I think I have a lot of less admirable traits and there are a lot of reasons people can say I am abrasive, but I think that is an extremely unfair accusation to make.
But the “worst” “SJW” is still someone motivated by anger at unfair, abusive societal trends. Even when they go about it in a way that doesn’t help, they are trying. They are desperately doing whatever they can think of in the face of overwhelming levels of prejudice deeply ingrained in almost every facet of our civilization throughout known history.
The entire counter-movement is just motivated by finding them annoying and not wanting to see their internet posts because they might make you feel bad. Poor babies.
Edit for weenies:
This isn’t to say that “social justice” movements don’t have bullies and prejudices among them. What I am saying is that self described “anti social justice” people are still worse because their reaction to seeing something like a transphobic feminist is to just trash all feminism.
These are people grasping at any straws they can to invalidate and dismiss entire causes.
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Also can we please begin to realize that the way people talk (speed, volume, inflection, style, and emotion) and listen both online and off is often linked with culture. Just because someone has a different way of communicating doesn’t mean they are wrong.
This is a strategy used by the people who are propping up oppressive systems CONSTANTLY. By attacking the the way people talk instead of what they’re saying, they manage to simultaneously change the subject away from things that oppressive parties do, and perpetuate oppressive attitudes in a way that is easy to miss because of how indirect it is.
honestly… shoutout to all my lesbian sisters & bi women who suffered abuse at the hands of other women
what happened was terrible and it was unfair, you didn’t deserve it and your anger is valid, your sadness is valid, your fear is valid
your experiences are not lesser or unimportant and you are not alone
this also applies to those of you who were treated terribly by your mothers, by aunts, by sisters and grandmothers and stepmothers
you deserved love then and you deserve love now, you deserve peace and happiness and they never should have treated you that way
you’re not forgotten either
a thing that will always baffle me about anti-self-dx sentiment is
diagnostic criteria aren’t kept in some Secret Vault of Psychiatry that only Worthy Medical Professionals can access with the Mystic Key of Diagnosis
the DSM is available online, and even if you don’t have access to it, you can look up any disorder on Wikipedia or Google and get diagnostic criteria for multiple associations as well as links to sites that have more information
self-dx isn’t taking an online quiz, and it isn’t describing yourself as OCD because you like to keep your room clean. it’s literally using the same diagnostic criteria medical professionals do to evaluate your own experiences and behavior.
Say it with me
Your respect for the race, gender and sexual orientation of other human beings is not a “political opinion” and wanting other people to share that respect is not a “political agenda.”
“Politics” refers very particularly to how a government governs. Political issues deeply affect people by demographic, but when we talk about citizens respecting one another’s differences in day to day life or even in entertainment media, it’s not just fucking “politics.”
That’s like saying it’s an issue of mere “politics” to not murder and enslave people. We’re talking about universal, fundamental decency between members of our own species, not manufactured regulations and taxes that are actually subject to context.
Nearly everyone who describes matters of basic human dignity as “politics” tends to do so in a deliberate effort to make those things sound like just another trivial matter of personal opinion.
Hello! I am having a hard time explaining to able bodied people that it is not okay to cosplay people with disabilities. Could you link me to something that will help me better explain that this is not okay?
I don’t have any links I’m afraid, but I’m happy to talk about it as a disabled woman and a cosplayer myself.
It’s not quite as straight forward as ‘abled people cannot cosplay disabled people’, there isn’t inherently a problem with abled people cosplaying disabled characters, the problem is when the disability becomes part of the costume.
I also think this is a bigger issue in regards to physical disabilities (I am both physically and mentally disabled and I’m not trying to say that either group as privilege over the other, some issues affect one more, this is one of them), seeing able-bodied people using assistive tech as a ~prop~ really upsets me as a wheelchair user. My wheelchair is not an accessory, it is not part of a costume, it is an intrinsic part of my life, it’s something I cannot get by without and it is something that I face a lot of shit for.
When an able-bodied person uses a wheelchair like that it shows a complete lack of respect for disabled people and their experiences, disability is not something we can turn on and off when we feel like it, we don’t only get to use assistive tech when we’re trying to look good at a con, it’s really insensitive for able-bodied people to do that.
Also, if you’re hiring out the wheelchair, or you bought it from a charity store (which has happened) you’ve basically stolen that from a disabled person who needed it. I’ve been at a con where I went to hire a wheelchair out and they’d run out so I could barely do anything all day.
Cosplay should be fun for everyone, and I’m not trying to stop abled people cosplaying who they want, it’s just important to be aware of who you’re affecting when you ‘put on’ disability.
Okay so imagine that a mother gives birth to a baby boy. And imagine that the mother really wanted a girl instead. So the mother decides to raise the child as a girl. She buys pink clothes, little dresses, hair pins, scolds the child when he “doesn’t act ladylike” etc etc etc.
Most people would see this as child abuse. And they would be right.
But what if I told you that this happens every single fucking day. Children who are not boys are forced to act like boys, and children who are not girls are forced to act like girls.
This is what it’s like growing up transgender in a household with a family that does not accept you.
OHHH MY GODDDDD reblog the fuck out of this 🙌🙌🙌
I don’t care if you work with autistic people or have autistic relatives, YOU DO NOT GET TO TALK OVER AUTISTIC PEOPLE. If someone autistic says something about their experiences with autism, YOU DO NOT GET TO TALK OVER THEM. If you aren’t autistic, you do not get to say ‘erm, actually, I work with autistic people and…..’ if it contradicts something an autistic person says about autism. They know what it is like from the inside, and you don’t. This goes double if you are saying “{person} can’t be autistic because….’ since that usually leads to you acting as if you are the end-all be-all arbiter of who is autistic or not, and that is not your place. You do not get to police a community to which you do not belong.
Especially re headcanons – if someone headcanons a character as autistic, you do not have the right to say ‘actually they can’t be because they don’t fit this specific and narrow view I have of autism’, and yet, PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS OR REBLOGGING IT WITHOUT COMMENT (*glares at fytortall *) Who is it hurting if someone says they headcanon a character as autistic and it makes them feel better? You are being a pedantic jerk and hurting people, and that is NOT OKAY. Shame on you.
(sorry for the caps but powers in a bucket why do people think this is okay to do?)
what society needs to understand is that friendship and romance are not ranks, tiers, or levels. they are not above or below each other. romance is not a promotion. friendship is not a demotion. romance is not “more than” being friends with someone. friendship and romance are concepts that exist on equal terms, side by side. sometimes they happen to coincide. other times they never intersect at all. how relationships are classified is up to the individuals involved but like?? neither is inherently more or less valuable is the thing
as much as everyone should be talking about the UC shootings and creating an online discussion about misogyny and gun control, please don’t forget that there was a shooting at a jewish museum in brussels today too.
let’s scream and shout about the war on women but – especially with regards to the EU elections – let’s scream and shout about the rise of anti-semitism in Europe too
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