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Same. I hate that we've been groomed into this self-doubt because being designated a "bitch" loses us all empathy for what men do to us. And because most people are male-centered, we're constantly gaslit about our reasonable responses even from "friends."
Same.
The Executive Branch has been turned into some kind of jobs program for weirdo Dimes Square reject PickMes and fashy broccoli-haired podcasters who cut their teeth at /pol.
The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.
they’re all this guy
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
They also can't bypass statutory rape laws & pimp them to a man to marry them.
"US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations. Causes range from lax gun laws to privatized health care. What connects them is a corrosive culture of individualism that makes child safety parents’ private business." jacobin.com/2025/08/us-c...
I wrote about how the U.S. refuses to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. "ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
Right. He could have said "my dogs & you" but he's a dipshit that thinks women wet themselves over condescension. Normal, competent people simply re-ask their important questions if someone misses/overlooks them.
Funny how women who do sex work don't deserve love but crickets for the partners doing it with her or the men paying to watch. And he sure knows a lot about sex work for someone big mad no one would ever pay him a cent for it.
I'm just happy to see women not protect a man's pride & comfort in public. No more smiling through our upset to preserve their pride & protect their fragile egos.
He's exhausting & I guarantee his coworkers, delivery drivers, & waitresses loathe him but also I think we need to take the wink emoji away from men. I'm not saying forever, just until we figure out why they're so annoying with it.
If he was saying "and you," he wouldn't have said yourself with a question mark. Either he's too stupid to competently articulate his flirtation, & recognize *his* flaw, or you're being too charitable.
Yes! ❤️
More like HoA rights because they also want the right to dictate what you can do with your "property"
Ah, but there's a catch: these "rights" only exist for rightwing parents.
And a lot of people have shrugged that off because he turned on Trump when Trump abandoned him.
Children as chattel, women/ wives as chattel is a mind set with white male conservatives that didn't stop in with changes to the law in the late 60s-70s & 80s
Yeah, honestly: “parental rights” are starting to sound more like “property rights.”
Who needs suicide chatbots when parents are killing their kids themselves just to maintain control? If I cant have (own/control) them no one can These are the parents who threw their kids out then got angry at my mom when she took them in. They'd rather have dead kids than kids not under their boot
If these teens calling the suicide hotline felt like they could talk to their parents about what they were going through they wouldn't need to call the suicide hotline
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True, we need major reforms everywhere. It's just one I think about often for how easy it is to implement & how effective it is, similar to sheltered conservative kids going off to college & meeting people who aren't like them. Exposure/representation is natural & humanizing.
I think the greatest "equalizer" is representation. It teaches kids empathy, to see someone else in the role of main character & themselves in support roles. The overwhelming majority of main characters in stories I was exposed to were white cishet guys. I also think diverse genres are important.
Charles Whitman 1966
I appreciate men supporting feminist spaces & y'all absolutely have insights & perspectives I don't have. What annoys me is when men who are clearly hostile to feminism & women in general storm in to assert their authority, which is as you point out, affirming their main character delusions.
I see this a lot with white people too. I follow many pages on FB that are by & for Black people. Some topics are neutral & open for anyone but some are clearly about a particular experience that I do not have. Some even explicitly say their audience restrictions & white people will still chime in.
"Heyyyyyy! I saw you posted about predators. Is this for my willy?"
"Elitism" is when you declare existing in public doesn't actually grant random people permission to access you. "Elitism" is when men are told no.
Oh you're a feminist? I won't challenge a rapist then. Good luck without our protection! Oh you think I shouldn't speak over marginalized people's lived experiences with my ignorance? Fuck the homeless then.
What is it with privileged people, especially men, becoming so outraged at the suggestion other people matter & not everything is for them that they jump to declaring they won't help people?
Me: not all conversations are for you, especially those among marginalized communities from a privileged perspective This guy (following me for some reason): oh so I should ignore homeless people then?!
Yeah, there's no date on it & I know organizations like Unchained At Last have had some recent successes in a few states. California is still legal to marry at any age with parental consent.
Are you asking me if you should refrain from harassing homeless people?
Man can't make any statement without mentioning 911
This is why I laugh when men try to claim their historic accomplishments are proof of male superiority.
Men think allegedly being a slut is worse than being a child rapist. Our "protectors."
This is exactly how abuse dynamics work & I am once again pointing out conservative ideology mirrors IPV dynamics. The abuser gets to abuse, the victim pushing back or calling out the problem is the one causing disruption & making everyone uncomfortable.
And 11yos to have their rapists' babies. Trans people aren't responsible enough until 25 to decide their healthcare decisions but in most states children can marry. (California has no minimum with parental consent so parents can pimp any age child to a man.)
“Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first ... And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
i said this a few days ago, and these two sentiments are connected: you don’t cede ground to fascists, because even if you ignore basic human decency, ceding ground to fascists makes you weaker and them stronger.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
Here’s part of the test for Oklahoma teachers that Praeger U wrote. This test—for *public school teachers*—combines middle school civics with religious Right (esp. anti-trans) ideology. And Praeger U is so proud of it that it took out a full-page NYT ad.
Sounds like you feel entitled to control what other people examine & critique.
This is about policies not individuals. Part of why your children and grandchildren need more help from you is because it is systemically harder for them. That's the point he's making.
Evangelical obsession with the afterlife to the exclusion of life itself plays a strong role here.
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
there are a few ways to make sense of it: eugenics and using disease to cull the population has a long fascist history, but also the idea that nothing *actually* matters beyond controlling a narrative is a core trump belief, so telling people we are healthier than ever is the same as being healthy
Better yet, let’s fight for a fairer system. Essential social services should not rely on “philanthropy” and its related vibes. People with enough wealth to be philanthropists simply haven’t paid what the system needs to function.
Women have to get restraining orders to get you to stop, huh?
You can still be rude at a party inserting yourself into people's conversation. Seems you don't particularly care, you just feel entitled to people.
And then they cry that someone is rude or "scared" because they block the person whose intrusion isn't interesting or welcome.
It's revealing that you characterize people posting on social media as "screaming" in the public square to justify hostile heckling. Yet claim you don't understand why that would be unwelcome.
And it can be intrusive, even harassing, for privileged identities to insert themselves to talk over marginalized people trying to create a space for a specific group or purpose. Existing in public doesn't mean existing for you.
And sure, it's not perfectly analogous to social media spaces but there are obvious conversations/spaces centered around specific groups/experiences that are in no need of "expertise" from people who don't belong to them.
It will never not be alarming to me how ppl, particularly members of privileged groups, think a person in a public space means they're entitled to access to them & their conversations. Like do they sit down at ppls tables & join in? Do they insert themselves in a group of friends talking in a park?
Sometimes, people mistake the nature and thesis of a specific conversation. Some folks talk when they should be listening. Some conversations are public but meant for in-group discussion of a vulnerable population. Determining the nature of a convo & seeing who the OP addresses might help.
The very people we're told can't be sexual predators because they have a wife, a daughter, & are upstanding members of their church. All important shields for predators.
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
"While many were created by users...Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had produced at least three, including two Taylor Swift “parody” bots." Related: I hate how "parody" gets used as a get out of jail free card by unfunny writers and people who steal likenesses and copyrighted material
I don't understand Dems who want to moderate or defend the status quo. If you aren't progressing every year, what even are you doing? That's not growth or left. It's the one upside when I look back & cringe at past positions I held. Move left or find yourself on the right claiming the party left you
As this points out, while "political views" is in itself a justifiable reason to cut off your bigoted family, conservatives often call their beligerent harassment of liberal/leftist family members "a difference of opinion" or politics when they whine that people don't want to be around them.
Abuser says its not cool for abuse victims to cut them off because of abuse, abuse victims disagree. Pretty old story.
Oh. Suddenly Trump being sexually attracted to his daughter being a nonissue makes total sense - Dobson had been telling his followers it was NORMAL. And since spanking is sexual too… well.
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
Anytime I hear this I immediately bring up the fact that the majority of homeless teens are kids who are kicked out of their homes by their parents for coming out as LGBT. Weird how conservatives don't have a problem disowning their own children over THOSE politics...
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
Disappointing that it's only 40%. I wouldn't trust anyone who would answer no. Those are the same people who demand abuse victims suck it up for Thanksgiving.
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
The greatest threat to your children is you.
Bureaucratic violence. Denials of healthcare kill people. And that isn’t any less true if people are pretending to keep their hands clean by making the computers do it.
Countdown to that daughter he's pretending to care about becoming a burden he doesn't want to pay child support for.
I support men in discarding the masks & being their true selves with women but I'm betting he doesn't share these views with women he pursues.
And then the judge did exactly what she feared (& sent a message to all victims). Imagine writing letters of support for a child rapist. Betting christianity played a role in the sentencing & community support for a rapist.
This is why I know the stats of SA & rapists fail to represent the true scale of sexual violence. Sexual predators should never get to plead to anything less than sexual abuse charges or escape registering as a sex offender. That isn't justice or protection of a community. And yet it's common.
I hope she takes it to the police & I hope side chick catches charges too.
(It also never ends at one marginalized group. It's like some people never read the poem.)
I don't consider my lifelong support of a political party my identity but if I did, I sure af won't be lectured about "betraying" the party by people eager to dilute its values & make it more like the GOP.
So when people tell marginalized people to be a good sport & just accept their isolation, dehumanization, & oppression, they are enforcing oppressive hierarchies & stripping core values from a party that is supposed to be the opposition. I reject that poisoning & destruction.
The loss of my rights & protections won't end at reproductive freedom with forced-birthers (as we've seen with the right moving on to stripping women of their vote & discrimination protections dismantled). Also doesn't happen in isolation. See corrupt court because conservatives want to ban abortion
And I've been told many times by men that makes me a single-issue voter. But that isn't a single issue if you actually see women as human beings because a declaration women don't deserve bodily autonomy is a designation of women as subhuman & second-class citizens.
I will never vote for a forced-birther candidate. I don't care if all of their policies otherwise were perfect (but very unlikely they could be given the misogyny of forced-birtherism). That's my deal beaker. My line in the sand.
I wonder how well it'd go over if a candidate suggested women should be denied birth control until they're 25. Or any other marginalized group paternalistically being denied healthcare until the state decides they've earned their autonomy.
Ashli Babbitt is the Horst Wessel of the MAGA Nazi movement.
People always talk about it being for the poor and the elderly, which it is, but what they are doing is normalizing non-participation in politics for young people.
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do
If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all.
I've seen trans folks talk about that library being burned the way me and my mythology/history nerd friends talk about the burning of the Library of Alexandria (heck half of those friends overlap). So we are fully in "history doesn't repeat but often rhymes" territory right now.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Some serious Man in the High Castle vibs here...
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
I really hope this is true. I hope this country does what it failed to do with the original confederates.