#women and capitalism

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[mysharona1987]

They have turned the Palestinians into actual Guinea pigs for the military industrial complex.

We will see the robots and miserable remote controlled dogs at the next big BLM protest on American soil soon enough.

[nando161mando]

FIFA has just delayed a decision on a Palestinian bid to suspend Israel from international soccer until after the Paris Olympics, claiming that both parties had requested more time to submit their positions.

[defleftist]

“Be wary of any mentality that would make cattle or vessels of women, because that same mentality will make machines and tools of you.”

- Andrew Hozier-Byrne

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Brazil (1985)

(Yes. Real movie dialogue)

[mos-twin-mattress]

This was her FAVORITE time of year... She should be spending it with family... she should be be alive. I'm pissed she's not. I'm so so pissed. I'm hurt. on the verge of tears.

Please dont forget her face, her name, her smile, her caring soul.

She wanted to be a nurse. Wanted to help mothers and babies... And she never got to.

The world was a better place when she was in it...

Merry Christmas Breonna... Thinkin ab you...

[missmisandrytabletalk]

one of the myriad things that I vehemently want the 5th wave of feminism to achieve is getting pornography and prostitution/sex work banned from the face of this planet. like get every porn site wiped off from the internet. and yes that includes getting rid of the OF too. we've seen enough of the capitalisation of sex or precisely of women & young girls. I mean after a noticeably exponential increase in the cases of sex/child trafficking from the past many years, it leaves us no choice but to eradicate it once and for all.

[samanthasgone]

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[freepsychicbiscuitfire]

You really as a woman need to sit with the fact and bask that for most of life as a whole women until like 20 years ago were not considered human. Our thoughts, our feelings, even our brains were scrutinized and even destroyed or taken advantage of. There was a global concerted effort to erase women in their part of humanity’s history including their humanity and you believe that does not linger? You need to sit with the fact that the fabric of society largely is interwoven with the hatred of women. And then look at the world around you

[mysharona1987]

[nando161mando]

A message from one of the four young women who are going to jail for protesting Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer

[burningtheroots]

IDK who made this but it couldn’t be more true.

[nathanleemustdie]

“project 2025 wont happen” they said. this is just the beginning of the doc.

and no, this isnt “it just means a dr wont preform trans operations if theyre against it”, it also means basic healthcare. say a queer person has a broken arm, they go to the dr and the dr is anti-lgbtq, this means the dr can legally deny the individual treatment solely based on the persons identity. and they leave without a cast for their broken arm, leading it to worsen. thats just an example. this would make it legal for a dr to deny a lgbtq person treatment even if they have something deadly like cancer.

we are WATCHING project ‘25 slowly go into action. it wont all be this immediate bc the doc is 1000 years long but within a year or two if we dont fight the fuck back hardcore, the entire doc will to into place. women, girls, and afabs, poc, disabled ppl, immigrants, we need to stand the FUCK UP RIGHT NOW.

esp trans ppl and women. some of the anti-trans and anti-woman bans and laws havent fully passed yet, but at this rate, theyre close. FIGHT. BACK. NOW. there is no more fucking waiting.

insurance companies can now legally fully deny

the USA is becoming a place where only white cishet christian abled men can access basic healthcare without discrimination or fear of being denied treatment solely based on their gender, race, sexuality, etc.

[vyriadurav]

My job should be to be a hot temple priestess getting high and railed by lesbians so that the divine wisdom comes to me and I share it with the adoring masses. Instead I gotta like, fuckin, pay taxes or some shit

[pansexualdemic]