not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.
ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.
i’m not saying the cure for depression is touching grass. however, if you surround yourself with sad things and talk about how terrible life is and how much you’re suffering and never take a breath and remember it’s not all bad, you’ll end up making yourself worse.
while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it’s own unique issue because like. it’s not AI itself that harms the environment it’s the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn’t going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don’t get stronger regulation we’ll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
Antivaxxers who say shit like this get one chance to look at this graph, really look at it and think about it for an hour. They get one (1) singular “tHaT WAs juST sAnITATiOn imPRoviNg”, and then they get to watch a 30 minute recording by an epidemiology historian explaining exactly why the timelines for that do not line up in any way shape or form.
And then if they persist they get fed into a woodchipper feet first.
“It’s not just turning things back to the status quo ante, as we’ve discussed. We’re in an era in which it’s critical to make major structural changes when the opportunity arises and build new structures that are more durable than the ones which have fallen so quickly over the last decade and specifically the last year.”
“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”
This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.
This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.
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I thought we made fun of MRAs because they are misguided and misogynistic for believing that feminism is against their interests and they need a movement apart from it. I thought we made fun of them for not understanding that feminism is in favor of men’s liberation from the oppressive patriarchal binary as much as women’s.
But some of you are actually making fun of MRAs because you think men have no problems to complain about, and feminism ISN’T for men, because they don’t need anything, and the patriarchy isn’t the enemy, men are?
Oooh I don’t think we’ve been laughing at the same thing. You have lost the plot.
I thought we made fun of people who said “not all men” in response to women discussing sexism because while they are correct that not all men [insert bad behavior here], saying so in certain conversations is just a defensive knee jerk reaction that distracts from the point.
But some of you are actually making fun of any men who ask to be taken seriously and have their needs met and issues heard, even though they aren’t talking over women? Some of you are making fun of marginalized men for talking about the experiences at their unique intersections of identities and asking for justice because you actually DO think “all men [insert bad behavior here]?”
Oooooh you are failing feminism 101. You do not understand what the patriarchy even is. You do not understand where its power comes from, who benefits from it, and who is harmed by it. You have not progressed beyond “cooties” level discourse. I am not laughing with you.
This is why you sound like a clown if you call transmasculine people talking about their issues “TMRAs.” If you hear men discussing the ways they are harmed by the existing system and the only thing you can think of is obnoxious MRAs, you’re telling on yourself. You’re broadcasting the fact that you haven’t spent enough time engaging with broad feminist viewpoints to know that men’s liberation ideas (NOT the same as MRA) are a part of feminism and have been for a long time.
This is why you sound like a clown if you say “trans men who want feminism to be for them are misgendering themselves” and “trans men benefit from the patriarchy because all men benefit from the patriarchy” and “trans men experience no unique injustices because misandry isn’t a systemic axis of oppression” and “trans men have male privilege so they can’t be oppressed.”
Because even if you take “trans” out of these statements, they’re still incorrect. Feminism is for people of all genders. Men can be harmed by the patriarchy. The ways in which men are harmed by the patriarchy are different from the ways others are harmed by the patriarchy. Having certain “privileges” in certain contexts doesn’t negate the harm of a rigid social structure that punishes nonconformity.
Men can oppose the patriarchy because they want justice for others AND for themselves. There’s nothing wrong with that. Giving them shit for talking about that is NOT helping take down the patriarchy.
The patriarchy is not a war of men against women where men are given all the advantages. That’s not what feminism is up against.
The patriarchy is a system where ALL people have rigid roles imposed upon them. All else being equal, certain advantages are more likely to be given to men (or masculine people, or people AMAB, or people with male sex characteristics, depending on CONTEXT). But all else is RARELY equal and even when it is, the range of experiences is vast, and the system is rigged against almost everyone.
Because the goal most individuals have, and the right all individuals deserve, is to be themselves, and to do so by choice. And no matter who you are, the patriarchy stands in opposition to this goal. It tells you who you’re allowed to be, who you’re not allowed to be, what you’re allowed to do, and what others are allowed to do to you. This is an injustice for people of all genders.
We’re ALL trapped. This system can only be dismantled if we understand the WHOLE thing. Which means we need to listen to everyone when they talk about the harms the system is causing them, from where THEY’RE stuck in it.
How are you going to escape the torture mansion if you don’t understand vast swathes of it because you’ve mistaken your brother for the enemy and closed your ears to him? He’s shouting from the torture chamber next to yours, trying to tell you the layout of the room he sees so you can plan your escape together, and you’re refusing to listen because he’s been given more food and water than you? How do you not see that this attitude is only to the benefit of the torture mansion, not its victims?
happy normal fuckin day to everyone who doesnt celebrate christmas or rly any holidays today n tomorrow. hope you have an average day. hope its chill like any other
idk a lot of people on tumblr are super into this weird mentality of “well i’m [x group] so i can’t be [bigoted against x group]” and i’m like yes, yes, you can. literally everyone knows this. you just would rather use your identity as a shield against examining how you’ve also been exposed to the same bigoted narratives that harm the group you’re in as everyone else instead of, like, actually building solidarity with other people like you.
like being bisexual or queer or nonbinary or a woman does not mean I did not grow up watching the people around me being sexist and homophobic and internalize messages about my place in the world and how people like me should act. being those things does not mean I’m inherently immune to expecting other people to act in accordance with what I’ve been conditioned my entire life to see as appropriate performances of gender and sexuality. i can choose to examine those ideas and ask myself who it really benefits if I do choose to uphold those expectations and force them onto others, but it doesn’t mean they’re not there.
like there’s a weird amount of bi women I’ve encountered both in real life and online who have a genuine hatred for male homosexuality. being a woman with a woman is all in good fun, but they wouldn’t want to date a man who’s “a fag” (regardless if that means bisexual or just effeminate.) and it’s like you do understand that’s just misogyny? the reason it’s okay for us to do this is because men think we don’t really have sexualities or even real lives of our own outside their gaze? you realize this, yes? you realize your idea of what a “real” man is and how he conducts himself is based entirely on your own subjugation?
people like to see internalized [x-ism] as a thing that only affects them, but it doesn’t. it’s not just your self-loathing that you got over when you learned better. unpacking those beliefs is an ongoing process, and if you don’t go through it and do that work, it will always spill out onto others like you. and weaponizing it against others, claiming that you’re using it to “punch up,” does nothing to actually dismantle these systems and in fact, only reinforces them.
to me, there’s an innate horror in tradwife content. it’s always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she’s so young. she’s basically a baby herself. maybe she’s about your age. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don’t want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
she’s smiling but there’s something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there’s no passion, there’s just the movements of the day. sometimes she’ll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
her world isn’t real - it’s neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn’t need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don’t you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn’t need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you’re just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she’ll just track her period, she doesn’t NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn’t effective. you just watch happen. you can’t save her.
you scroll again, and it’s jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn’t be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her.
she doesn’t want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can’t save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.
Hey, so, if you shame a trans man for being too feminine, especially for things out of his control, or you call him things like “bitch” because he hurt your fradgile feefees, you’re actually transphobic! Doesn’t matter if you’re trans or queer yourself, you can still be, and very much are, transphobic, because your support is conditional.
I simplified it, since most transphobic people’s brains turn off when they hear “transandrophobic”, so I used a more familiar word to get through their dense skulls.
Also, if you wanna add “x group of trans people too” to this post, do it. I support solidarity, and you should be heard, too.
