#being an ally

[girlactionfigure]

Dani Ishai Behan

[stephin-horni-zone]

Real allyship be like: Don't worry babe I'll buy you dick for me to suck on.

[zillychu]

everyone sh. shutd up im cooking smthn

[unforth]

Y'all have got to stop virulently hating men. Like, I'm sorry, I fucking hate the patriarchy too, but the patriarchy isn't just men and saying it is just exculpates complicit women. I am the mother of a young boy, and I look at this precious, empathetic 8 year old boy I'm raising and I don't know where online is safe for him. Places like this will say he's evil just for his gender, and other places will say "we'll be your friend if you hate with us," and still others will radicalize him in other ways. Where is he supposed to go? Why are we saying the radicalization is the fault of the kids just trying to find a place to hang?

Like this is seriously getting urgent. You have got to fucking stop conflating the patriarchy and men. 53% percent of white women voted for Trump. Men aren't the problem. White supremacy and Christian patriarchal structures are two examples of patriarchy-reinforcing structures that aren't solely couched in maleness. Men aren't the problem, and pretending they are drives more men into more welcoming extremist spaces and also ignores all the parts of this that are forwarded by people who aren't men.

What I see happening all over is scared, depressed, lonely people looking for someone they're allowed to hate automatically, unquestioningly - someone they're allowed to place all the blame on. Fascism says people of color, non-Christian people, queer people, etc., are the ones they're allowed to hate.

And way too many of yall answer that no, it's leftist to hate men instead. You are doing *the exact same thing they are.*

Fucking knock it off.

The answer is we're not supposed to hate anyone automatically based on their immutable personal characteristics. Hate the specific people who've hurt you. Hate the self-reinforcing systems that let them get away with hurting you. Hate the strangers who prop up those systems. Hate the fascists. Hell knows I hate Donald Trump, but it's not because he's a man, it's because he's a piece of shit.

Hate the pieces of shit, not the gender.

But don't hate men just because they're men. That's unhelpful, stupid, insane, and entirely counterproductive. Fucking. Stop.

[ollydee]

SHOWING vs Telling. Also, humility! And being a good ally.

[squydworm]

Ally in never stop blowing up is so funny, they don’t have the regular mystery solving crew so they’re stepping up to move the plot forward while everyone is buying shirts at the hotel gift shop. Bringing up the right names, asking the right questions. Iconic of them. I’m getting whiplash from last season.

[apollos-olives]

before october 7th this blog was a meme page btw.

[alianoralacanta]

Ah, so that's who told the homophobic driver off! (The version I'd seen before anonymised both drivers involved).

GPDA chair Alex Wurz, my anti-homophobe beloved ❤️❤️❤️

Apparently, back in the mid-2000s-ish, when Matt Bishop (who was openly gay) was working in the paddock, there was an 'unnamed' F1 driver who would call him disgusting slurs. Specifically, he'd call Matt "fat faggot". All the fucking time.

One day, Alex Wurz heard.

Alex Wurz was also an F1 driver.

Alex Wurz got mad. Alex Wurz fucking did something about it.

According to The Guardian:

On one occasion the driver in question did so by shouting the abuse across the paddock. Bishop ignored it but the driver Alex Wurz confronted the man and told him off in no uncertain terms. Wurz and Bishop are now close friends and Wurz is the chair of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association.

Hell yes, Alex Wurz!!!

No wonder he's chair of the GPDA. No wonder people trust him to speak up when something is wrong.

[auschizm]

That being said, if you're allistic and find yourself being mad at an autistic person because of something you haven't actually communicated to them because you feel that you "shouldn't have to say it" and that "they'd figure it out if they really cared to", then YOU are in fact the one causing a problem and the one who needs to work on improving your communication skills

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they're just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.

war crimes aren't considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.

Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren't suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don't hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.

The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we're expected to celebrate both.

not bc they're Jewish. this isn't a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it's not evidence that antisemitism doesn't exist.

it's just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)

[thebrainrotsreal]

Drew this real quick because I fucking love these two so much ???? Especially Bee. I wish they interacted more so badly. PLEASE.

Also learning how to draw these guys.. slowly.

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

See one of the unrealized beautiful things about Jean and Neil's friendship is that the more they hang out, the more their boyfriends have to hang out, too. Andrew and Jeremy actually have a lot of potential as friends, Andrew actually likes nice people, i think Jeremy is capable of getting Andrew to talk with him, they are both blonde Californians with dark taste in partners, they hate cops, they have weird relationships with their siblings, but they take mental health seriously, and they dont make Exy their whole personality. While Jean and Neil are having a complicated crime filled lovehate, "we are brothers from the same messed up family" friendship. Jeremy and Andrew could actually develop a really nice, uncomplicated friendship where they babysit the others' bf when they are in town.

[buggest]

“women and enbies” “everyone but cis men” “afab people” “femmes and thems” “girls gays and theys” “women and everyone else” SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

[ruporas]

birthday party (id in alt)

[contemplatingoutlander]

As an Italian American, I'm proud that Tony Bennett fought discrimination in the military during WWII.

For me, this story is welcome in an age where certain powerful Italian Americans like Samuel Alito and Ron DeSantis seem to have forgotten the discrimination that Italian Americans encountered for many years in the U.S.

We Italian Americans should be allies with Blacks and other marginalized people in this country, NOT creating policies and interpreting laws in such a way as to undermine the progress this nation has made towards embracing diversity and promoting civil rights for all since the 1960s.