Lyssa Dawson @squeakycheetah@awoo.space

eat shit jeremy soule http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/calling-out

It's hard to make evidence based judgment calls to mute/block/unfollow people when you're operating on hearsay, receipts are hard/impossible to track down due to (intentionally) useless search, the culture opposes screenshots and you're not active in any sub-communities or group chats. While it's sort of the job of mods to be aware of these things, let's be patient with the rest of people when they're not up to date with the latest goings on.

@I_am_journei The people starting the fires wouldn't be stopped by red meat being less popular; they'd continue with their intended investment and simply drive the social consciousness towards appreciating red meat above all other foods.

Y'know, like how they already did.

good morning, viable solutions to the current political situation must recognize that no single problem exists in a vacuum and your approach to any given problem must examine all the angles of oppression that affect that problem in the first place, especially in relation to how vectors of oppression affect PoC and indigenous people

Bigotry isn't ok just because it's directed at a horrible person. Be careful about who you're hurting in the process

#RadicalSoftness

Broke: Fuck left unity

Woke: Fuck *sacred* left unity that puts an abstract over real concerns and dismisses conflicts that are necessary to address to build authentic left unity

there is a big white nationalist event this saturday in Portland, and there are reports that two queer folx found molotov cocktails sitting in their yards menacingly. stay observant and safe everyone

Can we like, not do this thing where we employ metaphysical skepticism towards the concept of misandry?

Like, I know that 95% of the time, it's chuds who are troll-shielding shitty toxic masculinity. But what about the trans fem folk whose suffering was made 10x worse because of having to deal with a mother figure who absolutely hates all men, and also refuses to see them as anything other than masculine?

This was my experience when I dealt with my abusive transphobic man-hating mother for the last 12 years of her life. By saying that misandry isn't real, you're telling me that my experience is invalid, and that's quite hurtful.

Does misandry happen? Yes, not often, but yes. Does it have institutional power behind it? No it doesn't.
Does that mean that nobody can ever be hurt from it? Absolutely not.

Be careful with this.