all i have to say on breastfeeding is that the fact that it is even slightly controversial is just one of the many symptoms of a lecherous, sex-obsessed society. it’s an insult to the dignity of women.
How dare society be concerned about public decency?!
(that was sarcasm)
Nobody is stopping you from breastfeeding in private.
But in public, where it could be seen by children, trauma-stricken war veterans, or the elderly?
There is a case to be made that they should be able to go about their lawful business without being exposed to the areolas of strange women with nefarious agendas.
trauma stricken veterans of what
the titty wars?
Don’t be crass!
I apologise, I meant of course
The Wars of the Breast (1967-1969)
every time i hear you state an opinion @thecybersmith it’s somehow more outlandish and lacking of any reasoning than before
I see a woman breast feeding her child
My mind races as I remember the muffled sound of chopper blades. The screams of the dying. The smell of the napalm spraying from the tiddy
REBLOG IF YOU ARE A STRANGE WOMAN WITH A NEFARIOUS AGENDA, SUPPORT STRANGE WOMEN WITH NEFARIOUS AGENDAS, OR AREPRETTY SURE HUMAN PET GUY IS TROLLING BUT CONSERVATISM HAS GOTTEN CREEPY AND WEIRD ENOUGH YOU’RE NOT 100% SURE.
i feel like i just walked into the wrong classroom and caught the teacher doing a freddy mercury impression into his shoe while the class holds up score cards
like on the one hand this looks like a lot of fun
but on the other hand if i don’t leave now before they notice me i’m not sure i’ll ever escape
Corrective rape isn’t something just lesbians go through and forcing non-lesbians to create a different term for the same thing is just splitting hairs tbh
And the actual South Africans who invented the term have said it is open for anyone to use.
There, in the term’s original use, it is recognized as happening to: lesbian women, bisexual women, women who are not feminine enough, men who are too feminine, anybody transgender, and basically anyone else a violent such-and-such looking for someone to hurt thinks is insufficiently living according to binary gender roles and binary gender presentation. With having romantic and sexual attractions to the other binary gender being tied up in those gender roles much the same way American evangelicals and American protestant fundamentalists do.
In more basic terms, an attack on a lesbian there typically isn’t because she’s sexually interested in other women, it’s because someone decided she needed corrective punishment for Failing To Woman Correctly. Being a lesbian is just one of many ways the men committing these attacks think it is possible to Fail To Woman Correctly.
And no, the occasions where corrective rape happens to those presumed you be men do not count as homophobes being hypocrites because Rape By Object is a common theme in the attacks that the term first described. These are primarily ‘I am going to use sexual violence to coerce you into complying with a social role out of fear it might happen again’ attacks, not ‘the only reason you claim to be more interested in women than men is because you have not experienced the wonder hidden within my pants, I am now going to force this enlightenment upon you’ attacks. The sexual prowess or lack thereof of the attacker(s) doesn’t matter, nor does his or their sexual entitlement or lack thereof. Sexual violence is merely the chosen weapon for enforcing a set of cultural norms.
If anything, the western style ‘I am going to prove heterosexual sex is the best sex to you, whether you want me to or not, because clearly you’d prefer men if you had experienced me’ entitlement attack is the newcomer to the definition in use because the attacker becomes a visible essential part of the justification instead of merely being the anonymous dispenser of punishment for violation of a gender-based social code.
Bitch why is everyone just staring at him as he runs off WTF
Is this guy part chicken or something?
Though tbqh, if I saw a decapitated guy grab his ax and run off while yelling “Death to the Empire”, I’m not sure I’d be capable of doing more that stand and stare with my mouth open.
I showed this to my husband and evidently it’s a Skyrim bug exploit where you can pardon a guy just as the axe is coming down, so the guy is alive by virtue of being exonerated but still beheaded by sheer inertia. And uh… bursting with aggro from the looks of it. I am told you can make an army of invincible headless warriors this way.
What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:
There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions.
“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”
Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.
This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.
Guys you gotta click the link. Because this was not just an accidental outcome- it’s click bait based on algorithms.
the AI knows you’re about to hit mania so it pushes Las Vegas Airfare Adverts to you so when you hit the mania you buy one, because it’s figured out that bipolar people that have hit mania are more likely to start gambling/making impulsive decisions – and that will sell a ticket.
They didn’t explicitly mean to target bipolar people who have hit mania, but the algorithm is really good at learning shit and the more things you like or sites you visit the more accurate it’s recommendations are, so it basically started pushing ads at people with bipolar disorder and nobody knows what exactly it’s picking up on.
Seriously click the source link it’s a TED Talk about 23 minutes long.
Psyops, especially professionally managed and government backed psyops, are very, very tricky business.
We have few existing examples of their orders, but one order we do have is the order to destroy queer solidarity by pitting us against ourselves, so that we would not participate in elections and political processes.
For that order to have been made, and then this political sinkhole to open up within months, is simply too obvious a connection to ignore. Some major social media pages focuses on queer rights have since been confirmed as Russian plants{1,2}.
The distaste for {subgroup} pride has always been prevalent in queer spaces. We try to fight it, but everyone in a queer group has issues. There is no way to avoid it. And sometimes, the attempts to keep things calm end up looking like favoring some groups in particular. In 2013, it was bis. 2014, nonbinaries. 2015, aces. 2016, nonbinaries and intersex. 2017, kink and polyamory. In 2018 it seems to be queers and pans.
All of these tensions and targets are always at risk, but until summer of 2015, when Russian operations launched, they had always been fairly subdued.
However, if you know what you’re doing (and farmed operatives do know what they’re doing) it only takes the lightest touch to set mild tensions into abject wildfire. {3}
Much like racial tensions were stoked to achieve the alt-right not by creating the movement whole cloth, but just slightly heating things until the movement coalesced on its own, I believe a similar slow boil took place in this context.
Remember, the goal of the psyop was to destabilize the US political process by electing Trump.
That means that people on the fence needed to be frightened into conservatism, and people who could not be frightened into it needed to be discouraged from voting or outright suppressed.
Empowering radical feminists gives more Trump votes- albeit not many more- and encouraging everyone else to be at each other’s throats takes away any counter votes against Trump.
Given that Russian operatives are known to have targeted queer groups, known to have targeted radical feminist groups, and known to have shifted as many people rightward as possible while setting the rest to in fighting, it is a completely reasonable conclusion that, although Russian operatives didn’t invent ace exclusion, they helped to popularize it very quickly.
This does not mean all ace hate is from Russia or all aphobe blogs are Russian plants. They don’t need to be. With two dozen blogs and six months of salary, even I could completely reshape the tumblr political environment. All you have to do is use your multiple identities to post positive content the implicitly supports the aggressive content from your other blogs, and have one blog in your network Get Big- have a fight with a popular blogger for example. Eventually, through the blog that got exposure, your other blogs, which are all incestuously interacting with themselves, will be found by and appeal to various different groups.
Within 2 months, you’ve now got 4 or 5 different groups of people saying either (x) is bad, or (x) doesn’t matter leave me alone. At that point actual people in the (x) group will start defending themselves, and you’re basically done.
You disappear, delete all those blogs, and don’t have to worry because the change was already made, and yeah, it will probably settle down in a few years, but that’s a few years my opponent isn’t operating at full capacity.
Or, if you’re lucky, you’ve artificially created a controversy on a long scale, the kind of thing you used to only be able to do if you owned one of the 3 major news companies and had a couple of friendly looking government agents on your show spouting your lines.
In any case, two months going 60-80 hours a week, anyone can at least start a fan war. 6 months with an entire trained team and a government budget? That’s enough to start a real war, maybe two.
3 years and multiple government agencies working multiple separate ops? Well, at that point, it’s a miracle there’s even a ghost of the US left at all.
So, the resurgence of radfems and the dissolution of queer coalition could, certainly, have been a coincidence that was always going to occur. But, in the full context of what was happening at the time?
There probably wasn’t an op targeting ace people or anything that dramatic. Just targeting lesbians and encouraging them to “return to their roots” and become radical separatists was more than enough to achieve the shitshow we see today.
Note: The correct response is not to write off all intracommunity problems as Russian interference, or your enemies as Russian agents. The correct respose is to reject their message and embrace solidarity.
Solidarity is the nly counterweapon that has any effect on their actual goals.
i thought you guys would find this thread i wrote interesting
this is a very real problem! and unfortunately, something similar happens to people of color and adults as well. always try and tie it down to something else when, in fact, the disorder has been clearly present the whole time. it’s so damaging.
newsflash: adhd is real and everyone can have it!
please boost this, whoa.
This is a bit of a tangent, but is this person saying that hyperactivity, “chatterboxing,” and emotional volatility are the same basic trait manifested in different ways? Has that been demonstrated? Is that true for men as well as women (but with men more likely to be hyperactive)?
I’m curious about the research behind this, in part because if true, it means I actually have combined type ADHD, not the inattentive type I was diagnosed with.
That would make a lot of sense. Though I’m not aware of any research.
I also need to add again that even if two people of different assigned genders are showing exactly the same behaviors? Those are likely to get interpreted very differently, viewed through the lens of cultural gender expectations.
It’s not always even variations in presentation leading to the different diagnosis rates with ADHD, autism, or other labels. Classically hyperactive girls do exist–and they’re too often seen as having other (andfrequentlyscarier) problems, as evidenced by just how badly their behavior matches certain gendered expectations.
It also might be a socialization thing? Like girls and boys having different behavior is usually socialization based but that doesn’t actually work as a clear cut line, most people technically are probably getting both just at a really skewed ratio. Like the girl/boy typing follows stereotypes enough some of it might be because it is a brain construction thing and by the time you are old enough for them to actually notice you have probably absorbed a bunch of stereotypes about what gender you are treated as.
And that is not even getting into the fact the symptoms being gendered means you might get mixed socialization for having mixed presentation of symptoms and then that makes more symptoms which makes more mixed socialization until you get some fucked up ouroboros of gender stereotyping.
One better than buying cases of good pasta off Amazon, like I was doing. I finally caved and ordered an assortment from Italy!
Ouch on the shipping, and that was the cheapest option 😨
All BiAglut, which should be the same as what they were selling branded as Heinz here, after Heinz bought out that manufacturer. And a much better variety available! This should be the first linguine (and ditalini, and bucatini, and…) I’ve had since 2005 at the latest.
First it got hard to find the few types of Heinz-branded pastas in stores here, then they totally discontinued it on the UK market so ordering wasn’t even an option anymore. No clue why. (Though it is apparently still available in the US, as BiAglut, BTW. With closer to their full range of shapes.)
But, that is by far the best GF pasta I’ve found, with the lupine flour helping it behave a decent quality wheat pasta. It doesn’t even turn to mush sitting with a sauce!
Felt silly enough to pay that much to order some that I resisted doing it for months after finding that source. After all, it’s not like there is no GF pasta available in stores here, however variable the quality and how badly some of it interacts with the sensory issues.
But, I finally gave in tonight after making some macaroni and cheese I’d been craving, with my last hoarded-back Heinz–and experiencing the non-disgusting texture again. Yes please, send me more pasta I actually want to eat! 🙄
That order ought to last a while, at least. 8 kg of pasta all together? Something like that. With two people in the house.
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