Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

For example, while it is in no way an example of stupidity, the very sight of the tags on this actually quite lovely piece of artwork make me want to caption it with "THREE MONTHS LATER, MR. MASKYFACE WOULD DIE OF A BUTTERFLY-TRANSMITTED PRION DISEASE. JOY KILLS. ALSO, HIS BOYFRIEND LEFT HIM FOR A SKI INSTRUCTOR."

#humbug

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26151884/

I just don't seem to like anyone or anything this morning, at least anyone that hasn't already been thoroughly vetted (i.e. you). No patience whatsoever for other people's stupidity. I'm gonna blame the flu. And the enduring reliability of Sturgeon's Law.

Grrr, I hate this "don't @ me" bullshit, especially after political posts. If you want one-way communication, don't use Twitter. Use a fucking bullhorn, because it's obviously what you really want.

Or better yet, if you really don't want anyone to contradict your brilliant (and by brilliant I mean CAPS👏​LOCK) insights, find a nice closet and gibber at a decapitated Richard M. Nixon plushie for 3 or 4 hours. It's what I do!

#moodsnapshot https://awoo.space/media/DUG0B_YQOQXWlJiW0o4

"Why Engineers and Gamers Should Never Be Trusted With Semantics," a story in far far far too many parts:

https://twitter.com/TolarianCollege/status/955232796200620032

Oh, and I got that shit HORRIBLY several of the times I came out as a mind-control fetishist, because Certain Eager Activist Types (*coughiblamethepatriarchyblogcoughfuckyoucough*) could not even begin to imagine anybody could enjoy that kink with any motivation besides abusing and controlling women. Never mind that I'm mostly a SUB. So yeah, that kind of "you're making argument X/are in group X, therefore your motive must be Y, like all of them" shit does not sit at all well with me.

I got that shit as a Christian. I got that shit as an anti-Christian. I got that shit as a furry. I got that shit as an anarchist. I am sure as not fuck putting up with that kind of lazy, simplistic thought for another round, no matter how in-line I am with the general ideology of the person who actually thought this shitpost was profound. If you really think you can assume somebody's motivations purely from the side they're taking... eh, I'm out of clever. Just fuck off and go away. :|

What really pisses me off is that line "is an attempt to deny." I fucking hate it, hate it, HATE IT when either side's political propaganda relies on assuming every single person who partakes in a similar act of speech has a similar motivation.

I am becoming a big fan of this whole "woke in form but not in praxis" genre of memes. I think I'll start a collection. And print them out. And ram them up somebody's woke little nose someday. That someone will probably be a beautiful young enby with unnaturally colored hair, and please be reassured, I derive so very little satisfaction from that fact. ;__;

I love how this "expanding brain" meme STILL manages to exclude any kind of nuance after four fucking attempts-- especially the possibility that _some_ attempts to say "they didn't even have a concept of transgender, let's give this some actual context and detail" could be helpful and supportive, and some could be harmful and reactionary, based on the ACTUAL FUCKING CONTENT. You do realize these four options are not mutually exclusive, yes, my oh so very young allies?

https://awoo.space/media/GcXorJ71b9xPS87YL_A

(um... conservative, rather -- see, now I understand why people use this daft standard of communication -- it's so goddamn distracting and hard to read, it conceals lesser offenses like typos :) )

I'm still sick as a dog, no ethnic slurs intended, but Peg sprung for pho delivery from afar and now everything nearby smells like star anise. So I got that going for me.</bill_murray>

HEY👏ACTIVISTS👏IF👏GOING👏INTO👏SOMEBODY'S👏HOUSE👏AND👏CLAPPING👏YOUR👏HANDS👏WHILE👏YOU👏YELL👏AT👏THEM👏WOULDN'T👏CONVINCE👏ANYBODY👏ABOUT👏THE👏RIGHTNESS👏OF👏YOUR👏CAUSE👏WHY👏THE👏FUCK👏WOULD👏IT👏EVER👏WORK👏IN👏TEXTUAL👏FORM?

IF👏YOU👏TELL👏PEOPLE👏THEY👏CAN'T👏EVEN👏TALK👏ABOUT👏A👏SUBJECT👏THAT👏UNNERVES👏YOU👏YOU'D👏BETTER👏COME👏WITH👏A👏BETTER👏FUCKING👏ARGUMENT👏THAN👏VOLUME👏AND👏REPETITION

WOULD👏THIS👏WORK👏IF👏A👏CONVERSATIVE👏DID👏THIS👏TO👏PREACH👏ABOUT👏JESUS👏TO👏YOU?

WELL👏THERE👏YOU👏GO👏YOU👏FUCKING👏GENIUS

And as is so often the case, if you're wondering why I'm so fanatical about this stuff, when I otherwise tend to agree with feminists about 90% of the time...

Ex-Christian I had to go through this whole process once before. And it really, really scares me to see signs of that kind of moralist purism in the philosophical home that I fled to after I ran screaming from fundamentalist Christianity.

I would not do this if I didn't think feminism were worth it.

And because dammit, here we have lengthy insight into the mind of an abuser. We can learn a lot about how Polanski thought of women, and how that may have shaped his crimes. That's USEFUL knowledge of the enemy.

By all means, avoid things that traumatize you. Support others in this. But don't generalize it all into some kind of "sinful" knowledge. Humans love forbidden fruit. DON'T EMPOWER IT LIKE THAT.

Kill it, put it on a slide, and inspect it instead.

...and because it does not in any way constitute an endorsement of that abusive piece of shit Roman Polanski. Because I'm a goddamned grown-up (with a few requisite privileges), and while I would NEVER require anyone with trauma issues to expose themselves to his work, nor mock them for refusing, I'm pretty sure I can take this film in without degrading myself, poisoning myself against women, nor in any way enriching that son of a bitch.

For example, I'm probably gonna watch Chinatown tonight. -__- And I'm gonna enjoy it.

And you'd better believe I'm gonna steal it, because I still don't want that son of a bitch to make any money again, ever.

But I'm still going to watch it, because it doesn't constitute an endorsement of the director as a human being, because it's a damn near perfectly constructed film from which I can learn a lot to use in my subversive queer post-humanist fantasy...

The above rant, incidentally, is why I get really twitchy when I hear somebody say that we need to get "more militant."

That's the kind of logic I associated with militancy, a need to totalize absolutely everything so that it ties into The Cause, and to judge everything by how well it fits The Cause's running dogma.

I'm a pretty rabid feminist -- for survival reasons if nothing else -- but I'm a Discordian pope first. Y'all have spread a lot of bad order in the pursuit of something good. -__-

And if you're one of those baby activists who can't yet even separate criticism of your tactics from criticism of your cause... my desire to talk this out with you is even LOWER than zero.

I'm fucking tired of the purism and self-justifying strategies of "my team," as if just pursuing the "right" ideology relentlessly and exclusively were somehow equivalent to virtue. Ask any Taoist: it ain't.

Granted, I'm biased, a fence-straddlin little chimera here...

I mean, fight the good fight, do what you can against the patriarchy, but please don't summon demons, goetic nor memetic, to do your dirty work for you.

The whole thing struck me as a scurrilous, "do you still beat your wife" kind of strategy from day one, a nasty and cynical logical trap that punishes people just for joining the discourse -- a discourse ABOUT THEM, so what the fuck, people?!

I should've been louder about this sooner and I'm very sorry.