#call for unity

[jourquet]

for europeans regarding the apartheid in palestine and eurovision. we've a duty, and together, we can make eurovision ban israel. keep pressuring your local broadcaster, make your opinion clear.

[jayhoshow]

Sonu Sood's Emotional Appeal: Joining Hands for Odisha Train Tragedy Relief

In a heartfelt expression of sorrow and empathy, renowned Bollywood actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood shares his grief and concern over the devastating train tragedy in Odisha. This news article dives into Sonu Sood's impassioned call for unity and relief efforts to aid the victims and their families. Learn how this influential figure's compassionate plea aims to bring the nation together, encouraging support and solidarity during this challenging time. Discover the latest updates on the tragic incident and Sonu Sood's efforts to provide assistance, offering a glimmer of hope in the face of tragedy. Stay informed and join hands in extending help to the affected communities in Odisha.

[pinbones]

There's a whole bunch of people on this site who genuinely think saying awful misogynistic stuff is fine so long as they say 'AFABs' instead of 'women'

If you make your misogyny about assigned sex, that's woke, right? That's gender neutral?

It's fine to say AFABs are whiny and vaginas are gross and all the best people were born with dicks, because now the bigotry is man-inclusive!! No one can call you a misogynist because that would totally be transphobia. Phew! Safe!

[cardentist]

I hate the man vs bear question, because the only time I've seen a man use it to talk about his experience being raped there were literally hundreds upon thousands of replies victim blaming him and insisting that being raped is a thing that can only happen to women and he should've just "manned up"

but I can't talk about that without being derailed instantly because losers and incels want to use the talking point as an opportunity to complain about gold diggers and women cucking them or whatever the fuck

we can never Actually have a productive conversation about how sexism negatively impacts men, Especially victims and marginalized people, because sexist men will always take the spotlight and radfems will use it as an excuse to pretend like these two groups are the same.

I think it's a bad thing to present all men as inherently predatory, not because of "not all men" bullshit or whatever, but because people use gender essentialism as an excuse to hurt minorities and silence victims. I think it's Bad to present a kind of suffering that anyone can experience as unique to one kind of person and then mock and belittle people who come out to talk about their experiences with it.

I think "rape is a thing that Happens to women and something that men Do" is an inherently flawed framework that has only been used to justify violence. against men of color, against trans women, against male victims, against marginalized men. because "men are inherently violent and can only hurt women, not be hurt by them" is used to justify framing a Type of man (or someone who's perceived as a man) as dangerous and in need of being Removed.

[thou-babbling-brook]

Love it when a man is at rock bottom

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

As a leftist it is often frustrating how many leftists are just straight up bad at politics. Like yeah fuck the system the system sucks, but it is the system we have right now and until your revolution materialises, we have to operate within that system to achieve things but so many leftists just insist on really dumb political moves.

[nyaskitten]

I Really like the idea that Cole gifted the Geckles and Munce a new blade made from the Blades of Deliverance to showcase their newfound unity…

[notbecauseofvictories]

who is braver: a hero who fearlessly races into a burning building to rescue a poor, innocent kitten marooned on an upper floor? or me, who walked around a city plus three floors of an office park in heels?

[existencebringsonlypain]

my favorite thing to doodle recently has been this little guy

so fun to draw!!! still haven't decided on a name, or pronouns for that matter

[makilight]

Enchantix designs!✨

Emilia☀️

Aleks💖

Lisette🍃

Mila🌊

Tags: @alypink @imjustsocute @efingart @efingcod @adlerboi @rosebarry16 @imagoddamnonionmason @adlersoldspice @adlerdaduck @sparklight1242 @bi-ta @scumbagg @pricescigar

[bobbole]

Playing with dolls: the Corinthian and "this dream people call Human Life" - part I

Written for The Sandman Book Club

Since at The Sandman Book Club we are re-reading The Doll's House, and since the first chapter of this story marks the entry of the Corinthian, I would like to dwell on some of the distinctive traits of this character, how he is the embodiment of one of the great symbols of American and Western pop mythology (the serial killer) and how the netflix adaptation, while excellent, has completely deprived him of precisely those elements that made him so distinctive, while enhancing other important aspects.

Murderer vs. Killer, or when killing is a "work of art"

In The Dreaming, the spin-off series immediately following the canonical Sandman, there is a panel that I think is emblematic in defining what the Corinthian is, even before his being nightmare, black mirror, etc

Judging Cain like he's on Dancing with the Stars

There is a passage in which the Corinthian states that Cain is definitely a murderer, but not a very good killer. This because the word murderer here is linked to a primordial concept of homicide. Yes, Cain is the first murderer, but his act is something instinctual, part of his nature. Cain kills because he cannot do anything else and murder for him is an inevitable act, demonstrating his being part of a story from whose narrative he does not escape.

For the Corinthian, on the other hand, killing theoretically is not in his nature: he is after all a nightmare, which must terrify, unsettle, reflect the deepest fears and secrets of the human subconscious. A means to an end, not the end itself. For the Corinthian, killing is a deliberate act by which he tries to carve out a space of his own within a predetermined story.

The serial killer is a planner: in the Corinthian mind, an artist too. Even the fact that he appears on the scene not already in his nightmare function but primarily in that of being ready to kill a young man leaves no doubt about it: the Corinthian, in the way he perceives himself, is first and foremost a serial killer/artist.

This is not Vogue: comics vs show

In the netflix Sandman, episode one, the Corinthian has sensed that Dream is free. He wipes off the blood from his eyes and stands up, sensually stroking the head of his...victim? It would be better to say a model without eyes. Death here is not horror: there is something glamorous about this scene that irritates me deeply, not least because we are watching it from a spectator's pov, comfortable in our chairs. We are in a hotel room but the space is open, and the screen of the devices from which we are watching the episode gives us

1) an escape route

2) a way to dilute the horror of the scene (there is always hope if there is an escape route)

This Corinthian is elegant and sensual. He could disturbs us, if he wants, but definitely he's not scary.

Let's compare the netflix scene with the comic. First, fundamental change: the reader's pov, which coincides exactly with that of the Corinthian. We do not see the Corinthian in the panels, and we will not see him until after a long time. We look at the scene through his eyes, we read the words through his voice. From this perspective, it's as if behind the glasses, together with him, we were there, an active part of this crime.

Paradoxically, this scene should be less scary than the one in the TV show. There is no blood and the boy still has his eyes. But we perceive his terror, we see him tied up and helpless like a doll. We see his pimply face making ugly grimaces of fear (in the netflix episode the victim's face is perfect). There is no hope for this boy and while he begs for mercy in vain we brandish, together with the Corinthian, the knife that will kill him. There is no sensuality, there is no seduction, there is no sex here (better, sex and death are the same thing but I will return to the relationship between death and sexuality in the second part of this little essay). We are in a room with no escape, the scene in front of us is dirty, not at all glamorous, in which we readers are actively participating. This Corinthian is fucking scary.

The waking world: a big doll's house to play in

This title takes on a different meaning depending on the various characters involved in this Sandman story. From my point of view, I believe that the characters who most of all are linked to the concept of a doll's house are Unity and the Corinthian.

Unity appears near an old doll house, and her clothes are also similar to those of an old doll

Unity was literally a doll for most of her life: her condition was caused by an external event and external people decided about her life, including her motherhood.

The Corinthian doll and the surrealist doll of Hans Bellmer: both obscene and disturbing toys

The Corinthian, on the other hand, is a sort of doll maker and the dolls are the human beings he kills and whose physiognomy he transforms with his knife.

This last thing is perhaps one of the elements that most differentiates the netflix Corinthian from the one in the comic. The Boyd Corinthian is almost a romantic character, a bohémien eager to savor human life in every sense, moved by contrasts and ambiguities that make him decidedly more similar to the Second Corinthian of the comic than to the First. He looks at humanity with a curiosity that is sometimes almost paternalistic: ruthless, but not cruel. He embodies a type of socially well-integrated serial killer, the "unsuspected type", who knows how to contain his impulses when necessary. Most important, with him sex is not always synonymous with death.

The Corinthian of comics, on contrary, never escapes this binomial: in him, sex and death are always intrinsically linked because they are the same thing. He is always cruel and brutal, seeing humans as meat to be cut. Humanity is nothing but fresh clay in his artist's hands: shaped dolls to play with in his new dark stories.

[legionofpotatoes]

finally finished

[smallidarityfan]

GEM CLICKBAITED SMALLIDARITY GGHAAHAAAHSHSBSB IM DYINGGGG HAVE WE REALLY REACHED THAT POINT BROTHERS.......?

[virtue-boy]

Went on a transandrophobia truther blog and instantly saw this ..

1) love the slight of hand where he says "being trans" instead of actually identifying any positionality or god forbid mentioning WOMANHOOD as a type of positionality in his post which allows him to call trans women men and completely disregard the experience of the closested trans WOMAN. Telling that your argument hinges on "after transitioning to a man I am exactly the same as a woman undercover as a man"

2) just say you're not on T and you don't know anyone who is. Like as someone who's passed as male on an off for my whole life and now fully passes as male all the time thanks to T I low key snorted reading this... Liiike let's be for real here passing as a man (and doubly so if u are binary and have the pronouns to match) and passing gives you privilege out the fucking wazoo and I literally think about it every time I leave the house, meet new people, take blue collar jobs, interact w people on public transit, walk around at night, go to gay clubs, bond w male overseers, look for roommates, etc. This is obviously extremely racialized as much as it is gendered, but there is literally not a single "privilege" I had as a girl (that was assumed to be a guy 50-70% of the time) that I lost as a guy.

3) Also how do trans men "inherently defy patriarchal manhood" I literally know a trans guy who went to jail for domestic violence against a woman like trans men are incredibly capable of accessing and enacting patriarchy and thinking ourselves justified in accessing patriarchal homosociality. Like we are literally becoming men and we don't just magically exit the patriarchal society because we aren't the men at the top of the make food chain.... a la R.W. Connel. Being trans men means we lose some for being trans but we win some because we are men. Like gay men are frequently denied their masculinity but it would be dodo brained to act like gay men have no male homosociality they can access or that no gay man has ever accessed male homosociality. Like if u believe that you actually don't know any gay history Attttt Alllllll 😭 like genuinely. We also earn more money per dollar than women in our same gender modality, that doesn't sound like "inherently defying patriarchal manhood" to me that sounds actually like a pretty typical social positionality for oppressed and marginalized men. Like in my own friend groups, at school, and in my music and promotions scene being an (openly trans) man actually has granted me actually a lot of homosociality that I can draw on.

[thou-babbling-brook]

it’s 3:37 AM where I’m at and I’m bawling my eyes out over an Arno fanfic. A month and a half ago I thought this man was mid. THIS IS TRULY HUMILIATING 😭

[genderkoolaid]

its weird, i feel like so much anti-transunity stuff is treating it like its. already completed? unable to change? like ppl will say "transunity is transmisogynistic!!" and then when we genuinely ask why they feel that way & what they can do to change the movement, its radio silence. someone commented this on this poll:

the point of the poll is to see what transunity needs to improve on to be able to help all trans people. but instead of seeing this poll as a sign of willingness to grow, its seen as like. a failed attempt to brag? and used to write off the entire concept, as if transunity is a static concept that could never grow past its current state?

the people making these bad faith complaints dont dislike transunity because it excludes them. they don't want transunity to be able to change and become more inclusive because then they don't have an excuse for why they are so against the idea of all trans people being equally oppressed and holding ourselves responsible for the ways we hurt each other