a PR disaster for piss

Using penis haver as a term for men would also be a massive yikes moment, i mean come on.

The main problem is that how much they need to do the inner work and how willing they are to do it are directly at odds with each other

It’s a landlord, ofc he refuses to do even the tiniest amount of labor

Every time i try this on here, men yell at me and deny my experiences. Let’s just put all misogynists in the pit instead.

I don’t think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism

which is why i count the “don’t know” votes as “fascism, but i’m not gonna say that out loud”

It’s a good overview of the subject, but ofc she could go into more detail on some crucial bits. I think it would be helpful to get deeper into how strongly gender roles play into this. The reason that so many heterosexual relationships are rife with problems is, ultimately, how men behave in these relationships and that’s not inherent to being a man, assuming otherwise would be gender essentialism (on a sidenote, it’s not surprising that so many political lesbians later became massive terfs, it’s hardly avoidable when you subscribe to gendered traits being innate and immutable fundamentals of a person’s being).

Toxic masculinity is not the natural state of being a man, it is a product of a material need under capitalism, the logical outcome of a society that actively produces masculinity as a skillset for violence, competition and oppression and femininity as a skillset for economic, emotional and sexual servitude. Both of these skillsets are indispensible in a capitalist system, which will require both imperialist aggression to expand into new markets and a systematic devaluation of economically unproductive, but socially indispensable labor in reproduction, care and education. Patriarchy can only be fully overcome when capitalism dies. Anything else will only lead to girlboss feminism, and a thorough critique of patriarchy is only possible when it is an intrinsically anti-capitalist one. Ofc, that cannot mean we just have to wait until after the world revolution to fix this, we have to start today - once you understand that some form of patriarchy is required for capitalism to function, attacks on the patriarchy can become attacks on a central support beam of the capitalist machinery. So let’s put a pin in the whole Marxist angle here and get back to discussing sexuality, gender and their relationship.

As Tara rightfully points out, the solution for straight women isn’t to abandon heterosexuality, it’s deconstruction. But i do not think it helps much to deconstruct the societal notions around heterosexuality, but the oppositional sexism that shapes so fundamentally how many heterosexual relationships play out in our society. When you view men and women as polar opposites and actively police and reinforce that men are from Mars and women are from Venus and that there cannot be anybody outside of these binarist categories, you end up with the majority of people being in a relationship with an alien who is deeply incapable of connecting to them. I feel that this is at the core of many of the conflicts that straight couples struggle with.

Really a missed opportunity, Lord Pickles would be a plausible name for a British cat, and that cat could ride on that guy’s hat and pilot him like Cait Sith from FF VII.

I fucking hate this. To begin with, the term “opposite gender” is binarist BS and needs to die ASAP. Don’t even get me started on the last post, i can’t decipher what that person is trying to say. Why would any trans person take that money? It would mean forced detransition, or staying closeted forever if they haven’t begun transitioning. Or does that person think we are our AGAB until we have “finished” transition? What kind of transmed garbage is that? Even in that case, why do they assume that there still is transitioning to do for all trans people? Have they never talked to a trans person who wasn’t a fucking redditor egg who just bought their first skirt?

guess he didn’t take it too well when the game literally told him to stop obsessing over other people’s sexuality

Does your roommate look like this person because that would explain the no flushing part

The most anarchic of creatures are the cat

there actually is popular AnCom / syndicalist imagery around cats:

This originated with so-called wildcat strikes organized by the IWW, but nowadays is used in all kinds of agitprop about becoming ungovernable. Variations include a portrait image of a black cat hissing and so on

down with cis

up with trans

starting the new mega with somebody who gives me inexplicable thoughts about gender neutral restrooms

The Romans often just appropriated a Hellenistic concept and slapped new names on it, calling Icarus Luigi is far from the only example. See also renaming Zeus Jupiter or referring to lesbians as gal pals.

I read that as Norwegian dialectics