Day: August 1, 2017

rouhe:

what i’ve realized about this website’s dissemation of information concerning global politics is the way that everything is sort of treated like a show. like these aren’t real issues resulting in wars and genocides and dictatorship and exiles and all the rest, it’s just some detached entertainment to take “sides” on and bicker about.  the victims of these happenings aren’t even viewed like real people, maybe unimportant extra characters. i first thought of this in the way people talked about syria, but i realized it’s all global happenings for them. it’s so unreal. like the time that rolling stone feature about that fucking annoying white guy who travelled to syria to contribute to our suffering just for the hell of it went viral on here, and people were making jokes about how he bragged of desecrating syrian bodies (a war crime). that was the prime example of this phenomena. it’s all great fun and games. choose a side, choose your favorite characters, talk about these things like they’re not actually real and impacting millions of people every second of their lives. that’s also why it’s so easy for this website to dehumanize inconvenient civilians, in any conflict.

hokuto-ju-no-ken:

mrsdrvandertramp:

halfpastcaketime:

I hate the storylines to gay Porn so much but I’m a hypocrite because if I were in this very situation he would probably get me to cheat.

The guy in the back breaking character in the last gif I am dying

why does this look like a deleted scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Nah. It’s usually fairly offensive and coming from the sort of people who say things like “the blacks” or call all latinxs “hispanics”. Personally, I’ll only accept it from older trans people since that (and transexual) was what was used during their youth).

madeofpatterns:

pervocracy:

(re: “transgendered”)

I don’t know.  The events of the last few weeks are starting to make me really feel like I’d much rather have “I support the transgenders!  Transgendereds are just people trying to live their lives!” over the sort of people who use absolutely perfect up-to-the-minute gender studies terminology but don’t actually like anyone.

(I mean, not that those are the only two groups, obviously someone can use correct terminology and be supportive and that’s great, but if they’re not willfully misgendering an individual, terminology is like 0.5% of someone’s Trans-Friendliness Score in my book.)

Maybe the difference is whether someone’s just unfamiliar, or whether they’ve been told “transgender is an adjective” and doubled down on “I’ll call you what I want to call you!”  But I see the mere-unfamiliarity more often, and I don’t have a problem with that–it means they’re a new supporter, and new supporters are good and valuable to have.

This is how I feel about disability terminology.

I don’t care that much which words people say, if what they mean is that they see disabled people as human and think it’s a problem that others don’t.

oh-glasgow:

ayeforscotland:

Who’d have thought the elderly hated the Young that much?

Maybe we’d offer you better care homes if you stopped continually shafting us.

‘I’ve had my life so now it’s time to fuck you all over.’ How’s your pensions doing after Brexit? https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/26/theresa-may-considering-scrapping-triple-lock-on-pensions

Better Together in 2014: “Your pension is safer as part of the UK! Your EU membership is secure as part of the UK!”

Tories after Brexit: “Actually, about those things…”

Source: ayeforscotland