I think very often about the time I developed intense, severe sleep apnea because my tonsils become three times their size from an infection. However, I saw THREE ENTs and they each somehow did not look at my massive fucking tonsils. Just told me to lose weight each time.
fat person: I have x symptom can u pls help
doc: no fatty! lose weight!
fat person: can u just look
doc: lose !! weight !!
fat person: I’m back months later it’s worse I’m very concerned
doc: lol lose weight
fat person: *dies*
doc: mmhmm another one bites the ob*sity dust
I’m like definitely aligned with the belief that the “shooter is non-binary” thing is an obvious lie to deflect blame from the right, but
The fact that this is causing many on the left to start arguing really stringent ways to prove someone’s non-binary identity is … harrowing
Something kinda frustrating me about people’s response to this is the amount of people who are like, “see men? It’s not about looks, it’s about personality and being good to women!”
Which like, yeah sure, but also people can find fat people genuinely attractive you know
Saying that trans women are “socialized as boys” has to be one of the most insidious transphobic dogwhistles out there lmao, and it’s always used to imply that trans women are uniquely misogynistic women because they have this “socialized boy” inside of them trying to get out 🧵
The existence of furries as a social phenomenon is a sign of resistance to a society of alienation as people are able to form communities that redefine the boundaries of human sociality and even what is Human. If this view makes me based, then I'm sorry to say reality is based.
The failure of this analysis is that it doesn’t explain why there are also cis women who uphold patriarchy. What, is it random chance? Or is it that we’re all socialized in a patriarchal context? A socialization that the very existence of trans women actually calls into question?
Hard to not feel like this isn’t exactly what they want us to do. They’re trying to make us tear each other apart, if not now then further down the line
Now watch, climate activists actually blocking a bridge which allows for the passage of oil tankers is gonna get zero attention from all the losers who were pearl clutching about the soup throwers, saying “they should do something directly to oil infrastructure!”
This discourse about like, “to be non-binary you have to act non-binary” or whatever the fuck is hilarious because if literally anybody said the same shit about being any other type of trans person then everyone would rightfully call it transphobic
And on top of that, “socialization” is not this one-way street where children are just objects with social roles imprinted on them. They are people who respond, internalize, reject, reciprocate, and so on to these structures that try to force them into specific social classes
You don’t have to see this and be like “see incels? You can be a FAT DISGUSTING FUCKING SLOB and still find love because you’re kind to women :)”
In fact, this video tells us nothing about how he treats women. Y’all just saw his appearance and assumed he’s some charity case
I mean holy shit even if he WAS/IS non-binary (which to be so fucking clear I don’t think he is) it would be a fucked up right-wing tactic to “come out” as non-binary in an attempt to defend your anti-queer mass shooting. We don’t have to entertain the identity validity game!
Like, we should be focusing on the opportunism of the “coming out” regardless of whether it’s true or not, that regardless of anything this identity is clearly being weaponized for the purpose of furthering queerphobia and bigotry. Not trying to “prove” the truth of the identity
With that in mind, trans women are rarely simply “socialized as boys,” by virtue of being women they meet such socialization with constant tension and conflict which either crushes them into submission (or death) or which labels them as outcasts and “failed men” (and hated for it
Trans women, even at young ages, are not given the privileges and social status and strength of men until they just randomly figure out one day that they’re women. They face a LONG AND DIFFICULT process of having to forcibly remove themselves from a patriarchal gendering system
So to look at a trans woman who, SUPPOSEDLY, is exhibiting misogynistic traits and upholds patriarchy and to say that it’s because she’s been “socialized as a boy” is not only disrespectful to her life as a woman; it’s simply ignorant to the reality of how trans children grow up
Like I’ve seen a lot of “well here’s a video where he refers to himself as ‘your boy’ and everyone else uses he/him pronouns” and like can y’all not see how this approach can be turned against us in the future? And likely is being weaponized for that exact reason?
There is nothing more boring and useless than being like “wow a lot of people are talking about THIS situation but are SILENT about THIS OTHER situation” like we get it the media drives discourse and knowledge it isn’t always implicitly some moral failure on an entire group
Many leftists need to ditch this implication that most if not all people would become the most radical anti-capitalists if they JUST had the right information. If they JUST were educated and informed. “If only they REALLY knew-“
Education is necessary but it is not sufficient
Rehabilitative justice has to be one of the most abused leftist concepts ever as so many of y’all just treat it like “we should always forgive people even if they double down and never apologize for their shitty and actively harmful behavior and actions :(“
That is not justice
Anyone who thinks the U.S. doesn’t still engage in settler-colonialism has literally never engaged with the current struggles of indigenous communities in the U.S. Indigenous tribes in the U.S. are at constant and continued threat of being further robbed of their ancestral lands
To be clear, I think that if you approach health/fitness as a matter of dominating, subduing, and controlling your body with your mind, I genuinely believe you’ve onboarded fascist ideology into your relationship with the body and embodiment.
You can’t and won’t meaningfully be a good leftist/communist/anarchist if you are fatphobic and refuse to seriously analyze fatphobia as a systemic axis of oppression
By the way y’all should absolutely keep wearing masks lol. It’s blatantly obvious that the CDC is succumbing to political and economic pressure. This is coming from someone working in contact tracing right now, keep it on lol
Anthropologists: *literally use indigenous oral histories to verify historical events, particularly aspects of natural/ecological history, as far as 10,000 years in the past*
Someone on Twitter: “ThAt’S LiKe a GaMe oF TeLePhOne!!!”
It’s kinda crazy to think that in high school, the idea that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary was taught as like, indisputable fact. This is why the discourse surrounding it is so fucking brain rotted.
“ThE anArChIsTs want to abolish the family because they’re kids and want to move out of their parents house !!”
The nuclear family is the primary unit which upholds patriarchal property relations in privatized life. It also upholds unequal gendered and aged power hierarchies
@DreamLeaf5
The article doesn’t just “slap an indigenous perspective” it goes into a deep and nuanced history of settler colonialism in the U.S., its connection to electoral politics, and the radical history of harm reduction as praxis that has now been defanged. This is so disingenuous
Furries represent the potential for a burgeoning post-humanist ecological project that deconstructs the Human while redefining a sense of personhood outside the bounds of both a human-centered and animal-centered worldview, etc etc
An anarchist could say
“I think we should stop supporting food industries which are rooted in exploitation of animal life and of marginalized groups in the global south”
and somebody would say
“so apparently anarchists are attacking food now ?? The thing that feeds people?🤔”
Wow I’m so glad the misinformation she helped spread made it all the way to Tim Pool! That’s awesome! I Love the online left! I love being rigorous about the kinds of news and data we share! We live in fucking hell!
BadEmpanada and RGR this past day show exactly why & how ppl on every side of the political spectrum are absolutely incapable of having discussions about p3dophelia and abusing minors in a way that actually helps victims of CSA or in a way that actually lessens harm for young ppl
Now that I’m like “in” academia as a graduate student I have to say the way y’all treat “academics” as some homogenous class of “bourgeois academia” is super ill-informed lol
This is childish. If you’re a dumbass rando who reacts to shit you come across but manage to have a viral tweet every month that farms outrage bait and misinfo, then maybe you should stop posting or take your shit more seriously. This is literally the shoe0nhead defense lmao
I don’t think it necessarily matters whether these tears are “real”. What really matters is that white tears are seen as a sign of redemption and used for apologia of white violence while a black child crying will be tried as an adult and placed in solitary confinement for years
“you propose [new system of justice] in your ideal society? Heh, but what about [hypothetical situation that would certainly be difficult and interesting to solve in this new system, but is categorically and proven to not be solved in our current system]. Take that anarkiddie 😏”
Just saw a thread with “leftists” saying queer people should just try to be more “normal” and that queer culture is largely “consumerist bourgeois decadence”
Queerphobia from the left, etc etc
And the amount of mutuals with these people? Unfortunate.
*sees a video of a queer person at pride who looks visibly queer with a conservative tweeting about how they’re coming to r*pe our children*
Woah guys !!! Optics much ??? Maybe try NOT looking all gay and faggy at pride? Wow you guys are giving them what they want :////
I don’t trust anyone who tries to approach the Rittenhouse situation from a purely legalistic perspective lol. I don’t care if he can legally be considered to have acted in self-defense. He’s scum and he was there for scummy purposes with scummy intent.
@DreamLeaf5
In the replies someone is like “look HBomberguy looks kinda attractive with the beard he has now” and OP legit says “I guess if his BMI was lower”
After posting four of the most average to thin sized looking people on the planet
I hate it here
This response is so fucking exhausting. I spend most of my fucking time politically and academically dedicated to criticizing and dismantling environmental harm in the United States. Deferring like this whenever someone rightly criticizes socialist states is so fucking boring
When will y’all realize that anarchism is an undefinable, non-static, fluid discursive space. To confine anarchism to any singular definition is to rob it of its anarchistic, socially situated and situationally contingent characteristics. In this way it’s like queerness.
Y’all realize that scientific racism and race science havent like, magically disappeared from the mind of the white western scientist just because we ~debunked~ it and proved it’s pseudoscience right?
If you’re worried about drug abuse in your community or in your organization, I assure you that harsher regulation and strict abstinence from those substances is the stupidest fucking way to avoid the negative impacts of abuse of such substances and will never work.
Wow I’m so mad I can’t believe this random anarchist on Twitter who posts theory and advocates for an end to ecocide can’t list for me in one to two tweets MAXIMUM a detailed societal construction program for all of society and it’s various social contexts to end ecocide
I found the original data set, and not only do these graphs exclude those who answer “moderate” and “none/don’t know”, they ALSO exclude (shockingly) a response titled “Radical” (here’s a photo of the variable, for posterity)
“‘Basic game design’ does not leave room for fat bodies and representation” is actually FURTHER evidence of fatphobia in game design, not evidence against it
It shows that many games are made WITHOUT fat/diverse bodies in mind or without basic acknowledgment of their existence
@DreamLeaf5
You don’t have to disagree with it but to act like this article is just fucking vapid idpol because it REFERENCES an indigenous perspective (not just of “an indigenous person” but of literal indigenous history and radical indigenous politics) is ridiculous
I literally use they/them pronouns only because I know that if I used any/all that 95% of people would default to he/him. I shouldn’t HAVE to feel that way in the first place. I shouldn’t feel like I have to pick one to force people to question themselves.
“Nobody’s free until we’re all free”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
Liberals: hell yeah okay… I can get down with that
“Trans liberation can’t happen without Palestinian liberation”
Liberals: hey what the hell.. now that doesn’t make any sense at all…
Honestly, we don’t talk enough about the discursive harm antivaxxers have done to the ability to ever be critical of medical industries or the world of medicine more broadly lol. Getting called the equivalent of an antivaxxer for being critical of medical fatphobia is troubling
Twitter user: “If you’re a leftist then you MUST exercise DAILY. Control your degenerate urges and MASTER YOUR BODY. I cured my DISABILITY WITH JUMPING JACKS!!!!”
Reasonable people: “you’re being weird …”
Other Twitter user: “wow so now being going on walks is ableist? Psyop!”
So it’s really STRANGE that these graphs of data taken from a DRUG USE questionnaire would be frankensteined and cut up into being data about the political leanings of young people. We can also get into the presentation of the data for that reason!
So what we’re being given here is not simply boys who identify as liberal or conservative, but high schoolers who label themselves as such INSTEAD OF as “moderates” or “radicals” (neither left nor right specified), not to mention people who identify with none of these
Someone stop me from feeling so doom-pilled about fatphobia on the left. SO MANY of you don’t take fatphobia seriously as a systemic and institutional oppression. At BEST you pay lip service to being body positive, but I know many of you still believe my fat body shouldn’t exist.
Quick, nobody bring up the USSR with “sacrifice zones” and Mao’s treatment of environmental scientists during the cultural revolution 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣
*serious take below :)*
@TungusBusko
The left picture defies traditional representations of femininity in the art historical canon whereas the right pic reproduces the visual language of the nude. They look at themselves being looked at while the two on the left refuse to even acknowledge our gaze, such that it is
Imagine a young senior in high school, becoming politically conscious and entering adulthood, perhaps identifying as a leftist and rejecting the label of liberal sitting in front of this survey and being presented with this range plus “radical”. What might they choose?
Beyond this, such a mindset often unwittingly naturalizes the most pervasive and damaging forces of our society. This attitude of “if only they knew” constructs an epistemological hierarchy where certain ways of knowing and certain fields of knowledge must have power over others
Destiny fans are literally like “he isn’t saying something ableist actually !! He’s saying you ARE FACTUALLY severely mentally ill and that DOES make you worth dogpiling, bullying, doxxing, and treating as subhuman”
And if you’re a far right student, let’s say even a Nazi student, what’s more likely to be chosen? “Radical”, or “very conservative”?
This isn’t to say that I can say for sure what they would choose, but to point out that we CAN’T know because this survey data is PROBLEMATIC
Also lol I love that I mentioned the Zapatistas in a thread and got the classic “we are not anarchist” essay response when I explicitly did not say they were anarchist but that their organizational tactics are ones that a lot of anarchists align with and support greatly
That’s sooooo cool. Anyway here’s me as a fat as fuck gay homo anarchist who gets bitches without needing to rely on a fascist outlook of the body to self-actualize
I mean shit, the more I dig in to this dataset the more it seems like someone intentionally found this data set and transformed it to fit a particular narrative! Who could imagine someone doing such a thing !!
@leather_butch
Yeah, they use his “weight loss journey” as evidence that he’s motivated, self-improving, dedicated, etc.
Because if he was JUST fat, they would implicitly take that as a sign of laziness, gluttony, lack of self care, etc.
Mind you, there may be a reason for this. This data isn’t being collected with the intent of determining the political leanings of youth, but with trying to identify drug use trends in youth. They aren’t placing their focus and best efforts in developing political questionnaires!
Idk she ate that, those dips were clean, hairography was on point, she knows how to give face, her duck walk is solid. Honestly? 10s across the board. She served it all up on a platter for y’all and it deeply scares you.