It’s 1865. You’re a slave in Texas, it’s been three years since President Abraham Lincoln declared all slaves emancipated. But your life hasn’t changed; things are still terrible. In fact, hordes of slave owners from Louisiana, Alabama and elsewhere have decided they aren’t letting their slaves go without a fight, and dragged more than 150,000 of them to the Lone Star state and put them to work right next to you.
Then, on June 19 — 150 years ago Friday, in fact — it happens: Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issues General Orders No. 3, declaring all slaves freed in the state of Texas. And thus was born Juneteenth — the most widely recognized (yet undervalued) commemoration of the end of American slavery. Everyone in the U.S. should celebrate Juneteenth.
we are the problem. all of the problems. and not just some of us – all of us. we are bullies, rapists, murderers and we live off the sweat and pain of anyone we can. you may not have raped or stolen land but you sure as hell dine off the privilege of being a member of the rape and murder class.
and the biggest problem are those of us who say nothing. we are the grease for the machine. we are cowards because we don’t want the brutality of other men to be focused on us. we are taught as children to play along with the rape and murder class rules or be punished.
so we keep our mouths shut when we should protest. we laugh at sexist jokes. or racist jokes. or we just slink away and say “I’m not like that”.
well guess what assholes – we are like that.
all of us.
so, if you’re not throwing yourself and every other man you see under the bus – you’re just another chickenshit rapist happy to skate by while others do the raping and live the fat life that buys you.
we don’t know 10% of how shitty it is to have to listen to the crap that comes out of our mouths every day. street or office harassment, stupid jokes at the dinner table, loss of money or healthcare or whatever simple autonomy we enjoy being denied to women, queers and people with less money or darker skin.
at every injustice of bloodshed and starvation, there is a man causing pain to someone else.
it’s a man’s world alright – and all this shit is man’s fault.
silence is consent motherfuckers. this shit doesn’t end so long as you stay quiet (and saying “I’m not like that” or “men get hurt too”…by men, btw – doesn’t count.)
speak up cowards. act up. yeah, and your life will be harder. you will lose shit. but that’s shit you stole – it ain’t yours. so buck up and make the term “act like a man” mean something other than rape or murder or violence.
Men –
As a woman, I am begging you not to engage in such embarrassing self-flaggelation. You aren’t oppressive for existing. It’s your actions that matter. Oppressive men are the problem. Men as a whole are not. By all means, acknowledge and speak out against oppression and misogyny, but don’t throw yourselves under the bus like this. It’s more counterproductive than anything. In fact, it makes me wonder how sincere you truly are when you make posts like this.
Every time I see/hear a guy talk like this, I wonder to what extent he’s trying to use feminist rhetoric to either get laid or to be the gay guy with the most hags. It’s suspicious af to me.
I have absolutely no idea whether or not this is a troll.
That said, in my LJ days there was a guy who had a blog and talked like this.
He was caught filming himself touching an unconscious woman’s breasts.
I do not trust people who talk like this at all.
*This* is what I mean by toxic masculinity.
Male identity that has misogyny and rape and abuse of power built into what it means to be a man.
That is not inevitable. Not all men are like that. You don’t have to be like that to be a man or to be masculine.
But a hell of a lot of ideologies seem to say that you do.
i was driving past a black and white cat really slowly and they looked at me. i wish i could pet the little man but i think it was the neighbor’s cat and i didn’t wanna be weird.
sometimes neighbourhood cats hang out on the sidewalk and when i approach them they meow and rub up on me or flop onto their backs and let me pet them. good men.
Danica Roem made history this week. She’s the first transgender person ever to win a legislative primary in the state of Virginia – the Virginia House of Delegates’ 13th District, to be more specific. And if she wins in November, she’ll be the first out transgender state lawmaker.
As it happens, her opponent in November is Republican Bob Marshall, who is known in the state (and even nationwide) for his extremely homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic views. For example:
Roem told The Advocate she will fight for “transportation, not discrimination,” as the district sorely needs improvements to its highways and expansion of mass transit. Her other priorities include jobs and education, but Marshall, she said, has been focused on proposing anti-LGBT legislation. Just this year, he introduced a “bathroom bill” that would not only prevent transgender students from using the restrooms that match their gender identity, but require teachers to out trans kids to their parents. He used the debunked argument that in the absence of such a measure, men would pretend to be transgender prey on women in restrooms.
He also led the movement to block a gay prosecutor from a judgeship in Virginia, saying a gay person would not be “temperamentally suited” to the job; that gay people shouldn’t serve in the military because they might have HIV; and that if a woman has an abortion, “nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,” making them more likely to have disabilities.
Virginia: Show up for Danica in November! This is amazing.
sweat does not evaporate well in humid heat; the uk has very, very humid heat
meaning british people cannot cool down efficiently
also british people are adapted for cooler temperatures
people are literally expected to die in the next couple of days because of the heat wave
the news has put out health warnings because people will literally die because of the heat
shut up
oh yeah it’s also been pointed out in comments – we have no AC. no houses have AC. most buildings don’t have AC. most cars don’t have AC.
WHY DON’T YOU HAVE AC WHAT
Our weather is typically inclined to be cold and rainy most of the year and our summers have typically peaked in the mid 20s. Our homes are built to cope with cold because it’s never been normal to have hot weather but climate change is making our summers hotter and hotter and nobody can afford to get air conditioning fitted or can’t because most of us rent and those that don’t often live in old buildings you can’t get it into. We don’t have AC but us in south east England wish we did 😂
JFC this is DISGUSTING, trying to villainize this man for having a faulty fridge when the quality of housing is what let the fire get so big and deadly. The point is that a building that is well-made according to reasonable regulations wouldn’t become an inferno due to one faulty fridge. It doesn’t matter what started the fire, it’s the fact that it grew so big because corners were cut in making the building safe and livable. Fuck DailyMail and anyone blaming this man for what happened.
Like I’ve said in loads of other posts, this is a coordinated attack by the government AND the media.
The media are the ones that shape public perception and find excuses for every catastrophic mistake the Tory government makes. It is the media that has turned people in the UK, although it’s far worse in England, against immigrants and the disabled and everyone they disagree with.
The Tories are a massive bunch of wankers but it’s the media that cosy up to them and will publish any perspective to get a story. That’s ‘journalist’ opinion pieces where they criticise the working class for being lazy or when they publish the endless streams of shite as they follow Theresa May around the country to repeat what she’s said everywhere.
We then get this ridiculous notion of ‘media impartiality’ where ‘all sides must be heard’ so they can drag some arsehole UKIP representative to comment on something. UKIP have been represented on hundreds of BBC Question times despite never having MPs or anything. The BBC giving airtime to twats like Nigel Farage or the EDL has shaped public opinion over the past 10-15 years.
Now we’ve got the scum at the daily Mail attacking a guy for something that could have happened to anyone rather than on the fucking incompetence of a corrupt local council and a government-enforced austerity policy.
Most people are beginning to click that the media isn’t some random channel where we’re told what’s going on. It’s just a bunch of perspectives and it’s mostly the perspectives of total arseholes.
The rise of different media is changing things. Blogs are changing the way the public has access to information.
Fuck the mainstream media as it doesn’t do anyone any favours.
England, and from what I hear, Europe, is undergoing a heatwave.
Temperatures in the UK are around 30°C. Where I am it’s gonna hit 32°C in the next couple of hours.
To you Americans, you Australians, that’s nothing. It’s a mild day, we’re weak, whatever, I’ve heard it all, the thing is, WE AREN’T EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THIS.
The average temperature in the UK in July is 17°C. It is in the 30’s today. We simply are not used to it. We are used to rain and sleet and hail and wind, not heat. And our heat is a damp heat. A humid heat.
Because of all the sea around us we have an extremely humid climate if it gets warm. The air literally feels heavy right now. I am struggling to cool down because the humidity is fucking with my sweat, and as a trans man, the high amounts of water in the air, combined with my binder make it difficult to breathe, and I assume a lot of asthmatic people have a similar problem.
When temperatures in the UK are like this, people die. Don’t laugh about it. It is serious. It may not seem like much to you, it may not seem warm to you, but in a similar heatwave in 2013, 760 people died.
Our infrastructure is not built to cope with this. The house I live in, for instance, was built when the Thames still used to freeze over. It was built to be warm. The walls are thick, the windows are small, some rooms don’t even have windows that open, it was built with no though to air circulation, and this is one of the most common types of home in the UK. The UK government subsidises insulation. People fill every gap in their home with stuff that will keep the heat in. And nobody – literally nobody – has aircon. A lot of businesses don’t even have it. We have no use for it 99.9% of the time. Hell, I don’t even own a desk fan or even a hand held fan.
It is very different here to where you are. And we are used to and equipped for very different things. Instead of laughing, teach us how to stay cool. Instead of making jokes or quips, make info posts, and things that will help us.
Remember, this may be an average day to you, but to us it’s a heatwave. We cannot cope. And for some, particularly children and the elderly, it’s literally a matter of life and death.
Repeating this cause there’s another heatwave going on in Europe at the moment. This is reality for us.
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