Donald Trump sending thousands of troops to the border isn’t just ridiculous, it’s horrifying. What exactly does he plan to do with all those troops? He just recently said he is prepared to gun down people who throw rocks… it gives you a clue doesn’t it?
I’m genuinely worried that these people are going to get hurt, I don’t trust Donald Trump and I’m worried as to why we are comfortable with sending thousands of troops to greet families and children with guns… horrifying.
it’s also a massive breach in military deployment protocol, specifically the Posse Comitatus act and Article 10 of the United States Code. Donald Trump is breaking the fucking law
HE’S GONNA HAVE TROOPS GUN DOWN & MURDER WOMEN & CHILDREN.
I’m hoping that none of them get an itchy trigger finger as another commenter pointed out, but there is no other reason for them to be there and he’s talking about shooting people who throw rocks and it just sounds like an excuse to open fire. Let’s pray that nothing violent takes place against those people.
And they will all say “I was just following orders”
We can afford all these troops at the border but not 15 dollars minimum wage, free college, or Medicare for all.
I live on the Border. It’s peaceful, beautiful, and very nice overall.
He’s just afraid of brown people. Even women and children.
and we still have sent no aid to Puerto Rico, alright
I saw someone in the tags say this is fearmongering but there’s fearmongering, and then there’s actual fear. All of the comments on this post are reactions of genuine, sincere concern for the people at the border. Nobody is trying to fearmonger.
WE ARE ACTUALLY AFRAID.
Just to provide some context here since I haven’t seen a single soul talk about the Caravan online, I only know about it due to the controversy caused by several local Spanish news stations that decided to air coverage despite many stations in Mexico forbidding it;
There are currently thousands of people migrating in a Caravan up to the Mexican border. They are escaping poverty, and violence amongst other things from their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. They’re hoping to find a better life or apply for Asylum.
They’ve been walking for nearly a full month now having started October 12th of this year (2018 time stamp for anyone seeing this in the future.)
[Pictured above is the Caravan as it reached the Suchiate river at the border between Guatemala and Mexico]
[Pictured above is the first wave of the Caravan reaching the Tijuana border -not apart of the massive wave that was seen at the river.]
[Pictured above are several caravan men who decided to jump into the river when the crowds on the bridge got too dense when it was decided that only Women and Children could pass, most were fathers, brothers, and sons who didn’t wish to be separated. Many mothers with small children were also lowered down into the rafts to avoid the crowd that was stuck on the bridge for 24+ hours.]
The Donald Trump political campaign put out an ad that was as dehumanizing as you could imagine towards the immigrants, who again, at this point are largely unarmed women and children who are trying to escape the violence in their home countries.
Donald Trump has deployed 1,000 troops to the border in anticipation for the Caravans arrival. Promising to more than double the number to about 5,000 troops lasting until about December 15th, 2018.
[Pictured above are children waiting in line for their turn on playground equipment.]
[Pictured above is what sleep and rest has typically looked like for them, many only having a backpack or so left of their personal belongings to take with them.]
[Pictured above is man holding up a sign that reads, “Thank-you Mexico for opening up your hearts.” After the bridge and border were opened.]
These are the faces of the people Donald Trump is sending thousands of troops over to shoot down because he sees them as a threat.
Have you ever seen a twitter thread (or, in this case, two!) that so perfectly expressed everything you’d felt over months and months of harassment persistent? With all credit to @blackblobyellowcone, who is clearly amazing and completely gets it– not just why us women write and read the erotica that we do, but the history behind the censorship we, as a gender, have experienced. Bravo.
I read “My Secret Garden” as a teenager, and it was still as eye-opening and mind-expanding for a woman in ‘93 as it was in ‘73.
I especially like the part of this Twitter thread where it’s mentioned that men’s fantasies are often trotted out in mainstream media as common tropes. Women, on the other hand, are relegated to sharing our fantasies in fandom and in erotica – areas where some puritanical assholes are now trying to drag women back, kicking and screaming, to a past where the only “acceptable” fantasies to have involve rainbows, unicorns and your all-powerful husband. FUCK THAT.
Women have been fighting for decades to have a seat at the proverbial table, and we’re still only sat at the kid’s table in the rec room, but at least we’re making progress. If you want to halt that progress and SHAME women for having the same wild gamut of sexual interests and fantasies that men have been embracing for centuries, then FUCK YOU.
I think one thing that is indicative of this not-good trend is that a decade ago in a relatively vanilla fandom, we had a lot of free and open discussions about why some of the more “problematic” tropes (sex pollen, shag-or-die, etc.) were appealing. We talked about how these borderline non-con tropes were kinks for a lot of people and desirable to read because of the way we’d internalized societal messages about women’s lack of power with sex. And we celebrated that. Yes, there was drama, but the drama wasn’t about whether it was okay to read or write these stories, it was about the right way to warn for them. These days I don’t see any discussion like that, and as a result I’ve mostly kept my more “problematic” fantasies off the page and in my head.
Of course I understand why, within a shipping community, there will be fans who very much do not want their fave put in a position of doing not-okay things to another person sexually. And I wonder if some of the issues arise out of ship wars, where the existence of a fic where Character A manipulates someone into sex (for example) might be used as evidence that Character A is bad by an anti. But the fact is, that character is not a real person, and everyone’s fic does not make up some kind of mega-canon for that character. And ultimately, we should not take away women’s abilities to explore their fantasies through fandom, because we are all poorer for that. As long as writers tag/warn appropriately and readers learn how to quietly nope out of stuff they don’t want to read, that should be enough. (narrator: it wasn’t.)
Hi how do I like this a thousand times plz
Honestly, my thing with the things I write while at the same time hating it when it happens in media is the warnings. Like, I always warn about what things I write. This thing happens here, so you’re free to nope out if you don’t like reading that stuff, while mainstream media throws that stuff here and there without a single warning (or care) about people who consume those.
It’s just so frustrating that while we’re openly putting warnings and tags and stuff and still we get attacked for making this kind of content, men write those same things for public consumption and editors are completely fine with it. Ugh.
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