wizard book series

- Their favourite place on Earth is Florida (why???)

- If you tell them you're an artist, they will ask you if you've ever "tried out AI"

- They will joke about OCD a lot

- They absolutely hate their bodies and will take any opportunity to talk about food in a toxic way (bonus points if they compare their body/food to yours)

- They hate their spouses and think that this is funny

- They. Do not. Have interests. (Besides the TERF wizard book series)

- They don't watch movies or TV??

- If they have kids, the way they talk about them makes it sound like it was genuinely the worst decision they ever made

- If they don't have kids, they will still fucking talk about having them

- They don't like cats??

In other weird news, I'm gendered correctly at work and I pass to the point that cishets actually talk to me like I'm a cishet guy.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

after finally playing scarlet witch long enough to get this icon ive decided that you really have to love wanda to get this icon

anyway Bonus cause Heh....... Fam.....

[callizinc]

hii calli :]

i really enjoyed your analysis of work culture in dbbq! it was a wonderfully worded thesis, and after reading it i couldn't get it off my mind today. it really got me thinking!

i especially liked your point of the the contradiction of her dialogue versus her actions. and the part about hands!! i saw cumber's take on it, and it makes me so, so happy to see ena's character design get some interpretations too! there's so much to talk about there!!

but anywho, your analysis really made me look back on my playthrough and notice the two (as far as i remember, i'm going off of my memory) times the salesperson personality censors meanie.

the first time being when meanie tries to say "heal, heal, frog ass," and salesperson cutting her off right before she could finish saying "ass."

and the second time was when meanie tells alex "i'm the anthology anomaly! step back, jackbutt." the "butt" being very distorted compared to the rest of her sentence, and it made me wonder if perhaps her salesperson side was censoring her? like, enforcing a customer-service appropriate language? i found it to be a curious coincidence that for both instances, meanie was implied to be trying to say "ass."

which made me wonder if salesperson deems certain words more obscene and unfit for the workplace than others. "bullshit" seems to be fine, but who knows. i definitely feel like i'm giving the cliche of connecting red string to photographs on a board, haha

the contrary way both personalities go about work is so interesting to me! salesperson being the embodiment of the perfect employee: enthusiastic, no option for the player to refuse jobs offered, "bless you for your business," formal language, etc. which definitely contributes to why meanie perhaps feels more genuine than salesperson.

but they both feel very business-minded to me, they just seem to go about it with complete opposite attitudes. meanie moreso embodying the no-nonsense mindset towards work. kinda like that stereotype of 'i hate my job v. i love my job', but they're both working towards the same goal. which, pardon me if i sound more and more like i'm delusional LOL, is acceptance. good employees are rewarded with better pay, better status, and better treatment—climbing up the corporate ladder.

which is why i find it so fascinating that one of the only times (that i remember) meanie talks in a genuinely salesperson-esque manner is with the vending machine when she buys the mayonnaise: "with prices like these, you can't afford a lifetime to wait!" like. i just can't get it out of my mind, the correlation! the vending machine is among the most openly discriminatory characters towards ena, and that is also the only instance of meanie adopting the "perfect employee" syntax.

i don't know where i'm going with this, i'm just thought-vomiting in all honesty, but i wanted your opinion since you put ideas together a lot better than i can! i trust you to let me know whether or not you think i've lost the plot LMAO

Hi anon :D first of all this is such a fun ask, like THANK you (and i am very grateful for your kind words to me also 😭 Like thank you... very very much...)

SO HEHE [GIGGLING MANIACALLY] OK OK... where to begin.... (I've found i'm not too bad at writing multi-paragraph ideas/"analyses". I'm just. Really really shit at Beginning them 😭😭)

REALLY GOOD THAT YOU MENTION THE "with prices like these" LINE WITH THE VENDING MACHINE, BECAUSE. I'll be honest i completely forgot about that😭😭😭LISTEN. I CAN ONLY REMEMBER SO MUCH. DSHFJKHKSH BUT IT IS REALLY COOL AND INTERESTING!!

I would definitely agree with your summation there—like. ...Ok, I do feel kind of fucking insane writing meta about a character who's A Vending Machine 😭. BUT WALK WITH ME HERE.

You're very right, it's interesting that the only instance we see of meanie going customer service voice is towards this particular guy, and given that they're the character that made her have her fucking. War/trauma/Both flashback? Her one and only voice of protest against how all these clowns treat her? I think that ena line could be representative of like... Her trying to be a perfectly up to standard and Good Worker to avoid any more shit from this guy, or especially perhaps trying to avoid.... i don't know, being reminded of Whatever That Was again from this guy??? Or both!

I'll put your follow-up ask here before i give any more of my input :D

OKOK... THIS I AM CHEWING ON... I think this is a really good takeaway and i definitely agree!!

I don't think your original idea of acceptance being an idea is wrong, personally, but perhaps it just fits in in a different way. I think you could argue that her character at Present is in a stage of "acceptance," as in How incredibly she is stuck in her stupid ass fucking job with no way out, which also connects to how she has no value in herself like at all, Which is ALso why she probably has just Accepted This. Sorry what were we Talking About. 😭😭

I REALLY LIKE THE VALIDATION IDEA THOUGH! It fits basically perfectly in line with my own #UnprovableTheories, cause personally i really like the idea that she works so hard as a way to try and redeem herself for whatever everyone thinks she did—even if this effort is definitely futile in the end.

Working hard is what society tells you you HAVE to do in order to be a Good, Valuable, and Productive person, it's what you have to do in order to BE a real and good person in the eyes of society. and like you said, It's also how you climb up the corporate ladder—the harder you work, the better pay you get AND the better you're treated. (...or so you're told, anyway..........)

So i definitely agree!! I may be repeating myself with that take from my other big analysis post, but. IDK, This particular work culture theme, if you couldn't tell by my fucking paragraphs of it 😭 is probably my favorite theme in the game at the moment, I think it has maybe the most canon basis of everything and is just. Interesting, fun, and potent to talk about for me :DD

All in all, these are really good thoughts anon!! Admittedly i couldn't tell you what i think per se about, for example, the other instances you mentioned of meanie "censoring" salesperson—Like, i think that's absolutely what's happening, but. Idk i personally don't know if there's as much, like. Easily extrapolated meaning to be found as there is with like the vending machines 😭😭 Heal heal frog ass. You get ehat im Sayin.

Though, i'm sure there can be something to be said about salesperson wanting certain language out of the "workplace"—Besides, the majority of Ena's most confusing lines that even make Froggy for example go "Wtf are you talking about" are salesperson. .......But maybe that's also nothing cause I still don'tk now what the fuck a fucking "Anthology anomaly is" ANd you know what. That's okay

[tevos]

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[brown-little-robin]

my last week, a visual demonstration

[savage-rhi]

I'm very much a, "fuck yeah and fuck you, I don't need validation! I'm me, cunts!" kinda fella, but sometimes I could use support.

[muttsona]

i hope i die, you broke my heart

[orcelito]

Unfortunate for me it seems like I have another night in the straitjacket ahead of me (double arm hot pad event)

[saintedbythestorm]

Me: We could have done the thing ™ now if you hadn't done all that confusing stuff first.

Dad: *says something even more confusing that makes it sound like we're still supposed to do the thing ™ now*

Me: OK just go. 🤦‍♂️

[raeathnos]

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[staticespace]

...I suppose I'm doing a slave labor job then?

Giving context to my question, the AI that is kicking me out of work is currently being taught by exploited South African, Kenyan, Pinoy, and other writers, coders, and engineers who help the model "learn". It's also "learning" from scraped information, blog posts, PDFs, and any other text that the tech companies can get their hands on.

Those writers do not deserve slavery wages for the detailed work they do. They should be getting paid a fair wage.

I also don't deserve to have my income stripped from me by a generative AI, leaving me unable to gain income, unable to do anything but scramble for income, unable to focus on amplifying attention to injustices we can actively improve and do better about.

That's literally all I was trying to say as to why I focus on AI so much right now.

Instead of indirectly calling me a selfish American motherfucker, I'd ask that y'all try not to take the things I say in the worst possible fucking manner.

the phenomenon of people talking about the cost of "AI" in energy and water while ignoring everything else they use that also spends those same things is very telling

you do not know the process behind production of the things you take for granted. you think your computer is a magic box that connects to the astral plane. you never think about the cables and servers and water cooling and electricity cost and the workers who build and maintain the infrastructure etc. etc. except for the thing you don't like and were told the cost was a good excuse for why you don't like it

you also don't think about the cost of so much more. the food you eat, the phone in your hand, etc. you just know it costs an amount of dollars at the store

this isn't about being a morally bad person for not thinking about this. this is about not getting bogged down on the supposed inherent evil of 1 specific thing you were told to hate because it's the only thing that you realize needs to be produced using material resources. and instead becoming a marxist

[twinkletfout]

That time when you were being all over Nanami and sitting on his lap as you went on about some stupid gossip, what you failed to notice was a subtle discomfort, underneath you. Like something hard.. well maybe that was his wallet or belt as you slightly changed your position causing a reaction from Nanami. You noticed it, when you stopped whatever you were saying and accidentally seemed to grind on his lap, the way he quickly looked away as a slight grunt left from him. Then it hit you, Oh.. he is hard.

"and? what happened then, sweetheart?" He urged you to continue the story like nothing was happening. You liked how he was hiding it pretty well. You threw your hands around his neck as you grinded forward on his lap, his lips turning into a thin line at your silence "hmm.. what was i saying again? Remind me?" Of course he couldn't spell it out if you are grinding onto him like that. "When— uh, your friend—" he struggled to respond as one of his hands came to rest on your hips now. "Yes, my friend?" You urged him to go on. "Hah.. goddamn it, baby" he said in a desperate plea.

"What was that?" You asked like you didn't know, completely unaware. "Darlin' im hard," he said pulling you close, his hardness nudging against your clothed core. "Is that right?" Before you could even finish, you were met with a impatient and passionate kiss.