Notices by GalacticTurtle (galacticturtle@spinster.xyz), page 6
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@Piss_Ant Well y'all still might win this soccer game since the US team has some primary people out on red cards due to the above average animosity that unfolded in the US vs. Mexico game a few days ago lol. These men be so emotional.
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So much Canada in my life today. Watched the Formula 1 race in Montreal and now this US vs. Canada soccer game.
Canada is very uncool.
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The way people talk about the lgbtqia++++ acronym you’d think having 50 people officially recognizing you as alphabet worthy gets you a free lifetime gym membership or something.
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@Piss_Ant My school changed the uniform from skirts to skorts because I guess for the first time in its almost 200 year history it was my generation who couldn't go a whole recess without flashing the world while doing acrobatics.
Naturally, we're all men now.
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@hearthmoon Silly rabbit, words don't have meaning! You might think an asexual person is someone who has no sexual inclinations, but that's a very bigoted and borderline fascist thing to say. Asexual people can like sex just as much as everyone else, they're just not really attracted to the person most of the time. That's why you shouldn't judge asexual people who start an OnlyFans page or prostitute themselves. They're extra good at that because they don't care! And just like most people in general watch porn, most asexuals do too.
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Happy pride month. Spending the first day arguing with a bunch of asexuals why porn is bad.
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@hearthmoon I should mention that among the classic asexuals - the ones that seemingly never developed any sense of sexuality, who are doing what they've always been doing... which is nothing... any classic asexual who has an issue with the term being more inclusive of people who aren't asexual have more or less been banned from the internet starting from around 2008. It's really a numbers game. Most people do have sexual inclinations, so if they flood a forum with a small number of people who don't, there's really nothing that can be done.
Imagine all the stuff that has been done to the word "lesbian" but it happening before most people even knew what a lesbian was supposed to be.
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Midnight rant.
For the "feminism hates mothers" crowd, I am wondering what exactly they would like feminism to do. I feel like most concrete feminist political activism has aimed to make marriage and motherhood less of a bear trap for women and... more of a... humane mouse trap.
Or is the attitude I just exhibited there the issue? They want marriage and motherhood to be promoted to future generations of women, by feminists (because the world at large already does), rather than alternatives like developing a support structure of other women?
Or would they like feminism to focus on women who are not given a choice and... get on a plane and go do some aggressive liberating? Or would they like feminists to make their husbands treat them better? Drop feminism altogether and say "oops we made a mistake" then turn back the clock 50 years?
I just never know how to respond to that statement. I should go check out some KJK stuff cause I'm pretty sure that's one of the main issues she's looking to correct through her work. Letting women speak. Speak about how they feel dehumanized by wider society even after they follow every word of the script, get married, have kids, and they're still treated like dirt and trying to get that to change is like screaming at a brick wall?
One day the accusation is that single and childless women have no money and will be miserable until they die. The next day the accusation is that single and childless women are members of the privileged elite that couldn't define "struggle" even if you gave them a dictionary.
All of this just seems... so distracting. And I don't know what to make of it. But if I ever get on my soap box of female community and companionship, someone gets offended by a hypothetical living situation they'd never move into in the first place because I say "I don't invite men into my house."
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I get confused when I encounter people who are seemingly obsessed with viewing the world through this masc/femme and top/bottom situation. To me, this all reeks of maleness. It's like viewing the world through a lens of constant subjugation and I'm not sure why women in particular would want to do that. Am I misunderstanding something?
For example, it would never occur to me to refer to myself as "masculine" or "feminine." That is the doctrine of men. I am a human female. A woman. And the characteristics assigned to women - absent the rule of men - only go as far as descriptors of my sex. Not my clothes, hobbies, or occupation.
If I were to partake in sexual relationships, I'm also not sure why I'd contextualize that as a power differential. Just as I would never view my friendships as a relationship of dominance and submission, I would not do that with a partner. And the reason I seek out men for neither is because... that's what they do. This is the world they made. I'm tossed into an arena for a game I did not agree to play.
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If a white man doing something to a black woman bothers you but a white man doing the same thing to a white woman doesn't then congrats, you see the humanity of neither woman, and it shows that both effectively remain the de facto property of their same-race male counterparts.
All this kink or whatever discourse rots my brain and I'm not even looking for it.
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@Aflowernamedyou @ChasingWaterfalls I wouldn't say all this started with Taylor Swift, though her tour certainly brought the issue back into the spotlight. A few bands have spoken up against LiveNation in the past. One as a result is banned from all their venues... and they've cannibalised most notable venues in every town in the US. Now LiveNation owns the scalping sites. It's really quite spectacular. They own primary sales, secondary sales, the venues, the booking agents, the tour management, and even a lot of the artists. It's a monopoly that many in the music business have wanted broken up since the merger with TicketMaster.
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So it seems people are mad at Taylor Swift because her newest boyfriend brags about all the hardcore racist (but only racist!) porn he watches. In being mad about this, everyone is pointing out the issues with pornography that radfems are always criticized for. But apparently it's ok because it's all directed towards this specific website that focuses on the rape and torture of black women specifically and Taylor's boyfriend is *gasp* white.
Honestly, I'm confused about how the minds of all these people work. The mental gymnastics here should qualify them all as Olympians.
What happened to "sex work is work"? Would this website suddenly be ok if the women were white or if the viewer was black? 🧐
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Apparently, the next Star Wars dudebro crusade is complaining about the clones essentially having chips in their heads that activated for Order 66, making it possible instantaneously across the galaxy - no questions asked - for every single clone to kill their Jedi commanders.
From the moment I saw Revenge of the Sith I always figured there was something funky going on with the clones because if not... how would that even be possible? Could you imagine a president of any country telling their infantry to kill all the officers in the middle of a war and for essentially everyone, at the drop of a dime, to go through with it?
Their main complaint is that it is less impactful if the clones were being controlled by someone else than if they were all so keyed into following the chain of command that their own personal desire to "do their duty" or whatever, made the switch that quick. I think others prefer this idea that the clones were never truly human and were much more like droids from the start... which is contradicted by quite a bit of lore both in legends and canon.
They keep quoting this part of one of the Battlefront books where a clone is talking about the execution of Aayla Secura (whose character design has always been prime wank material even before she had any actual speaking part in the clone wars cartoon). Basically they're talking about how killing her was the hardest because she looked them all in the eye to thank them all, saluted all of them (or whatever), then they kill her. Personally that always seemed foolish to me. Why on earth would she do that? Why on earth would these clones that we know very well, do that?
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@ChasingWaterfalls The suddenness of the switch/outbursts so common in men shouldn't surprise me at this point but it does every time.
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Theatrical job listings calling for "womxn and femmes."
I don't even know what to say to that. 🤡
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@ChasingWaterfalls I hope no women apply lol.
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Reflecting on a dinner table conversation from last night.
My aunt (married to my dad's younger brother) is 100% going to divorce my uncle. It's just a matter of when. Their son is entering high school in the fall. I'm guessing she's waiting until he goes off to college to formally start that process.
Their marriage, largely unbeknownst to me, has been on the rocks since before their son was born. They were trying to have a kid for the longest time and my aunt was under the impression that introducing a child into the situation would fix whatever problems the marriage was having.
I still don't know all the details, but a few years ago was pretty much the last straw. Something about... lying about finances. I think my uncle took her personal savings... perhaps money set aside for their son's college fund too... for one or multiple of his failed business endeavors. The mortgage hadn't been paid in a long time. They nearly lost their house.
Anyway, I haven't seen my aunt since all that went down. My parents and I drove past her hometown on the highway on Mother's Day which gave my mom the idea to send her a text wishing her well, noting that we'd gone by the place where she grew up. The text she got in response was a lot more than any of us were expecting. Stuff about how she misses my mom and the girls (my sister and I) but that she's keeping her distance for the wellbeing of herself and her son.
My dad was absolutely flabbergasted, particularly at the way my mom and I casually voiced the assumption that we'd never see this woman again and had assumed that for a while. He couldn't understand why. So as usual with this sort of thing I asked him to imagine my sister or I in the same situation, how he'd feel.
He said he had no context to even fabricate such a situation... even though the situation had been playing out with his own brother for over a decade with him the most in the know out of everyone since he's "head of the family."
So now I'm thinking wow, if my dad feels so strongly about this, how will my uncle feel when the divorce papers finally come even though the writing has been on the wall all this time? Does he truly think that after all this she's going to give him another chance? All the chances are spent. My mom and I know that just from our limited information.
Saying no to men is always such an ordeal.
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"Express your sexual liberation."
Wtf is that even supposed to mean?
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@DoctorDee In the interview she does say that she has at least one kid. She did point herself out as an outlier, statistically speaking, saying that she finds fulfillment in her career while most people simply have jobs... which is why they should instead be fulfilled by getting married and having kids.
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@DoctorDee Indeed. XD What I also find interesting in these types of conversations is that everyone skips over the entire process of ending up with a kid in the first place when asking why women are having fewer kids. Like in here they talk about the cost of housing.
I remember very clearly the horror on everyone's faces in the biology class when we watched "the birth video" and everything we learned about what happens to the body in the process of making a brand new human being. That's what I think about first and foremost rather than houses. Perry mentions how the hospital kicked her to the curb less than a day after getting a c-section. Harrington opens her book talking about this moment in her life laying in the hospital with her torso stapled shut right after giving birth as well. But neither linger on that and instead jump straight to talking about their feelings revolving around the existence of the baby. It only takes half a brain cell to guess why rich women are opting for surrogacy.
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