#reactionary movements

[dreamyintersexouppy]

do transandrodorks just say radfem when they mean transfem now???? cuz some of these posts are only legible if i make that substitution... surely they wouldn't be placing us in a box that allows them to ignore us as a group if we ever challenge their transmisogynistic actions and masking that fact from others by stealing feminist terms and twisting them for their reactionary rhetoric, i think there's a word for that but i just can't remember it

[hyenagurl]

i do think there are lot of bad actors on radblr both racists, people who swing on the horseshoe to misogyny and those who are hostile to others on here and start petty drama, but i think its important to remember that this is more or less a “bug” of a somewhat insular community on a niche social media platform where anyone can say anything and attract all sorts of terminally online semi-hermits - not so much as a problem of radical feminism in itself. i feel like ive seen a number of ppl on here blame it on the second thing. you can curate your experience on here pretty easily, so its important to block reactionaries and listen to the women you do agree with.

[communistkenobi]

I’m sure those articles written by ex-terfs looking to deradicalise other terfs do occasionally help, and honestly if you’re an ex-terf I think you are morally obligated to berate the bigots you used to call comrades out of their horrendous belief systems, but whenever I read those articles it’s clear to me that these people still view trans people as research specimens to debate over, they’ve just generously shifted over to the side of “i think exterminating this minority group is bad”

[dummerjan]

Pride is full of evangelicals that tell queer they want to save us. I know we have plenty of those idiots around these parts but they usually don't talk to you. And this is the first time I see them at a Pride event. There were so many, I kept being offered pamplets and chick tracks. I wish I could stay calm but I told several people to fuck off.

[goraturtle]

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[url-is-url]

Fun fact for the Danny Phantom fandom: the word "ectoplasm" was coined in 1894 by a psychical researcher who didn't believe in life after death AND was a racist who supported eugenics. How fitting, then, that ectoscientists after him would believe that ghosts aren't really sentient.

[giritina]

People could stand to feel a little worse about being sucked into anti-sjw internet shit in 2014-2016... I don't think it reflects on who they have become and many were sucked in as young kids. But there's a narrative developing that "everyone was just like that then" "it was common to say slurs and believe this stuff then" meanwhile from my perspective there was a shitty minority of people who were invested in making my life worse. Real people were harassed bc of this stuff. Being in HS in this time as a minority fucking sucked, there was an overwhelming feeling that speaking up abt anything put you in danger. I got death threats, rape threats, I got outed to my parents. And then there's kids like Milo Stewart whose life was briefly fucking ruined because they made some videos with a flower crown and fairy lights about leftism 101.

We can all move on and grow, but why do you have to act like no one was giving you other options to listen to?? If everyone was 'like that' then who was being harassed?? Who was the fuel for your YouTube videos and Reddit threads and bullying? 🥴 It sucks to look back and remember you were a shitty person, but it sucks even more to be traumatized for life by harassment

[venus-is-in-bloom]

i wonder if labour-based organising is lionised a little too much in leftist spaces.

[lasdelaintuicionn]

trans obsessed "radfems" never fail to prove how little they care about womens rights in comparison to just really hating pronouns

[starlooove]

Im sorry misandry is not real to me whenever ppl talk about the effects of misandry they bring up moc what they’re really talking about is racism from a group that’s also marginalized and how playing into pre existing stereotypes about black men (which are results of patriarchy and racism above all else) impacts them. Saying misandry puts it on the same level of misogyny and it’s not! It’s all misogyny the same way “men can’t show emotions” isn’t a whole different system than “women are called hysterical” it’s the same shit! The difference is who gets pandered to and who doesn’t and that almost always falls into race and class; not men bc they’re men lmao.

[forgetful-river]

I think it's very human to associate aesthetics with morality and assume that the two are intrinsically linked, and to counteract that instinct I think it's important to be able to understand the context of artwork and acknowledge the importance of it while also thinking that it is ugly as sin. Really makes you grasp the concept that the two are firmly seperate.

[dreamyintersexouppy]

it's kinda wild how effective the alt right playbook is at covering broad reactionary tactics cuz a ton of them are recognizable in tmra's argumentation style and rewatching them has been a nice resource for building awareness to clock their bullshit

[chedelat]

"of course a book written more than a century ago is not going to be in line with contemporary values" well skill issue. witbd continues to be more progressive than most opinions i hear from people around me

[paddleboatonfire]

Excited for whatever dadaist art movements are starting as a reaction to generative AI

[letters-to-rosie]

the urge to apply political thought to Arcane

[toytulini]

Thank you for your tags on the baeddalism post. As someone who is aroace (formerly biace) and a nb transmasc I've literally watched every identity I have be dragged into discourse time and time again and it's always the exact same rhetoric to a nauseating degree. People are so terminally online that they constantly invent new nonexistent stereotypes of other queer identities to get mad at or just pick a queer identity to be the monster of the week, and it's excruciating to see it repeat the same way everytime.

I wanted to try to respond to this more eloquently after i had some caffeine, but if we wait for eloquence itll go unanswered for years. but lmao yea of course. Im also aroace and enby. I was here since like 2014, I suffered through reading all these same stupid arguments about a-specs and my tolerance for it is so fried. The queer infighting and gatekeeping bullshit is so rotting. I hope we learn one of these days. My disillusion that this keeps fucking happening is at least tempered by the fact that all the blogs who I followed for good takes on inclusionism and queer solidarity during the acecourse are also not tolerating this shit, and they are recognizing it as the same old bullshit its been the whole time.