#it's enough to radicalize you

[doberbutts]

If you want to know some knowledge that will piss you off:

In various higher paying jobs, especially anything related to STEM (you know that thing that everyone apparently is supposed to have a goal towards if not business), your employer DOES provide your clothes for you.

I've worked in my clinic for just over a year and my employer has provided roughly 700 dollars worth of uniform. I know this because I receive a voucher to spend as cash to purchase my work clothes, so I have the actual dollar amount. This is partially because even a cheap shirt and pants combo is about 40-50 bucks minimum but still, that's 700 dollars of uniform I do not have to buy.

When I worked my first minimum wage job I had to find and purchase my work clothes myself. When I worked for a company that "provided" work clothes, they mean they provided two work shirts and the rest I had to either buy from the company uniform website myself or I had to use my own clothes and wallet and shopping time. Working at my current job, the only thing I have to buy with my own money is socks and shoes.

I don't think employers should be legally allowed to ask anyone to dress up for interviews. I should be able to walk in off the street in jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt and interview for jobs because employers are supposed to be interviewing me and my skills, training, education, and experience, not the nicest clothes in my closet.

It's discriminatory towards poor people to ask otherwise.

It's also just fucking audacious to demand that the people you need to provide the labor to keep your workplace going put on a suit and dance around like a trained monkey before you've even hired them.

[avicecaro]

“The abusive man learns early in life, from his surrounding society and beyond, that when he becomes an adult he has the right to swallow a female whole, and that in this way he will fill the vast emptiness inside of him and feel empty no more. He learns that the female of his choosing owes him her life entire in this fashion, that it would be wrong of her to fail to sacrifice her life and herself in this way. Not only that, but he learns that this self-erasure will be her greatest joy.

He gets these messages all over the place, from his own unhealthy relatives all the way up to police responses, courts, and Disney movies.

All of what he learns is a lie. It is a moral lie, meaning it’s a lie about what’s right and what’s wrong; no woman’s life should ever by martyred to fill a man’s (or anyone’s) emptiness. But not only should this not be done, it also cannot be done. Thus it is not only a moral lie but also a lie about the nature of reality. A human being cannot be vacuumed into the inside of another person and become part of that person, in some kind of twisted reversal of the birth process. It’s absurd that it’s even necessary for me to state this.

The abusive man hates the woman for continuing to exist outside of him. No matter how hard she may try, in her terror and in her trauma, to disappear inside of him, she simply cannot do it. (And if she gets some support in her life, she may even attempt to refuse to continue trying.) He hates her for this, for still being there, because he was taught that to disappear inside of him is her unlimited obligation and will make him whole.

When you find yourself wondering why the abuser hates you – as most abused women do at one point or another – this is why: because you continue to breathe, because you have skin, because you eat food and then move with the energy of that food, because by getting out of bed and standing up in the morning you have once again demonstrated your failure to become him.”

Ever Wonder Why Your Abusive Partner Hates You? blog post from Lundy Bancroft, on his website lundybancroft.com

[thepeacefulgarden]

[madamtrashbat]

If I see one more thing that says "hey please don't vote for Trump it would be really bad" and the response on it is "oh so you support genocide? You expect me to vote for an old warmongering fascist? Joe Biden is a fucking murderer and you hate Palestinians how does the boot taste Zionist must be nice to only care about poor widdle white Americans asshole" I'm gonna start throwing ninja stars.

[weepylucifer]

it's beautiful to picture the anodic dance club as like, the new hot spot for the young people of martinaise to hang out and all bond with each other and have all their different worldviews mingle and create new things... but lbr chances are half of those people are going to end up just not really liking anodic music. like, thanks for keeping the pale hole contained or whatever but this music blows

[walkietalkiemaniac]

no words to describe the way i love ekko (ive written paragraphs on oaragraphs) all ill say is isnt it crazy how after aang ive collected only 2 characters who are as perfect and theyre Miles and Ekko

[kings-highway]

i think part of the reason Iwaoi has the ability to make me so feral has almost nothing to do with any romantic relationship but rather the fact that they are equals in almost every way and yet Iwaizumi must still feel like he is powerless. Like we know Iwa is good at volleyball he's the ace and goes on to be the trainer for the japanese national team. And we know explicitly that Oikawa is not a prodigy, his technical skill has never been what makes him a good player, he is not someone Iwa wouldn't be able to keep up with. So Iwaizumi probably knows Oikawa's limits because he knows his own. And even though the infamous knee injury is technically not canon we know he does sustain an injury, we know he stays up all night preping for games, we know he stays in the gym long after practice is over until Iwa drags him out. Iwa and Oikawa may be equals, but Oikawa is an Icarus. They both have wax wings but only one of them is going to fly too high and come crashing down again. And Iwa knows this. He knows every game, every push forward, every move Oikawa makes is almost inherently destined to end in a firey blaze not because Oikawa isn't good enough but because he's not programmed to feel satisfied. Iwa has to send him off to Argentina. He has to see him at the Olympics, he has to watch him push himself higher and higher and higher and he must just be screaming inside 'can't you see we're wax wings? we're not eagles or crows, we can't go up that high' and yet there's nothing he can do because Icarus doesn't listen. Not in Crete and not in Japan and not in Argentina. All he can really do is learn how to manage sports injuries, learn how to stretch torn muscles, how to recover broken bones and sooth aggravated egos and be ready on the sidelines with burn salve and love. Whether or not you like to consider the relationship as romantic is up to you but I for one cannot fathom a more heartwrenching story than that. Do you think Iwa ever wondered if he were capable of loving his best friend enough to change his nature? Do you think his efforts to do so would be unfair to Daedalus, as if Iwa would be able to love someone more than a father loves his son? Would he try anyway? Do you think Oikawa knows any of this? Or does he just think Iwa's concern comes from thinking Oikawa isn't good enough to compete with the birds? When Oikawa hits the ocean, do you think he'll realize it's not his fault that wax melts in the sun?

[mochayoubi]

i was very surprised at how difficult it was to find (good) resources for learners that accurately describe how 部首 (in English we translate this to be the "radical") work in 漢字 (kanji). i pulled these from a very comprehensive guide of kanji from おじゃちゃん, a native speaker who is also a language teacher and if youre interested in learning more, you should check out her full overview here.

to a beginner this might not be as useful - but when you get deep enough into japanese i think it's worth it to understand how kanji is actually used by native speakers. understanding how the radical works can also help you guess at meanings and recognize common patterns that may make memorizing kanji easier

[mithliya]

i feel like some of you do genuinely need to go offline tho bc of all things to have a victim-complex about, being simply told not to date men should not be one of them. that is quite literally what every woman has been raised to believe her purpose is. women are literally treated as inferior failures with no value if we, for whatever reason (including innate sexuality), do not want to be with men. you will live through your boyfriend being called jakey, and you will also live through being told you're not a radfem because you have a boyfriend. it will not kill you, i promise. you will be ok. go offline, kiss your precious boyfriend, and maybe go on a nice picnic date together so you can remember just how normal and accepted, even encouraged, heterosexual relationships are.

[nanasketchdump]

Awake at 3am cooked off new ADHD meds, rotating angrily in bed pure fuming over Eurocentrism

[ozonecologne]

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[menlove]

as a card carrying terf I don’t think trans ppl are disgusting and neither does any radfem i’ve ever met, vast majority of us dgaf about trans people specifically; we want single-sex spaces to exist and btw trans people need those single-sex spaces too. trans women deserve to have spaces for Just trans women and cis women deserve spaces with Just cis women etc etc. i highly recommend doing some actual research into radical feminism instead of repeating the "theyre all conservatives who hate gnc people and find trans people disgustinf and want to kill them" that is simply not true lmao. you may be surprised a what you learn! sincerely a gnc lesbian and proud radfem

I have in fact done much research into radical feminism babe! trust me I have spent hours in yalls spaces! and you simply cannot speak for every single terf just as I can't speak for every trans person. you can't say "come on NO ONE IS SAYING-" just like I can't say that either. do you know every terf? have you seen every blog? have you been a trans person (particularly a trans woman) on the internet trying to just exist in peace? no? then you don't get to say "no terf is SAYING-" because yes, a lot of you are!

"no terf thinks trans people are disgusting" cool so when I was 19 and hadn't touched testosterone a day in my life and had she/they in my bio one of you coming into my ask going "I can tell by looking at you that you'll never be a woman lmfao" bc I'm latine w a shitton of body hair and non-eurocentric features, THAT was out of love for ✨women✨.

when yall (not you specifically but your group you associate with) get on twitter and pick apart the selfies women post telling them they're ugly and following it up by saying you KNOW they're "men" and it turns out 9/10 you've just harassed a cis woman who just doesn't meet eurocentric beauty standards, that's so totally cool and awesome and out of love for cis women and a want for separate spaces right?

when yall go into trans people's asks and tell us to kill ourselves, call us pedophiles, call us rapists, call us ugly... that shit just doesn't happen, right? and yes I'm Aware yall get death and rape threats too. you shouldn't, it's gross on both sides, but really it's not proving your point here.

it's fucking infuriating. you're infuriating. because radical feminism could be something worthwhile (and funnily enough I've met a lot of older ex radfem lesbians who have veered away from it bc of how fucking vitrolic yall are towards trans people). but instead, it is steeped and inseparable from the mire of hatred and disgust that you parrot. you don't give a single shit about women, whatever sex.

I'm an assigned female at birth lesbian who has only ever slept with other people with vaginas (consensually anyway). I can't tell you the amount of hate I've gotten from yall. just for being trans. even though I meet your definition of being a woman and being a lesbian. it doesn't matter because your hatred for people you deem as degenerate outweighs actually fucking advocating for feminism.

I'm not even going to argue with you on how useless single sex spaces actually are bc despite their best attempts there's always going to be problems (namely: fun fact cis women can be awful too AND how the fuck are you going to check and enforce this rule? what is your end goal?).

but what I AM going to say is no, sorry, that's NOT what a lot of you think. that's what YOU think. that's why YOU'RE a terf. but actually fucking look at the people around you. go on a trans person's blog or twitter who's receiving harassment and fucking try and tell me it's to promote "uwu safe spaces" like.... be fucking serious with me right now lmfao

you're not conservatives! but you are a bunch of fucking assholes who care more about harassing trans people than building a feminism that might actually have teeth. if you're using those teeth to attack a group more vulnerable than you, you're just an aggressor.

tldr you don't speak for all of them, go fuck yourself, etc

[thepeacefulgarden]

[lorynna]

Saw this video on Tiktok today and yes, I'm aware it's just supposed to be a silly joke but I couldn't help but think about the underlying message that perfectly translates into gender ideology.

First 3 slides are the original, last 3 slides are my version

[a-very-tired-jew]

Once in a while I see a piece of antisemitic propaganda that makes me think "huh, I wonder if that was in the Dropout Discord?" and I'll go back and search for it. Inevitably it's there in all its glory. The latest one that popped into my head was the erasure of Arab Jews and how Western Activists will hold them up to prove a point, but at the same time deny that they exist when it comes to Israeli culture and cuisine. Which is exactly where the discussion, which appeared a few times, went. The server would talk about how Arab and/or Mizrahi Jews were oppressed and were not allowed to engage in their culture and traditions, but then would blame Israel for stealing Middle Eastern food and culture.

They started from the conclusion that Israel is an "evil oppressive colonizer that appropriates culture" and didn't think that maybe the Jews they're trying to tokenize brought their cultures to the country. That maybe the Middle Eastern Jews that were already present in the region had the culture and cuisine and it was the Jews that immigrated that brought theirs?

Again, I'm glad the server is frozen and the chat logs remain. It's evidence to show how radicalized the Dropout Fandom has become and how quickly they are to dismiss anything that doesn't fit their narrative, engage in antisemitism, and openly believe in ahistorical propaganda.

There's one particular account that was spreading this stuff in the server and it eventually came out that they're an official JVP organizer (even though they originally said JVP wasn't radical enough for them, which is terrifying). Said person also promoted Neturei Karta as anti-Zionists, blamed Israel for the ethnic cleansing of Jews in other countries, blamed Israel for the loss of diasporic languages and not the countries the diaspora lived in for ethnically cleansing them, and actively promoted the "paradise before the evil Zionists arrived" narrative.

They're a different person than "Everyone is brained washed but me" that I've talked about before, but they have said similar things about "deprogramming" themself and being ostracized cause they know the "truth" now. The majority of their sources are from Hamas affiliates and fronts, and other terrorist groups, and/or they actively dismiss materials that are contrary to their radical beliefs.

I wonder where these persons are now and what they're saying. I do wish I could have seen how bad it would have gotten in the server if it was still active during the hostage rescue. I think that would have been the ultimate nail in the coffin and piece of evidence to show how much of the fandom openly and actively supports violent terrorism against Jews.

(Note: I'm not including screenshots here because there is so much, and at this point I have it all in case someone asks, but I don't feel like putting it in right now)

[rebellum]

Begging and vomiting and puking and crying to try to remind white trans people that You Are White, you have white privilege, regardless of your gender or sex assigned at birth.