#do you people hear yourselves!!!!!!!

[madamtrashbat]

Me, staring into the vacuous abyss that is Twitter

[moonscape]

like idk maybe this is just me but i'd genuinely rather throw my loose change into something that could possibly be but is very unlikely to be a scam and just be like "oh well" if it does actually turn out to be a scam than try to denounce every single palaestinian that just wants to live in safety. tripling down on that behaviour is just fucking embarrassing. "it's not racist to be skeptical of donations asks" that's true but saying that a group of brown people are all hustlers running a mass scam ring is undoubtedly extremely racist you fucking clowns.

[starlightomatic]

Why is it that it never seems to occur to y'all that Jews who oppose the war in Gaza, or name the Nakba or the apartheid system in the West Bank as things that exist and are bad, or oppose Zionism, are doing it out of actual sincere desire for justice and ethics?

Why do you always assume we're doing it to be "good Jews" or to save our skins or for social media clout? It's never occurred to you that we oppose the war in Gaza because people in Gaza are suffering and we actually sincerely care about that?

Honestly the level of false motives you ascribe to us would be antisemitic if it was coming from goyim.

And it's just disrespectful. Feel free to disagree with us. But please for half a second assume that we're not doing this to try to earn cookies from goyim.

[cuntylestat]

there have always been a lot of people in the fandom who have been very gender essentialist in their read of louis and lestat but it's really ramping up now

[bougiebutchbinch]

Look, the long and short of it is -

In what universe does 'defending yourself from emotional abuse!!' look like repeatedly mutilating a guy who is not fighting back in any way, for the sin of speaking up to protect other people from you; encouraging him to commit suicide; and forcing a group of people who have literally never done you any harm to live in constant fear while you psychologically, emotionally and physically torture them until they fulfill your suicidal fantasies?

Oh, that's right. No universe.

[theineated]

Radfems: we want to dismantle gender roles

Also radfems: males are whores by their biological construction

[ohithankyou]

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[disguisedcheezed]

ironically i get the feeling ppl that equate dirkjohn to 'dirkjake lite' just kind of display their own bad character read bc that makes it seem as if they see john and jake as functionally... the same character.... they r different characters w different thematics why is a different ship like that even something to b mad about. would they get this way abt like. dirk + equius? no? why get that way abt dirkjohn

People don't know how to say they don't like dirkjohn like a normal person would and never speak of it ever again.

[anartificialsatellite]

Saw someone refer to Gaza as "one of the most brutal ethnic cleansings in history" and I'm just completely stunned and baffled by the pathological need to characterize it as The Worst Thing That Has Ever Happened, as if it couldn't possibly matter unless it was indeed The Worst, as if their suffering is not good enough to be upset about unless it is The Worst.

It's also profoundly disconcerting how many people have Absolutely Zero historical knowledge or awareness on this front. Occasionally I feel guilty for deciding teaching isn't for me because I know it's needed, but the sheer scale of the need is fucking daunting.

[1bringthesun]

so when dazai was in the hospital with that nurse, who’s the right one to blame?

(discussions of s/a, medical unprofessionally, and other bsd-typical things)

asking this question is wrong to begin with. there’s no, “ oh no, but who will we blame for the situation?” are you really still looking for someone to blame in bungou stray dogs, the series of grey morality?

well, i don’t blame you. so im making a post about it!

for convenience, i’m just going to assume they slept together because it makes the most sense, and is also generally what the fandom assumes when they try to point fingers at either two.

to better understand why people think a certain way, let’s break it down and approach this problem from two perspectives!

the nurse was in the wrong:

dazai had just gotten out of surgery for having a bullet wound and is still under the influence of anesthesia. she sees him using his phone and takes it from him. he’s handsome and willing to do things with her, so she sleeps with him, and when they’re done, she’s willing to give it back. not only that, but she has the audacity to ask again if they can do it “just once more.” it’s obvious she has zero care for him as a patient if she’s willing to sleep with someone fresh out of surgery, and also being under the influence, he’s not able to properly consent. regardless, she takes her chance to be with a handsome man, completely neglecting her job to care for his health as a nurse and breaking probably every single aspect of professionalism.

dazai was in the wrong:

an annoying woman is disregarding the gravity of his work and holding him, someone who’s important to the fate of the city, by normal hospital standards, when he’s been shot by a bullet before and knows his own body inhumanly well; another doctor even gave him permission, so who’s she to act like the boss of him? obviously, this bothers him, and he needs his phone, so he decides to take the quickest path to getting it back, and, spoiler alert: it isn’t recovery. he seduces her and puts her job at risk just so he’ll get his phone back, and when she becomes attached to him, he says yeah, sure, they can fool around again… if he feels like it.

they’re both in the wrong:

people blame her of sexually assaulting him, and also blame him of sexually assaulting her. they say he couldn’t have consented, she overly wasn’t interested in the beginning, she was meant to care for her patient, he’s a scumbag and a womanizer, etc.

but don’t you see? the fact that both of them have done awful things in these two panels…

…is the point.

dazai is an asshole for sleeping with a woman he doesn’t give a damn about just so she’ll do what he tells her to, and she’s totally insane for letting a patient who was just in surgery share physical intimacy with her.

she’s an awful nurse, and he’s a bitch! they both suck!!!! why only blame one of them for sucking?

from an outsider’s perspective, the nurse does seem to be more in the wrong. she was meant to be his caretaker for a while and completely neglected that, even going so far as to have relations with a patient still under the effects of drugs.

but… was he? he was speaking completely lucidly, and none of his thoughts or words or actions resembled someone under the influence in the slightest. he made a sour face at her when he realized he couldn’t just do whatever he wanted to do, and her attitude in the beginning was clearly appropriate for the situation. calling dazai a victim in this situation is wrong. he clearly took the initiative to change her position. is that not consent?

he manipulated her for access to a phone, and she used him as means of gratification, and both of that is wrong.

[yonpote]

listen i love hating on dan its fun its all bants and he plays the heel so well but damn why are ppl such haters on some of his recent fits !!!!! i will NEVER speak ill of the apocalypse patch pants i think theyre sick as hell but just not utilized to their full potential

[piosplayhouse]

love it when people are so slippery slope pilled that under every discourse about censorship someone will inevitably go "ok but what if someone made birth of a nation 2 and reestablished the kkk" when it could not be more obvious that the original poster's statement was just like. About a teenager's underage bakudeku fic or something

[shizukahaiji]

So unbelievably disheartening how little joseimuke is taken seriously as a genre overseas and it just gets more and more dire by the minute

[theteaisaddictive]

radical feminism making a comeback (/derogatory) was not on my 2024 bingo card

[greencarnation]

countless palestinian/arab/poc percy jackson fans: here is why what rick riordan has said and done is harmful, and here is why it is zionist

the fucking imbeciles up in my notes: NOOO HES NOT HE WOULD NEVER!!!!

[communistkenobi]

kinda hilarious seeing some transmascs getting themselves tangled into such a ridiculous discursive knot that they end up arguing trans men can never benefit from patriarchy because we aren’t really men, that nobody will ever view us as men no matter what we do, and that we are doomed to be shackled to our wombs and wide hips for the rest of our lives. this is not a novel transfeminist position but rather the logical conclusion of the reactionary doom spiral that begins when you believe misandry is real